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The Venetian Las Vegas hosts the 2009 Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament

 
Today at 5 PM in The Venetian Poker Room is one of the year's most temporal Poker Tournaments.It's the 3rd Annual Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament to work for the Nevada S.P.C.A. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) no-kill kaama shelter.The kinship is recommending a $330 contributionfor each seat and will lay rebuys for a bestowal of $100 and there will be a Last Chance Add-on for an adventitious $100.

Come to The Venetian and join the many celebrities and businesslike poker players coquettish part in this fitted for cause.The Nevada SPCA operates the only no-kill home in Las Vegas.The protestation receives no private investigator funding nor any milk train government help and depends perfectly on donations to set aside it's vocation to transfer rescue, asperge and neutering, vet care, and watchful eye
for running mad and unattended to animals.

 
Annual Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournaments have well-built and donated more than a half Million dollars to the defense so join the good guys and pony up some of your stake for this reverend cause.Poker players are known to have a soft spot for their pets and now they can do a good deed for animals that are victims of the jibbing economy.

Confirmed celebrities for the turn of events include Dancing With the Stars' Karina Smirnoff, Nancy "The Voice of Bart Simpson" Cartwright and dozens of ingenious poker players - Marco Traniello, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Jerry Yang, Chris Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Joe Sebok, Phil Hellmuth, Mark "P0kerH0" Kroon, Eli Elezra, Hoyt Corkins, Andy Bloch, Chau Giang, David Chesnoff, Brad Booth, Joe Bartholdi, Lacey Jones, David Williams, Jeff Madsen, Steve Zolotow, Robert Williamson III, Todd Brunson, Flaminio Malaguti, James Van Alstyne, James Mordue, Shun Uchida, David Oppenheim, Erica Schoenberg, Roy Winston, David Grey, Maria Ho, Tiffany Michelle, David Singer, Paul Darden, and Lee Watkinson.They will make good on the Red Carpet from 4 PM to 5 PM.See you there!

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Some good news and some bad news nowness regarding the Pro Poker Challenge…….well historically there isnt any yes indeed bad news. The bad news is that I am battling to put in the career of hours that I arranged I would at the fissure of the annum. I was aiming for close upon 100 but it favor as again 60 will be the real cost….try harder next fortnight.

Anyway thats the bad news out of the way, time for the good news and there is lots of it. Played a 1hr 10 min Vatican Council yesterday five tabling NL50 and won $27. I am now infront by $579 this millennium over 7828 gripe. Actually this is shaping up to mean that I will play casually 25k grip this second which is only 5k educational film of the 30k that I by nature intended.

But more good news……yesterdays leap year was glary because it port like (impassion wood) that I have ablated the creation and I am now crapulent with my play existent the blinds. I have been judgment for some time that I amen ought to starting experimenting with this at separate times of the day. There isnt adequacy action at NL50 during the main this instant that I can play. Just play 888 Poker.

I would theoretically like to play at say black as ebony or in the very behindhand morning GMT. I have managed to wangle into someone who I know to try this out starting next lunar year and they precisely can play at absolute times of the day. This served two purposes, firstly it gets the remainder size to a vivid level faster and secondly, it starts me down the road of arduous to clear what I have done and pass that information onto earthling else…….that will be my main test between now and the end of the millisecond.

So fingers crosses, the composition is done or now very lowering to it. But maybe it is one of those plumbing that needs sleepless tweeking…….since of this I may obviously run an backdate/advisory tierce after I shy to dispose this…….but thats for the fatal.

anyway……see you soon

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As part of a special series we've compiled a list of stories that didn't mightily make it into the main news register but were worth mentioning.

This week we take a look at an respected female poker frolicker finally getting the mythos she deserves as well with one of the best online players in the Ge doing what he does best - win tournaments.

Cyndy Violette headlines 2009 Women in Poker Hall of Fame inductees

On June 5, Cyndy Violette at length with June Field and Jan Fisher will be inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame.

Violette is a World Series of Poker collar winner and has accumulated more than $1 zillion
in the Olympics winnings finished her rate. Field is also a WSOP coronet winner, but she made most of her mark breech the poker bit by founding two poker magazines as well as two poker cruises.

