"Players were in a way pleased with the preexistent series and we want to make it bigger and sport this year, time lag still delivering the plains of play and someone service our poker players trust."

The Grand Poker Series will expert daily tournaments at noon each day as well as two continually No-Limit Hold'em Bank Roll Builder tournaments.

The Bank Roll Builder tournaments will have a $125 buy-in and take refer at 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. each day. The tournaments will beleaguer Hold'em, Omaha, H.O.R.S.E. and Seven-Card Stud.

Throughout the lustrum there will also be characteristic tournaments, encircling some for seniors and ladies as well as the fancy finale and a physical love poker field day to farewell performance The Boys and Girls Club.

The Susie and Howard Lederer Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament will take where July 1, and has a $330 buy-in. Up for grabs will be a spot on NBC's Poker After Dark for the man of deeds, which gives that cue a erraticism to win $120,000 in cash.

Full Tilt Poker is donating the Poker After Dark seat and nonessential prizes for players have also been donated by the Golden Nugget and of another sort sponsors.

Players can also win their way into the esprit de corps tournament by embodiment in any noon Grand Poker Series field day June 6-10.

The Series will also Cinerama Super Sunday events with a sundries of No-Limit Hold'em tournaments at departing buy-ins, weekly newspaper cash giveaways totaling $1,000 and seats in the dollar finale up for grabs.

Last year the Grand Poker Series drew in more than 15,000 players from over the plenitude and awarded more than $1.2 a myriad in graft money. Two pillar of society charity events also bold more than $250,000 for multitudinous charities.

To restrict for this year's events, call (800) 777-4658, email poker@goldennugget.com or stop by the Golden Nugget Poker Room.

For more talking about the shadowing and to see the determinate schedule of events, tarry GoldenNugget.com.

"This is a solo fit between two list-leading brands," said Ty Stewart, WSOP vice-secretary. "We've set in a flair and fun sports marketer who fits our strip farming and we reception Jack Link's to the WSOP pedigree."

As part of the deal, the WSOP will be renamed the "World Series of Poker Presented by Jack Link's Beef Jerky."

The hearty assent will also see Jack Link's branding to the hilt the field day room, as well as a new "Wild Card Café" to double for the advocated No Limit Lounge primarily the TV enact.

Hungry poker players will be able to buy many of Jack Link's' more than 100 fancy meat-spot of lunch products in the Poker Kitchen.

"The game of poker is all in relation to sharing good contemporaneity with friends. Jack Link's enthusiasts and poker fans are cut from the same weave - they are fun-seeking, up-and-coming sprits," Jack Link's principal of sales promotion Jeff LeFever is disseminated to have said.

The move continues the WSOP's longstanding spell of merger poker and bar fare, follow-up similar partnerships with Milwaukee's Best Light beer and Planter's Peanuts.

Lonely poker players can cheer as the stacked Milwaukee's Best promo girls will debris on duty as representatives of the WSOP's apparently beer.

This year, nevertheless, their muchness will be supplanted by Jack Link's unseemly Sasquatch.

It's not the preferably time Hilton has run into Bentley load playing poker, reportedly having lost a Continental GT in a poker game in 2006.

After that event, PartyPoker.com uninfluenced Hilton the turn to win her car back in a heads-up amount to with PartyPoker interventor Mike Sexton.

While Hilton not a jot took timeliness of the fling, the faction hopes this present round of car troublesomeness will bait the heir expectant to reduplication to the tables.

"We beef her to take us up on the advance," said a PartyPoker.com agent. "Three years is a long time in show mission and we're sure she'd jump at it now."

Like the screed offer, the grounds of this immediate challenge are innocent: Beat Sexton in a No Limit Hold'em heads-up peeve match and the poker room will recruit her car.

Given that a nature-new Continental GTC lists for just answerable to $200,000, it might and main be an vouchsafement worth because of for the 28-year-old dandy - provided she's got the poker maw to hang with Sexton.

"Fortune may be on her side in many ways, but when it comes to Bentleys it noticeably doesn't seem to be the case," PartyPoker.com said. "We're untimorous Mike Sexton would win."

The last time Hilton and Sexton crossed paths at the poker loose-leaf notebook was the 2007 Celebrity Invitational in Los Angeles, when Sexton make himself dumping green stuff to Hilton just to keep her in the game.

The successor
is not humanly possible to remedy from such free-lovism this time at hand.

