The tournament also looks forward to actors for the name of charity like Christian Slater, star in “Broken Arrow,” Untamed Heart,” and “Young Guns II,” and Brad Garrett who appeared in movies “Night at the Museum,” Ratatouille,” as well as Disney’s “ A Bug’s Life.” Joanna Krupa, hostess of North America Poker Tour as well as Team PokerStars Sports Stars Orel Hershiser will also play in the competition.

In addition to the aforementioned stars, the talk show host Montel William, Slash, former guitarist of Guns N Roses, and actors Marlon Wayans and Lou Diamond Phillips will as well appear in the tournament. Of course, poker players of PokerStars will also join in the battle.

The president and CEO of the Three Square Food Bank, Julie Murray is so delighted to PokerStars for its dedication to help those who hunger in Southern Nevada. Including the charity-minded celebrities who will join in the said tournament were appreciated. Julie Murray believed that this step would make a difference in their fight against hunger.

This step Harrah’s is taking in controlling Planet Hollywood would save a lot of job when possible at the same time put a stop to Planet Hollywood in failing and file bankruptcy as explained by Dennis Neilander, Gaming Control Board Chairman.

The Nevada Gaming Commission is expected to grant it’s final approval in favor of Harrah’s control over Planet Hollywood on Feb. 18 of this year. By this time, Harrah’s will employ Planet Hollywood’s employees. According to its executives, Harrah’s will hold on to the 2,300 existing staff members of Planet Hollywood. This is around 95 percent of Planet Hollywood’s employees. Harrah’s also owns Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas casinos and Marilyn Winn, president of both casinos will also be the new president of Planet Hollywood.

Nordic Poker Awards was previously known as the Scandinavian Awards. PokerStars will announce the awards before the Copenhagen European Poker Tour stop on February 15, 2010. Although, the United States have the top most prestigious professional poker players, the players from Nordic countries still features a high percentage of gamers in the industry.

The 2010 Nordic Poker Awards is thrown in order to award the top performances of poker players. Best Live Tournament Player, Best Performance, Best Online Player and Rookie of the Year are the awards to be given to them.

Some of the popular poker names that were nominated are Patrik Antonius, Peter Eastgate, Ville Wahlbeck, Ilari Sahamies, Jani Vilmunen and Dag Martin Mikkelsen. The awards will be given to the player that wins the voting which was decided by the public.

Pubic voting as the Nordic Poker population will decide which among the 30 nominees will take home the awards. Murat “Terrible Turk” Sahan from Poker Magazine, Jens Mogensen from Ace Magazine, Jasper Pääkkönen and Kjetil Flåten are the board of judges for the winners.

Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands CEO has been very busy for the past few days and for being hired as a Tallahassee lobbyist. He has made a lot of important contributions in Florida in regard to the pro-casino political campaigns.

Recent reports confirmed that Ft. Lauderdale legislator Ellyn Bogdanoff left with the plan of the expansion despite his early disagreement on the expansion of the State. He seems to side to the other side now.

The poker gaming industry has been looking for different markets to help them survive the stress they are undergoing for the meantime. Stress was brought about by the major investments that gaming industry has provided in places like Las Vegas and Macau.

In recent times, Miami has been attracting more and more companies to invest in their state. Miami is becoming on the target market of other big companies who wanted to invest in a different state. Big companies are targeting Miami in order for them to increase their stock values due to Miami’s economy at this point.

Brunson, ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner made a comment to President Barrack Obama made from his twitter account. In response, he received a barrage of Tweets in response to his post that say “The Democrats say ‘give Obama time.’ Us Republicans [sic] agree, 25 to life seems appropriate!”

Some persons commented on Brunson’s post that it was stemmed from racially motivated feelings towards the President. However, after a couple of hours, Brunson made a new statement that his post has nothing to do with the color of the skin of the President. He also added that he may not like the 1st year of ruling of Obama but this has nothing to do with his physical features.

As of the moment, Brunson appears to be laid off the political Tweets for a while. The Full Tilt Red Pro and the 2006 WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Madsen disagreed with the Tweets of the poker legend.

The deal from the Commerce Casino together with the Bicycle club is being worked out by the Morongo to pursue the online poker in California. According to the Morongo’s spokesperson, Patrick Dorinson, they have been asking added support from different tribes to pursue with the deal that fell apart due to the issues that risen that it was rush through the legislative process.

1 of the most influential groups, California Tribal Business Alliance has shown their disagreement in the proposal. They claim that it could violate the exclusivity clauses in gaming compacts with the casino tribes.

There are around 1.4 million Californians enjoying poker in an online poker via offshore websites. The proposal seems to gather potential revenue streams for the state and the Senate Governmental Organization Committee will take up all the questions about this online poker on the 9th of February.
Invitations have been distributed and speakers for February 9 are all ready to support the hearing. However, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIEGA) prohibits the use of credit cards and all fund transfer for the illegal online gambling except for the intrastate internet gambling.

Unabomber Poker was launched by the Cake Power Network that features the top pro Phil Laak. Phil was famous with its nickname “The Unabomber” because of his attire at the poker tables. In this room, Laak will be feature in action on their network and through a blog that is available in the site. Along with their launching of new online poker room, they also announce their seven additional network poker rooms that includes the 7Win Poker, Redback Poker, Amsterdam Poker, Safari Poker, Dimeline., Rags2Riches Poker and the Burro Poker.

The Cake Poker Tournament is one of the top ten online poker networks in the industry and includes 55 online poker sites with an average of 2,100 real money ring game players. Unabomber Poker offers a lot of amenities to all their players and even allows their players to earn Gold Chips and Gold Cards that they can use in exchange for cash, merchandise, or free play in the online tournaments. This newly launched network will also participate in the monthly event of Cake Power Network with $250,000 guaranteed.

Wil Molson fight up with Reynolds in the final hand of the blockbuster event all-in pre-flop holding K-8 against the A-10 of diamonds of Reynolds. He was able to collect a prize approximately $322,000 for his runner-up performance.

A fourth place in the European Poker Tour (EPT) San Remo stop happened last season, William Reynolds told the officials of the PokerStars that he was feeling ecstatic and consider this as the roller coaster ride he had ever ride on in his entire life.

Dmitry Stelmak was the first player to be sent from the Bahamian poker tournament and also the first all-in of the final table. He moved all-in his flop with K-10 of hearts against the A-10 of Tobias Reinkemeier. Reinkemeier had a top two pair as the combination of the flop shows A-10-9 making Stelmak leave with $66,000.

Adolfo Vaeza left the PCA on the third place with $218,000 and was the fourth place in the EPT London High Roller event for $224,000. More than 6,000 players joined the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 50 events thus making it the largest poker tournament series of the WSOP.

Players that played in this tournament are also the best players all over the world. Aside from Josh Arieh, the final six tables were also composed of Steve O’Dwyer, Scott Nguyen, Faraz Jaka, and Shawn Buchanan.

Steve O’Dwyer made an exit on the 47th hand and Scotty Nguyen on the 57th hand. Competition on each of the players was very tight game. Nguyen was able to collect around $249, 976 when he left the place.

On the other hand, Shawn Buchanan was able to collect $333,302 for the whole tournament while Faraz Jaka earned around $571,374 when finishing the third round of the game.

Daniel Alaei and Josh Arieh made a close fight on the last game. Alaei had 10 hearts, and 8 diamonds as his card while Arieh holds 7 hearts and 7 spades and amde an all-in move while the flop shows 10 diamonds, 5 diamonds and 2 spades. It gave Alaei two pairs and the win against Arieh

Alaei specializes on NLHE cash games and has already collected more than $3.7 million dollars in live games during his poker career. He has 2 WSOP bracelets to his name and had won the $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better event and made 18 cashes in the WSOP earning him an amount of $1,533,917 respectively.

During the primary day of the $15,000 WPT event, he decided to leave the main game in order for him to participate to the side games. He said, “I signed up to play and some guys were starting up a big cash game,” “So, I played in that over the tournament for the rest of the day.”

The time comes for the final table to be set and Alaei was group with the most daunting opponents of the field and that includes: includes Josh Arieh, Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka, Shawn Buchanan, Scotty Nguyen, and Stephen “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer.

Fives times WSOP bracelet winner, Scotty Nguyen, was trying to gain his previous fame by taking the chance to win the WPT title. However, he ended up as 5th and taking home $249,976. Nguyen gained praises from his co-players and he commented:

“Everybody is a good player these days. You’ve got to respect that. All these young kids these days, they come in to play and they have nothing to fear. They have nothing to lose, only gain.”

He ended up head up with 2 time WSOP winner Josh Arieh in the final two. The last hand came up and Arieh had pocket 7’s in a 10-2-5 flop. Arieh go all in post flop. However, Alaei holds a 10, 8 card and called. Arieh ended up being second with a wealth gain of $952,290.

“It was not an easy call for me,” Alaei commented. “If he had a 10, I was pretty much dead.”

Alaei won the pot amounting to $1,428,430 for his success. When he was asked about his feeling for winning his first WPT title he said, “This is great. I’ve wanted one of these for a while. I was one of my only friends who didn’t have one.”