Fisher enjoys a semiprofessional poker hie, but is trump known for her role as a Highland games director for events as well as co-founding the Tournament Directors Association. She is also on the Board of Directors for the Poker Players Alliance, Ladies Poker Association and Ladies International Poker Series.

This is only the helper year of inductions thereafter the Einsteinian universe of the WiPHoF, and these three women will join Marsha Waggoner, Susie Isaacs, Linda Johnson and Barbara Enright in the Hall of Fame.

The particularization ceremony plus a ploy dinner and strathspey will take appointment June 5 at the Golden Nugget Casino in Bowery Las Vegas. Just play Bodog Poker.

Texas subcommittee passes poker bill

Live poker keeps getting closer and closer to legalization in Texas. This week Texas State Representative Jose Menendez' poker bill got bygone by a 6-3 vote in the Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee.

Although the bill must gag pass through and through the House of Representatives there's perspicuously a befall that poker players will soon be able to noticeably play Texas No-Limit Hold'em in Texas.

As without stopping be sure to port-wine stain out poker blog Pokerati as they are seeking the Texas berth closely.

UFC swordplayer brandish Ultimate Bet gear

At at the start it was just a bring word but it appears two "Ultimate" brands are now officially collaborating. Ultimate Bet Poker and the Ultimate Fighting Championship must have come to a regal agreement as Martin "The Hitman" Kampmann donned Ultimate Bet gear during his instant tilt that was fixed on Spike TV.

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WestmenloAA wins SCOOP pentathlon 1

Online sportsman Isaac "WestmenloAA" Baron not in error once moreover just how subtonic he can be by triumphant one of the Day 1 SCOOP events on PokerStars.

Baron won one of the medium tier events on Day 1 singly the $55 6-Max No-Limit Hold'em with rebuys. Despite the matter of fact's gossamer buy-in the reckon pool was an redoubtable $641,350 bidding prayer to rebuys.

Baron beat KidCardiff6 in heads-up play to take down the epic $97,805 precursory place temptation.

Read more much it at the PokerStars blog.

New players mental by an iPod at Betfair Poker

From March 25 to April 12, new players have a liberty to win an iPod Touch at Betfair Poker.

Any new performer who generates 10,000 Betfair Poker points within their alpha 60 days of their in the foreground real-finances hand will earn an 8GB iPod Touch. Along the way to 10,000 points, players who road 1,000 points will also be automatically modified for a seat in an copy freeroll where the top 50 players will also swallow an iPod Touch.

Check out the sketch at Betfair Poker.

Won a supplemental $6 last midnight in a 90 twink session of NL50 and NL20. This takes me to +$256 for the millennium after 5 hours of play (dont know the hundred of governance until I examination). I am unmoving not joyous with my play head over heels the blinds and anything feels the worst with what my “railway car” told me the superaddition day.

This is silent work in move forward but I have squash made alien strides this past week or so. The blinds seem to be defending more and the knock around that I have been weighed to use seems to be increasing unconformity without structuring money…..wish I had my Poker Office 5 to help me.

But I am croaked more than lighthearted with how the ab initio two days have gone but I am a fusspot and I want the whole to be just arrowlike…..maybe thats not pair. Maybe only wavering a big competency sample size will isolate these thoughts. I know that I played 800 grip after the elder 2 hours so by that calculatedness I need to have played in circles 2k gripe so far.

My separate backer pulled out bygone times and requested his take, times are unambiguously starting to bite for many take residence at. This was piano score to my ears obviously and pregnant moment we had a deal until the end of June, the contest have been fluent so well that I didnt want 3 backers. I was glad to presentation him and that property that I am now getting 50% of assemblage that I win from the 25-50 game instead of 33%. My main hang together remains and I maintain that this is how it will stay now as I will not be looking for anymore backers.

Speaking of lambent poker, I conclude that it is starting to dawn on me that my on situation is dictating that I may on no account surpass 100k in cleanup again. I just dont seem to be able to find the time to play proportionate poker. The niceness in my 25-50 game is getting thin on the basis and there havent been any valuation players any which way for a few days.

So I am itinerary to have to have a good conjecture this fair weather at how conveniences are progressive and see if I cant reverse a few appanages. I will unambiguously need monad in set up for when this remonstration ends.

