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Online Poker Industry Approved For Canada

With the growth of the card game poker already in full flow, it is no wonder that so many countries are looking to break into the online gambling industry in order to turn a handsome profit, the latest that have looked to join the game is the Canadian province of Quebec.

The province has successfully negotiated a deal that will see a state authorised online gaming operation aimed towards the hugely popular game.

Loto-Quebec who are seen to hold the monopoly in terms of the online lottery within Canada, have stepped forward to offer the deal to the state which was accepted and will now be placed into action.

According to CTV Montreal, Loto-Quebec and two other companies will look to form one site that will operate under the sanction, creating a site that should be open to members to play in the second half of 2010.

The deal has not been accepted by a large number of people who are now aware of its existence with the likes of Quebec finance minister Raymond Bachand been quoted as saying “Our citizens are not protected and the money goes into illegal channels.”

The statement obviously hit home for Loto-Quebec who have revealed that they will be looking into ways to fully protect the members who head to the site to stake a wager, saying that their planned site will feature a number of security measures that are designed to protect the user.

An operation of this scale is not an easy matter and so Loto-Quebec are looking to model their new assignment on that of a European existing one, naming the one based in Sweden as a good template.

The move by Canada is seen by a number of Americans as a step to offer something that at present their country can’t due to the introduction of the legal bill that restricts US based gamblers to their options regarding online gambling.

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Pro Poker Player Facing Charges Over Wife’s Murder

A british born professional poker player is looking at the possibility of police call his bluff over his involvement in the murder of his wife.

Marcus Bebb-Jones is being held oin charges that he killed his wife and then used her credit cards to live a playboy style lifestyle in Las Vegas, entering into poker tournaments and playing live ring games.

Bebb-Jones is accused of murdering wife Sabrina after she was reported to be missing by employees of the couple from their hotel business, based in Grand Junction, Colorado.

The guilt of Bebb-Jones seems to have been too much for him after he was found a few days after his wife was reported missing to have tried to take his own life, shooting a gun into his open mouth but somehow managed to stay alive.

Police have release a statement that revealed that they had found Sabrina Bebb-Jones’s blood in her husbands car but they had to release him at the time of finding the evidence due to lack of strength of the evidence and the unknown whereabouts of his wife.

Bebb-Jones told police that he had walked out on his wife with their 3 yeard old son after having a martial bust up but the child was later found in a Las Vegas hotel room alone.

Police continued to pursue the case, later turning up a skull that was confirmed to be that of his wife Sabrina, found on a mountain pass in Colorado, America.

Bebb-Jones had returned to Britain to start a new life with his now 15 year old son by the time the police had tracked him down, finding that the accused had been living a playboy lifestyle with drink and gambling.

The accused murderer has experienced a good amount of success at the poker tables since his new start to life after moving out of America with his son, winning £90,000 in one tournament which took place in Walsall, England.

Bebb-Jones was arrested yesterday morning and will be held with a view to return the British national to the United States of America to face trial after new evidence gives police enough to charge the man.

The professional poker player seems to be set to be denied bail after the prosecuting US Government official lawyer told the judge that Bebb-Jones had already tried to take his own life and so allowing the man to post bail would allow him to try to do so again.

“Mr Bebb-Jones is sought for the murder of his wife. He is responsible for the murder, and the deliberate concealment of it for many years. On the weekend following that incident it is said Mr Bebb-Jones went to Las Vegas and spent thousands of dollars – partially using credit cards in his wife’s name. He lived a playboy lifestyle in the course of that weekend which culminated in him putting a gun in his mouth and shooting himself in the head. Whether by judgement or design he didn’t cause any life-threatening injuries to himself.” said US prosecutor Aron Watkins.

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College Drop Out Earns Over $8.5 Million Playing Poker

The slogan ‘Don’t be a fool, stay in school’ has long been something that every parent has told their children at least once in their life, with their kids fighting to make it through the college years but on young mans parents will be definately thinking that their son made the right choice after his latest win at the poker tables.

21 year old Joe Cada decided that he was going to drop out of school and become a professional gambler, with poker his chosen game.

