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Randy “nanonoko” Lew has been well known amongst the poker community for quite some time now as one of the best online cash game professionals in the world. He’s been a Supernova Elite every year since 2007, collecting the maximum PokerStars rakeback possible.

His achievements caused him to become part of Team PokerStars Pro. Furthermore, he recently hit a nice score in the live arena, taking down the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour stop in Macau for $483,857. And now he can add a Guinness World Record to his resume.

For a while before the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Lew had been asking on his Twitter for suggestions for breaking a World Record while in the Bahamas. In the end he decided to attempt to play the most number of hands in eight hours while remaining profitable. I think it might have been easier to try to break a record involving Bingo codes!

On Sunday January 8th, he started out playing roughly forty tables of $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold‘em at one time and kept that up for the majority of the eight hour stint. During the grind he took absolutely no breaks, ate nothing and had zero trips to… READ MORE

Party Poker doesn’t provide poker services in the United States, but it is still one of the best online poker rooms on the Internet today. They want to continue this trend into 2012, so they have some great promotions for the New Year.

Back in August 2011, Party Poker offered rake-free MTTs, which saved tournament players a lot of money. The site has brought back this promo due to popular demand, which means that the entire buy-in for a tourney will go to the prize pool! The promotion kicked off at the start of this month and will continue until the end of this month.

To help fund your account to play extra multi-table tournaments, the Party Poker download is offering a 100% re-deposit bonus up to $100. Furthermore, you could also get into a depositors’ freeroll on Sunday February 5th at 11:00 AM EST. This tournament has a $50k prize pool.

If you love big tournaments, be sure to be free for the Party Poker Winter Million in February. This $640 event is one of four tournaments hosted every year that carries a $1 million guarantee. It comes as no surprise that Party Poker works very hard… READ MORE

It is safe to say that PokerStars celebrated their tenth birthday in style. By giving out poker bonuses and hosting huge tournaments, records were shattered and millions of dollars were won. This entry will talk about the huge MTTs that took place this past month.

The first huge anniversary tournament was on December 4th, and it was the World Record Tournament. The guaranteed prize pool was $250,000, and the buy-in was only $1! PokerStars also capped the event at 200,000 people, which meant that they were adding at least $50,000 to the prize pool.

Despite the large number of players, the tournament only took 7 hours to complete. The final three remaining chopped the prize pool, with Russia’s Sokoluk1991 taking home the most at $40,258. Not bad for a $1 investment!

You may know that the Sunday Storm, an $11 Sunday tournament, usually has a guarantee of $200,000. For its anniversary, PokerStars decided to change the guarantee to $1 million on December 11th! They also put bounties on their pros: $100 for every Team PokerStars bust. If you wanted a way to earn extra PokerStars rakeback, this was it!

Remarkably, the tournament surpassed its guarantee since 116,400… READ MORE

Poker is as popular as it’s ever been in the Czech Republic, and a lot of it probably has to do with Martin Staszko’s runner up finish in this year’s WSOP Main Event. Just recently the WPT broke its record for a tournament in Europe after 571 people abandoned their Cake Poker download (among other sites) to buy-in to WPT Prague.

EPT Prague was just a short while after WPT Prague, and its numbers were also a resounding success. 722 people paid a €5.3k entry fee, creating a €3.5 million prize pool with €720k for first place.

One of the biggest names to just miss the final table was Chris Moorman, who busted in 15th place. Moorman is a superstar on the best Euro poker sites, and he has also had some recent success in brick-and-mortars. He recently had a huge cash at the World Series of Poker Europe, busting in 2nd place for a cool €800k.

The chip leader at the final table started as Nicholas Levi, but his stack quickly sunk to the bottom after getting coolered with bottom two against the top set of David Boyaciyan.

Despite the unlucky hand, it would be a while… READ MORE

Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson surprised some online casino gambling advocates by publicly announcing that he does not support online poker. Adelson is the richest casino executive in the world, as he heads the Sands (the largest publicly traded casino-related company in the world). His position in the industry means that his words carry a lot of weight.

If you consider that Adelson has been a supporter of the Republican Party for a while, perhaps this statement isn’t all that surprising. He supports Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, who clearly does not support online casinos for USA players at all. This was seen a few years ago when he helped pass the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), the first of many problems for online poker in the USA.

However, the puzzling thing regarding his statement is the fact that many other people in the industry believe that there is a lot to gain from regulating gambling in the United States. It also contradicts an article that was run in the New York Post that specified Adelson being in support of online poker at the federal level.

