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If the PokerStars Sunday Tournament 1.5 Million Guarantee is any indication, you’ll find yourself with 8,431 entrants and a massive $1,686,200.00 total prize pool. This ensured a cool $204,198.82 to the winner and with that kind of [...]

Michael ‘Timex’ McDonald started the final day of the PokerStars European Poker Tour German Open as the chip leader, and after a few hiccups along the route, finished the same way, claiming his first EPT title and the €933,600 first prize. The young Canadian played strong technical poker throughout and also earned a seat into [...]

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n a repeat of Day 2’s fast-paced play, it took less than six hours for Michael ‘Mickey’ Pickett to come from far back in the pack to claim his first major poker tournament victory at the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at Harrah’s [...]

CrazyZachary pockets almost $400K in Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS V Main Event.
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Top poker pros, Phil Laak and Ali Eslami, narrowly prevailed against Polaris, the poker software designed to challenge human players, after four rounds in the world’s first man-versus-machine poker championship. The two won by just 570 points in the fourth and final game in the match.

An audience of computer scientists and a few spectators watched the grueling poker battle in a conference room at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Vancouver, Canada. The tournament stretched until 11pm on Tuesday (July 24). The room erupted in cheers when the humans won.

Two professional poker players, Phil Laak and Ali Eslami, will take on a computer program called Polaris in the world’s first man-versus-machine poker tournament. The challenge will run over two days and 500 hands of Texas hold ‘em at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Vancouver for a total prize pot of $50,000.

Polaris is the most sophisticated poker-playing program yet written and the product of years of research and development by a team of artificial intelligence experts at the University of Alberta in Canada.

This morning, top poker pro Daniel ‘Kid Poker’ Negreanu has signed on to represent Team PokerStars and in a separate agreement all player accounts on his online poker site, Full Contact Poker, will be transferred to Poker Stars.

Although FCP will be shutting down its casino and poker operations, the site will continue to host Negreanu’s blog, the forum, and a new video poker school. The transfer of accounts will happen as soon as next week.

Search engine giant Yahoo! has announced it will launch its own real money online poker room hosted at yahoo.co.uk. The site is a partnership between Yahoo! and St. Minver Ltd., a gaming group located in Gibraltar. The poker site will be a part of the International Poker Network owned and operated by Sweden’s Boss Media AB.

The Yahoo! UK & Ireland Games Web site also supports real money online Bingo.