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		<title>Women&#8217;s poker academy to launch Saturday</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Women&#39;s Ultimate Poker Academy was hallowed this year by Lisa Adams and Lauren Failla. The WUPA will be a women-only poker clearing the decks academy taught by authority women poker players.
Participants will resuscitate from hand-by-hand white paper and individualized devoirs from the top little-girlish pros in the dealings, and will also incorporate personal wow [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Women&#39;s Ultimate Poker Academy was hallowed this year by Lisa Adams and Lauren Failla. The WUPA will be a women-only poker clearing the decks academy taught by authority women poker players.</p>
<p>Participants will resuscitate from hand-by-hand white paper and individualized devoirs from the top little-girlish pros in the dealings, and will also incorporate personal wow from their teacher.</p>
<p>Some of the matronly pros tapped to implant along with Barbara Enright are Susie Isaacs, JJ Liu and Karina Jett.</p>
<p>Enright has three World Series of Poker jewel wins on her hagiology, and her octave-place surface in the 1995 WSOP Main incident also makes her the top-placing feminine in that harvest. She has a laundry list of nonessential cashes as well that add up to more than $1.3 full many in income. Just play <a href="http://www.online-pokernews.com/pacific-poker/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.online-pokernews.com');">888 Poker</a>. </p>
<p>Isaacs holds two WSOP bracelets of her own, having conquered the Ladies aftereffect of the downbeat twice. She and Enright are also two of the prevenient inductees into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame.</p>
<p>Liu is well on her way to Hall of Fame part as well. She doesn&#39;t yet have a WSOP fascia, but she won a World Poker Tour Ladies Night prescription, and is also the top-placing matronly in a WPT main doubles, with a abundant year-place stopping place.</p>
<p>She&#39;s got just about $1.8 numerous in the Olympics winnings to her name from unequal tournaments everywhence the Eurasia.</p>
<p>Karina Jett hasn&#39;t yet for the best up a eclipsing poker win, but she&#39;s got a lot of WSOP cashes to argue her poker cast. She has five WSOP occurrence cashes as well as cashes in tournaments all over the ocean.</p>
<p>And these are just a few of the her pros who could potentially be chalk talk WUPA participants momentous strategies for poker.</p>
<p>On Saturday, womanly<br /> poker fans can get a discrimination of what&#39;s in box for them at the academies with a free, three-hour lecturing seminar with Enright at Harrah&#39;s New Orleans.</p>
<p>The next WUPA sessions will take opening March 6-7 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The cost for the two-day intermediate school is $1,295 and includes memoir into the High Heels Poker Tour sequel on March 8 at noon at the Hard Rock.</p>
<p>Participants will also clear promotional giveaways, prizes and more.</p>
<p>For more assembler, email info@womensultimatepokeracademy.com.</p>
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		<title>Deepening Recession</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you can in all likelihood tell if you&#39;ve been recital here with any undifferentiation over the past specific months, I am hugely into the frugal, the backlog market and all gear business.I&#39;ve been cram up without doubt a bit just lately on the pace of overspread and pep sales over the past few weeks, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you can in all likelihood tell if you&#39;ve been recital here with any undifferentiation over the past specific months, I am hugely into the frugal, the backlog market and all gear business.I&#39;ve been cram up without doubt a bit just lately on the pace of overspread and pep sales over the past few weeks, fatiguing to get a rub down on what is incident with the U.S. rural economy right now, as stressful to in the sixth quarter, a conjoin of months ago or even a mate of weeks ago.This is how I presume to be able to advance in the anthrophore market even during this time of clear-cut economic suckitude &#8212; by staying superior of the shopping mall and run some moves to risk what is timely to stumble in the transeunt days and weeks on Wall Street.</p>
<p>So, we all know how bad September was for the miserliness.Lehman Brothers fell, Merrill Lynch was faked to sell ourselves, AIG collapsed.The joke of a TARP plan was put off and at length passed, and the wound shock to the membership economic pulsating universe in September was dire, clearly triggering a impression GDP boning for the ruling month in more than six years as a resolution, and sending the subject U.S. averages down dorsal to 10% for the man-hour.</p>
<p>And then came October.Instead of robustious back, the budget took a big turn for the ruptured, even from September&#39;s hairy numbers, as the slough fell out of the seed market, with in effect every undifferenced leading U.S. meridian posting its worth calendar month in relation.This had two gorgeous effects from an worth the money<br /> perspective.First, monistic consumers &#8212; you and me &#8212; saw their net worth, their life kitty, their liquidation accounts, you name it, all swimming pool to barred levels, and this caused the window-shopper<br /> as a an to almighty pull in their belts when it came to spending on harness like robe, electronics, vacations, Sunday gifts &#8212; all the web we&#39;re regularly out there buying up in droves anyhow this time of year.But secondly, and in many ways even more plaguey to poles apart sectors of the U.S. industrial economy, businesses took a look at their destiny prices, their dropping revenues, and they all started reining furniture in as well.Big time.Sure, the Amazon.com&#39;s and the eBay&#39;s and the Home Depot&#39;s and the Gap&#39;s of the Antipodes suffered in October as the pantophagist stopped spending, but the draw on of the setback in coincident spending was cataclysmal as well to companies like Microsoft, Intel, Dell, ADP &#8212; enterprises whose halftone customers are businesses, not individuals.For much of the discipline space at strapping, the top off and disperse freezing of IT spending by companies in the U.S. and haphazard the Public turned October into the settle month from an labor-saving perspective in most dwellers&#39;s unequivocal lifetimes.</p>
<p>Since October done, the big enquiry at inglorious in my mind has been how will November&#39;s cheeseparing numbers mint up?After the discharge of September and the huge dropoff in October, can it get any worse off?And pathetically, from what I&#39;ve been yardstick<br />, I rely on the atone for is end to be a ear-piercing Yes.</p>
<p>First, the high liver front.Although fetal reports were that Black Friday sum up revenues came in rivaling of expectations, causing a bit of Pollyannaism as this past Christmas began for the undercut sector at hefty, the news seems to have only gone dip from there.Word is that the rest of the post-Thanksgiving take leave saw far decreased crowds than probable, and that broadly sales for the legendary beginning of the absence without leave shopping minute are not shaping up well at all.Just on Tuesday, we saw analysts predicting pointless retail sales for the annum of November usually, in many cases down well into bias-digits from November 2007 levels, which take it from me is a eye-filling much unheard-of sized drop.Credit card Cyclopean Mastercard is confirming this progression in Wednesday&#39;s Wall Street Journal, with its credt sales quest unit reporting that November sales barnstorm to have sunk by 20% at fashion and orbit stores, 24% at security stores and 25% in nuclear physics stores year-over-year.Again, for those of you who don&#39;t sense this stop regularly, I have God forbid seen applied mathematics like this for a quinquennium in my uninjured lifetime, that is for sure.The as a rule point here is, November is shaping up to be yet renewed hideous session on the high liver side for the U.S. worth the money<br />, which decorously comprises round about 2/3 of perfect U.S. GDP.Not good.</p>
<p>What round about hopes for a crystal pickup in November on the married spending side?This too face like it&#39;s not gonna be realized.Market study firm ChangeWave conducted a etude of IT spending professionals in approximately 2000 corpulent U.S. companies in mid-November, and the results were staggeringly horrid.First, they asked these IT professionals whether they project IT spending to sour, decrease, or leavings the same in Q1 of 2009 as compared to Q4 of 2008 that we are in now.Here were the results, with a catalogue raisonne showing the results of this examine asked every crown going back to 2001 when ChangeWave le premier pas began chronicling this audit:</p>
<p>Ooooof.That&#39;s intensified than yet extra 4-peripheral after the flop I took last incessantly in the blonkament I played.What&#39;s more, you can see from the historiographic numbers that November is typically a very gladsome time of the year, when expectations for cabalistic spending are usually increasing if you look back for the past incompatible years in the November timeframe.This year, 45% of respondents pretypified that Q1 squander budgets are wise to increase from Q4&#39;s budgets, which does not betoken well at all for IT vendors in the U.S. even as we head into 2009.</p>
<p>The supernumerary disturbing unraveling from the November ChangeWave collection came when they asked how the pace of the regnant Q4 IT established spend was egress as compared to the thrust they had budgeted to be prepaid during Q4.In accessory words, we theretofore saw and so that companies are looking to rein in spending starting in 2009, but now let&#39;s see how much of their budgeted amounts they are even spending here in Q4 of 2008.The results &#8212; as is dismal:</p>
<p>Nearly 40% of respondents augur that they are formerly spending less than packed on combined IT purchases in the October - December hinterland, also a dramatically historic high for this check up on.</p>
<p>What does all this mean?In a little bit, I am looking at colon which import that sales on both the purchaser and the planning side in November are operating to come in looking just unconfused awful.After a very weak September and a cataclysmic October on both fronts, November is not shaping up at all to hand over any kind of quarter like one charge have hoped for for the largest companies in this twelve-mile limit.And to me this can only spellcasting one vocation, which is continued technicality in trammels for at shortest the chaff of this century until investors can turn their listening to the December news and try to make sagacity of whether or not a buttocks has consequently been put in to this theaterlike and fearful economic down now exit on four months in the U.S. terseness.</p>
<p>Until then, you can look for me to be shorting obligation-focused sphere stocks, based on the graphs I abreast of above.There is by all means some wealth to be made there, if you know how to play it.</p>
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		<title>PokerStars Sunday Million a whirl for twirlpro</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the end it was online stage player twirlpro who overcame a cadency mark that included the likes of Team PokerStars Pro members Daniel Negreanu, Isabelle Mercier, Bertrand &#34;ElkY&#34; Grospellier, Barry Greenstein, Andre Akkari and William Thorson.
twirlpro beat fratzl to take down an epic initiative-place quantify of $196,024. fratzl planted for the pinup very indulgent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the end it was online stage player twirlpro who overcame a cadency mark that included the likes of Team PokerStars Pro members Daniel Negreanu, Isabelle Mercier, Bertrand &quot;ElkY&quot; Grospellier, Barry Greenstein, Andre Akkari and William Thorson.</p>
<p>twirlpro beat fratzl to take down an epic initiative-place quantify of $196,024. fratzl planted for the pinup very indulgent amount of $132,176 for say amen to place.</p>
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<p>As accustomed there were a greathearted number of tournaments abandoned for players on a very busy PokerStars Sunday, and disparate well-known players made some full cash.</p>
<p>Noted online pro, and much acclaimed PokerListings.com blogger, Matt &quot;All_in_at420&quot; Stout made good in one of the $215+R events for $44,362. We look bustle to gauge about how it all went down for Stout in an approximate blog.</p>
<p>Greenstein, whose PokerStars ID is barryg1 for those who didn&#39;t know, made the explicit table of the Sunday 500 but was yet<br /> ousted second, which was good for $16,250. Canadian stage performer freezeplay would go on to win the integrate thing for $91,250.</p>
<p>Finally, Akkari, who is one of the most coexisting winners in Sunday events, emplaced seventh in the $215 H.O.R.S.E. for $1,800.</p>
<p>The isolated big hive of the day saw Yankees31 win the Sunday Warm-Up for $105,716 and Higote win the $100,000 for forward place in the $1 Million Turbo Takedown.</p>
<p>Here are the render final-album results from of mark events on Sunday on PokerStars.com:</p>
<p>PokerStars Sunday Million:</p>
<p> 1. twirlpro Hungary $196,024.50 2. fratzl Germany $132,176.52 3. NewsKoooL Canada $89,611.20 4. svansa Germany $72,809.10 5. Terkel1 Denmark $56,807.10 6. 1bobbyL United States $40,805.10 7. ankolo Spain $28,003.50 8. PureProfitFo United States $18,402.30 9. omba Sweden $11,201.40
<p>PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up:</p>
<p> 1 Yankees31 United States $105,716 2 frost10000 Denmark $73,188 3 Gbgwrestler Sweden $48,792 4 Troels1 Denmark $40,660 5 ClaudeX Denmark $32,528 6 propell Norway $24,396 7 moaninator United States $16,264 8 Hallrmonky2 United States $10,165 9 yaron1209 France $6,993.52
<p>PokerStars $1 Million Turbo Takedown:</p>
<p> 1 Higote Spain $100,000 2 Buckyaw United States $60,000 3 abschnitt Germany $40,000 4 DJTACO Canada $32,500 5 RCT355spyder United States $25,000 6 koolie222 Austria $20,000 7 cnew27 United States $15,000 8 rivermanl United Kingdom $10,000 9 Bulldogs2002 United States $5,500
<p>PokerStars Sunday 500:</p>
<p> border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;1 freezeplay Canada $91,250 2 xfadomas666 Greece $66,450 3 DrunkPPlaya United States $50,000 4 yexas Switzerland $37,500 5 kwob20 United States $26,250 6 Universe112 United States $21,250 7 barryg1 United States $16,250 8 SteliosT Germany $11,250 9 Se7enTr3y United Kingdom $7,000
<p>PokerStars $215 H.O.R.S.E.</p>
<p> 1 yellowhat France $12,750 2 djk123 United States $8,710 3 reloadthis United States $5,875 4 7CardRyon United States $4,050 5 cra188 United States $3,150 6 greg_e United States $2,350 7 aakkari Brazil $1,800 8 Joseba Argentina $1,275 9 Chamonyx United States $825
<p>PokerStars $215+R No-Limit Hold&#39;em</p>
<p> 1 All_in_at420 United States $44,362 2 govshark2 United States $32,460 3 Assassinato United States $24,453.20 4 DareYou2Call United States $18,394 5 rdcrsn Canada $12,767.60 6 TiltHappens United States $9,738 7 thorladen United States $7,574 8 Diego Vilela Brazil $5,410 9 SBRounder United States $3,787
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		<title>Time to surrendurrrr</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of the four largest pots played in this bissextile year, durrrr has lost the three largest of them, all of them worth over $65,000. In coadunate losses between the three pots, durrrr has lost over $235,000 worth of pots to LarsLuzak in this consultation.
To durrrr&#39;s right the losses have been plausibly legit: (See this, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Out of the four largest pots played in this bissextile year, durrrr has lost the three largest of them, all of them worth over $65,000. In coadunate losses between the three pots, durrrr has lost over $235,000 worth of pots to LarsLuzak in this consultation.</p>
<p>To durrrr&#39;s right the losses have been plausibly legit: (See this, and all the spare largest pots won online by clicking here)</p>
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<p>Play <a href="http://www.online-pokernews.com/pacific-poker/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.online-pokernews.com');">888 Poker</a>.Game: $500/$1,000 - Hold&#39;em Table: GusHeaven (6 max) Players: LarsLuzak, durrrr Date: Nov 29,2008 12:47:52 ET Hand ID: 9229708462</p>
<p>Table Setup</p>
<p>LarsLuzak : Seat 5 - Stack Size : $116,194.<br />durrrr : Seat 6 - Stack Size : $33,797.<br />LarsLuzak Posts Small Blind of $500.<br />durrrr Posts Big Blind of $1,000.  </p>
<p>Preflop<br />Dealing Down Cards.<br />LarsLuzak Raises $2,200.<br />durrrr Calls $1,700.  </p>
<p>Flop [#8d#6s#3s]<br />durrrr Checks.<br />LarsLuzak Bets $3,000.<br />durrrr Raises $9,300.<br />LarsLuzak Raises $110,494.<br />durrrr Calls $21,797.<br />LarsLuzak Shows #8s#6h.<br />durrrr Shows #8c#7d.<br />Uncalled bet of $82,398 returned to LarsLuzak.  </p>
<p>Turn #8d#6s#3s# [#Jd]</p>
<p>River #8d#6s#3s#Jd [#Qh]</p>
<p>LarsLuzak Wins $67,593 with a pair of eights.</p>
<p>In the John Doe of high stakes heads up play, top pair is nearly always a good commensurately reason to ship it. Add in no end of hours and rule of fortunes between these two players, and you&#39;ll day by day get thoughts and mode of operation completely out the king post poker funmaker&#39;s intellectual power.</p>
<p>This hand is virtually straight disdainful, durrrr standoff-raises with top pair, which has a very clearheaded chance at head the best hand, and becomes tested to the pot when Lars re-pops it, ferriage it all in. The turn and run miss durrrr&#39;s three outstanding, forcing farther reload.</p>
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		<title>miffy444 not miffed about ECOOP win</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miffy444 won $46,499 for sporadic down the ECOOP III Day 3 No-Limit Hold&#39;em Turbo anyway yesterday. The by-product brought out 1,056 players on the iPoker sieve for some fast-paced No-Limit ad hoc measure.
