Daily Rewind: PokerStars Cruise Live Ticker, Matusow's Money, William Hill F.A.

In today's Daily Rewind we bring you news of William Hill's partnership with the Football Association as well as live updates from a high stakes PokerStars cruise. In addition, PokerStars have acquired a Maltese gaming license.

The Daily Rewind is your one-stop-shop for a sharp review of the day in poker. Join us here for a mix of the latest news and a more irreverent insight into the poker world. Today we discovered the following topics for you:

Cruising for a bankroll bruising: live updates

PokerStars are hosting a live high stakes Omaha cash game on a cruise from Helsinki to St. Petersburg, where a collection of famous Scandinavian poker pros - including PokerStrategy.com coach JensKyllonen - will be playing up to €50/€100 Omaha.

Among those competing with our coach, who plays as "Jeans89" on PokerStars, will be Ilari Sahamies, Juha Helppi, PokerStars Pro Ville Wahlbeck, Sami "LrzLsk" Kelopuro and Theo Jorgensen. The main attraction will be the aforementioned high stakes cash game, though tournaments will also play out throughout the cruise.

You can find live updates from this high stakes action in the PokerStrategy.com forums:

PokerStars Cruise: Live Ticker

William Hill join forces with England Football Association

William Hill has announced a partnership with the English Football Association, which will see them sponsor the England national football team as well as becoming the Official Supporter and Official Betting Partner of the FA Cup.

This deal will see William Hill sponsoring and supporting the FA and England football team until 2014.

PokerStars  Malta

More good news for European players comes today as PokerStars have announced that they have acquired a Malta Remote Gaming License. This is of particular benefit to players in certain areas, such as Finland and Sweden, that require sites to have a gaming license within the EU. You can read more about this at PokerStars Blog.

Put your money where your Mouth is

Mike Matusow took to Twitter last week to publicly state that he does not owe Full Tilt Poker any money, saying "why my name is mentioned I don't know". However, this contradicts a statement given to PokerStrategy.com by Groupe Bernard Tapie lawyer Behn Dayanim.

Now, it is alleged that Matusow actually owes approximately $700,000 to Full Tilt Poker and "has not responded... to attempts to reach him to discuss the matter."

Mike Matusow will need more than a good Robert DeNiro impression to pay off his alleged Full Tilt Poker debt.

High stakes corner

Ilari Sahamies and Viktor Blom, better known at the virtual felt as Ilari_FIN and Isildur1, have been the stars of the show in the online Omaha high stakes games recently. We reported Isildur1's swings yesterday and they continued, with Blom dropping almost $200,000 to Sahamies according to HSDB.

The Artist Formerly Known As Ziigmund made up for his previous losses with a wild session against Blom that saw him take $193,000 in just over 1,000 hands. Blom didn't end the day a loser, though, having won a significant sum from Berndsen12 earlier in his session. It was Berndsen12 who lost the most on the day, dropping $201,000.

Daily Signoff

With Ilari Sahamies dominating our Rewind today, playing high stakes online and on the Baltic Sea, we thought we'd share his typically suicidal and degenerate spin on the tequila shot: