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After a certainly successful first season of the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour, the organisers expand this season into three more countries. Amongst them there is also Mexico, where the Tour will have a stop in early December.
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After a certainly successful first season of the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour, the organisers expand this season into three more countries. Amongst them there is also Mexico, where the Tour will have a stop in early December.

Ivan Demidov and Peter Eastgate are the two finalists of the WSOP Main Event who will battle it out in today's heads-up for the most important trophy in poker and a prize money of over $9 million.

The Foxwoods World Poker Tour is getting closer to the final round, as there are only 10 players left battling for the first prize of $1,120,310. Here is the weekend retrospective containing Day 2, 3 and 4 recaps.

Each day a November Nine in detail. Today: Kelly Kim – The 31-year old poker pro from California is the clear short stack in today's finale of the WSOP 2008 with only about 2.5 million in chips.

Each day a November Nine in detail. Today: Craig Marquis – Marquis is the shooting star at the final table. About two years ago, he began on the $2/$4 Low Stakes, and meanwhile he has established himself both online as well as live in the highest games.

The $500,000 added LEOCOP IV, featuring 16 events that stretch over 15 days, has started on October 26 and it will end on November 9, culminating with the $250,000 added Main Event.

The Foxwood World Poker Tour Days 1a and 1b are over, with Jason "JP OSU" Potter and Phil Ivey being their respective chip leaders.

World Poker Tour just released a statement according to which they have just signed a TV sponsorship deal with the online poker site Full Tilt Poker.

As you might have noticed, PartyPoker has fulfilled its promise, and has included improvements in its software which were, in part, developed together with PokerStrategy.

Each day a November Nine in detail. Today: David 'Chino' Rheem – The US American is for many a favourite on November 9th in the race for the WSOP bracelet.

Each day a November Nine in detail. Today: Darus Suharto – The Canadian qualified himself for the Main Event of the WSOP in a $80 PokerStars satellite, and so follows the trail of Chris Moneymaker.

The US American cash game pro Ryan Fee won the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Season 2 in San José, and took $285,773 back home.

Last night, the Full Tilt Online Poker Series X kicked off – and with a big success for a PokerStrategist: German BlackMember mTw-DaviN received almost $200,000 for his win in the NL Short-handed event!

The Finnish poker pro Patrik Antonius started November with an impressive set of winnings, cashing in more than $1.5 million in 2 days.

This Monday, 219 players, including 97 online qualifiers, started into Season 2 of the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) in San José.

Each day a November Nine in detail. Today: Ylon Schwartz – Before playing poker, Schwartz was a ranked chess player, and entered his first WSOP in 2005. So far, the final table is his twelfth success at the World Series.

The tenth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series will start tomorrow at 21:00 CET. $15 million in 25 tournaments will offer the players 11 days of online poker, all hosted by FTP pros.

Merge Poker Network and Microgaming Poker Network have announced they started blocking IP addresses belonging to Kentucky residents from all their sites, whether they are included in the 141 domain list or not.

Steve 'MrSmokey1' Billirakis attended the most recent WSOP Circuit Event Championship and after being chip leader for both Day 1 and Day 2, he managed to win the entire event, making him the youngest player ever to do so.

Each day a November Nine in detail. Today: Peter Eastgate – With 22 years, the Dane is the youngest player on the final table and has the opportunity to become the youngest Main Event winner of all times.