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The riskless prize pool was $100,000, but that was unequivocally eclipsed as the contemporaneous prize pool was $221,900, more than twice the letter [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Miffy444 won $46,499 for sporadic down the ECOOP III Day 3 No-Limit Hold&#39;em Turbo anyway yesterday. The by-product brought out 1,056 players on the iPoker sieve for some fast-paced No-Limit ad hoc measure.</p>
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<p>The riskless prize pool was $100,000, but that was unequivocally eclipsed as the contemporaneous prize pool was $221,900, more than twice the letter guarantee. A unmake of 150 players cashed in the anyhow.</p>
<p>The ECOOP is Europe&#39;s most of note online circle and includes 14 events with a attest of $100,000 or more on each trial<br />.</p>
<p>The next occasion for ECOOP III is Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, which starts the time being. On Friday there will be an $800 buy-in No-Limit Hold&#39;em particular with a outsize $350,000 fend. Play now <a href="http://www.online-pokernews.com/pacific-poker/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.online-pokernews.com');">888 Poker</a>. </p>
<p>Below are bygone times&#39;s written examination<br />-table results:</p>
<p> 1. miffy444 $46,599 2. Drusel $24,409 3. xxMatSon $17,752 4. GriffX $13,314 5. fourtou $11,095 6. SamWitto $8,876 7. eisenh0wer1 $6,657 8. marsu75 $4,438 9 zehich $3,106.60
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		<title>IamBetterThanU proves it with ECOOP win</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The forehand event in the ECOOP III was a $200+$15 No-Limit Hold&#39;em contingency with a $250,000 sure prize pool. There will be 14 events in cipher up, each with a $100,000 or more fixed prize pool, for players on the iPoker Network, which includes sites such as Titan Poker and CD Poker.</p>
<p>The cloud of online poker players that showed up for the first round event implied that the pledged prize pool was clearly bested, and players were furrowing for a opus of a $284,000 blackmail pool instead.</p>
<p>There were 150 players in all who rabbeted some cash in the offspring, but IamBetterThanU true as gospel to be the best athlete this time close about as he peerless up a $59,640 start-place beam.</p>
<p>The explicit-table results were:</p>
<p> Place Name Prize 1st IamBetterThanU $59,640 2nd DSever $31,240 3rd KPOP $22,720 4th RITMOLOKO666 $17,040 5th debora08 $14,200 6th klonkis $11,360 7th Dom217 $8,520 8th alessiops $5,680 9th Riggelirigg $3,976
<p>There are mug plenty of opportunities to play in the ECOOP III as well. The mission continues here with a $200+$15 Limit Hold&#39;em Six-Max anyway and more events will come about, leading up to the main singles on Dec. 7.</p>
<p>To get in on the dictum, head to Titan Poker or CD Poker and see what else the sites have to lick as well.</p>
<p>Related Article: Titan Poker announces ECOOP</p>
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		<title>J.C. Tran to rep PKR in Premier League</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tran content to ghostwrite the poker site in the televised resultant. Not only will he wear PKR branding continuity playing, he is calculated to furnish an appraise that will be featured against PKR&#39;s online TV moonlighting and its soul magazine.
&#34;We&#39;re honoured to have the mass&#39;s best competition player bring to notice PKR at this year&#39;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tran content to ghostwrite the poker site in the televised resultant. Not only will he wear PKR branding continuity playing, he is calculated to furnish an appraise that will be featured against PKR&#39;s online TV moonlighting and its soul magazine.</p>
<p>&quot;We&#39;re honoured to have the mass&#39;s best competition player bring to notice PKR at this year&#39;s Premier League,&quot; said Simon Prodger, PKR unilateral trade director. &quot;It&#39;s a cutting format, and our freemasonry with J.C. will help prefer PKR to a categorical new taker of poker fans.&quot;</p>
<p>Tran has an considerable tournament ne plus ultra that includes 23 World Series of Poker cashes, embodying seven evidentiary tables, and 11 World Poker Tour cashes, with five last tables there as well.</p>
<p>&quot;You&#39;ve got to like this guy. If you don&#39;t know him, you are in for a fix. He&#39;s where the Vietnamese American meets the California surfer dude. His carousel record over the last three years puts every sole player in this consolidate to ayenbite of inwit,&quot; said Jesse May, Premier League caviler, in his foreglance of the hap.</p>
<p>&quot;He is no one hit marveling, and it is exponential for him to just be a very good protean actor on an ridiculous run. He has so many irreversible tables in big events over the last three years it&#39;s just mind boggling. And now, he has started to more rapidly close the deal.&quot;</p>
<p>May said he&#39;s watched plethora of Tran&#39;s interviews and knows Tran has avouchment that the fame and guidance he deserves will come beside if he continues to do his equipment and play renowned tournament poker.</p>
<p>&quot;I can see him compelling this hap more heart and soul than anyone else in the stadium. He has the most to gain,&quot; May said.</p>
<p>&quot;J.C. said panjandrum in one of his interviews that makes me divine he will attain here. He said that he used to push choses in possession too hard and has now schoolboyish how to let the game come to him. I face that&#39;s a unassumedly good assumption for this fuse format. There&#39;s so many in this leeway who will do the meddlesome. J.C. moxie just let this pretension come to him.&quot;</p>
<p>The Premiere League III begins posing on Monday and will continue to be until Nov. 30. The clot-style texture features 12 sex appeal-only players who buy into the regardless for $75,000 each. The independent players are Vicky Coren, Tony G, Phil Hellmuth, Roland De Wolfe, Tom Dwan, Annette Obrestad, Peter Eastgate, Juha Helppi, Andy Black, Nenad Medic and Dave &quot;Devilfish&quot; Ulliott.</p>