The young professional managed to make the gamble pay off for him in the end, winning the recent World Series of Poker main event and staking his claim to more than $8.5 million in tournament prize winnings.

With so many household names entering the tournament every year, all with an eye on the top spot, Cada was set to be up against the odds as some of the biggest names in poker took to the tables.

Cada managed to keep his head and eventually won the tournament, claiming his $8.55 million in prize money and a nice new WSOP Winners Bracelet to boot.

Cada started playing poker online at the age of 16 and began to get a real feel for winning, making a fair amount in his time at the tables. This later lead him into the decision that he was going to drop out of college to chase his dream of winning huge amounts of cash playing a game that he loved, poker.

Cada was lucky in his dream, with the 21 year old player openingly admitting that he took a risk when he decided that his path in life was going to revolve around playing poker and placing money at stake at every outing that he was going to participate in.

The World Series of Poker winner told media that “There is definately a career to be made from the game, but you had to be very careful when you make the decision because more players lose than win.”

The young professional poker player warned other players who were thinking about making the move away from working their jobs or participating in college that gambling can cause the lowest of feelings aswell as offering one of the highest that he has experienced. The player said “They don’t really know the behind-the-scenes, because you go through big up-and-down swings. At the beginning of poker, when I lost $40,000 or $50,000, I maybe acted differently than I normally was.”

The vicotry will mean that the player will have a fair amount of backing, taking home 50% of the prize money himself after seeking financial backing from two other parties to help the player raise the $150,000 buy in fee to the tournament.

Cada isn’t big enough to be classified as a household name at the moment but a couple more showings like this one will mean that the poker world will have to sit up and take notice of the young pro.

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Pokerstars Announces Latin American Poker Tour Schedule.

The internets largest online poker room Pokerstars have announced the new schedule for the upcoming Latin American Poker Tour.

Previous running of this tournament was greatly received by players who flooded to take part in the tournament run by the biggest name poker room.

With this year being the third year that the tournament has been running, Pokerstars have announced that they are going to play the tournament in Costa Rica.

Pokerstars professional Humberto Brenes spoke out about the decision that Pokerstars made to stage the tournament in Costa Rica, saying “In just two seasons, the Latin American Poker Tour has become the biggest poker tour in the region. It attracts the best players from Latin America and all over the world. Last season, the prize pool hit a million dollars in Costa Rica and I know we’re going to beat that this time! I am very proud to play in Costa Rica – it’s my home country and a very special event for me. Tell everyone to come here – the Shark is waiting for them.”

With Brenes laying down that challenge, there is sure to be a number of amateur players who will be looking to make a name for themselves by being the player to eliminate the poker professional.

The $2,500 + $200 tournament won’t be the only attraction in terms of poker action either, Brenes will be staging a charity poker tournament that will feature a $100 buy in, with 50% of the prize pool been given to The Whitney Fund For Nature.

The schedule should offer a great experience for anyone involved, with last years tournament attracting so many big name players from all over the world, with the likes of Daniel Negreanu and Alex Gomes taking their chances at the tables.
If you are looking to take part in the tournament, Pokerstars will be running satellites for the tournaments within their tournament schedules over the next few weeks so better sign up to Pokerstars and get into the action!
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Freddy Deeb leads World Poker Tour final table.

The tournament has been in full flow for over 5 days now, with some great poker been played by a huge player field, the tournament was grueling for all involved.

The WPT Festa al Lago tournament has now finally managed to whittle out to the final 6 players at the final table with poker player Freddy Deeb entering into the final stretch with the chip lead.

Deeb is no stranger to the World Poker Tour, already winning two WPT tournaments, WPT Season III Aruba Poker Classic and the Season VII Celebrity Invitational.

Alongside these successes Deeb is also known for his successes in the World Series of Poker and the fact that he has cashed over $6 million in poker winnings within the years that the player have been playing.

Deeb will be looking to increase that amount to over $7 million, with first place in the WPT tournament paying out over $1.2 million.

With the Main Event final table being set to be placed under the television spot lights, Deeb has been hotly tipped to take the tournament due to the experience that the player has in tournaments that have been covered by a number of television companies.