It seems that Adelson’s main concern with online gambling stems from… READ MORE

Since Americans can’t play on the William Hill Poker download, some of the most popular poker events in the U.S. are those of the World Series Poker Circuit. Despite attracting some of the best players in the world, the Main Event buy-ins aren’t ridiculously high. This allows even players with modest bankrolls to participate.

The buy-in for the recent Lake Tahoe circuit event was $1,600, with 327 players paying to take part. There were two Day 1s, and then 181 total players went on to play Day 2. Day 3, the final day, saw only 11 people make it. And then it took just 30 minutes for a 9-man final table to be formed!

Casey McCarrel was in a good spot when the final table started, but he was destined to be the first elimination. First he doubled Chris Clark up a few hands into the final table. A mere ten hands later, he got it in with an overcard and flush draw against Ron Segni’s top pair and busted.

Daniel Lowery decided to take Segni’s newfound chips in a pot where he hit a boat and Segni hit top two. Lowery then hit another boat versus Joe Fernandez,… READ MORE

The 10th anniversary for PokerStars is coming up, and the site has decided to celebrate in style. They have announced some truly amazing tournaments for next month, which is sure to make December a month to remember for some poker players.

You may already know that back when PokerStars was one of the US friendly poker sites online, they broke the Guinness World Record for the biggest poker tournament in history. Back then an astounding 149,196 people played, but PokerStars thinks they can break this record yet again.

On December 4th the 10th Anniversary World Record Tournament will take place, and PokerStars wants at least 150k people to play. To help this happen, they have set the buy-in at a measly $1, but they have made the guaranteed prize pool an impressive $250k. To ensure incredible value for its players, the site has also capped the tournament at 200k players. When else can you play a tournament with GUARANTEED overlay?

PokerStars is the wrong place to go for video poker, but it is the right place to go for the Sunday Storm. Despite the small buy-in of $11, this tournament guarantees an impressive $200k every week! On December… READ MORE

A little over a week ago, I wrote about the final table of the WSOP Main Event. I didn’t finish it because it was getting way too long, so today I will talk about the remaining three players in what is the biggest event of casinos for USA players. When everything got started on Day 2 of the final table, Martin Staszko was the short stack with 35bb. Ben Lamb was just a bit ahead with 45bb, and Pius Heinz enjoyed the chip lead with a healthy 90bb.

Things got started very quickly. Lamb and Staszko got involved in a huge pot preflop which resulted in a flip: Lamb had KJ and Staszko held 77. Lamb’s good luck in the WSOP was apparently finished because he could not win this hand, and then he was soon finished off by Staszko’s JJ a few hands later. Although Lamb busted in 3rd place, he still wowed the world by becoming the WSOP Player of the Year for 2011.

Poker fans around the world were about to be treated with one of the most epic heads-up battles of all time. In total there would be 120 hands over a grueling 6 hours.… READ MORE

No one could claim that the path towards regulated online poker in American has been an easy one. Various powerful figures have been lending their weight to laws that would combat the UIGEA, but so far no one has come close to succeeding. However, the winds are changing in Washington and another push for legal online poker is underway.

The House of Representatives is no stranger to online poker, thanks to the constant efforts of Barney Frank. By contrast, the Senate have not touched the issue since the original UIGEA was passed in 2006.

That’s all changed this week, thanks to a full blown hearing having been held. It was entitled ‘Future of Internet Gaming: What’s at Stake for Tribes?’ and took place on November 17th. It concerned how the existing online gambling marketplace is affective Native American groups and what a regulated market might mean for them. It was designed to consider not only poker, but games like real money slots.

It’s almost traditional in the U.S. for Indians to run casinos and many are understandably concerned about the impact of online gambling on their lifestyles. The hearing was called to consider how the influx of offshore providers… READ MORE

The Main Event of the World Series of Poker has been the most prestigious live tournament for quite some time now. It is the dream of everyone to win it, from new players to world class professionals on the PKR download.

6,865 players paid $10,000 to participate in the tournament over four Day 1s, and it was further thinned out by two Day 2s. Play was scheduled to be stopped on Day 8 when only nine players remained. The November Nine was scheduled for 109 days later on November 6th.

All of Pius Heinz, Anton Makiievsky, Bob Bounahra, and Sam Holden were less than 50 big blinds deep when the final table started. These stacks gave them a little breathing room, but they knew that it would be a good idea to pick a spot in the near future to avoid blinding out. The chip leader of the table was Martin Stazsko who had over 80 bigs in his stack.

It remained 9-handed until the 51st hand took place. Holden was the first victim as he shoved AJs into Ben Lamb’s AK. Holden was out in 9th place, and everyone else was guaranteed at least $1,010,015 thanks to the… READ MORE