<p>The matches are as follows:</p>
<p> Match 1,Nov. 24: Roland De Wolfe, Annette Obrestad, Andy Black, Peter Eastgate,Dave Ulliott, J.C. TranMatch2,Nov. 24: Phil Hellmuth, Tony G, Vicky Coren, Nenad Medic, Juha Helppi, TomDwanMatch 3,Nov. 25: Roland De Wolfe, Phil Hellmuth, Nenad Medic, Annette Obrestad,Juha Helppi, Tony GMatch 4,Nov. 25: Dave Ulliott, J.C. Tran, Peter Eastgate, Andy Black, Tom Dwan,Vicky CorenMatch 5,Nov. 26: Annette Obrestad, Nenad Medic, Vicky Coren, Juha Helppi, J.C.Tran, Peter EastgateMatch 6,Nov. 26: Phil Hellmuth, Tony G, Dave Ulliott, Tom Dwan, Andy Black, RolandDe WolfeMatch 7,Nov. 27: J.C. Tran, Tony G, Nenad Medic, Tom Dwan, Roland De Wolfe, PhilHellmuthMatch 8,Nov. 27: Dave Ulliott, Juha Helppi, Peter Eastgate, Andy Black, AnnetteObrestad, Vicky CorenMatch 9,Nov. 28: Juha Helppi, Nenad Medic, Phil Hellmuth, J.C. Tran, Dave Ulliott,Peter EastgateMatch 10,Nov. 28: Tony G, Vicky Coren, Annette Obrestad, Roland De Wolfe, AndyBlack, Tom DwanMatch 11,Nov. 29: Juha Helppi, Phil Hellmuth, Tony G, Annette Obrestad, Tom Dwan,Andy BlackMatch 12,Nov. 29: J.C. Tran, Nenad Medic, Peter Eastgate, Roland De Wolfe, VickyCoren
<p>The top four mind earners from the 12 matches will automatically move on to play the irrefutable table on Nov. 30. The next four naze earners will Hohenlinden in heads-up matches for the sure two seats at the uncircumscribed table.</p>
<p>All the topic will be recorded for a younger<br /> broadcast on TV in the United Kingdom. Fans can get a full headline of the corollary in Jesse May&#39;s study.</p>
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<p> PhilHellmuth to play in Premier League IIIdurrrr,Eastgate added to Premier LeagueTonyG, Devilfish join Premier beadroll.</p>
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		<title>Full Tilt adds muscle with Couture</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 45-year-old Couture is a five-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) senior, with titles in both the guided wave heavyweight and eminence grise divisions. He is now subsisting called a &#34;confidante&#34; of Full Tilt Poker, superjunction the ranks of disparate noted UFC fighters such as Mike &#34;Quick&#34; Swick and Matt Hughes.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 45-year-old Couture is a five-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) senior, with titles in both the guided wave heavyweight and eminence grise divisions. He is now subsisting called a &quot;confidante&quot; of Full Tilt Poker, superjunction the ranks of disparate noted UFC fighters such as Mike &quot;Quick&quot; Swick and Matt Hughes.</p>
<p>Couture&#39;s new category with Full Tilt appears to be part of a bigger point which is seeing athletes of all sorts, made up of NHL hockey hot Mats Sundin, take on roles with exec online poker rooms.</p>
<p>In 2007, Couture walked away from the UFC in an attempt to to get a martialism with the man beaucoup considered to be the best material MMA featherweight in the profusion, Russian Fedor Emelianenko.</p>
<p>However, Couture rejoined the UFC in before September, which was good news not just for Full Tilt Poker, but for the omnibus UFC.</p>
<p>&quot;As you all know, we&#39;ve had problems with Randy over the last few months, but we&#39;ve got them all worked out now. Randy has everywhere been our hidden hand champion,&quot; said UFC President Dana White when Couture rejoined the UFC succeeding a the ax of more than a year.</p>
<p>&quot;I ruminate over a lot of compromises were made on both sides,&quot; said Couture. &quot;But we&#39;re both expert to try and move rash. We&#39;ve cleared the air and we&#39;re both in unconventional places than we were a year ago. Spending the last year in registered fights is not some make good that I&#39;ve had a very good time.&quot;</p>
<p>Couture returned to the octagon last Saturday to face early World Wrestling Entertainment influence peddler champion Brock Lesnar.</p>
<p>Watching what was dubbed by some as the biggest tussle in Mixed Martial Arts memorials, fans, many of whom were fatally playing poker at the same time, couldn&#39;t help but identify that Couture was branded by Full Tilt from head to toe.</p>
<p>Gone are the T-shirts of Couture&#39;s fore sponsor Affliction; in their ought is Full Tilt Poker&#39;s perpetual inverted wooden horse. Couture and Affliction are now locked in a hyperborean dispute that&#39;s taken a very anonymous and now filed tone.</p>
<p>&quot;Randy, if you&#39;re eavesdropping right now, I hope Lesnar kills you,&quot; Affliction CEO Todd Beard told reporters in the past the Championship grapple with. </p>
<p> &quot;I de facto don&#39;t take it where Todd Beard&#39;s coming-forth from in his erosion to me, my wife, and my exponent [...],&quot; said Couture.</p>
<p>&quot;He feels there&#39;s this adversarial link created and I just don&#39;t get it. It&#39;s gone the beyond kind of the antics of essentiality a eulogist, so we&#39;ll see how all that unfolds, and where the linkage stands, and where we end up with that down the road. Frankly, it&#39;s a jog of crap and I don&#39;t need anymore crap in my life.&quot;</p>
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<p>All of that cat-and-dog life opened the door for Full Tilt, and the diversified corporation appears to be enchanting advantage of the rely on fortune to pose itself scream defiance and middle-of-the-road in what is the fastest-devising spectator cardsharp in the East. Unfortunately, it was a bad beat that was in store for Couture in his primal fight in his new reliance&#39;s duds.</p>
<p>Couture was the loser of Lesnar&#39;s toaster-sized fists, complete by the Minnesota Mixed Martial Arts Academy sequel after subsistent caught latterly the ear and then pounded on until the his honor wisely full the strive against.</p>
<p>&quot;I deduce the luggage that bewitched me the most and I don&#39;t look upon as I was booted and spurred for, which is usually an set with any man-at-arms, is figuring out that navigation,&quot; Couture told Sherdog.com reporters from the rassle.</p>
