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Full Tilt Poker Starts World Series of Poker Qualifiers

As Winter moves out of the way so that Spring can come into play, that means one thing for poker players all over the world… The World Series of Poker 2009 is about to begin!

The WSOP 2009 begins May 27th, playing through until the main event which begins June 3rd, within that time scale poker players all over the world will be trying to gain qualification into the tournament.

Full Tilt Poker have decided to target this competition massively, deciding that they want to be the site that sends most of the online players to both the tournament and the beginning stages, opening its qualifying tournaments for all to play.

The tournaments will have different levels of buy in in order to appeal to as many players as possible, giving every player the opportunity to gain the chance to rub elbows with some of the worlds best players at the WSOP felt.

With the opportunity of such a high priced prize players will be flooding to the second biggest online poker room on the internet, which will also be offering its massive $10 Million Main Event Mania, which offers the players who gain the chance to play at the main event through their site the chance to make an additional $10 million should they complete the tournament, coming out as champion.

This will alert players from all card rooms on the internet, with some of the smaller sites not offering chances to gain entry into the tournament in any way let alone offer $10 million should a player they send win the whole tournament.

Full Tilt Poker have told the poker community that they are going to offer no less then 80 seats into the tournament to its players, so there is a great opportunity here for all to try their hands at.

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Carbon Poker Join The Twitter Craze and Offer It’s Followers Freerolls!!

Carbon Poker have caught the twitter bug! If you’ve never heard of Twitter, it’s a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets.

On the 14th of March they offered their 310 Twitter followers a chance to play in a $200 freeroll!

If you would like to be kept up to date with their latest on goings and promotions be sure to ‘follow’ them via twitter. Their page can be located at http://www.twitter.com/carbonpoker

Here at ThatsGambling we’re 100% behind Carbon and it’s the small details like this that make a difference. They’re constantly looking after their players and we’ve managed to partner with them to offer you the best Carbon Poker bonuses!

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European Poker Tour Dortmund Won by Home City Girl Sandra ‘Black Mamba’ Naujoks

The EPT held in Dortmund started with 667 entries into the tournament, generating a prize pool of over €3 million in winnings for the placing players.

The tournament was eventually taken by Dortmund home girl Sandra Naujoks, a 27 year old German graphics designer, model and Full Tilt Poker professional, winning €917,000.

The German born lady of poker, has now taken her win stats to over €1 million with her previous total standing at $280,622 also adding to her evermore impressive poker record.

Naujoks holds a number of tournament cashes including placing 9th at EPT Budapest in 2008.

Naujoks’ most influence hand of the tournament was that which she held during final table heads up against her opponent Holger Kanisch, Naujoks held pocket Aces with Kanisch thinking he possessed the better hand holding pocket Jacks. The hand placed Naujoks in a great position within the stake counts, placing her into first place.

The deciding hand was yet another that Kanisch thought he was going to win, until a 9 on the turn strengthened Naujoks’ A/9 to make the hand stronger than Kanisch’s A/J.

All but one of the final table finished cashed out at 6 figures, making their competition a profitable one.

Did you see the match?

Was it a case of Kanisch been out played or was the element of luck shining out for Naujoks?

Either way, ThatsGambling would like to congratulate Sandra ‘Black Mamba’ Naujoks on her winning and we wish her all the best in her next tournaments.

Image credited to Poker Stars.

9 Lady Poker Players Most Men Would Love To Have At Their Table

We can’t hide the fact that women who are interested in playing poker is vastly increasing…so we at ThatsGambling.com decided we’d take the time to hand pick some of these lovely ladies, who most men would love to have sat at their table!

Images credited to Matt Law.

1. Evelyn Ng

Evelyn is a world class poker player who currently promotes Bodog poker. The Toronto, Canada born poker babe plays under 3 different names when playing at the felt tables Evy, Evybabee, or Evbaby, Evybabee been her Bodog poker screen name.

2. Shannon Elizabeth

Shannon Elizabeth is more famed for her role as Nadia in the American Pie series, was born in Houston, Texas. Her recent poker showings have been positive with a last 4 finish in the National Heads Up Championship, losing out to the winner of the tournament. Shannon has had some strong showings within the World Series of Poker over the last few years so we can see that there is alot more to come from this poker babe.

3. Lily Elviro

Lily was born in Miami, Florida and is known more famously within the poker world as ‘Mrs. Grinder’ due to her currently dating Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi. Lily left high school, moving into a poker dealing job in a casino. A short while after learning to deal she moved into playing poker and since has shown some strong performances in a number of tournaments that she has entered.

4. Amy Wynn Pastor

Amy, famed for her poker attire of black leather jacket, black baseball cap and glasses is out to prove a point in what is becoming less of a predominately male game. Looks are definately deceiving with this girl, as she regularly causes upsets with her tight approach to the game.

