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Gus Hansen is also known as “The Great Dane” continues to climb on the list of the players who have won the most money during 2009. Last weekend he took on players like “durrrr” and “Ziigmund” at the high stakes cash game tables at Full Tilt Poker and it would prove impossible to win any of the bigger pots of the session against Gus Hansen.

When it was all said and done Gus left the table with a profit of over $1 Million and in total he has made a profit of over $4 Million during 2009.

At the same time as Gus is on a real hot streak Tom Dwan has hit a real cold streak and he is down over $3 Million for the year. He is also down in the poker challenge against Patrick Antonius where he will lose another $1.5 Million unless he manages to turn this bad streak around soon.

The online poker room TitanPoker.com that is located on the iPoker Network recently won the Gambling Online Magazine award for best poker support. This is the third year in a row that Titan Poker has won this award.

Titan Poker is one of the leading poker rooms on the iPoker Network and they are very proud to say that they have managed to put a “personal touch” on the support that they offer their players.

Gambling Online Magazine has been handing out awards to the best casino and poker rooms for the last 8 years and since Gambling Online Magazine is the biggest and most read magazine in Europe it is a lot of prestige in winning an award like this.

Titan Poker has a very good reputation in the online poker industry and they have been working very hard to achieve this. The main reason to why they have become so popular is their amazing customer support that is available 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. You can always reach the Titan Poker support by either email or live chat.

As a VIP player at Titan Poker you will always have access to a dedicated support person, this is a very cool feature and many players like the fact that they have access to their very own support person. But even if you are not able to reach VIP status at Titan Poker you will always get great support in the regular live chat. After all, they have the awards to prove that they are the best when it comes to offering support for their poker players.

All players that create their account at Poker770 through this link will get a $7.70 no deposit poker bonus and they will also be able to take part of many special freerolls such as this one.

Tournament Name: PokerNews Freeroll

Poker Room: Poker770.com

Time and Date: 8th of May 2009, 18:05 GMT

Prize Pool: $770

Password: PNEWS13

Requirements: All you need to do in order to play in this freeroll is to make a minimum deposit and enter the freeroll by using the password PNEWS13. The tournament itself has no buy in as it is a freeroll but you will need to be a real money player in order to participate which means that you will need to make a deposit.

We are happy to let you know that the popular poker portal PokerBonusSource.com is now available in Russian.

So far only a couple of pages have been translated but according to our guy at PBS they are planning to create a full scale site in the Russian language.

As from now all Russian poker players out there will be able to read a full scale PokerStars review and get all the information about the Russian PokerStars marketing code in their native language.

This will hopefully be a nice contribution to the ever growing Russian poker community.

PartyPoker are going to run a promotion called “The Gladiator” during the month of April. During the month of April you will need to generate at least 10 Party Points on at least 10 different days. Depending on how many points you manage to generate and how many days you are playing you will earn different types of cash bonuses.

The least amount you can earn is $5 and that will be awarded to you if you manage to generate at least 10 points per day on 10 days in April. The maximum bonus according to the table presented at the PartyPoker website is $1000 and this will be yours if you generate at least 400 points on 20 different days.

According to the people at PartyPoker you will also be able to earn even more money if you are playing more days and earning more points. If you are one of these players we suggest you contact PartyPoker support and they will let you know what kind of poker bonus they can offer you.

Asian Poker Tour has just gotten an extended permit and they will celebrate this by hosting a 12 day poker festival in Macau this August.

The hosts of the poker festival promise that there will be 24/7 access to poker with tournaments and juice cash games during the 12 day poker festival in Macau. The festival will start at the 12th of August and finish on the 23rd of August and it will be held at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino in Macau. The main event is also going to be bigger than originally planned with 3 starting days and a TV broadcasted final table. The buy in for this tournament is going to be $4300 and you will be able qualify through satellites at your favorite online poker room.

You can qualify for the main event in satellites that are held at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Titan Poker, PartyPoker and Everest Poker and many others. All of the poker rooms on the iPoker and Microgaming Network will also be running satellite tournaments for this main event.

One of the best cash game players in the world, Phil Galfond (OMGClayAiken) is not only a professional when it comes to playing poker, but also when it comes to teaching poker to new players. This is why he has decided to launch a new poker strategy site called BlueFirePoker.com where both new players and the more experienced ones can come to learn the game of poker.