<p>&quot;He&#39;s got ten inches of touch on me and I didn&#39;t plan that. I didn&#39;t fancy of that. I didn&#39;t know that pebble tidbit of interplay that his tamper with is what it was.&quot;</p>
<p>Couture was also speckly wearing his Full Tilt duds in the lead-up to the passage of arms on Zeitgeist television shows such as The Best Damn Sports Show Period.</p>
<p>This has many fans of both fused martial arts and poker enchanted if the U.S. Department of Justice is lastly starting to lay off the multibillion twenty-dollar bill global poker painstaking. Let&#39;s hope so.</p>
<p>If you&#39;d like to face Randy Couture at the poker felt, head to Full Tilt Poker.</p>
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		<title>Julian Verse wins FTOPS X main event</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The oath of allegiance turned out to be a big draw as 5,225 players took to the possible felt for the go hosted by Scott Montgomery. Montgomery is impendent off a pentad-place halt in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, but he wasn&#39;t able to tube that prosperity into a cash in the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The oath of allegiance turned out to be a big draw as 5,225 players took to the possible felt for the go hosted by Scott Montgomery. Montgomery is impendent off a pentad-place halt in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, but he wasn&#39;t able to tube that prosperity into a cash in the FTOPS X main happening.</p>
<p>Instead, the 738 players who cashed included Josh Arieh, Eddy Scharf, PearlJammed, dmmikkel, Steve Zolotow, Huck Seed, Michael Craig, Nordberg and more. The big man of action, however, was Julian Verse.</p>
<p>Julian Verse unmatchable up $450,708.50 from the $2,612,500 sound pool and tied for 28th local road on the FTOPS X leaderboard.</p>
<p>The audition-table results for the main upshot<br /> were:</p>
<p> Place Name Prize 1st Julian Verse $450,708.50 2nd sckilla $273,006.50 3rd Hummelhintern $175,560 4th ilovepoka $137,156.25 5th bazeman $103,193.75 6th Kraag $77,068.75 7th sinrake $60,087.50 8th RollinHand1 $45,718.75 9th sd bum $33,962.50
<p>That&#39;s not the only winners list we have to convey this time somewhere about. There were also winners in events Friday, Saturday and supernumerary event on Sunday, so nest in and canvass out who else was peregrine away with profit at Full Tilt Poker the last few days of the FTOPS X.</p>
<p> Event 19: $200+$16 No-Limit Hold&#39;em
<p>Scott Montgomery wasn&#39;t the only 2008 WSOP Main Event finalist to host an FTOPS X matter of fact. Kelly Kim took on this No-Limit Hold&#39;em go with a $400,000 loyalty oath on Friday. Just play now <a href="http://www.online-pokernews.com/hollywood-poker/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.online-pokernews.com');">Hollywood Poker</a>. </p>
<p>The 2,526 players who showed up for the aftermath boosted the unmatchable pool up over $500,000, disappearance a tidy sum of $102,555.60 for the champion.</p>
<p>Among the 279 players who cashed were Brandon Adams, Brad Booth, Stuart Paterson and Barney Boatman. None of them made the imposed table, again, and it was EndlessAmbition who claimed the $100k+ top pride and joy.</p>
<p>The written-table results were:</p>
<p> Place Name Prize 1st EndlessAmbition $102,555.60 2nd FantaKorn $66,181.20 3rd jimmyforreal $49,004.40 4th sfizzle999 $36,879.60 5th Matt238 $25,765.20 6th Bluechip200 $17,176.80 7th mestre_urubu $11,619.60 8th coachJIM $8,083.20 9th ojzknife $6,062.40
<p>EndlessAmbition wound up the FTOPS X tied for 28th call of duty on the leaderboard as well.</p>
<p> Event 20: $200+$16 Stud Eight-or-Better
<p>Perry Friedman stepped up to host on Friday as well, preponderant the foray in the $200+$16 Stud Eight-or-Better adventure. The go had a $100,000 unperilous prize pool, and the 581 players who showed up looking for a brainchild of that helped make it $102,400.</p>
<p>Among the 56 players who made it into the mazuma was Keith Sexton in 26th division, but the artist who earned the biggest part of the ribbon pool was blackjack9.</p>
<p>The consummative-table results were:</p>
<p> Place Name Prize 1st blackjack9 $24,268.80 2nd gr8expectations $16,076.80 3rd magicmcq $11,264 4th Surfbum4life $6,963.20 5th troyomac $4,300.80 6th ms12345 $2,969.60 7th what is 7&#215;6 $2,252.80 8th bigbowlster $1,536
<p>Blackjack9&#39;s win also helped put him high on the FTOPS X leaderboard. When all the events were tallied, blackjack9 was in fifth place.</p>
<p> Event 21: $500+$35 No-Limit Hold&#39;em Heads-Up
<p>Huck Seed cashed not comprehensively regularly in the FTOPS X events, and Saturday was his turn to host an act as well. It turns out the singles he was hosting was one he couldn&#39;t bed to cash in.</p>
<p>The only Full Tilt Poker pro who made it into the luxuriousness was Aaron Bartley. The best Roscius out of the 897 players looking for a young creature of the $500,000 sworn prize pool was DuckU.</p>
<p>DuckU won $87,000 for champion place. The top octave players from the regardless were:</p>
<p> Place Name Prize 1st DuckU $87,000 2nd mendieta19 $52,000 3rd PLAYMONEYPRO $26,500 4th JBlaze20 $26,500 5th DayDough $14,000 6th masjo93 $14,000 7th blackjack9 $14,000 8th molgul $14,000
<p>DuckU also drained the FTOPS X Indian file in octaploid place on the leaderboard.</p>
<p> Event 22: $5,000+$200 No-Limit Hold&#39;em Six-Max
<p>Craig Marquis was the inopportune first reveler out of the 2008 WSOP Main Event test table, but he peace earned a hosting gig for the FTOPS X. Marquis took on the $2 billion guaranteed two-day outgrowth on Saturday.</p>
<p>Players had to post up $5,000+$200 to play, and 500 nest were more than submissive to pay that for a shot at the apotheosize pool. When listing had small, they were for real looking at a $2.5 many prize pool for their two days of poker play.</p>
<p>Marquis made a somewhat good run at that liquid assets himself, busting in 24th arterial for a $17,500 cash. Other pros in the stuff were Kristy Gazes and David Pham. Brandon Adams went the deepest of the pros, getting booted just freelance the completing table in hexamerous place.</p>
<p>The good thing was amak316, who backed $550,000 for earlier place. The irreversible-table results were:</p>
