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Right now you have the chance to win big at Sun Poker with their special Sun Poker coupon code that was just released to the public. When entering the coupon code  PBSBONUS during the signup process you will get a free $500 bonus that is instantly credited to your pending bonus account. On top of this bonus you will also get access to all of the cool freerolls that are offered to new players at Sun Poker.

You will also be able to play a lot of qualifiers for this years World Series of Poker at Sun Poker. These tournaments are starting at as little as $1 so if you are really good you might be able to pull a Chris Moneymaker and win the WSOP Main event after winning your spot in a satellite. You never know until you try!

“theASHMAN103” is the winner of the $25K Heads Up Championship that is held once a year at Full Tilt Poker. In the final he managed the beat David Benefield and cashed in the first prize of $551.250. There were a total of 63 players participating in this tournament from the start and a lot of these were really big names in the poker world.

The results of the 2009 $25K Heads-up Championship at Full Tilt Poker

1. theASHMAN103 $551.250
2. David Benefield $315.000
3. WinnerFish $165.375
4. Yogiblair $165.375
5. Past $94.500
6. Kadabra $94.500
7. IvanLendL $94.500
8. Vaga_Lion $94.500

The 3D online poker room PKR.com have just announced in a press release that they have made a deal with Bluff Media which entitles them to broadcast a live stream of the 2009 WSOP on their website. This deal was made with Bluff Media who has an exclusive deal with Harrah’s Entertainment.

At the same time a new 3D online casino has opened up their doors to the public after getting through their beta testing stage. At the Buzzluck Casino it is not only about gambling, it is also about entertaining the players.

Phil Hellmuth’s own book company are now releasing a book called “Deal Me In” which tells the story about 20 poker stars and their road to sucess. Amongst the people participating by telling their life story we find players like; Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey and Howard Lederer.

This book tells the story of how Phil Ivey went from a telphone marketer to becoming one of the best poker players in the world. Today he has generated over $10 Million in profit from poker tournaments alone, which means that you can surely add a couple of Millions to that figure if you include cash game winnings.

The book doesnt really follow any storyline and is just bringing up stories about 20 poker professionals and their road to fame and fortune.

The players participating in this book are; Peter Estgate, Allen Cunningham, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Scotty Nguyen, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Carlos Mortensen, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Tom Dwan, Howard Lederer, Daniel Negreanu, Annie Duke, Dave “Devilfish” Ulliot, Chad Brown, Annette Obrestad, Erik Seidel, Layne Flack, Jennifer Harman and Chau Giang.

After a really long heads-up marathon match Vanessa Rousso managed to win over the second place finisher Randy Dorfman in the EPT High Roller Championship. Vanessa, who is a Team PokerStars member and a GoDaddy Girl is sure take down some nice tournaments this year.

In the final hand Vanessa made a straight on the turn holding 67 and when the river gave Dorfan two pair the all-in situation was hard to avoid and Vanessa Rousso took down the tournament and the €570 000 first price.

When the tournament was down to three players there was a deal made on the final table which left the second and third place finisher with €420 000 and the winner would get an additional €150K.

Here are the final results from the 2009 EPT High Roller Championship:

1. Vanessa Rousso - €570.000
2. Randy Dorfman - €420.000
3. Tony G - €420.000
4. Florian Langmann - €188.000
5. David Eldar – 138.000
6. William Thorson - €99.000
7. Andrew Feldman - €79.000
8. David Steicke - €60.000