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This coming Sunday is going to be a big day for all the soccer fans across the world; Super Bowl XLIII or the World championship of American Football at the Tampa, FL is going to start along with a whole world of festivities. So, it is time for all the poker fans to try out their hands at a game or two while the pre-game shows are being telecasted. Keeping his in mind, Bodog Poker is launching its own poker tournaments where everybody stands a chance of winning great prizes. There will be three different events clubbed along with the festivities of Super Bowl.

The week long tournament will be flagged on the evening of 27th at 9:34PM Eastern Time. The spirit of Super Bowl will be celebrated on the Media day with the “Media Day Combo Qualifier”. The $27+$2 buy in of the combo qualifier will move on to the two special tournaments. These two tournaments will be part of the Super Bowl Weekend schedule. Two seats at the combo qualifier are guaranteed for the two winners, while one more combo qualifier seat is to be added for every $244 prize pool.

The winners of the previous rounds will then be competing in the Bodog organized Super Bowl during the Weekend slate. There is more on the offing on Saturday which will provide the players a chance to get in to the “Bodog “Flight Club”. Now comes the biggest event; the $125+$10 buy in during the Special Flight Club Semifinal and it is a seat at the American Poker Tour to be held at Punta del Esta that is on the offing for the winner. More seats will be offered for each pack of 48 players joining the tournament.

Bodog is offering a $6000 package for the winner to take part in one of the most rapidly growing tournaments around the world. Bodog is pumping in $2300 for accommodation and travel along with the LAPT Punta del Este tournament, which has a buy in of $3700. At least one seat is guaranteed irrespective of the number of players taking part in the tournament that starts at 4PM Eastern Time.

This Sunday afternoon when the whole world will be glued on to their T.V. sets watching the Pre-game analysis, you can just satiate your hunger of poker by taking a dig at the Bodog’s $100, 00 guaranteed events. There will be a little more of the sweet money at the “$100+$9” Super Bowl Special because Bodog has pumped in $20,000 in the pool. 4PM Eastern time is when the “Super Bowl Sunday” kicks off.

Bodog has given you an opportunity to celebrate the Super Bowl this weekend irrespective of being a fan of American Football. So, just log on to the website of Bodog to be in the middle of the hullabaloo and pocket some cool bucks this weekend.  Dont forget to enter the Bodog Poker referral number 2429054 when you create your account for a nice $550 bonus when you make your first deposit.

Everyone in the poker world has been waiting for this moment. Harrah’s have just released the schedule for the 2009 World Series of Poker. Starting from the 27th of May there will be a total of 57 events played which means that 57 poker players will receive a nice diamond bracelet.

A new tournament for this year is the $40 000 No Limit Texas Hold em Championship that has been added to the tournament schedule to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the World Series of Poker being played this year. This event will start on the 28th of May and it will last for a full 4 days.

Another new thing for this year is that there will be a total of 10 events with a $10 000 buy in this year compared to the 8 events they had last year. The two events that has been added are 2-7 Draw Lowball and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo.

WSOP Main Event will start at the 3rd of July and as always the buy in for this event will be $10 000. The tournament will be played untill the 15th of June and when only 9 player remain the final table will go on a break and resume in November just like last year. These 9 players will then return to the table in November and fight for the championship title.

Before the Main Event there will be another huge tournament in the WSOP which is the $50 000 H.O.R.S.E tournament where the best allround player will be crowned. Defending champion in this event is Scotty Nguen.

Only two weeks in to 2009 the two Finnish players Patrik Antonius and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies have won over a million dollars. During one single night Antonius managed to win over a million dollars from “durrrr” at the poker tables.

Many thought this was the start of the famous “durrrr” challenge when they started playing but fortunately for durrrr it was not. It has been said that this challenge will not take place until after the Aussie Millions this year.

Another Finnish giant that has been doing well at the poker tables at Full Tilt is “Ziigmund”. After a couple of successful sessions against players like “MR B 2 U SON” he has won over a million dollars this year.

On a side note it is looking to be a really tough year for the “Great Dane” Gus Hansen after losing over a million dollars during 2009. He is now down a total of $3.3 Million over the last 12 months at Full Tilt Poker.

