Gus Hansen has added a WSOPE victory to his record. The “Great Dane” won the WSOPE High Roller Event. Gus Hansen and Jim Collopy were down to the final two spots in the high roller event but both players were enrolled in the Main Event. The players agreed to wait until they were both out of the main event before finishing their competition, and they only waited two days before they were both eliminated from the main event. The event ended when Gus Hansen, a Full Tilt Poker pro, took home his first WSOPE bracelet.

A new online poker site coming to Italy will feature live dealers. Live dealers are a recent development in online poker. With live dealers online poker players log on to poker rooms and play while a real person deals cards, viewable by streaming video. Many poker players prefer live dealers because they feel that the game is more genuine. The newest poker room in Italy to offer live poker will be Malta-based Media Live Casino.com. The poker room was granted a license by the Italian regulator AAMS and plans on opening between October of this year and January 2011.

If you are fortunate enough to ever find yourself sitting across the table from Lauren Kling, do yourself a favor and don’t take her lightly. Her good looks and outgoing personality only hide the fact that underneath it all is poker machine set out to separate unsuspecting players from their money. It may just be the most fun you have losing all year.

There aren’t many examples of beauty and brains in the poker world, so perhaps you’d be forgiven for dismissing Kling as just another example of eye candy without the skills to justify the stack sitting in front of her, but you’d be wrong.

A trip into Kling’s background only serves to validate her current position in the poker community as an up-and-coming tournament grinder. In fact,

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The European Court of Justice today issued a landmark ruling on Germany’s protectionist gambling sector saying it was “unjustifiable” and must be dismantled according to Bloomberg news agency.

“The German rules do not limit games of chance in a consistent and systematic manner,” the Luxembourg court said. “In such circumstances, the preventive objective of that monopoly can no longer be pursued, so that the monopoly ceases to be justifiable.”

Under the current system only the country’s 16 federal states (Lander) can offer gambling services.

Sigrid Ligné, secretary general of the European Gaming and Betting Association, is delighted with the ruling saying, “This is a landmark ruling which will have a decisive impact on the much needed reform in Germany. Other Member Sta

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With the EPT in Portugal, the WPT in London, the WSOPC in Iowa and Tom Dwan kicking off the second durrrr Challenge online, it was a busy week for the PokerListings news team.

A few stories slipped through the cracks, but we caught them all and neatly organized them into our regular Poker News in Brief feature below.

This week we’ll take a look at the 2010 Poker Hall of Fame nominees, a new WPT TV deal, WSOPE qualifiers on UB, WCOOP kicking off and more.

Hall of Fame nominees announced

Ten nominees have been named for the 2010 class of the Poker Hall of Fame after a two-month voting process on WSOP.com.

The ten players under consideration include Chris Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Jennifer Harman-Traniello, Dan Harrington, Phil Ivey, Linda Johnson, Tom McEvoy, Daniel Negreanu, Scotty Nguyen and Erik Seidel.

These names will be vetted by the Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council, who will then select the final list of candidates.

The 16 living Hall of Fame members and a 17-person media panel will then determine who will enter the Hall at an induction ceremony held as part of the World Series of Poker Main Event final table festivities in November.

The Poker Hall of Fame, established in 1979, traditionally elects one or two members annually.

High Heels Heads South

The High Heels Poker Tour, the first all women’s poker tour on the U.S. Eas

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20-year-old Brit Toby Lewis won PokerStars EPT Vilamoura main event Thursday.

“I’m pretty happy at the moment” he said. “This title means a lot to me.”

Banking the €467,836 first-place prize was no easy feat for the Southampton native, who overcame a final table that included EPT Season 1 Grand Final champion Rob Hollink, English football legend Teddy Sheringham and 2010 Aussie Millions runner-up Frederik Jensen.

Lewis, whose largest previous live cash was a final table appearance at PokerStars IPT Venice, actually moved into the lead taking a rather large pot off rising Swedish star Martin Jacobson on the tournament’s penultimate day, then beat the Swede heads-up to take the title.

“I was disappointed not to win IPT Venice, but this means even more,” he said. “It wasn’t easy

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