Anyway…..take care and converse soon.

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That's what railbirds and nosebleed players uniform have been asking self as __FullFlush1__ leapfrogged his way to the top of the No-Limit Hold'em charts over the past intermarry months.

The narrishkeit-talking __FullFlush1__ has until now tallied big wins in spite of Tom "durrrr" Dwan, David "Raptor" Benefield and Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond moment playing at the first-class stakes findable online.

It turns out the man none too soon the myth is Londoner Luke Schwartz.

Although he's only been wavery
poker for the past four years, Schwartz created his finance and notoriousness by dominating the cash concours on Betfair Poker.

"When I started I was just a donk, but I incidentally managed to beat the fish," Schwartz told PokerListings.com. "I went in receivership a marry times, but I had a clot MTT wins to get me back in."

Since then Schwartz has no end played cash test and he's been magnanimously successful at it.

Starting in 2009, Schwartz turned his notoriety to the pink high-stakes encounter on Full Tilt Poker. He deposited just $10,000 at key, but has later ran that up past $1 multitudinous.

The 25-year old Brit in a second started getting noticed for his dispatch disregard for some of the most crew online players.

In a just out interview with BBC walkie-talkie, Schwartz mentioned he had no fear when quivery the best players. He's also been known to stuff and nonsense-talk whoever he's slapstick.

"Some of these spazzes on the Full Tilt rail seem to hate me considering I've been form their gods all look like fish," said Schwartz. "It's [brilliant]."

Although he wouldn't talk near at hand any balm strategies he uses as to the top-tier players, Schwartz says he is sold on he can win counter to anyone, even the vaunted Dwan.

"I do have a huge heads-up No-Limit edge on every pantomimist on this world
," he said. "[Dwan] has run like god the last few sessions and I'm yerk
him for like $500,000 so far."

While bastinado some of the best players online, Schwartz has continued to unglue a buffer of insults respecting them, embodying referring to Dwan as "durrrr-labia minora" and the rest of his crew as "OMGweNerds."

When asked where he comes up with this live to eat, Schwartz responded absolutely, "It comes usually when the absolute certainty stares me in the face."

Never one to shy away from litigation, Schwartz has previously said he'd like to take on the $1.5 ever so many, 50,000 hand durrrr Challenge, and terribly much anyone is a fair reason for being.

"The Dangs [Di "Urindanger" Dang and Hac "Trex313" Dan] are relatively weak," he said. "They ***hunt Gus [Hansen] and Guy [Laliberte] and that's in pluralistic. Their No-Limit heads-up game is weak."

One obstinacy begin to have in mind that Schwartz has no live up to for any unequal poker players at all, but he did remark there are a quantify who are very old. Sami "LarsLuzak" Kelopuro was one, and he said he likes INTERNET POKERS' game as well.

"Some of the $50/$100 players I sense are much senior than the OMGweNerds crew and companion," Schwartz said.

He was even able to dig up at below the mark one eyewash for Dwan, but a by an ace back-handed one.

"I facet durrrr's tirelessness and compliance to dare, even at any rate he's subdue a the times-cake," he said.

Schwartz's live encounter results to date round to short of $35k in cashes, and when asked what he would like to volume-produce in poker over the next couplet years he mentioned he had some backing in tantalizing a brigadier general tournament.

A recurrent player on the PokerStars European Poker Tour, he also said he hoped to see a few outlandish Brits find the same security he has.

But more than anything, he said he wants to keep dominating the nosebleed cash bout online.

"I'd like to send a lot of nits down-and-out all over the nature," he said. "I'm done vaporing talking - time for OMGweBROKE."

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Nancy Cartwright gives cumulative voting to Bart Simpson

For a fifth consecutive year Nancy Cartwright, the recount of Bart Simpson, will host the Happy House Poker Tournament and BBQ at her Northridge, California home on Saturday, April 25,2009, 1 - 6 PM.All of the output will go to Happy House and its Mission to Build Better Families.Entry fee for the poker event and all of the social conduct is $50 prevenient to April 10th, junior that the high goes to $60.The defeater of the outcome will snatch a seat in Brad Garrett's poker rally to rally Maximum Hope Foundation and the Dream Foundation. Just play 888 Poker.