The run up to the final table saw day 5 offer a tight fought battle with 8 players fighting for position and survival in the tournament, with the action offering a number of tense moments as players who found themselves short stacked looking to loosen up their play in a bid to catch a good hand and entice someone into the pot with them.

Internet poker player Aaron Jones saw his stake in the tournament hitting rock bottom as he found himself short stacked but due to some intelligent play, he managed to claw his way back into the tournament but still fell short of the final table after crashing out of the competition in 7th place.

Jones cashed $129,210 for his 7th place finish.

The final table standings, in chip count order consists of Freddy Deeb, Shawn Cunix who is no stranger to big tournaments with multiple World Poker Tour placings. Tommy Vedes takes the 3rd place at the final table with Craig Crivello taking the seat next to him after a guarantee of 4th place as he enters into the final stretch is granted.

The final two places at the live poker tournament are assigned to Jason Lavallee and Jason Burt, with Jason Burt looking to make a name for himself within the World Poker Tour enviroment.

Pokerstars Partner With England Rugby Football Union

The worlds largest online poker room Pokerstars has teamed up with the England international rugby union team, offering the side a 2 year sponsorship deal.

The sponsorship agreement will see Pokerstars place prominent branding around Twickenham Stadium, home of the nations rugby union side as well as advertisements within the programmes that are placed on sale at each game that is hosted at their stadium.

The sponsorship will see Pokerstars place their name into a list of large brands that have entered into agreements with the english national side, alongside the likes of Nike, O2 and Emirates Airlines.

Pokerstars Regional Director, Julia Tasker spoke out about the new agreement that is due to start next month, saying “This two-year sponsorship deal will continue to associate the PokerStars brand to premier sporting events and talent, whilst also enabling rugby fans to interact with the world’s premier online poker room in live environments.”

With Pokerstars speaking out about the deal it was only fitting that the english based Rugby Football Union (RFU) also issued a comment about the new partnership, with Paul Vaughan, Business Regional Director saying “It is always exciting to welcome a new partner to the RFU family. The growth of the game over the past few years has deepened and broadened our supporter base both at matches and through our supporter clubs and as a result our rugby watching audience is a perfect match for brands like PokerStars. We are looking forward to working closely with them to help them meet their sponsorship objectives.”

Pokerstars look dead set on becoming the number one online poker room across the world in more of a scale than they already are, already having over 20 million members on their site.

The introduction of the branding at major sporting events such as rugby union will be sure to increase the popularity of the Pokerstars brand.

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Akenhead Participation Remains Consistant

Top UK based poker player James Akenhead has once again reached the final table of the Poker Million, a tournament that has recently been signed up under the sponsorship of Full Tilt Poker.

This will be the players 3rd appearence on the final table of the tevevised poker tournament in as many months, already holding 2 other participations within the tournament.

Akenhead has not just had success gaining entry into the final table of the Poker Million but has also already booked his place in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event which is set to be played on November 7th for a total prize pool of $8.5 millilon.

This appearence will not be the palyers first in the WSOP either, having already played in the WSOP Europe main event in London where he placed a very respectable 9th place, cashing over $70,000.

The Poker Million tournament which is due to air in December but be played in Novemeber is a reward for the players consistant form that has seen the poker world sit up and take notice of the player, especially after Akenhead managed to knock out Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and eatting away at the stack of Antonio Esfandiari all within the same hand.

Akenhead will enter the main event with a chip count of 338,000 and will face off against some known faces due to the fact that a number of his Full Tilt Poker Pro collegues will also be attending the tournament.

Akenhead will have his eyes set on one player inparticular, Peter Vasiliou who qualified into the tournament via online poker play.

There is still one place remaining in the tournament which will be won thorugh online poker room Full Tilt Poker who as already mentioned have placed their name into the sponsorship of the live tournament.

Akenhead will be looking to improve on his previous placings within the tournament before turning his attentions to the WSOP main event where he will be rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest names in the poker world such as Full Tilt Poker team mate Phil Ivey.

