New Poker Entertainment Show at Canadian TV

HeadsUp entertainment the Canadian production company has found spellbinding success in airing poker shows on Canadian entertainment channels. Most of their entertainment shows like the Poker After Dark, High Stakes Poker and 2 Months has seen a lot of success, and interested generated amongst it s viewers. The entertainment company has therefore gone ahead and announced the introduction of their new reality show hoping again that viewers would enjoy every bit of it.

There is however not much known about the entertainment program, the only bit that is revealed is that they are looking at just 12 – 16 people who will be a part of their poker show that “will be one of the highest rated poker programs in the North American and International television markets.”

Free Poker Summer Festival at Pokerstars

Summer is officially here and to celebrate the blue skies and summer fun PokerStars are holding a Summer Festival of Free Poker exclusive to UK and Ireland PokerStars players.

The festival will last for five weeks starting today, 23rd April with a TV campaign and a $1000 freeroll at 19:15 BST. There will be daily freeroll tournaments where players will be able to play for cash prizes and entry into the £100k Grand Final.

£145k will be given away in prize money throughout the festival through UKIPT packages, celebrity bounty tournaments, daily freeroll qualifiers to the £100k Grand Final and least four freeroll tournaments with cash prizes per day.

Magic Ride in Poker held in the SCV

The Old Road Harley-Davidson store on Centre Pointe Parkway in Santa Clarita recently played host to motorcycle fans from throughout the area for the annual Pre-Laughlin River Run sale and barbecue.

On display outside the store was the Harley-Davidson motorcycle donated by the store to the 39th annual Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley Benefit Auction. The auction will be held June 12 at the Mann BioMedical Center in Valencia.

This year's auction boasts the theme Born to be Wild. The Old Road Harley-Davidson store is among the event sponsors and will help present the inaugural Magic Ride to be held in the SCV on June 6, an event held to promote the auction.

David Williams wins 25k Bellagio WPT World Championship

David Williams has just won the 25k WPT World Championship title and $1.5 million. He outlasted a field of 143 of some of the best tournament players in the world. David is also credited with knocking out Faraz Jaka by cracking his aces with Broadway. Faraz has been dominating the World Poker Tour with his sick aggressive re-raises.

The final tables was set after Phil Hellmuth bubbled in 7th place:

Seat 1. John O’Shea – 1,200,000 (12 bb)
Seat 2. Billy Baxter – 2,440,000 (24 bb)
Seat 3. Eric Baldwin – 4,490,000 (44 bb)
Seat 4. David Williams – 4,700,000 (47 bb)
Seat 5. David Benyamine – 4,705,000 (47 bb)
Seat 6. Shawn Buchanan – 1,965,000 (19 bb)

Stacked final table for WPT Championship –Hellmuth just misses out

The final 10 players in the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship came into day 6 of the poker tournament knowing four of them would fall just shy of the televised final table, not to mention the $1.5 million first-place prize-money.

Heading into day 6 it was crystal-clear that the final table was shaping up to be one for the ages, with poker’s biggest names in contention: Phil Hellmuth, Scotty Nguyen, David Williams, David Beyamine, Shawn Buchanan, Billy Baxter, Eric Baldwin, Cliff Josephy, Nikolay Edvakov, and John O’Shea. Even with the two biggest falling short of making the final table, Phil Hellmuth in 7th place and Scotty Nguyen in 8th place, the WPT Championship’s final table is one of the strongest of all-time:

A Year in the Life of the World Series of Poker Champion

It’s less than a month away from the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker and the scene of Joe Cada’s biggest poker "crime."

For those who've slept, or perhaps spent that past six months on a desert island, the Team PokerStars Pro stole the biggest title in poker from 6,000+ poker rivals this past November, winning $8.5 million on the way to becoming the youngest Main Event winner in WSOP history.

Now, after a whirlwind year that saw him deal with the burden of fame perhaps more than he played poker, a 22-year-old Cada is looking forward to playing a few more tournaments in the lead up to defending his title at the 2010 Main Event.

"I think I just want to play my best poker really, and stay focused," he said. "It's a long time out in Nevada."

EPT Grand Final Day 1b : €1.7 million

The second first day of the 2010 PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final went off in Monte Carlo Monday with 497 runners joining the fray.

With 351 players hitting the Le Sporting felt Sunday, this year's Grand Final has drawn a grand total of 848 entrants.

Losing almost 100 players from last season's total of 935 might be a warning sign in other years, but travel difficulties in Europe due to volcanic ash from Iceland was likely the cause of the dip in entries this time around.

The total prize pool for the 2010 Grand Final is €8,480,000 with first place paying €1,700,000.

When play wrapped on Day 1b around 11:30 p.m. local time Monday, approximately 252 players remained with Thiago Nishijima, Salvatore Bonavena, 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Joe Cada, 2009 WPT Championship winner Yevgeniy Timoshenko and 2009 WSOP Main Event last woman standing Leo Margets among the leaders.