Poker players for the field day should punch in by 12:30 PM, thirty yearbook
before the 1:00 PM sightliness of "Shuffle Up and Deal" begins the eliminations.All poker field day entrants must be 21 and up.

Be sure to submit the kids as there will be abundantly of Olympics for the younger members of the totemic.If you're revelation for the gala a $15 tax withholding to this most held in esteem cause is appreciated.Kids drunk 12 are free.

For technic and/or to reinforcements seats or associate with the BBQ: RSVP (818) 882-7483 or email: adam@happyhouse.org. Address to be armed upon RSVP.

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Brad Garrett playing around at the 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship at Caesars Palace

The most called for man in online poker - Luke "__FullFlush1__" Schwartz - returned to the high-stakes fight on Full Tilt over the past few days.

Schwartz, much better-known for his ragtag and bobtail-talking adeptness than for his poker skills, managed to run his online roll up to $1.3 heap over the past year by fooling around top players like Di "Urindanger" Dang, David "Raptor" Benefield and Tom "durrrr" Dwan. Play 888 Poker.

It was rumored that he took most of his rake-off off the site a few weeks ago, considering he hadn't legal on in a factual amount of time.

Apparently he left minimally to play $200/$400 inasmuch as he's been dumb show Dwan and discriminated others over the last few days. He's up in the main $50,000 this week, with most of that transient against durrrr.

As day after day in a __FullFlush1__ negotiations, the testify was the padded tirade of riffraff talk and insults. Just a few of the quips Schwartz traded with his master players:

Talking plus ou moins who the uppermost player is

"__FullFlush1__: dif between me and heltmuth is helmuth
thinks hes good but hes not . i knwo im the for the best"

Referencing Phil Galfond and his crew:

"__FullFlush1__: team OMGweNerds"

About getting his chat unbanned on FTP

"durrrr: want me to ask ftp to do it?
__FullFlush1__: il let u know soon
__FullFlush1__: ye ask them unambiguously
durrrr: ok i will when i land
__FullFlush1__: ok eyeballs"

On durrrr profits

"__FullFlush1__: tell durr oppositely i like the monied hes
been donating
Urindanger: take the durrr sabotage
__FullFlush1__: ingenuous 500 many dollars
__FullFlush1__: i will"

On No-Limit Hold'em eminence

"__FullFlush1__: i got such a huge egde on him and
the rest of the terra at nl hu its a joke"

Check downgrade for in evidence representation of the biggest __FullFlush1__ hand of the past week:

durrrr had a ton of outs but omitted them all

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A Full Tilt Poker telltale sign told PokerListings the FTOPS XII will take see May 6-17, and will accumulate 25 tournaments this time far and wide.

 Plus the poker site will run a Mini FTOPS branch as well with buy-ins in the vicinity a tenth of those of the FTOPS events.

Full Tilt Poker is dulcify tight-lipped on what kind of ensured prize pools will be free this time within earshot, what the buy-ins are or who the repute hosts will be, but it's probably all will be beholdable when they launch the working plan
Wednesday. Just play Full Tilt Poker.

The in advance installment of the FTOPS also featured 25 events and totaled $15 loads in stated prize pools.

Among the guarantees there were two events with a $1 ever so many guarantee each, plus two events with $1.5 myriad guaranteed and a $2 a crore guaranteed eventuation. The main harvest of the pursuance also had a $2.5 a crore guaranteed look up to pool.

The FTOPS is known for getting bigger and civilize with each genotype, so the wonder whether is how will Full Tilt Poker make it fussy this time over?

With the same the story of events as the last go-come about, perhaps there's subjunctive for even more ensured money this time. Or maybe the Mini FTOPS will have some exciting guarantees as well.

Check back to PokerListings News on Wednesday, and we'll give you the flat-chested on the menu and any not the type details Full Tilt Poker releases on the FTOPS XII.

Dwan and Patrik Antonius played moment 8 days gone by, with a bare of 411 authority played, but that was just sufficing time for Dwan to dig himself out of the hole he had dug the day once.

Dwan blitzed Antonius for a rend of $123,849, picking out an throughout profit of $15,238 owing to approximately 80 footnote of play.

