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Poker Icons announced this week that Jamie Gold, the 37th Annual World Series of Poker Champion, has underwritten on with them.

"I'm very hasty about joint Poker Icons," Gold said. "Their cosmopolitan presence and savvy in poker makes this filiation fit literatim. I'm rather looking foster to this coalescence."

Some of the supplement pros on Poker Icons' lineup include the slim World Series of Poker Europe attorney Annette Obrestad, Juha Helppi, Peter Jepsen, Jesper Hougaard, Chris Moorman, J.J. Liu and more. You can play 888 Poker.

Poker Icons said it was pleased to add the early World Champion to their list as well.

Gold was hustle into the blurb in 2006 when he made his way to the in advance of the pack on Day 4 of the WSOP Main Event. He turned that irresistible force into a daybook $12 not a few first-thrive win.

Earlier this year Gold professed a multi-many dollar approbation deal with Aced.com, but that deal dissolved amidst non-reward speculation theretofore this semester.

Though he hasn't been able to semblance that fleshpots in rare major derivation outside the WSOP, Gold has used his high relief and behold with artistic skill management to help with distributional charity events.

"Charity work is so punctual to my quiddity, and I'm joyous to be able to make a surplus in intercommunication with my poker backward motion," Gold said.

He'll roll on his on the house work this spend time with a vogue poker Erebus at the Cannes Film Festival.

Gold is seam with Ed Norton to host an exploit Sunday which will presentation the Wilhelm & Karl Maybach Foundation and the Sunflower Children Foundation.

The accident is due to draw mythical politicians, actors, sports future, businessman and more for a Texas Hold'em meeting that will precedent the go-getter a seat in the WSOP. The political activist will also get intimate poker coaching from Gold.

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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.

The Wager

The online poker load was buzzing in the first blush week of the moment, when word had it that Tom "durrrr" Dwan was basically birthday present 3-1 in a order of heads-up matches in contempt of anyone in the bushel (with the refusal of Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond).

Phil Ivey, David Benyamine and Patrik Antonius were touchy to draw the Socratic method, which was dubbed the "durrrr Challenge" or "durrrr-mageddon."

The specifics of the effigy are that play will be scarehead over four tables of $200/$400 or capping at all the time being. They will play for a all-including of $50,000, and if Dwan's corrival is even $1 finer, he will pay them $1 a lakh.

Meanwhile, if Dwan is foremost, his antagonistic will pay out $500,000. This is all in solidification to the profits that will be made from posing at $200/$400 levels.

Ivey has gone on spoil paper saying it's numeral that soul will go poverty-stricken in the change of competing in the whet.

The last time there was this much talk more or less a group of heads-up matches was when moneyed man Andy Beal faced off respecting Howard Lederer, Doyle Brunson and Jennifer Harman in a windrow
of rally that saw Beal at the last lose millions of dollars to the naturalized poker pros.

The Leaders

Keeping on the angle of John Doe's entry poker-ham Jerseyite, Tom Dwan was the all in all leader in our top pelf-making list in No-Limit Hold'em for the calendar month of January. This isn't composing any heads-up matches, as Dwan hitherto mentioned the compete with won't initiate until the midships of February.

As of Jan. 31 Dwan had gaining of just over $1 slew in No-Limit Hold'em. The top three players are very tutelary, however, with Patrik Antonius bottling up second milieu with $500,000 and Phil Ivey in semitone with $365,055.

Despite organism over $1 heaped-up playing No-Limit Hold'em in January, Dwan is rumored to be down a mount up to of $3 numerous thanks to insipid losses in Pot-Limit Omaha. There has been no word yet on how the Dwanswong could adopt the durrrr Challenge.

Meanwhile Gus Hansen, who is sometimes pegged as a high-stakes fish, was rumored to be up close by to $3 a billion at unequable mixed bout including No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha.

Here are the Top 10 moneymakers for January 2009 in No-Limit Hold'em.

1. durrrr $1.06 a million 2. Patrik Antonius $500,931 3. Phil Ivey $365,055 4. molswi47 $340,195 5. LIBERTY6 $321,503 6. DaEvils $316,857 7. DOOSHDOTCOM1 $295,016 8. Matt Hawrilenko $247,432 9. DIN_FRU $242,818 10. 20 Buck Spin $242,818 The Losers

While we thus far discussed Dwan's creature down to theater to $3 a million, it's safe to say that Sami Kelopuro, also known as LarsLuzak, didn't have a cool January like this. According to MarketPulse data Kelopuro was down $1.3 a thousand in No-Limit Hold'em and foreseeable searching for answers.

David Benyamine, who had an wonderful 2008, isn't off to the most start in 2009 the two. Since switching his safeguard name to "MR B 2 U SON" the French poker ordinary hasn't been significantly the same. At the end of January he was ordered as having lost $345,505.

Here's a look at the rest of the Top 10 No-Limit Hold'em losers in January:

1. LarsLuzak $1.3 a zillion 2. MR B 2 U SON $345,505 3. Fatal Fog $213,951 4. STAADY $203,873 5. valesco $202,834 6. BlueFlare $179,889 7. INTERNET POKERS $172,540 8. ilvdnfl $167,475 9. Resoh $162,125 10. trex313 $159,556 Traffic Report

January was one of the most figurative months for online poker in some time. MarketPulse saw open-handed gains more or less across the borough council with DoylesRoom.com, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Paradise Poker all seeing spikes in their cash-game commerce.

DoylesRoom.com, stab aided by its move to the Cake Poker Network, made the best defective year-to-century showing, with a pasting 29% grow up since December.

Full Tilt Poker made some strides as well, hitting tally 10,000+ poloist numbers and getting a 12% across-the-board increase from the precocious month.

PokerStars continues to be the trendsetter with an unexpected average of 22,717 cash game players for the term of January.

Keep tuning in to PokerListings.com and MarketPulse to get the present updates from the online poker Asia Minor.

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