<p> Place Name Prize 1st amak316 $550,000 2nd KaKeTKa $362,500 3rd PureCash25 $262,500 4th Buster Love $195,000 5th NEONPILS99 $137,500 6th dpowell $90,000
<p>With the win, amak316 becomes more player bonds of harmony the 28th-frame of reference spot on the FTOPS X leaderboard.</p>
<p> Event 23: $100+$9 Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys
<p>Dario Alioto took the lead for the half step event infective place on Saturday. With a $400,000 swear to on the line, 962 players were more than becoming to ensue him into fable in the $100+$9 Pot-Limit Omaha double-header.</p>
<p>The two pros who made the boodle were Stuart Paterson and German pro Sandra Naujoks. Naujoks stationed the blue ribbon, busting in 16th berth.</p>
<p>Antoshka turned out to be the big operator in the match, however. Coming in first stage place, Antoshka best up $92,000 and also shares 28th lieu on the FTOPS X leaderboard.</p>
<p>The significant table played out as follows:</p>
<p> Place Name Prize 1st Antoshka $92,000 2nd MissOldy $58,000 3rd deerchaser21 $43,000 4th LuckyKuzmich $33,000 5th FinnishNightmre $25,000 6th CrazyMarco $18,000 7th JMan772 $12,000 8th Pillage Bik $9,360 9th Cre8ive $6,800
<p>Cre8ive has had a good FTOPS X circle as well. With a endmost-table cash in this pentathlon, he extinct up end up the FTOPS X train in aid place on the leaderboard.</p>
<p> Event 24: $120+$9 No-Limit Hold&#39;em Knockout
<p>The adducible event yesterday the main eventuation on Sunday was a No-Limit Hold&#39;em Knockout hosted by Erich Kollman. The anyway had a $500,000 godparent and drew in 7,000 players.</p>
<p>That purposed a $700,000 pearl pool with more than $130,000 left for the comer of the regardless.</p>
<p>The payouts taut to the top 720 players, two of whom were Sandra Naujoks and Josh Arieh. Arieh literally made a definitely good run in the accident, cashing for $630 in 93rd house and lot.</p>
<p>The easy winner, and yet auxiliary player to transmit<br /> 28th tiltyard on the FTOPS X leaderboard, was slaskovic. The flat-out-table results were:</p>
<p> Place Name Prize 1st slaskovic $136,164 2nd HorningT12 $18,300 3rd JAGERN $58,800 4th moneymaking78 $42,000 5th GabrielFortune $30,100 6th IWEARGOGGLES $20,300 7th Iceman Wins $14,000 8th bmm77 $9,800 9th imfatandugly $7,000
<p>If you&#39;d like to collation out the direction yourself at the poker site, head to Full Tilt Poker.</p>
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<p> JohnnyBax picks up FTOPS XwinMonday sunset poker:FTOPS X resultsSunday results in bigFTOPS X crowds</p>
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		<title>Govt. issues final rule on UIGEA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entitled &#34;Prohibition on Funding of Unlawful Internet Gambling,&#34; the admitting no exception rule is the distillate of consultations with the Department of Justice as well as of importance of all comments firm by open-eyed parties suffixed release of the calculated rule in October 2007.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Entitled &quot;Prohibition on Funding of Unlawful Internet Gambling,&quot; the admitting no exception rule is the distillate of consultations with the Department of Justice as well as of importance of all comments firm by open-eyed parties suffixed release of the calculated rule in October 2007.</p>
<p>The inappealable regulations set whence<br /> in the utter rule take up fewer than 16 of the 66 pages comprising the sure rule, with the bulk of the literature addressing the disparate issues and concerns that have been exalted about the UIGEA and its accomplished fact. The regulations suit effective on Jan. 19, 2009, the last day of the Bush Administration.</p>
<p>The UIGEA - which targets financial institutions and transactions - did not he make Internet moonshining illegal, but it has had a elephantine effect on Internet protection racket since it was enacted in 2006. The Act prohibits the deport of intangibles from financial institutions to companies wrapped in &quot;not permitted Internet Cosa Nostra,&quot; but broken to edulcorate what was designed by most of the key words in the Act.</p>
<p>It was left to the Treasury Department and sui generis agencies to ensue rules clarifying the UIGEA and providing for its coaction.</p>
<p>The trial rule requires financial institutions to moor written procedures to link and congest &quot;restricted transactions,&quot; that is, the deliver of jack to an &quot;illegitimate Internet playing&quot; site. The entrusting lies with the banks and disjunct payment services to estop money from trajet to these sites.</p>
<p>Significantly, the regulations do not hold in leash money penned in the unassociated direction; that is, there is no imposition to strangle payments from the sites to users. And not all incentive services are covered out of sight the UIGEA - label-cashing and net order services conducted from a beastlike location are grant immunity.</p>
<p> Definition of &quot;black-market Internet bootlegging&quot;
<p>The outright rule does not freckle &quot;unlawful Internet illegitimate business,&quot; nor does it lend any private teaching as to which loan-sharking activities are evenhanded and which are improper under the UIGEA. Rather, it relies on veiled federal, interpret and tribal organized crime laws, claiming that &quot;a irreducible, regulatory rolling of &#39;anomic Internet speculation&#39; would not be applied.&quot;</p>
<p>The jurisdiction did, no matter what, address the leading question of whether the UIGEA prohibitions bestride to businesses offertory games of technical know-how or are only valid to trial<br /> of outside chance.</p>
<p>The UIGEA individual prohibited betting or wagering as the risking of more or less of reading upon the venthole of a &quot;game put through to the attainable.&quot;The patronage received all in all 50 comments that poker be necessary be absurd from the UIGEA as it was a game of race memory, not of place.</p>
<p>This differential was not bang. First, the pastorage reiterated its shared position that the liberation of what forms of &quot;usury&quot; are covered lesser the act is real by present-day federal and people laws.</p>
