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The FTOPS is over, but the successes don't stop. Coach and Sample Hand Judge Liverdracon finished as the runner-up in the Sunday Brawl and thus won over $50,000.
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The FTOPS is over, but the successes don't stop. Coach and Sample Hand Judge Liverdracon finished as the runner-up in the Sunday Brawl and thus won over $50,000.

One of the biggest European poker tournaments ended on Sunday. The Dutchman Sijbrand Maal took the title and €315,875.

Daniel Negreanu won the Canadian BC Poker Championship, cashing for almost $400,000 and outlasting 700 players. Other known faces that attended the tournament were Gavin Smith, Dennis Phillips, Isabelle Mercier, Lacey Jones and more.

World Poker Tour has just announced that its online poker room, WPT Online, has been shut down. WPT Enterprises, the parent company of WPT, claims that the number of existing players was not enough for long term profit.

The Caribbean Poker Classic Tour came to an end this weekend, when David R. Lloyd took down 113 player and cashed in $91,200 by eventually defeating Sol Bergren in the heads-up.

An unbelievable 1,503 participants provided for Europe's biggest poker tournament in Austria last weekend. 150 players qualified for the finale on November 29th and 30th in the Casino Linz, and thus made it into the money.

The World Series Of Poker 2008 champion, Peter Eastgate, just signed with the major poker pro agency Poker Royalty. The agency will deal with all the marketing issues such as media appearances, licensing, sponsorship and more.

Once again, a few PokerStrategists landed some hits on the big Sunday tournaments on PokerStars. The biggest cash went to Krenobelo. Rank 4 in the Sunday Million earned him over $70,000. PokerNoob was also successful again.

The High Stakes Poker TV show is set to start filming for its fifth season in December, with the Golden Nugget hosting the new season taping between the 19th and 21st of December.

After the record winnings in October, there was quite some action at the High Stakes tables on Full Tilt this month as well. For the fans of of the TV series "High Stakes Poker", there are also some good news: In December, the 5th season will take place!

The ninth leg of the Grosvenor U.K. Poker Tour came to an end after 4 playdays, and Brian Clarke, a night watchman from Scotland, cashed in almost £100,000.

The twelfth and final player to join the Party Poker Premier League Season III has just been announced. The event itself will take place in London and it will start on November 24 and it will last until November 30, the total prize pool being $1.25 million.

Phil Ivey managed to get on top of the Money Makers for November, knocking down Patrik Antonius, as he earned himself more than $1.5 million in earnings on Full Tilt Poker.

Nico 'behlinho' Behling would have almost taken the fourth EPT title back to Germany, if it hadn't been for the Portuguese João Barbosa who got the win and €367,140 after a lengthy heads-up.

Michael Binger just won the 11th WSOP Circuit Event in Lake Tahoe, cashing in over $180,000, the 2009 World Series Of Poker Main Event buy-in and a gold championship ring.

The most exciting moments of Day 2 European Poker Tour in Warsaw.

The PartyPoker Premier League has just added two more players to the lineup: the new WSOP champion, Peter Eastgate, along with high stakes poker pro Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

Over two million euro were in the prize pool for the Main Event of the Amsterdam Master Classics of Poker. The majority went to Scandinavia.

After two sessions of the EPT Warsaw Polish Open Main Event, our current chip leader is Roland de Wolfe, who overtook Anthony Lellouche, the chip leader from session A.

The EPT Warsaw Day 2 is now over and the official chip count is here.