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The ECOOP VI is back due to popular demand, having a guaranteed prize of $5.1 million. It seems like most of the people is thinking of the European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) VI.

The event will take the staged on May 24, 2010. it will cover 14 days of exciting events. This was noted as the clash of poker game. The ECOOP I first started in the year 2007 having a prize worth $2.5 million. It only shows that the poker mania evolve marvelously every year, for the sixth season, games that will take off includes; No Limit and Limit Texas Holdem, Pot Limit Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo and 7 Card along with the 1.5 Million Guaranteed Main Event.

Just before the ECOOP VI takes the stage again, there will be a Mini- ECOOP VI first that will happen on the 14th day of May until 23rd. everyone can get into the heat of the game. Qualifying satellites are now working 24/7 giving the chance to get into bigger on the Titan Poker.

The tournament will never be the same, as poker pros defend their titles; it is not only a battle for the prize but also for pride.

Keep updated with the events through Titan Poker Software!

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George Stephanopoulos will learn from the former political advisor Annie Duke on Wednesday, 5th of May at 8:00am ET. The said airing of the show will take part from the sweeps week, in “Good Morning America”, they will exchange information from their oceanic ideas. Stephanopoulos will be inhaling stuffs about poker from Duke, who happen to be a WSOP bracelet winner and currently the champion of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

The poker pro (Duke) was uplift upon hearing that she would be teaching Stephanopoulos poker. The 2004 WSOP winner said to Poker Daily News, I was very excited to get to teach poker. With some of the attacks on poker that have happened, it’s nice that George is politically savvy. When he was asked what he wanted to cross off his bucket list, he answered poker.”

The said winner has given 30 minutes session to teach Stephanopoulos in the poker game. The lesson would be aired featuring Stephanopoulos will be challenge by Duke. The show will take the screen from 10 to 5 minutes. This would be another hot stuff for poker players to watch for, having the WSOP winner give some points to another poker pro to improve his skills in the game.

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On the year 1999, Titan Poker started their online operations. Aiming to cater poker players online, Titan Poker engaged and takes on the top-notch online casino software enabling them to compete with the existing toughest online poker rooms. Among online poker rooms, Titan Poker has been noted as the best online poker rooms because of the speed of its response and it also offers the most generous bonuses around. For every $500 initial deposit that you need to make, Titan Poker Bonus Code will match your deposit for up to 100%, giving you deposit bonus of up to $500 also. This has made many online poker players to switch to Titan Poker. Titan Poker is named the rock solid online poker room.

Titan Poker is backed by the biggest casino software enterprise in the world, owned by Playtech and is part of iPokerNetwork. It also comes in four major tongues which are English, Italian, French and German.

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As we all know, DoylesRoom is a member of the Cake Poker Network and is named after legendary poker pro Doyle Brunson.

Additionally, Brunson 10 is a group of pros that is personally selected by Brunson himself. The group will embody the website at online tables and at live events like the 2010 World Series of Poker Las Vegas.

Recently, Steve Gross signed on to be the sixth member of the Brunson 10. Gross has been gaining notoriety in the poker world, and he now holds the top spot on the PocketFives.com online poker rankings and he also holds the site’s top Pro Poll and PLB scores.

In addition to Gross, the existing members of the Brunson 10 of DoylesRoom are Chris Moorman aka “moorman1”, Alex Kamberis aka “AJKHoosier1”, Dani Stern aka “ansky”, Amit Makhija aka “amak316” and Zachary Clark aka “CrazyZachary”.

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Last week the World Poker Tour (WPT) announced that they have added a second France stop to the 9th season for the year 2010-2011. The WPT Amneville will going to start on 30th of October and will be staged at the Casino Municipal D’Amneville, with the total of €3,200 + €300 for the Main Event that run between the 2nd of November up to the 6th.

The said event will be joining the Grand Prix de Paris on its ninth season as it stops in France. The WPT Grand Prix de Paris will take its flight at the prestigious Aviation Club in Paris. As the tournament continues the lucky winner of WPT Amneville will take home a WPT bracelet and a total of $25,000 seat in the WPT Championship that will be held at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

Currently, the 2010 WPT Championship is heating up the table and will begin on April 24th. Only 35 players out of 195 will remain at four tables after three days. Leading with 1,841,000 chips is Shawn “Buck21? Buchanan, champion of the WPT Mandalay Bay Poker Championship in 2007, his tough competitors were Heather Sue Mercer (1,364,000), Robert Cooper (937,000), Matt “All In At 420? Stout (919,500), and Billy Baxter (887,500). The game will resume at the Noon Pacific Time as poker players gather down to take home $1,530,537 as the first prize.

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This was not a seven-figure week for Tom “durrrr” Dwan and so with “Isildurl” mayhem. Generally accounts, is has been comparatively calm week on the front of the online poker, but still the high-stakes cash games at Full Tilt Poker have been producing big winners and losers from the past few days.

