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Full Tilt poker has now released the formats for three 'mystery' events in the Full Tilt Online poker Series (FTOPS) VIII, which begins today and runs through May 18th. The three now-disclosed events are these...

Gabe Kaplan was a stand up comedian. He started in a popular show in the 1970's called 'Welcome Back Kotter' and then sort of dropped from view. But since then he has become a regular poker pro and poker commentator, and was a great fit in the Cowboy Week shows of season three of poker After Dark.

Each Sunday, Full Tilt poker holds its $750 Guarantee tournament, and seasoned pros and amateurs alike register to win a piece of that prize pool. On Sunday, May 4th, one of those pros - Matthew Hilger - took the first place prize of over $132,000. read more in pokerworks.com

Chris Ferguson is a master at hiding his tells. He wears dark cloths, has a beard and long hair, dons black sunglasses, and measures his movements in a way designed to mask what he is thinking.

E! Online - Vince Vaughn may have been a winner at a Cinco de Mayo poker event, though not necessarily at cards. Vaughn left the party with a young blonde.

There were few bright spots for World poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE) in the first quarter of 2008. For the quarter, the company's losses widened by almost 25% over the losses posted for the same quarter last year. WPT lost $2.83 million...

While Joe Montana from the San Francisco 49ers would have made a great poker player - he seems like the type who could put other people on a hand with ease - Ronnie Lott is completely different. Instead of poker, he would have made a great demolition derby driver. We have repeated an observation that was made about Mr. Lott several years ago. It was referenced by a reporter whose name is now lost to history, 'If he doesn't care about his own body, what do you think he is going to do to yours'. This is not the sort of person you are going to scare off with a bluff.

In some circles a weak lead could be any guy who had the unfortunate pleasure of being Ginger Rogers' dance partner. With her own prodigious skill coupled with the fact that she was used to doing her dancing with Fred Astaire, anyone else taking the lovely Ms. Rogers out for an evening of high stepping would have seemed like trying to replace Napoleon with 'Urkel'. In the poker world a weak lead is when a player makes an opening bet out of position in the face of somebody at the table who generally raises before the flop.

At the last two World Series of poker events a special tournament has been held to raise money for the problems in Darfur, Africa, and yet another tournament is going to be held soon. This time the host is not the WSOP but the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino, which is joining forces with the celebrity backed charity organization Not On Our Watch, founded by stars Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Jerry Weintraub, Matt Damon, and Don Cheadle, who is the most vocal in supporting Darfur. Annie Duke is also an instrumental part of the tournaments for Darfur.Related Articles:Celebrities play poker for a cureGA poker run fundraiser...

The southern state of North Carolina has had a long, rough relationship with video poker, and recent testimony seems to indict the Sheriff of Haywood County in a bribery operation to allow illegal video poker to operate. Jerry Pennington, a Henderson Amusement Inc employee, has testified that Haywood County Sheriff Tom Alexander took thousands of dollars every month to not bust the company running the poker games. The testimony came during the trial of former Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford, who also is accused of taking tens of thousands of dollars in poker related criminal bribes.Related Articles:New York poker game shut downPoker room bust leads to indictments...