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Gus Hansen was the biggest winner on Full Tilt Poker by a huge margin over the last seven days.

Hansen plowed through 4,124 hands on the site and recorded huge heads-up wins against Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, DrugsOrMe and Arbianight.

By Friday Hansen had won a total of $606,497 in a seven-day span and is up over $2 million in the last four weeks.

It’s been a swingy 2010 for the Great Dane as he charged to a $2 million profit, then donated it all back and more, to hit rock bottom in mid-October at -$3.6 million.

Since then he’s managed to reduce his deficit to -$1.6 million and if the wins keep coming he might be even within the next few weeks.

The next biggest winner this week was David “Raptor” Benefield who won $206k. Always a co

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Poker history is made each time a player takes down a World Poker Tour (WPT) event.  Very few of the poker playing population of the world ever have the opportunity to play in a WPT main event due to availability of funds and travel ease.  But each of us that play with a competitive spirit, and have watched the WPT on television, holds the dream to one day be there sitting in front of the bright lights with five other players and make poker history part of our game.  Toss the idea of no extra fun money out the window and get ready to fire up the daily freerolls at Absolute Poker for your shot at the WPT Five Diamond at Bellagio in Las Vegas in December.

The WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic prize package is worth $12,000 and from Monday through Saturday you will find six daily freerolls to help you lay claim to that prize package until November 28th.  The top 100 players in each daily freeroll will have a seat reserved in the Weekly Final tournament on Sunday.  The Weekly Final will send the top 100 players to the Main Event – get ready to play it on November 28th at 8pm ET.  Think winner, be the winner, win, win, win and if you take out all the other runners in the Main Event on November 28th, you just won your opportunity to jet off to Las Vegas and shoot for poker history at Bellagio's Five Diamond World Poker classic.

Daniel Alaei took down the title in 2009 and walked away with his first WPT bracelet, the Rolex watch from Bellagio, and $1,428,430 in prize money. Alaei Read full

With $9.6 million in career tournament earnings, including a World Series of Poker bracelet and two WPT titles, Michael Mizrachi will certainly be the most experienced player at the final table when play resumes in the 2010 WSOP Main Event a little over a week from now.

But he might not be the most prepared.

“What am I doing to prepare for the November Nine?” he said. “Pretty much nothing.”

Mizrachi, who has been spotted at more than one major live tournament since booking his seat in the November Nine this summer, does admits he’s been watching ESPN’s Main Event coverage, but hasn’t been able to find much there.

“Most of its pretty much me,” he said. “I’ve been

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The first-ever World Series of Poker Circuit Regional Championship Monday kicked off just outside of Chicago Monday.

The $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Regional Championship drew 226 players to Horseshoe Hammond in the Chicagoland area, creating a $2,101,800 prize pool – the biggest on the WSOPC in more than three years.

First place is worth $525,449.

A new concept for this season, Horsehoe Hammond represents the first of Four $10,000 Regional WSOP Circuit Championships on the tour.

Players in the Nationally Televised Regional Championship series are also competing for seats into the $1 million WSOP Circuit National Championship in Las Vegas next May.

Only 100 players will qualify, including all nine Chicago finalists.

Names like Barry Greenstein, Gavin Smith, David Baker, Chris Bell, Chad Brown, Bernard Lee, Nick Binger, Matt Glantz, Blair Hinkle, Frank Kassela, Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler, Kathy Liebert, Jeff Madsen, Jason Mercier, Sorel Mizzi, Vanessa Selbst, Dan Shak, Shannon Shorr, Justin Smith, Matt Stout, and Steve Zolotow all played Monday.

A total of 114 will return for Day 2 at 1 p.m. CT Tu

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The World Poker Tour is headed back to Morocco.

After a succesful run in 2009, the WPT is going back the Casino De Marrakech for a €4,250+€750 tournament Nov. 27-30.

The first major poker tournament in North Africa, the inaugural WPT Marrakech presented by Chilipoker was a sell out featuring 416 players from 32 different countries.

France’s Christophe Savary took down a final table that included Eoghan O’Dea, Ludovic Lacay and Benny Spindler to grab the title and €379,014.

This year, sponsor Chilipoker has made the WPT main event the center piece of the Chilipoker Marrakech Festival, kicking off with a €500+€50 Deepstack Open event Nov. 20.

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Online poker room Full Tilt Poker has brought back a popular promotion. The Take Two poker promotion will run for ten days. The events will be held from Friday October 24th through Sunday October 31st. The Take 2 promotion was a popular promotion for Full Tilt Poker players as it is set towards micro and low-limit players. During the ten days of the Take Two promotion players will earn double the Full Tilt Points. The condition is that players must play on at least two cash game tables at the same time.

It is the rare breed of poker cat that only plays on one poker site. Blame it on boredom, taking advantage of promotions, or superstition – but the fact is most of us online poker players jump around from poker room to poker room. Of course that means that every time you want to go play at a different poker room, you have to fund that poker account.

Or maybe you have been in this situation; playing in a poker room where you have a low bankroll and you find a very juicy cash game but you don't have enough money to jump in to try to hook the fish. We have all found ourselves in the situation of wishing we had more money in our poker account at one poker room, while having a fat bankroll sitting in our account at another poker room – but we can't get our hands on it! N Read full

When you choose to become a PartyPoker player, you can get special treatment when you take advantage of some great benefits to get you up to speed on your game! Boasting the world’s best most action-packed tables, and offering games at every level of play, you will find the help you need to get you on your way to becoming a seasoned poker player and experience the action and excitement that only PartyPoker can provide!

From a top-notch Poker school and training, to hot promotions and tournaments, you will find everything you need to maximize your gaming enjoyment and winnings at PartyPoker. And when you sign up for your PartyPoker account via PokerWorks, you will receive an extra boost with $50 FREE! T Read full

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.