The two pokers pro Gus Hansen recently continued his hot streaks just like with “MicahJ” who has performed amazingly last six weeks with a profitable run. Hansen’s excellent year is on a deal and he has estimated earnings up to $750,000 for the year. He put up good numbers this past week and a $300/$600 no-limit hold’em session with Phil Ivey of Full Tilt Poker and Cole South has greatly contributed to that.

Hansen started the hand with $77,000, after getting on the game he garnered a total $153,000 pot. In the same manner, “MicahJ” take the pot of $88,000 with aces and fours from “luckexpress10″. It feels like the two is having the same luck this week.

After the game the, this week’s biggest winners were Gus Hansen with $373,500, “URnotINdanger2″ with $318,000 and “MicahJ” with $205,000.In the midst of losses were; Phil Ivey (-$314,000),”NEKOTYAN” (-$271,000), Tom “durrrr” Dwan (-$197,000).

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There could never be a poker text in this planet that would gamble to play Q-7, even if accommodated. In the world of poker everything varies on the opponent, on your pile or even your position and the probability that you take before anything else. Oftentimes, as the former world champ Greg Raymer present in 2009 at the $10,000 worth World Series of Poker as main event in Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, a contented price for playing a chanceful holding into an unexpected hand.

“Seinfeld” George Constanza; played by actor Jason Alexander, betting at $ 250- $500 added up by $50 ante, a soon raised to $1,600 from the under the gun. As in the game the player located in the middle called up, it turn out to be a move fix for Raymer, holding the Q-7 of clubs in the big hide. With great pile, Raymer raised another $1,100 into the pot of $4, 400, offering him a resistless 4-1 on his tab. Source from PokerStars online site Raymer stated that: “I was getting a good price to play,” “It’s not a spot where I’m going to flop a queen or a 7 and go broke with it. I thought if I caught something miraculous, then I could win a nice pot.” he added.

Washout of A-5-2, all clubs isn’t a miracle; giving the chance to Raymer for a second-nut flush and third best hand behind straight flush. Again he raised $2,500.

“That was an amount where I thought I would get some action and might even give someone incentive to raise,” Raymer said. “Jason raised to $6,000, a little more than a min-raise. I’d been chatting with Jason. I thought I knew where his head was at. I didn’t think it was possible for me to make the nuts, because I thought for sure he had the king of clubs for at least the nut draw, he added.

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Over 36,000 poker players compete for the highest PokerStars Sunday Million. It is another big event for PokerStars. If the regular Sunday Million game of PokerStars was only $1.5 million, recently, it has a vast increase amounting to $7.2 million.

PokerStars continues to make a record in the poker world. From the recently 40 billionth hand, now the biggest prize guarantee in Sunday Million. PokerStars has always been known for its Sunday Million, however with the largest prize at stake, PokerStars persists on building a name. Another history in the making for PokerStars.

The luckiest among the over 36,000 players who compete for the big prize was RicheiRichZH, followed at second place by Lankeshwar. Petinvest7 took the third spot in the game while Erik “lirarerik” Friberg ended fourth place. Even if Friberg won the fourth place in PokerStars Sunday Million, still the amount he won in the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event was so far his highest winning amounting to $ 1.9 million at the eighth place compared to his fourth place with only $282,000.

Ending in second place, Lankesshwar took home with $754,000 as a consolation. The total amount of money that Pentivest7 took home as third place amounted to $ 506,000.

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The U.B. com is sponsoring this week “Poker2Nite” and the show is welcoming Jeff Madsen a Full Tilt and Lacey Jones from Absolute Poker.

Upon the observation of Sebok, at the present there are still no good poker movies but definitely there is one coming. Life story of poker players in the name of Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey and Amarillo Slim are on the making and it has been rumored that Nicloas Cage will play the lead role in the life story of Amarillo Slim.

For only one week, the amount of votes totaled to 125,000 for the WSOP Tournament of Champions. The voting is open to the public until the month of June to select 20 players whom they want to compete in Las Vegas for the $1 Million Made-for-Television freeroll. As for Smith, he suggested that there should be more automatic qualifiers and there willl only be ten available seats for the public to vote. It would take a lot of winning for a player to be qualified in the present set up.

A former NBI Joe Navarro had joined “Poker2Nite” via Skype to provide several dramas in the poker table. He said that there are players who raised their hands to their face which is a sign of distress. There has been footage for the claim of Navarro featured Phil Ivey. It was the opponent of Phil Ivey who made the move.

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Since 1999, Titan Poker has been around and has the toughest competition of any online poker room. Titan Poker is part of the iPokerNetwork, owned by Playtech. Which is a famous for their online casino software and their poker software is top-notch.

They come in 4 major tongues: German, English, French, and Italian.
Since their casino draw, there are lots of casino players which in turn equal very loose games. Titan Poker also has one of the best online poker bonuses around, drawing even more loose players.

Titan Poker also has one of the most generous bonuses around. They will match your initial deposit, dollar for dollar, up to $500. That is a 100% deposit bonus up to $500.

Titan Poker is a rock solid online poker room, backed by the second biggest casino software company in the world.

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