5. Chantel McNulty

Chantel, better known for playing cash limit poker took to the tables with a bang, winning the first few tournaments that she entered, enabling her to build herself a bankroll. With the bankroll behind her, Chantel regularly pays $100 - $200 or $200 - $400 Limit Cash games at the Bellagio Casino, showing that this girl likes to play. The San Jose, Califorina born poker babe was known to be playing $1000 - $2000 Limit Cash games in Las Vegas, but has since stepped down the blinds to ensure that she can play within her bankroll.

6. Jennifer Leigh

Jennifer, 25, is currently ranked the highest female within tournaments to date, playing alot of her games on the online poker market. Her poker face seems to be harder to read for the male players she comes up against within live games… We wonder why…?

7. Jennifer Tilly

Jennifer is best known for her nomination for an Academy Award in ‘Bullets over Broadway’ by Woody Allen in 1994, but has made a stake for stardom in the poker world, winning a WSOP bracelet in 2005 in a womens only tournament. Although winning the bracelet sent her into the poker limelight she is currently better known for been the older girlfriend of professional poker player Phil “Unabomber” Laak.

8. Layla Kayleigh

Layla is better know for been the hostess of World Poker Tour but the two partied company after only one season as their host. Born in South London, England  the poker babe is now more known for her appearences in shows related to the poker world then been a player at the infamous felts.

9. Joanna Krupa

Joanna is spokesperson for award winning Titan Poker, with the Polish born model been still a poker baby. Her first real tournament ended in success for the babe, as she won a charity tournament, winning $1 Million for her chosen charity. Making her second appearence in a tournament Joanna wanted to move into the limelight, entering World Series of Poker, advancing through the first round before been eliminated after 11 hours of playing in the second round, out lasting other higher named players Jennifer Tilly, Shannon Elizabeth and professional Greg Raymer.

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Pro Poker Europe Expands Global Presence

Pro Poker Europe Magazine this week reaches its global presence by offering greater distribution across Europe.

The magazine has renewed its contract with highstreet chain WH Smiths, with the magazine available from most newsagents.

In a bid to improve both sales and awareness of the magazine, the company have moved to sign a new European Sales and Marketing Manager in the way of Cal James, who is well known within the printed poker world for his successes within the marketing and sales field.

Poker Stars Launches New Poker Leagues For UK and IRE Players

As the online card room stamps its claim to been the biggest online poker room on the internet, Poker Stars have annouced the birth of a new poker league that will feature on their site.

The new league is aimed at rewarding players who gain the most points while facing up against other Poker Star players.

The points system will offer players points for entering into events, paying higher points the higher the player finishes. The whole aim of the league system is to make players enter more tournaments with the promise of the top 100 players been rewarded $300 into their account.

• Division 1 - $1 buy-in
• Division 2 - Free to enter (2,000 play money chips buy-in)
• FPP Division - 25 Frequent Player Points buy-in

Many feel that this should be an easy move to make the top 100 across any of the 3 divisions, but players should know that poker stars is home to over 20 million players now!

This move shows players that poker stars is out to offer incentives to players to become more active within the lobby.

Read our Poker Stars Review to hear more about the site.

Huck Seed Wins National Heads Up Poker Championship ‘09

With all the huge names been offered for good odds by the book markers, not many would have seen this coming.

Huck Seed emerged from the 64 entrants as number 1 as he beat Vanessa Rousso at the final table.

The tournament has dealt out its fair share of shock exits for some of the bigger names within the tournament, with last years champion Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson been eliminated within the first round by Gabe Kaplan.

We posted some of the odds which were been offered for this championship from 2 companies, SportsBook and Bodoglife, with neither of the sites naming Seed as one of the favourates.

Seed won the game as his hand hit top pair on the flop, Vanessa hit second highest pair on the turn and believed she had Seed beaten as she called Seed’s all in, only to see that she was trailing.

Huck Seed isn’t a stranger to this championship coming 3rd last year and previous years have mixed results, walking away with prize money of $500,00 this year.

Seed plays his online poker at Full Tilt Poker alongside some of the other names that started the tournament such as Phil Ivey and Jennifer Tilly.

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Did you bet on Huck Seed to win?

Who did you bet on to take the championship winners spot?

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Poker Stars Reaches 20 Million Members

Poker Stars recently signed up their 20 million-ith online player, firmly stamping their watermark on been the biggest poker room on the internet.

The amazing figure is almost as equal as the population of 3 major cities in the U.S., Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

With well into the billions of poker hands dealt, the site continues to grow, pulling in online players from all over the world.

Rewarding the 20 million-ith player, Poker Stars rewarded the Slovakian player with a $215 tournament entry, not a bad reward for just signing up to the card room.

The large number of players have flocked to the felts of Poker Stars in the last 3 years, in March 06 the site revealed that their player base was 5 million.

This means that over the last 3 years, Poker Stars has managed to attract an average of 5 million players a year for the last 3 years!

