The well-known personality on the realm of poker gaming John Duthie had made a decision to detach himself from Team PokerStars Pro. The famous Duthie didn’t have a new deal with Team PokerStars Pro soon after the last deal ends on the 31st of December 2011. No good reasons were given for all steps he'd carried out.

He is convinced that it will not be fun to stay on the very same team once more. Furthermore, rumors are running about the VPP case. He cleared up that he had not persuaded him to get to this decision.

He exited at the same time soon after couple of months just after JP Kelly’s departure. During that time, both JP and John represented Team UK and Ireland. But it's going to be now represented by the trio of Victoria Coren, Jude Ainsworth and Live Boeree.

John Duthie is actually a fifty three year-old and made massive money that he left as his legacy. Computing his competition winnings, he already received an overall total of $2774963. Well, let’s start the list of a handful of his memorable and exceptional winnings throughout his poker career back in 1999. In year 2000, he wins an amazing 1000000 pounds where he came first in the 2000/6000 pounds No Limit Hold’em Poker Million 2000.

And just after 36 months where he acquired his second largest win. It was at the part of the 2003 Euro Finals of Poker, the five thousand pounds European Heads Up championship. John Duthie managed to bring an additional 35000 pounds to his name and come in second in the game in this gala event.

Using the latest poker magazine iPhone app, poker players can sum up their strange actions easily. The newest Card Player Poker Odds Calculator iPhone app is now offered. With the help of the app poker players can determine odds for both Texas Hold’em as well as the Omaha. This type of app is available to run in iPhones at the same time for iPod Touchs.

If players will use the newest app they will be able to get the instant percentages when it talks about the two and the nine sets of hands. The features of the app includes a card-wheel user interface that is uniquely present in the Card Player Poker Odds Calculator that is useful for the confirmation of player’s info or it can be use as a learning tool.

With the installation of the newest app, players can extend their knowledge about playing the hand. It is also a great advantages considering that they can browse for the profile of other players. Well, it’s a great idea to have this app around. It is especially made for poker players to level up the fun. Enjoy the trend and avail the iPhone app.

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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.

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The guaranteed first place prize is €1,000,000 and many interested poker players are on its way to take a seat.

Originally the venue of the tournament was planned to be a purposefully built glass palace however, it never went according to planned. In this regard, the tournament will take place in the ballroom at the Hyatt next door to the casino. There were 389 Main Event players who tried to fit in the limited space even with the hangover being experienced from the party hosted by PokerStars, they still managed to get down to work.

Day 1b is usually where you can find the faces of big-name pros, however in this tournament; the faces that are usually seen on day1b are now in day 1a. The following are among the pros who decided to play today Katja Thater, Ben Kang, Tom McEvoy, Vicky Coren, Arnaud Mattern, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Michhael Keiner, VladZguba, George Danzer, and Johannes Steindl. Also in participation in the day 1a were Juha Helppi, Marc Naalden, Barny Boatman, and Pranz Bansi.

Kfir Yamin of Israel ended the day1a with the most number of chips. He will continue day 2 with 213,500 with 196 players left in the game. Events in day 2 is expected to be bigger than what had been in day 1.

There were new restrictions regarding payment processing for online poker players trying to use Visa and MasterCard credit cards. It was legal for MasterCard to process online poker transactions even after the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act was passed in the U.S in 2006. Not all transactions related to internet gambling were blocked, with some even operating MasterCard.

Cash in is down significantly and online poker players are trying to get money online. The players are not aware that their funds are not being deposited using credit cards. They will still be billed for the transactions because their deposits still go through. There is an issue that the gaming company never receives the funds as they are intercepted. The processor that is used by the company has its account with MasterCard closed and they are fined for it, which goes directly to the gaming company.

Rumor has it that MasterCard blocked internet gambling transactions by auditing thousands of transactions manually, looking at coded declines and subsequent approved transactions. The reason is unknown as to why MasterCard blocked the transactions.

Players are directed to methods such as e-wallets whenever their cards are declined. Online pokers cannot use debit card to deposit on their accounts with MasterCard because it does not run debit cards. Visa or the banks can run debit cards.

During the night at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, hearing tsunami warning swept all the poker players in the tournament. Everyone became sad thinking that thousands of people are suffering from calamity. Casualty in Haiti has already reached into six figures.

Photographs that became head turning and bits of bad news begun to appear in the media show a massive disaster has fallen to Haiti. Due to this bad news, poker community has step up on its own by offering financial assistance to all the victims of the Haitan capital city of Port-au-Prince. Read the rest of this entry »

The Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker classic has earned another winner. Daniel Christopher Alaei grabbed the coveted seat surviving the rigid battle against 328 players. He won an enormous prize of $1.4 million on the said event.

Alaei is a dedicated NLHE player who play a lot of cash games and had already made a $3.7 million dollar income from live he participated since the start of his career. He owns two WSOP bracelets and had been successful in winning the $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better event. Daniel also won 18-cashes from the WSOP making him gain more than $1.5 million. Read the rest of this entry »

Poker Production has again exceeded itself by bringing up a new twist in their NBC show Poker after Dark. The show will features in their newest episode a new theme called Railbird Heaven wherein poker players will be going to play high stakes poker in a span of two weeks.

Poker after Dark has gathered some of the most celebrated live game players in the poker record, and also the man that has been performing well in the online poker arena. They will be place in a very unusual cash game where they had to buy in a minimum of $100,000 and must not exceed $250,000. Read the rest of this entry »

A prominent official of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has affirmed that internet poker is not saved from schemes and manipulation in the web.

“There are several ways to cheat at online poker, none of which are legal,” Shawn Henry, assistant director for the FBI’s cyber division, inscribed in a correspondence to Representative Spencer Bachus of Alabama. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s the aim of the Poker Players Alliance to alleviate the sufferings of online poker players in the United States by making a bill that will go against the very discriminating UIGEA bill. It’s popularly known that the UIGEA has denied the players in the US to play poker online, categorizing poker as similar with other types of pure gambling when poker has been tested as a game of skill rather than luck generally.

But it seems that the change people expect that will take place when the Democrats won the Congress in 2006 did not progress like the analysts have predicted. Read the rest of this entry »