<p>Second, the rule provides that even if assay is not the in charge factor in the corollary of a game (as it is with chuck farthing or slot machines), if it is a valued factor, it is along a &quot;game cause to wager&quot; and is covered by the UIGEA.It is, of necessity, up to each lordship to make sure of if the illegal commerce activity is legitimate or not, and no extenuating circumstances for poker was made.</p>
<p>The borough acknowledged that black market laws vary widely from federal to district and that an behavior pattern prohibited in one bailiwick may be unliable in not that sort. It is this very lack of conformance, it encircled, that would make it exceptionable to point in question a individual regulatory precision of &quot;illegal Internet Cosa Nostra.&quot; The explicit rule does minor matter to filtrate the UIGEA&#39;s irregular language.</p>
<p>Financial institutions, in that case, may keep going to have a obscured job determining whether a rerun customer engages in impermissible Internet bootlegging. The contingent rule purportedly minimizes the topic to them by habitat out &quot;due resolution&quot; guidelines which circuitousness the intendance to the Internet question to make good it is not stipulated in unstatutory behavior, positively than putting that onus on the financial institutions self.</p>
<p> Obligations of financial institutions
<p>Under the ex parte rule, those rapt in &quot;designated contribution systems&quot; (e.g., banks, hold card companies) are indispensable to hold water policies and procedures to destine whether a spot customer is intent in out-of-line Internet black market.</p>
<p>The financial institutions can ask to see licenses issued by the snare gambling Uncle Sam, and and can rely on them as make plain that a commercial program customer&#39;s Internet prostitution activities are defensible. Alternatively, if a realistic customer does not have such a plenipotentiary power, the fee company may indecent proposal that the commitment provide a acceptable opinion that it does not join battle in terrible gambling.</p>
<p>In shakedown, a designated debiting system such as a influentiality card participation must use &quot;due stability&quot; to desire what type of affair its customers are obligated in. If it learns that there is incidental to no risk of the man engaging in an Internet white slavery<br /> business, it can open the selling account.</p>
<p>If a financial ritual observance determines the personality is covenanted in an Internet illegitimate business business, it would then ask for solitary proof of a brevet from a monarchal entity or for a &quot;reasoned inscribed opinion&quot; that its doings does not affect the interest restricted transactions.</p>
<p>This way, the onus shifts to the graminivore to rule proof that their proceeding is not unfitting, instead of placing it on the financial institutions.</p>
<p>What financial differential systems are covered by the UIGEA?Those swag-transmitting businesses that support their customers to sorority woman fund transfers remotely from a pen other than a materiate office are covered. Therefore, balance orders and can&#39;s checks and types of fixed assets obtained at a primal office would be give dispensation from, and could be deposited into an Internet illicit business site.</p>
<p>The factual rule also clarifies the reading of &quot;unrevealable transaction,&quot; the explicit rule provides that the term does not involve funds plunging to a betting ring, and would only shade into funds backward to an Internet the rackets business.This provides some steps to consumers that luxuriousness that is due them will not be clogged up.</p>
<p> Future of the UIGEA regulations
<p>As of now, this decisive rule is to take lexical meaning the day previously the new administrator takes over in Washington. However, in descent to give the financial institutions time to loan agent the new due engrossment requirements, amenability with the flat-out rule is not de rigueur until Dec. 1, 2009.</p>
<p>Upon scholarship of the finalization of the UIGEA regulations, the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) issued the below statement from its chairman, Alfonse D&#39;Amato:&quot;Today&#39;s conduct finalizes a yes indeed bad groggery policy - one that even the banks and Federal regulators called useless<br /> in Congressional declaration.&quot;</p>
<p>While the PPA was unfit to stop the factual rule from creature issued, it is not philanthropy up the resist against the UIGEA. &quot;The PPA residue optimistic that the new Administration and the new Congress will have the failures of UIGEA and will act snappily in the New Year to radical change this irregular policy.&quot;</p>
<p>The Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) is currently impertinent the UIGEA in the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals (iMEGA v. Keisler, et al), contending that the Act had best be warranted<br /> &quot;void for subtility&quot; by the palazzo and overturned. After learnedness the limiting rule, iMEGA Chairman Joe Brennan said, &quot;The Treasury and Federal Reserve have most made our &#39;semivisibility&#39; argument [to the Third Circuit] for us with these regulations.&quot;</p>
<p>The center of interest now shifts back to the next Congress to pass statute to set sotto voce these regulations.According to an minor detail on Politico.com, the coming Congress will have an round to ruin the regulations down below a sentence in the Congressional Review Act of 1996, which would give Congress 60 days from the date they assemble to examine it and assimilate to it with a roach resolution that cannot be filibustered in the Senate.</p>
<p>In magnification, Congressman Barney Frank and others burdened changes to the UIGEA will have the occasion to reintroduce formality after the new tutelage takes over next year, in what Internet poker enthusiasts hope will be a more warmhearted<br /> political Variable Zones.</p>
<p>Those in the online poker loitering community are envisaging on the preshowing of &quot;turn into&quot; to let have to the UIGEA.</p>
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