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The Full Tilt Online Poker Series sadly came to an end yesterday, but not without the main event reaching a seven way chop. 5,645 players showed up for the main event which made the prize pool a solid $2,822,500. ‘vice67’ and ‘trojancountry’ were the only players to reach the final table that were not a part of the chop.

The players that were involved in the chop consist of ‘JackQKA’, ‘PageUpV’, ‘ReloadPlz’, ‘Surferkel’, ‘TheJunkie’, ‘The Fluke1200’, and the player to take home the lion’s share of the chop was ‘dfhjik’ who took home $262,077. A seven way chop is quite a way to end FTOPS.

The NBC Heads Up Championship is headed our way as the action will begin March 5th and a champion will be crowned come March 7th. The field is full of the biggest names in the poker world with some fresh meat thrown in. New entries include Darvin Moon, WSOP champion Joe Cada, and Kara Scott.

Seven slots still remain as the slots will be available to online qualifiers so they can show off their poker skills to the viewers. Everyone in the field will have their eyes set on dethroning last year’s champion in Huck Seed.

The 2010 Borgata Winter Poker Open doesn’t see its own shadow which means that Winter didn’t last long, and the 2010 Borgata champion was crowned. Full Tilt poker pro Jeff Madsen was the man left standing with all the chips as he takes home the title and the first place price valued at $625,000. The former player of the year at the World Series of Poker was the favorite at the final table and he did not disappoint. Before Madsen good take home the tournament he went through Sirous Jamshidi in heads up play as Jamshidi walked away with $367,000.

Yesterday officially started the pre-season Formula 1 in Valencia (Spain), where the most important teams chose to present their new competition cars.

The new Formula 1 season will start on the 14th of March in Bahrain and this year it is expected to be more interesting than ever, as there will be four champions competing: Shumacher, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.

Even though there are still months left to the beginning of the season, online betting sites and high street bookies have already started to offer their predictions. For the moment, the favourite is Hamilton, followed by Fernado Alonso and Shumacher.

However, for the moment those odds are quite relative, as it will be necessary to wait a bit longer to see and check the quality of their cars.

World and Olympic handball champion French team has completed an amazing hat trick yesterday night in Vienna, beating Croatia for the European Champion title. It is the first time in history that a nation hold those three great titles at the same time. Yet the beginning of the game was difficult for French team and the Croatian leaded the game during most of the first half. But Croatian could not get their revenge for the lost World Championship final of last year and France beaten them in the end, 25-21.

Full Tilt Poker brings us yet another way to play the game of poker.  Full Tilt introduces ‘Rush Poker’.  Rush Poker can be found in the ‘Standard View’ of their lobby, and it’s an effort to cut down on the time you spend waiting on hands.  It’s pretty simple.  If you happen to fold your hand while playing Rush Poker then you will automatically be moved to another table where another hand will be waiting for you.  Rush Poker eliminates your wait time between hands and you will always be in the action.  Check out Full Tilt Poker to experience the ’rush’ of Rush Poker.  Pun intended.

The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12^th left thousands homeless, hungry, and fighting for their lives.  PokerStars is trying to do their part to lend a hand and they need your help as well.  PokerStars has set up what they like to call dummy ‘Haiti Earthquake Relief’ tournaments.  All you have to do is go to the special tournament section and register in on these tournaments.  Buy-ins will range from $1 to $1,000, but you will not play the tournament.  PokerStars will simply donate all the ‘entry fees’ to the fund dedicated for Haiti relief.  Another way to donate is to simply to transfer funds to the account ‘Haiti Fund’.  Please help the people of Haiti , because they need the help more than we need the money.

After a recent slump on the cash tables Gus Hansen took a blink of a break, but now he has returned to the tables ready to do damage.  And damage he did.  Within a few short hours Hansen was able to increase his cash flow by $559K.  Hansen battled the Cole Smith on the day before he finally ended his losing streak and walked away with quick victory.  The action still hasn’t been the same since Isildur1 left the cash game scene.  Isildur1 was a poker writers dream, because of the swings he would have.  Hopefully Hansen doesn’t take any more ‘breaks’ and the massive cash game pots come crawling back.

Another Sunday on PokerStars is in the books.  The day kicked off with the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up and 4,701 players hit the felt.  With over $940,000 in the prize pool ‘Vyna’ walked away with the first place prize which landed him $147,000.  The PokerStars Sunday 500 went to ‘antesvante’ who beasted the small field of 883 players, and took home $90,000 for his efforts.  The biggest tournament on any site was the PokerStars Sunday Million ($1.5 GTD) which saw 8,721 entrants and a whopping prize pool of over $1,744,000.  The player who brought out his Sunday best to take home the biggest prize of the day was ’Isetit’.  Putting in a good days work landed Isetit over $250,000.

PokerStars is helping out their players once again. Team PokerStars made it possible for everyday poker players to become part of the PokerStars team. 2,000 online poker players sent their applications into PokerStars with a dream of joining this elite team. 23 ‘inaugural’ players were announced, and 18 different countries are being represented. Some of the players include Steve Jacobs, Sebastien Sabic, Amanda Thomas, and Karlo Lopez. If you missed out on this opportunity, keep plugging away at the dream. Maybe one day you will be part of the PokerStars team.