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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.

If you have ever tuned into watch the World Series of Poker on ESPN, then you may have heard of Marcel Luske. He’s the gentlemen always dress to impress in suit and tie. He also likes to carry a tune every now and then when playing poker. I sometimes sing the tuned he carried on one particular episode, and it goes as follow; “Give a little bit, give a little bit of your chips to me.” Well played Marcel. Recent news shows that Marcel plans on releasing his debut album with a live concert at the Bellagio Fontana Lounge in Las Vegas. The live concert is set for December 20th, so if you are in ‘sin city’ at the time, drop on by the Bellagio for some Marcel Luske entertainment.

Binion’s Hotel and Casino, the former home of the World Series of Poker, is forced to close their hotel. Binion’s claims they cannot compete with the other hotels in the Vegas area and they didn’t have any other choice. Las Vegas in general has been hit hard due to the economy, as visitor spending has plummeted due to tough times. Las Vegas is banking on their latest investment, the City Center, to help turn the slump around. The City Center will be a ’city within a city’ and Las Vegas execs are banking on the center to draw people to the area.

PokerStars, the king of online poker, is hosting a breast cancer charity event in honor of Nicole Rowe.  Nicole finish 2^nd in the 2009 Borgata Poker Open ladies event but the strange twist to this story is that the victor was a man.  Nicole was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, a disease that also killed her grandmother, and now PokerStars will run a tournament in her honor.  The “Bad Beat Poker Challenge” will take place November 12^th at 9 p.m. EST and there will be numerous prizes being donated by top poker pros.   All proceeds will go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation so please register today to help the cause.

The PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Auckland has come to an end and the champion has been crowned.  The tournament which was held at the SkyCity Casino was won by New Zealand native Simon Watt who is the one that claimed the first prize winnings of over $200,000.  Simon Watt eventually got the best of Gerome Guitteau in the heads up battle as his pocket fives were able to hold up.  Watt won his way into the life changing tournament by qualifying online in $22 rebuy tournament which was held on PokerStars.  Congratulations goes out to Simon as he was able to turn a $22 rebuy satellite into $209,000.