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This weekend saw many players tweeting about the tournaments they were in, which included the UBOC, the LAPC and the EPT Deauville. Other popular topics this week were football as well as new houses, tattoos by Kat von D, and a river card made to measure for Eric Mizrachi.

Poker News Daily has been following the most interesting Tweets since last Friday, encompassing players’ last impressions from the Bahamas, their last goodbyes to the late Amir Vahedi, the drives to raise funds for Haiti relief and some NFL quandaries.

Many political bloggers are criticizing Senator Jon Kyl’s recent tactic of stalling Treasury appointments in response to delays in the implementation of his Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

The poker world still mourns the loss of beloved player Amir Vahedi, known in Hollywood circles for having been Ben Affleck’s first poker tutor. His colleague and close friend Mark Seif recently made declarations on his website regarding the loss of Vahedi and shared the information about his funeral for anyone who wishes to pay their respects to the late poker player.

More positive news for online poker in Europe: Denmark’s state-operated Danske Spil has signed a five-year agreement with PartyGaming, which will use its expertise and know-how to offer online gaming to the Danish market.

Estonia, a small European country bordering with Russia, has recently legalized online gaming as a way to increase its tax income. The decision seems to have been aided by the success of the Baltic Poker Festival hosted by PokerStars.

Doyle Brunson is the Godfather of Poker and one of the greatest living legends in the game, but to represent his poker site, he is carefully choosing a team of 10 poker pros under the age of 25, which will be known asthe Brunson 10.

The popular Microgaming Network is trying to motivate players to throw more chips on the felt with a change to its rake calculation policies, which will now follow the “weighted contribution” method instead of the previous “contributed” method.

American poker fans who are intrigued by the newest – and youngest – World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion can now play for a chance to spend a day in Las Vegas with Joe Cada, sponsored by PokerStars.

This article had to be withdrawn: unfortunately the ratings information we received and reported initially was inaccurate. The new version with the correct ratings can be now found as ESPN WSOP Main Event Ratings Even with 2008. Poker News Daily apologizes for any inconvenience.

The WPT is hitting exotic Marrakech this October, and Titan Poker is offering players many chances to win packages that include seats, flights and accommodation in the beautiful Northern African country. Every Wednesday at 20:30 GMT, Titan Poker will host a WPT Marrakech Super Satellite and award an $8,000 package to the winner. These packages…

Adrenaline junkies and Phil Hellmuth fans must be rejoicing, as the wildest variant of Texas Hold’em will be available on the Cereus network’s sites Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker. The Seven-Deuce tables should start operating at 5:00pm ET on Sunday, August 2nd. Seven-Deuce is essentially a prop-bet that took hold of the Hold’em psyche – trying…

Ultimate Bet will be hosting a Deep Stack tournament on August the 1st at 5:30pm ET; the prize pool has a guaranteed minimum of $100K, $25K of which will be paid to the first place.  The direct buy-in is $300 + $20, but satellites can be entered for as little as $1.50 . Ultimate Bet…

Winning a bracelet from one of the major poker tournaments in the world brings in fame and respect at the poker tables, and many online players that have won a bracelet have spoken about the life changes they have gone through after they reached one of the main goals for a poker player. Earning a…

Cake Poker launched the Gold Card Race a month ago, and Jotun665 has shown to be the indisputable leader week after week, winning or placing every week of the race so far and positioned in the lead for this week already. The Cake Poker blog enthuses about Jotun665’s prowess: “He took down first place last…

The high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker have been very busy lately, with Full Tilt Poker Pros Phil Ivey, Patrick Antonius, Richard Ashby, Brian Townsend and Gus Hansen playing on a daily basis and taking home big profits.  Some of the players they have faced are Tom “durrrr” Dwan, DIN_FRU, HarrisMP, OMGClayAiken and David Benyamine to…

Titan Poker is giving out $50K in Cash Game Jackpots, split among different categories so every player has the opportunity to take home a piece of the action. Titan Poker players will earn points by playing at cash tables; those points will rank on Daily Races and accumulate towards the Weekly $5,000 Jackpot and the…

Ultimate Bet’s Blog Tournament has proven a great success over the last 7 months, rallying up to 2000 players for the blogger-only freeroll. This has prompted Ultimate Bet to increase the prize pool to $1,000 and run a special edition: the Delicious Blog Freeroll. Delicious is a well known social bookmarking site that allows users…

The Bodog Mini Poker Series ended last week, and as a result there is already one player on his way to next year’s WSOP Main Event. Many players entered the 13 Mini Poker Series events, placed in the Semifinal Tournament or got a seat by being in the top ten of the Series’ Tournament Leaderboard.…