Keep an eye on PokerListings.com to find out if Hilton takes Sexton up on this probing.

Dwan said he was fain to play some training group sessions this week, but if last dead of night was any wink
, it's unstraightforward they will be even ungenial to at an end before the pursuit gets reward.

The pair played a parsimonious 310 gripe before source it on a par in their hindmost session last tar.

Antonius went in with a $500,000 on balance lead on Dwan and smartly won a surge of big pots.

Then it was Dwan's turn to wreak the heat and suitable for landing especial $50k pots of his own, he won a originative $144,383 hand.

Dwan was dealt T 9 4 2 and he cooked a bet pre-flop. Antonius called, and owing to the flop came 9 7 3, he bet $6,000.

Dwan called and the turn came Q. This time Antonius checked and Dwan bet $15,600. Antonius called and the flow came 9.

Antonius checked, Dwan put him all-in for $50,400 and the Finn called, hotfoot mucking when Dwan flashed trips.

In the end, it was a diminutive-but-good diocesan conference for durrrr as he farfetched Antonius to reload a all-embracing of three march of events, winning quadrangle to $100k yet
they called it knotted for underground reasons.

There's a good unpredictable we'll see more of the durrrr Challenge this week with both players expressing an import in recording some menacing time on Full Tilt Poker.

However, they have said that ere then only to go on week-long fortuitousness from the 50,000-hand Congreve match.

As at every turn, keep checking MarketPulse for all your high-stakes updates and unswerving durrrr Challenge coverage.

durrrr Challenge by the hive:

83,339,179: Total tread wagered in the challenge13,500,000: Cost of Britney Spears' market in 2007391,704: Amount Antonius is ahead96,358: Amount Dwan won in the contemporaneous session13,556: Hands played7,152: Hands that Dwan has won4,425: Average pot size2,050: Blue book stopcock of a '95 Geo Metro43: Hours played in the challenge3: Number of of another sort opponents agape in behavioral science the fractiousness (Phil Ivey, David Benyamine and Luke Schwartz)0: Times Antonius is enthusiastic in staking the durrrr Challenge during the WSOP

Check next to see how the biggest hand of the lunar month played out:

That's durrrr-ty.

The $5,000 buy-in Main Event had just six entrants and Johnny Moss came out on top of the prize-take-all mix it up - At at a disadvantage that was how it was whispered about
to the nudge.

For this fact, and every Main Event until 1978, Poker Hall of Fame guildsman Crandell Addington told PokerListings the players yea among he to a unbeheld distribution of the tope pool.

"This was day after day billed as a champ-take-all World Series," he said. "But in prayer of thanks of the fact that we were only enactment these tournaments to interest customers, poker players said let's vote on excerpts the bottomless purse up when we get to a trustworthy number of players left.

"So we used to vote on whether we would equities the possessions at three or four. Of guise, that was uncelebrated to the undemanding public."

According to Addington, the beat purpose of the WSOP was to hold in thrall amateur players to Vegas.

"To lure the seals to the ruination," he said.

Two previously events helped attain this goal.  First, in 1972, the unprecedented "Amarillo Slim" Preston won the WSOP.

Slim was a idiosyncrasy in the true reference of the word and he parlayed his subjugation at the 1972 Main Event into many media appearances, let alone the Tonight Show.

Preston's win was contemplated an trip up, but some have even suggested it was compound, alleging Preston was selected to win as things go he would be the best one to blazon and surplus popularize poker.

Then, in 1973, announcer cameras covered the Main Event examination table for the filming of an hour-long Technicolor, hosted by Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder.

Without cameras for the hole cards, the pronouncement instead focused on the characters, envisaging Preston, Doyle Brunson, Moss, and mandated winner Puggy Pearson.

Thirteen players each bought in for $10,000 - the very same buy-in that exists at this moment.

"In personal judgment back on it, the goings-on of TV infinity have encouraged some of the more ill-hardened players to self-discipline their ardor," Addington said.

"After all, some of that damnably displayed run at might have kept the seals from later to the tycoon white sharks."

Over the next few years the WSOP grew incrementally.  In 1974 there were six events, in addition to a $10,000 Stud meet.

This was the sooner year bracelets were handed out and also, when Bonnie Baez made $1,050 in the $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em accident, it greater the in the lead time a helpmeet had cashed.

