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The first edition ever for the increased-guarantee version of the Stars Sunday Million, now with a guaranteed pool of $1.5 million, saw 'Fred_Brink' post a come-from-behind victory for a win worth over $200,000. The increased Sunday...

Card Player Magazine has conducted research using a global poker tourney tracking system to determine what place has the most successful poker players in the world. The system, the 'World Tracker', found that Denmark is the top spot, with 1.85 medals per million people. The medals are victories in certain qualifying events, such as the World poker Tour, the World Series of poker and the European poker Tour...

One of the traditional opening poker events of each calendar year is the PartyPoker.com Irish poker Championship, which takes place early each January. The event annually draws a lineup of big names from both sides of the pond...

Last year poker playing Westmoreland, Pennsylvania lawyer, Larry Burns, was charged with organizing a poker game that was busted by the police, and now the state is coming after Burns for some cash. Specifically they are interested in confiscating $40k that they found during the poker event, including over $30k that was donated to the Westmoreland County Fire Department, which was hosting the event. Burns is trying the common defense that poker is a game of skill rather than chance, and as such should be exempt from state gambling law.Related Articles:Professor says online poker should be legalTribal poker tourney stirs the waters...

The online poker room Paddy Power poker has launched a promotion to coincide with the Beijing Olympics starting in a few days, the PPP Olympics. Starting the same night as the real Olympics, August 8th, the PPP version will run through the 14th with Holdem and Pot Limit Omaha events running twice a night. Players will have a chance to win money during the entire week, and there will be a big shot with the last event of the PPP Olympics, the $15,000 Gold Medal Freeroll on August 15th, which will feature as part of its prize pool a $4500 prize package to the Irish Winter Festival.Related Articles:Pacific poker Open V qualifiersGood guessing won player a WSOPE seat...

International News: News Corps. CEO plans six regional channels -- Rupert Murdoch plans to invest $100 million to launch six regional TV channels in India via News Corp.'s Asian broadcaster Star. 'We will launch in the next 12 months,' Murdoch told reporters in Mumbai on Monday, declining to give further financial details.

International News: Additions include Peter Iacono, Steve Marcopoto -- InterActiveCorp boss Barry Diller will join the speakers at this fall's Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Assn. of Asia convention and trade show, which runs Oct. 28-30.

NBC's new series 'The Philanthropist' could be going international.

International News: String of Stateside hits fuel rise in admissions -- Sweden's summer box office is shaping up to be its best ever, despite unusually warm weather, which normally keeps locals out of theaters.

International News: Company's first-half income for 2008 up 23% -- Spanish film and TV holding Vertice 360, part of multinational telco and media company Avanzit, has announced first-half income for 2008 up 23% to ¤61.6 million ($95.7 million).