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Poker for the Homeless in Ireland

The Poker for the Homeless event comes back with an All-Star line-up in Ireland. Once again the PartyPoker Irish Poker Championships, which is the first major Popker festival of the year, has announced the return of the Poker for the Homeless tournament as a side event at the Galway festival.

John Phan, Player of the Year for 2008

John Phan ended up being crowned as the Cardplayer Player of the Year for 2008, an award that put a golden ribbon to his excellent year. The award, that has been won in past occasions by players such as TJ Cloutier, Daniel Negreanu and Michael Mizrachi, was missed by Michael Binger after finishing 67th at the WPT Doyle Brunson Classic.

GUKPT 2009 is next

As the GUKPT Champion of Champions has been crowned as well as the GUKPT Player of the year, the Poker community is already looking forward to the next season. Although this year’s happenings seem hard to improve, the organizers are puting up some impressive features for their 2009 edition.

Marc Goowin new GUKPT

In spite of the lack of an official press release announcing it, Marc Goodwin is likely to be the new GUKPT player of the year, after performing an amazing run of final tables and winning the Manchester main event as well as a Blackpool side event. But even more surprising is the fact that he could also win the European player of the year.

Daniel Negreanu wins BC Poker Champs in Canada

What a way to end the year for Pokerstars.net pro-players: while ElKy won a WPT title, Hevad Khan won the Caesars Palace Classic and Peter Eastgate got the WSOP Main Event. But now Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu has also taken down the BC Poker Championships in Canada, adding a new achievement to his impressive career.

Sun Poker in Europe

Las Vegas is not the only spot where hot Poker famous characters gather, in fact Europe has become in the last couple of years another hot spot for Poker ambassadors, hosting some of the most important events on the Poker fixture. Now, the ext EPT Prague to be held in December is set to welcome all of poker’s finest players.

56 days of Christmas at Ladbrokes

Ladbrokes, the top Online Poker room, is starting an eight week period of fun with its christmas credit crunch promotion, offering over 500,000 Dollars in giveaways. Starting on the 10th of November and until the 4th of January, these are 56 days of freerolls that will start for the sum of 0-1500 player points.

Annette Obrestad leads in EPT Budapest

Annette Obrestad is leading the pack in the EPTs Budapest Tournament. In fact, Betfair Poker pros and Online superstars Annette and Sorel Mizzi, are currently 1st and 3rd in chips at the first ever EPT Budapest. A record 262 players played in the first day of the Pokerstars.net debut event in Hungary, and they were whittled down to 88 at the end of play.

Introducing Smallball Poker

If you are a new Poker player you have probably adopted the habit of playing your marginal hands very aggressively. This conduct increases the size of the pots and often results in an all-in move with just one pair. If you compare this to baseball, for example, where the strategy is to hit as many homeruns as possible, you will have one thing.

Jason Mercier wins the EPT High Rollers Event

Yesterday night, EPT San Remo champion Jason Mercier took down the Pokerstars.net EPT High Rollers event in London, stopping John Juanda from doing a London double at the same time. Mercier is almost reaching Juanda after making the WSOPE PLO Final two weeks ago. Both men have moved forward in the European Poker rankings, in spite they are both American.