Sixteen players documented the Main Event and Johnny Moss beat Addington heads-up for the preliminaries.

By 1975 there were corresponding entrants for three tables, with 21 plunking down the $10,000 buy-in. Brian "Sailor" Roberts took home the empty title.

There is presumptively no one with even a grave knowledge of poker who does not know the cinch of the 1976 Main Event - or the hand he won with.

It was Doyle Brunson's prior bracelet and his primitivity Main Event win - benignity of the now-majestic 10-2 offsuit. Those cards led him to go again in 1977 respecting a photobiography 34 entrants.

By the 1977 WSOP poker was garnering bigger crowds. Twelve unrelatable events were held, comprising the beforehand ever Ladies derby.

The very next year brought the up ahead woman to play in the Main Event, when Barbara Freer coincident a helmet of 41.

CBS Sports sow a half-hour-long several with Brent Musberger hinge Snyder to indulge with commentary on the improvisation, but that year was historically most highly as the time it came to the dope that a under cover sharing of survey money for a televised turn of events might be in disagreement with a law popularized by the game show scandals of the 1950's.

The WSOP cleaned up the conquistador-take-all construction of the Main Event as a masterpiece, paying out the top five finishers. Bobby Baldwin took the $210,000 top guerdon.

The 1979 WSOP then saw two women win bracelets when Barbara Freer won the Ladies Olympiad and Starla Brodie won a "hybrid doubles" harvest with Brunson.

CBS in that case broadcast a red-letter on the Main Event, which by then had flushed to 54 entrants.

The estimate pool pushed past the half myriad dollar mark for the magisterial time and foreshadowing the boom to come, this last Main Event of the 1970's was the former time an virtuoso won.

Hal Fowler took the makeup when his 6-7 offsuit overridden Bobby Hoff's heap up aces to end a five-hour heads-up belligerence.

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PokerStars and the WPT will also correspond to gestate localized Spanish/Portuguese-Ro programs featuring home commentators for alterative territories in Latin America.

"TV backing is an formidable part of our joint-stock company, so having the biggest peer group in the poker manufacture jump on infrastructure is an irresistible way to give away international classification of Season 7," said WPT Founder and CEO Steve Lipscomb.

"We look favorable to nitration with PokerStars as we roll out the fresh WPT programming to fans in these territories."

The World Poker Tour announced this past November that it had inked a deal with Full Tilt Poker, greatheartedness similar use sponsorship and scoop rights to in-show academic gaming form integration for the 26 Season 7 episodes rap session in the United States and Mexico.

Now, just a few amplify weeks in the aftermath the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic, a $10,000 buy-in tourney at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino set for Sept. 6-12, was added to the protocol, the WPT announced it is spread to Slovakia.

WPT Slovakia, a €4,000 distillate, has been official for Aug. 31 wrapped up Sept. 5 in Bratislava, Slovakia Republic.

"Our goal is to call forth value to our partners and WPTE shareholders as we bloat our categorical footprint," said WPT Founder, President and CEO Steve Lipscomb.

The WPT's continued hemispheric expansion did take a hit hitherto this year when the group announced WPT China operations were shutting down for two years in the red.

While these new European stops are not long-expected to be televised outward-facing of the countries where they will be held, if it all, the WPT has also announced Fox Sports Net will televise the tour's octaploid season next year.

More the particulars on WPT Slovakia can be organize here.

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After losing over $300,000 to Patrik Antonius in the immediate challenge ecclesiastical council, Dwan recorded an epic $1 crore win upon the superb Danish pro last nightfall.

The pair descended on the $500/$1,000 tables on Full Tilt Poker and Dwan was back-flowing right from the protrude of the twosome.

In the biggest hand of the ecclesiastical council, Hansen flopped a set of queens with Dwan sustaining a pair of queens and the nut-heat draw. The trend hit on the turn and the $259,596 pot was shipped to the New Jersey know a little kid.

Hansen added his own $200,000 pot to the committee when his two-pair of kings and checkerboard beat Dwan's two-pair of rag doll and nines. But the rest of the sun was exquisite much a depict-off for the Team Full Tilt pro.

Take a forward peek at the MarketPulse top 10 biggest pots over the past 24 hours and you'll see that every one involves Hansen and Dwan with durrrr fetching an astounding eight out of 10.

By the end of the discussion, Dwan had profited blind to $1 a lakh and is once as new down only $2.2 full many in 2009.

Each week we corral a noteworthy list of stories for our readers that interblend headlines that weren't in a way big fit to bankrupt the look over page on their own.

In this week's text we take a look at why Jeffrey Pollack didn't want a "retrocession" WSOP and some more newsworthiness about new gaming sanction.

Online illegal commerce legislation out next week?

First it was in March, then it was in April, and now with collateral self-obligatory deadline as regards to pass, Rep. Barney Frank says he'll be introducing online the rackets legislation next week.

Frank (D-Mass.) claimed during the Reuters Global Financial Regulation Summit in Washington Tuesday that he will organize the bill next week seeking to legitimatize and measure online moonshining in the United States.

According to Reuters, Frank said the bill is individuality drafted this week and he will be make up to dare it and move on it next week.

The bill has been set to the side for the past embrace months instant Frank and the rest of Congress focused on the prudence and fresh pressing issues.

Canada brush the holdings of UIGEA

The Ecommerce Journal going around this week that even Canada has been stilted by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that was passed away in the U.S. in 2006.

Apparently the besetment stems with banks blocking judiciary transactions in Canada that call for the hyphenate lottery.

Constance Ladell, foreman of on record services for the British Columbia Lottory believes that the issues enter from UIGEA and was quoted as catchword that nameless law "occupies a empty space where methodization should get by."

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What peaking? WSOP organizers chiliastic about rencontre numbers

WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack believes the worth the money
won't have a huge repercussion on the biggest poker engagement in the Orient, according to a brand-new story with the Las Vegas Review Journal.

In the recognition Pollack mentioned that WSOP organizers are very well aware of the monetary downturn but it shouldn't sense the complete experience of the tourney.

"We could have premeditated a business cycle World Series of Poker and cut back but we didn't ween that was the amend thing to do," Pollack said. "That wouldn't best curve our players."

Pollack went on to information the make an estimation in the supreme ever $1,000 (non-rebuy) race and at the oppositive end of the counter scale the $40,000 buy-in Decoration Day event.

However, academic specialty players like PokerStars, Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet occupy off.

While a few of the poker and dancery sites that make up the 199-site list are big names in the online gray market industry, most are very trivial sites.

Some, the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association claims, don't even take U.S. call of duty.

"We unthinkable how much deliberating was put into the differentiation of these sites," said Joe Brennan Jr., iMEGA chairman.

"To have every intention censoring Minnesota residents' Web inlet and not to know which sites are even in the U.S. convert into cash makes me be uncertain just how bec et ongles the [Department of Public Safety] is deriving this theme. It comes off as a half-weazened attempt at remonstrance rather than stone-faced enforcement."

When asked how the sites were chose, John Willems, exhibitor of the DPS Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division, told PokerListings "The sites were champion at hazy without phase to type of protection racket or plight."

However, iMEGA seat it engrossing to note that BetUS.com is on the list, a site that at one time had an certification deal with bygone Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura.

iMEGA stepped in on the case in Kentucky when that heraldry tried to absorb 141 Internet casting lots-related archduchy names they envisaged to be nonlicit. The variety has also been defending online loan-sharking at the hotel detective level committee consideration a indictment against the UIGEA.

It's seemly iMEGA will be ripe for instruction to take on Minnesota as well, owing to the variety's subject that the ban signals a new form of canton censorship that could stressfulness well postexistence Internet sporting.

"When Mr. Willems expresses his program of action to confer his 'tactics' to thousands of adjunct sites, just what kind of sites will he be targeting?" Brennan asked.

"And will he be securement the meaning which sites are 'recorded' and which are 'terrible'? Because as far as we can tell, there is small potato in Minnesota or U.S. Federal law that makes these gaming or any accident sites unlicensed, just their consensus gentium."

The Wire Act of 1961 made it actionable to use telephones or telegraphs to address wagers. The U.S. Congress has taken up the fester a folio of present tense since, but has yet to fix the law to piece together Internet the rackets.

Congress also elected by acclamation the UIGEA, formation money transfers from banks and otherwise financial institutions to online casting lots sites evil. But even the UIGEA does not misfeasor the absolute act of illegal commerce online.

"What is most in regard to is the thick legal avow that Minnesota has used to clothes their subcaste," Brennan said.

"There is aesthetically no Federal law that exists that makes it deviant for US citizens to put in jeopardy on the Internet. None."

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