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A poker player who took his winnings to a brothel, only to get robbed, West Virgina fireman taking heat over charity poker tournaments, and PokerTek secures new financing - all today in this issue of poker News Bytes...

The $100k buy in event featured the best players out there, such as Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan, Allen Cunningham, Guy Laliberte, Mike Baxter and David Peat. It was Baxter and Dwar who mixed it up before, and were destined to do it again in this particular hand.

When poker After Dark started their new season, they started to bring in some new blood as well. In the cash game episode, where players paid $100k to play, Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan, Allen Cunningham, Guy Laliberte, Mike Baxter, and David Peat were invited to play, with only Allen and Phil being old timers.

All the players at poker After Dark's the cash game show admitted one thing: Durr was hard to read. In the $100k buy in event Phil Hellmuth, Allen Cunningham, Guy Laliberte, Mike Baxter, and David Peat were playing with a crafty player better known for his skill online as Durr, but his real name was Tom Dwan.

The upcoming Macau leg of this year's Asian poker Tour (APT) will include a number of big name poker pros, including J.C. Tran and Nam Le. This is good news for the organizers of the event, who can count on the draw and attention the big name pros bring with them to help grow the brand of the APT...

Online poker room bwin poker is running a promo that can get players to a weekend trip on poker Island, and the winners will get to mix and mingle with the girl band the Pussycat Dolls. Players who come to poker Island will have to compete to stay, enjoying the vacation like atmosphere while playing poker for a chance to play in the poker Island grand final event in October. Each week two players will be kicked off the island, and winners of the Grand Final event will get a year membership as part of bwin's pro poker team.Related Articles:Pro players plan on playing the APTNational Deaf poker Tour...

The Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma has been issued a subpoena regarding the details of a poker tournament held in Akela by the tribe about a month ago. The July 15 subpoena is asking for a description of the event to include the names of those who played in the event and employees working at the event, as well as the total number of folks who were involved with the poker tournament. The letter comes from the National Indian gaming Commission complete with a dire warning about what might happen if they ignored the subpoena...

Sunday was a really big day for PokerStars, as the online poker site made its million dollar guarantee for its Sunday Tournament - Twice, actually. The Sunday Million had its usual massive field, with over 8,000 players...

Purple Lounge, the leading luxury online poker room and casino is celebrating the Olympic games this August with their biggest ever month long rake race promotion, the Purple Lounge Pentathlon. There will be five rake race events over the month with the winner of all of the events standing to win $150,000 and a total available prize pool of more than $200.000 USD. This is the biggest prize pool yet at Purple Lounge and compliments their famous monthly rake race the 'Mad Dash for Cash'. (PRWeb Jul 29, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1151204.htm