Giving players generous rewards is something that Poker Stars are known for doing, with more than one other occasion when the company have paid out to players to reward them.

We don’t have to look far for the last payout they offered, February 16th 2009 saw the 25th billion hand dealt one the infamous felts, within a Omaha high/low game, there were 3 players sat at the table, only 2 entering into the hand but as a reward for been with Poker Stars as it dealt its 25th billion hand, the 3 players were awarded $33,333.33 each.

I guess there are small elements of luck involved in poker….

The money ’strings’ won’t be tightened any time soon either as the company rolls out plans to offer $30 million in prize money over its Spring tournaments.

One thing is for sure, Poker Stars isn’t willing to pass on the title of been the worlds biggest poker room any time soon!

Why not try Poker Stars out? After all its not the biggest poker room online for no reason….

Read the Poker Stars Review and find out more information on the site and thatsGambling thoughts.

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Poker Pros Challenge Obama to $1 Million Poker Game

Bluefire Poker has made a move to prove that poker is a game of skill, not luck amid the questions been asked by U.S officials as they consider whether poker should remain illegal.

Professional players from Bluefire Poker made the challenge to Obama, or one of the U.S. congress in a bid to show them that poker is more about skill than luck, hoping that a win would help prove information to help the congress into making a decision in the on going case to prevent online poker gambling.

The pro’s have made the challenge on the condition that if the congress are successful in the challenge, Bluefire will donate $1 million to charity.

Billy Murphy, Bluefire Poker said:

“Specific terms of the game haven’t been set yet. However, the format will include an equal number of chips at the start of the game, and the opponents will play long enough to demonstrate the advantage of skill in the game.”

“Poker prowess and experience demonstrate themselves over time - in the long run, the better player wins the game because the player’s skills increase the odds of success.”

Bluefire don’t expect to get an acceptance from the U.S. congress or from Obama himself, but the challenge has already generated alot of interest from other parties.

As court rooms come to their decision, the offer will remain on the table for acceptance.

Bluefire place the ball firmly back into Obama’s court…

Do you feel that the congress should step forward and take some first hand experience?

What do you think to the story?

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2009 National Heads Up Championship Betting Odds Released

Betting sites are currently in the process of putting the betting odds out into the public eye for the upcoming National Heads Up Championship, due to take place this weekend.

Various sites are placing different odds on who they feel will walk away from the felt with the trophy in hand.

Noticeably Bodog have placed Chris “Jesus” Ferguson at 22/1 odds favourate, with Phil Ivey (25/1), Tom “durrrr” Dwan (25/1), Daniel Negreanu (25/1) and Vanessa Selbst (25/1) all close behind.

When looking at the odds offered by SportsBook, they have a different take on who they feel will walk away the victor placing Phil Ivey as their odds favourate placing him at 20/1.

One thing is for sure, with the huge number of highly regarded poker stars sitting at the felts this weekend, the victor could be any of them!

Just look at the line up of the battles which will be fiece to say the least:

*All pools are within the first round:

Hearts Bracket

Johnny Chan v Eli Elezra

Erick Lindgren vs Howard Lederer

J.C. Tran vs David Williams

Jamie Gold vs Scott Fischman

Erik Seidel vs John Phan

Jerry Yang vs Clonie Gowen

Allen Cunningham vs Sam Farha

Andy Bloch vs Peter Eastgate

Diamonds Bracket

Kenny Tran vs Antonio Esfandiari

Greg Raymer vs Jennifer Harman

Kenny Yeh vs Phil Laak

Vanessa Selbst vs Layne Flack

David Benyamine vs Gus Hansen

Huck Seed vs Jonathan Little

Chad Brown vs Glen Chorny

Annie Duke vs Brad Garrett

Spades Bracket

Gabe Kaplan vs Chris Ferguson

Ilari Sahamies vs Gavin Smith

John Juanda vs Joe Hachem

Fred Collins vs Bertrand Grospellier

Jeffrey Ishbia vs Leon Yanovski

Mike Sexton vs Phil Hellmuth

Gavin Griffin vs Tom Dwan

Barry Greenstein vs Blandino Gines

Clubs Bracket

Don Cheadle vs David Pham

Paul Wasicka vs Nicholas Joy

Jennifer Tilly vs Phil Ivey

Doyle Brunson vs Vanessa Rousso

Hevad Khan vs Scotty Nguyen

Ted Forrest vs Orel Hershiser

Daniel Negreanu vs Chris Moneymaker

Mike Matusow vs Dario Minieri

One thing that is to be said for the line up is that placing your bets on your favoured player will involve shopping about for the best price, with so many big names in there book makers don’t know where to place the odds.

Looking about some of the published odds Howard Lederer has been placed at 50/1 to win the tournament at Bodog, thatsGambling feel that the odds there could very well be worth a few quid placing.

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