The WSOP main event will offer Akenhead a huge challenge due to the fact that the UK based poker player will be taking to the tables as the short stack but this will not hinder the performance of the player who is constantly looking to make a household name for himself.

Akenhead has already taken part in a WSOP main event and was very close to achieving victory until he ran into a hand that left the player finishing in second place, cashing for over half a million dollars.

Christophe Savary Wins Biggest Poker Tournament Held in Africa

The World Poker Tour has once again managed to break into the record books by playing host to the largest poker tournament to be held in Africa.

The tournament was hosted in Marrakech and had enough players register to boast a prize pool of €1,648,613 for players to battle it out for.

The tournament drew in 416 hopefuls as they bought into the tournament looking to not only take home the €377,262 first place reward money but also the WPT crown.

Frenchman Christophe Savary successfully outlasted the whole of the player field, beating Irishman Eoghan O’Dea at the final table.

Savary  seemed to play his hands to perfection, waiting for O’Dea to make his plays before stepping the game standard up a level and using the check-raise plays that have been credited to the players known ability.

The final hand of the tournament saw a straight placed onto the board for the Frenchman, leaving O’Dea with no where to hide, drawing died.

O’Dea will be licking his wounds after getting so far in the tournament but the €262,446 second place prize money will go a long way to helping the Irishman to get over the disappointment that he will be feeling after getting so close.

The final table did offer alot for the specators to watch though, with Ludovic Lacay who had dominated much of the days play seeing his chip stack fall in quick proportion, crashing out in third place.

The biggest poker tournament in Africa certainly didn’t fail to impress with a huge turnout as well as some highly impressive plays and laydowns which were shown across the whole of the player pool.

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Shulman Wins 2009 WSOPE

The World Series of Poker Europe main even has come to an end, with professional poker player Barry Shulman outlasting the field to take the victory.

With Daniel Negreanu sat across the final table for the professional it was never going to be a walk in the park, with Negreanu as much feared name within the poker scheme.

The tournament saw 334 players buy entry, meaning that the prize pool was £3.34 million.

With Shulman not letting the occasion nor his opponent scare him into any sudden or unthought plays, he successfully managed to get the better of Negreanu, against the tips within the stands.

With Negreanu finishing second in the tournament, it leaves him becoming the leading poker player in terms of amount cashed from tournament entries, before been sat behind the likes of Jamie Gold and poker sensation Phil Ivey.

The final table of the event offered spectators alot of action, with the final few having to battle it out for a huge 17 hours before Shulman was crowned as the champion and bracelet winner.

The game wasn’t without its fair share of shocks and luck for Shulman though, at one point entering into a hand with Negreanu holding pocket aces to Shulman’s A/5 suited.

Negreanu allowed Shulman to see the flop which dealt Shulman a lifeline in terms of 2 hearts hitting the board.

Seeing this Negreanu and Shulman were both fast acting to get all of their chips into the central pot, leading to a showdown.

The cards ran juicy for Shulman, hitting his flush in order to stay in the game and double up on his chip count.
The final hand of the tournament saw Negreanu push all in while holding pocket 4’s pre flop, Shulman saw his chance and called with pocket 10’s. Negreanu needed to hit a 4 in order to remain in contension to win the tournament but the cards ran dead, giving Shulman the victory.

Shulman took home a cash prize of £801,000 with Negreanu leaving with £500k for his runner up finish.

Lady Gaga Turns Poker Player

The singer Lady Gaga has agreed to take part in a poker festival that is scheduled to be held in Ireland.

The singer is not known for her skills at the table, rather for her hit song ‘Poker Face‘ which topped the charts on its release and became one of those song that you just can’t seem to get out of your head.

According to PokerNews, the singer has agreed to take to the tables as she looks to her hit single to guide her thorugh the field to battle it out for first place, hoping that she can infact show her best poker face while at the tables not just stood on stage or over a microphone.

The appearence is not for definate due to the singer about to engage in a tour supporting Kanye West but a source close to the pop star has said that she is a fan of the game so the festival organisers will be hoping that she will be able to take the time to show her poker face over the felts.

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