Galfond has been asked to join many of the poker training sites out there but he always turned them down and now it is obvious why he did so since he is launching his very own poker training site. Just a couple of days after Galfond announced the launch of BlueFirePoker.com a new press release was sent out stating that they had now teamed up with online poker site PKR.com. The deal they have with PKR.com is that they will provide strategy material to both PKR.com and PKR TV and in exchange they will be able to offer PKR players the opportunity to pay for their BlueFirePoker.com membership in the PKR Poker VIP Shop.

You can also get a $600 bonus at PKR when using the PKR Poker bonus code EASYPOKER600 when you create your account.

PokerRoom.com was founded in Sweden just before the big poker boom and it quickly grew and became the biggest poker room on the internet.

In December of 2005 the owners decided to sell PokerRoom.com together with the whole Ongame Network to the Austria based company bwin.com. Bwin.com bought PokerRoom.com together with the Ongame Network for the total sum of $500 Million. At the time of the deal PokerRoom.com was the biggest online poker room in the world (Yes, even bigger than PokerStars.com) and they had a lot of success in the North American countries.

Three years down the line it is a completely different story and bwin have now decided to close down PokerRoom.com and move all of the players over to bwin Poker. All PokerRoom.com players are offered a cash bonus for transferring their account over to bwin. The upside to this story is that enjoyed playing at PokerRoom.com will still have access to all the same features at bwin Poker as they are using the same poker platform.

All PokerRoom.com players are asked to log on to their player accounts for full instructions on how to move their player accounts over to bwin Poker.

A total of 327 players signed up for the 2009 edition of the PokerStars LAPT Punta del Este. After 2 days of play there were only nine players remaining and amongst these players was Karl Hevroy, a 20 year old poker player from Norway.

Hevroy was the only European player left in the tournament when it came down to the final table and he found himself surrounded by players from South- and North America. Hevroy had over $1 Million in chips when the final table started and he had a healthy lead and was the favorite to take down the first price.

Later in the tournament it would also become apparent that he was meant to win this tournament and he got some much needed help from the poker gods in certain hands. More than once he found himself going all in with the worst hand but every time he managed to either out flop his opponents our draw out on them on the turn and river. When it came down to heads-up play he found himself holding a 6 to 1 chiplead over Alejandro De Arruabarrena who was the only remaining player to beat.

After only one hand of heads-up play the players found themselves all-in and when Karl Hevoy flipped over his cards showing a Full House for the nuts his opponent was drawing dead on the river.

Karl Hevroy from Norway ended up winning the tournament and took down the first prize of $283.500.

The most successful Latin American woman is awarded with a prestigious contract with the world’s biggest online poker room, PokerStars.com. Maria Mayrink is going to become a full time poker professional and will form a part of the Team Pokerstars.

Her face is well known on the international poker scene and she was recently on the cover of CardPlayer in Brazil where she was also interviewed and told the story of how she got started playing poker. Maria is very ambitious and popular, her blog gets over 200.000 visitors every month. During the 2008 WSOP she became the second most successful Brazilian player. In the world of online poker she is more known under her poker alias and nickname which is “Maridu”.

In an interview Maria said, “I really feel that joining Team PokerStars will improve my chances of making it in the poker world. Since poker is my true passion it is very important that I take this opportunity to evolve as a poker player. This contract with PokerStars.com gives me a chance to prove to the entire world that I am a good poker player and that I can make it on the tour and I hope that I will get the chance to play the major poker tournaments in Europe”.

Maria is not only a poker player but also a producer at a large TV Network in South America but recently she signed a contract with the leading poker agency Poker Icons who played a big role when it came to getting a good deal when joining Team PokerStars.

Maria is spending all of her spare time playing poker and you would think that this might cause some problems in the household but since her boyfriend is also a poker professional (Jon “Apestyles” Fleet) this is not causing any problems at all.

We are looking forward to seeing Maria Mayrinck in all the big poker tournaments the coming years and we wish her the best of luck.

If you are looking to challange Maria for a game of poker we advice you to use the PokerStars marketing code PAWSUB465 when you create your account for a nice $50 free bonus.