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Freerolls are good deals for online poker players, offering them a chance to earn money and prizes without putting up any risk, and online poker room Titan Poker recently announced that they are offering a slew of new online poker freeroll tournaments. Titan Poker offers thousands of dollars via their exclusive freerolls that run six times a month. Some freerolls have a $3,000 prize pool, and players can enter these events by accumulating Titan Poker Points through regular poker play...

The charity event hosted and run by Annie Duke and Don Cheadle that raises money for Darfur has run its course, and the winner is John 'Johnny World' Hennigan, a pro poker player. Like the winner of the event the year before, Hennigan donated 100% of his prize money to the cause, which sends the money to charities to help with Darfur. The final table held its fair share of stars, including Casey Affleck (whose brother Ben busted on the bubble) and Jerry Cantrell, as well as poker pros Hennigan and Phil Hellmuth, and last year's winner Dan Shak.Related Articles:WSOP not the only game in townWorld Poker Showdown joins with Canadian Poker Tour...

While most Americans were firing up their grills and gazing skyward at Independence Day fireworks, 1,158 players filtered into the Amazon Room for Day 1B of the WSOP Championship event. In honor of the occasion, country singer Andy...

The Jove's recent appearances include the 2007 Miami Improv Festival opening for The Groundlings from Los Angeles and Upright Citizens Brigade from new york City. It was their third straight year performing at the Miami Improv Festival, a collection of the nation's best Improv comedy troupes. The Jove has also been invited to perform on the main stage at Artigras 2006, as well as countless corporate training and entertainment events all across Palm Beach County, including the Kravis Center, The Maltz Jupiter theater, Duncan theater and The Cuillo Centre for the Arts. The group received a 2005 Impy award for best sketch comedy in Palm Beach County. They were also an integral part in raising thousands of dollars for the American Red Cross in 2004 and 2005, donating proceeds from their show to benefit hurricane victims.

(Gaming And Casinos News and Information) PocketFivesLivecom has been providing live coverage of online poker httpwwwpocketfivescom players in the 2008 World Series of Poker ever since the first tournament kicked off in May On Thursday July 3rd the Main event began from the Rio AllSuites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas the first of four starting days for the marquee poker tournament By July 14th a field of thousands will be reduced to just nine dubbed the November Nine because the final table wont be played until then Eight PocketFivers have taken home gold bracelets for winning WSOP events Alexandre Gomes Grant Hinkle Blair Hinkle Michael Banducci Barry Greenstein Sebastian Ruthenberg Davidi Kitai and Matt Graham have each won a piece of hardware and proven that successful play online can lead to successful play in live poker tournaments httpwwwpocketfiveslivecom This year PocketFive members have already pocketed over 15 million at the WSOPPocketFivescom has a new 1 in its online tourna

(Gaming And Casinos News and Information) The new July dose of Bluff Europe wwwBluffEuropecom is on its way to the hands of poker players around Europe as we speak While they wing their way in one direction Bluff Europe spoke with one man who is headed the opposite way intend on taking Las Vegas by stormNik Persaud is current hovering at the top in the European poker standings but hes not one to settle for anything less than world domination Headed to Las Vegas with the intention of taking the World Series on Nik spoke with Bluff Europe about his hopes for this summer as well as running us through his trials and tribulations on the circuit over the years Oh and he also discusses how he might be turning up at the WSOPE dressed as the Sugar Plum FairyBack in the slightly less surreal world we talk to outgoing WSOP Main event Champion Jerry Yang While many have wondered why hes been such a lowprofile figure in the last twelve months Jerry has been keeping himself busy helping with charity

NELSON MANDELA'S 90th birthday will be celebrated during an event in Midlothian.