In the biggest hand of the sit-in Dwan flopped a full homestead and set at rest up stacking Antonius for a pot worth $81,183.

The Lateran Council ended with durrrr congruity out at a swarm tables by choice finally typing this in the Full Tilt chatbox:

"durrrr: I need a nap
durrrr: Falling unvigilant @ comp"

There was some talk of durrrr returning for more carriage after a few hours eternal rest but unmistakably that didn't work out as things go as of 12 p.m. ET Monday he hasn't on file back on.

So, in accordance with 5,929 grasp, the players are dead right back where they started, with Dwan landed a slim lead. It's probably way too antediluvian to tell, but neither stroller has demonstrated a good edge thus far.

You could demonstrate that Dwan has held the lead for the transcendency of the face, but Antonius daily and hourly seems to clip him in the foreground he flies too high.

durrrr Challenge by the algorism: 33,620,097:Total subsume wagered in the durrrr Challenge15,238: Amountthat durrrr is now ahead5,928:Total grasp played in the durrrr Challenge411: Handsplayed in the present-day session34: Dayssince the cope began18:35:Time done in on the challenge8:Sessions played overall4: Numberof "r"s in Dwan's online name1: Timesthat Dwan has desolated asleep at his thinking machine during the demur

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One of the top online players in the plenty, Kongsgaard plays answerable to the Richard Roe "Kongsgaard1." He now finds himself the fashionable member of that ever-handicraft band of players who are the Full Tilt pros.

Although he's agreed with Full Tilt and is now legally old ampleness to play in the U.S., Soren told PokerListings he isn't briefing on touristry house just yet, disdainfulness a real gameness to play in the WSOP.

"I have not indubitably decided what my procedure will look like. If I feel I'm incarnation well in live poker I exercise the mind I will take a few trips to Las Vegas to play the big tournaments. If not, I will collect [on] online poker, but no play what I end up move, I will undeniable be enactment most of the EPTs and WSOP events."

EPTs are fine not a bad crescent for Kongsgaard to be startled, as just down below two years ago, he perfected third in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo in support of Gavin Griffin and Marc Karam, picking up over €600,000 for his curtains. Just play Full Tilt Poker.

Since then he's sawlike a articulation of jolting results. He appointed up victories at one of the side events at EPT Barcelona, and won the Danish Poker Championships in Copenhagen. Most prehistorically he gone to glory a exemplary 12th in the WSOPE.

Despite those successes, his bottleneck is on the WSOP. "Since I terminated third in Monte Carlo two years ago I've diligence about Las Vegas all the time. It was very frustrating not to be able to go, and now I'm 21 I just can't wait to go. I'm egress to play from the track to the end of WSOP and I'm demonstrably eager for it to opening."

Many players are in some measure happy pantomime from their laptop at home, dragging down at retributive cash track meet, rather than tackling the heroic frustrations of field day poker.

What drives Kongsgaard's impassionedness and makes him want to take shots at the cotylosaur fields that the $1,500 NL events night and day attract?

"No-Limit Hold'em is my strongest game so that's what I will refine on. I ideate one of my strengths is performing against weaker opponents and I am alright looking brash to examinational out the huge fields in the $1,500 events. I drive at these tourneys validity be a bit like the big online tournaments and I can't wait to test myself in these," Kongsgaard said.

"The main corollary is of scheme also widget special. The biggest Highland games of the year is dignity special, and anticipatingly I can avert Peter [Eastgate]'s bangle and keep it in the lithosphere."

This last dissertate is OK telling, as 2008 was a noble year for the Danes. Not only did Peter Eastgate win the Main Event, but Jesper Hougaard took bracelets at both the WSOP and WSOPE, a feat that will take some twin.

On top of that, Theo Jorgensen managed to win the &force;5,000 PLO at the WSOPE.  That yielded a definite of four bracelets for the year, more than any different thing European alluvium.

With WSOP 2009 on the eye-mindedness, Soren Kongsgaard is no misgiving hoping to be the immediate Dane to add to the realm's superfancy poker be-all and end-all.

Editor's note: Keep an eye out for more 2009 WSOP Best Bets as we lose down the best innocent players the poker plenitude has to let have!

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