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Poker Affiliate Programs website message boards have been buzzing, TwoPlusTwo and many other affiliates about the issues that came to light regarding payments from CardSpike which is part of the Cake Poker Network.

One of the first discussions appeared November 16th quoted as “how hard can it be to pay people?” speaking of the affiliates that were pushing the room, this was posted on the Poker Affiliate Programs message boards by Ridge about the new poker room. In answer to the post on November 19th Greg posted the affiliate payments would be forthcoming that week. Greg had been the main person involved with CardSpike on the forums and is now banned. He was replaced with Peter_CardSpike, who guaranteed affiliates payments would be processed.

Then December 12th Peter_CardSpike stated that the payments would be going out in a few days and all of the affiliates would be paid by the weeks end, December 18th he claimed the payments would be paid that day and the following day. He gave his email address as peter@cardspikeaffiliates.com and his Skype name as PeterCardSpike.

The message by December 31st by Poker Affiliates Program member Warren was that they were working with CardSpike that they were attempting to pay everyone as soon as possible and the holidays could present a problem with how quickly it could be done. He went on to state CardSpike was a client of theirs and had been inadequately run and that was the reason for Peter being put in a place of authority.

Warren advanced Ridge his affiliate payment and later that day there was a post by Professor, an administrator for Poker Affiliates Program stating they would not recommend the site that had been promoted and had revoked its “all in status.”

Since these posts others have alerted their members and the blogger responsible for bringing scandals out in the open about both UltimateBet and AbsolutePoker Nat Arem stated CardSpike as quoted “a rogue skin of Cake Poker Network.”

The website for CardSpike is still active with logos telling visitors to the site they are members of Poker Affiliates Program and Casino Affiliate Programs. The claim that affiliate payments are made on the 15th for the revenue for the month prior is posted on the website and that the poker room and casino were opened in 2008 by online marketers and gaming experts. Explaining these marketers and gaming experts have been involved in iGaming business since 2000.

Poker Affiliates Program and Warren do not believe CardSpike will be able to survive after all of the harmful problems that have presented themselves and they suggest that all links should be removed and promotion of this site should not continue.

This coming Monday the poker elite of the world will be battling for the win in PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Amongst the partcipants we will find players like Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier och William Thorsson, both are members of Team PokerStars.

The tournament will be held at the Atlantis Casino in the Bahamas as usual and the buy in will be 8000 Euro.

PokerStars are expecting around 600 players to show up for this event.

For those of you who have yet to sign up with PokerStars we recommend using the PokerStars marketing code PAWSUB465 when you create your account.

Poker player Tom “durrrr” Dwan for the third time during his short poker career has stacked up more than $1million dollars at Full Tilt Poker during a game Saturday. The other poker players that had the luck to accumulate a stack of the size Dwan did during the early morning game Saturday were Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond.

These are the only poker players that earned the stacks of this size and this does not include the limit games like poker player TexasLimitKing did several years ago. Dwan was able to do this for the third time at Full Tilt Poker while playing one of the high-stakes games of $500/$1000 No Limit Hold’em while at “RailHeaven”.

Dwan’s hand that raised his stake over the $1million dollar amount occurred while playing against Galfond, before the hand Galfond had a stack of approximately $120 thousand and Dwan’s stack was $924 thousand. Dwan was in the small blind, mastrblastr was in the big blind, when Patrik Antonius raised $3,500 and Galfond called. From the small blind Dwan raised up to $18,200, Antonius called and after summing up the situation Galfond pushed all-in. After Galfond pushed all-in causing Antonius to fold.

The hand Dwan showed was pocket Kings and Galfond was holding Queen-Ace off suit, the flop was 6-3-8 with two diamonds. On the turn the two of diamonds showed giving OMGClayAiken the upper hand since he held he Ace of Diamonds.

Dwan took the pot the for that hand, which had totaled $260 thousand when the river brought a Queen of spades and that put his stack over $1 million dollars.

Tom “durrrr” Dwan’s poker playing gave him the advantage of taking money from poker player Gus Hansen and Dwan has approximately $2 million dollars spread between 4 or 5 tables at Full Tilt Poker.