PokerStars is betting heavily on Tallinn this summer. The 11th to 16th of August European Poker Tour begins in the estonian capital
but the 16th to 19th of June already they arrange the Baltic Festival in the city. You can already qualify for main events that
has a buy in at 1500 euro. Two side events are also available, 250 Euro Pot Limit Omaha and 400 Euro No Limit Hold’ Em, and loads
of cash games. Baltic Festival is being held at Swissotel Tallinn.

Baltic Festival was last year held in october. At that event the englishman Tomas Partridge won the main event,
while the finnish Ville Vahlbeck won the high roller before Shaun Deeb. That time the event displayed a lot of inspiring poker.

Yesterday World Series of Poker started, and at the same time as the premiere the organizers now release the schedule to the event WSOP Europe that takes place this autumn.
The 5 events are being held between the 14th and 28th of September, and the location is as usual London.

Tue 14 sept Event #1: £2 500 NLH 6-handed
Thu 16 sept Event #2: £5 000 PLO
Fri 17 sept Event #3: £1 000 NLH
Tue 21 sept Event #4: £10 000 NLH High Roller Heads-Up
Thu 23 sept Event #5: £10 000 WSOPE Championship NLH

Poker Stars now try hard to expand their cash game activity online on the higher levels, and now they also let their own star
Daniel Negreanu give his name to the new tables at the site.
In Daniels Room cash games between $20/$40 to $100/$200 are offered, and with ante at half the big blind on all tables and max buy in
at 250 BB a lot of action is guaranteed and a big number of large pots.

The american poker player David Williams now leaves his sponsor Bodog, without making official
any new site to represent. Williams won the WPT final in Bellagio a month ago and the speculations are
now at their peak about the reason why it didn’t work, and that it could be a possible discontent from Williams
for not getting any bonus for having won a large title.

Neither Bodog or Williams have commented the reason as to why they now cancel their cooperation.

Among other things Vanessa has bought a Lamborghini after a number of fine results at the poker tables. Those who long to be able to buy such a car or just want to become better poker players should listen what Vanessa Rousso has to say, and now there is an opportunity to get tips from her as well.

During PokerStars Carribean Adventure the young female PokerStars pro will teach tips and tricks during a course called Strategy Symposium Under the Sun. The course will be held the 10th of January.

The 22nd of Januar Vanessa will lead Poker Tournament Theory Boot Camp and Tournament in Biloxi, Mississippi. There ordinary people will be able to learn winning tournament strategies.

To create the same feeling as homegames PokerStars have created the concept Team Pro Tuesdays. Then the opportunity to play against proffessionals from PokerStars on different levels and in different games will be given.

Suddenly there is an opportunity to do like Mike McDermott in Rounders and play against the world champion and bluff him away with just jnk on your hand. Except playing against the stars of Poker Stars you also have the opportunity to just rail them and see how they act at the tables or chat with them.

In december PokerStars also run two Outlast the Pro-event where you can play one tournament and face the proffessionals from PokerStars for only $11. In these tournaments PokerStars have added $1000 and the players who will stay longer than the pros will share this extra pot.
- That will give an interesting twist. If you have a large stack you hope that the pros will be around long and if you are a player with a short stack you want to see the pros bust, Daniel Negreanu says.

Brian Hastings probably had his best poker night ever when he met the Swede Isildur1 yesterday. The Full Tilt-proffessional ended up with a profit of more than $3 million.

But despite a huge profit there was one person who thought that Hastings should have taken even more money – Isildur1. After a number of excerpts and many pots where the Swede thought that Hastings was lucky it seemed like the tilt hit and a hot-tempered conversation came up in the chat.

Before Brian Hastings left the table Isildur1 asked him to take the last money from him too.
“I don’t want them”, Isildur1 wrote.

Excerpt from the chat:
Isildur1: ??????????
Brian Hastings: getting very tired…
Brian Hastings: i feel bad quitting tho
Brian Hastings: would be be cool w/ playing someone else?
Isildur1: just f off
Isildur1: wåfä’qqqqqqqnhjwe4nm
Isildur1: dW
Isildur1: GFE4¨ÅN,K N,KN,KN,KN,KN,KN,KN,KN,KN,KN,KN,KN,KN,K3
Isildur1: Q
Isildur1: u know how lucky u are ?
Brian Hastings: yes i know
Isildur1: i can promise this is the worst
Brian Hastings: ill give you 30 more min if you want
Isildur1: luck anyone had
Brian Hastings: but im rly tired
Isildur1: k 30 mins more
Isildur1: take my last $$
Isildur1: i dont want it
Isildur1: ::S:S

After the drop for Isildur1, having lost many millions, it has been talk about whether or not the Swede has emptied his entire bankroll or not. Now Isildur1 has proven the opposite, at least for now. Between the 5th and 6th of december Isildur1 went $1,6 millions plus. The statistics at highstakesdb.com also shows that Isildur1 at this moment is up about $2,1 millions the last 24 hour period after having played 6418 hands.

The players who have been hit the hardest is Ziigmund and durrr. Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies has lost $1,4 millions in 1116 hands while Tom “durrr” Dwan is down $562 000 in 3766 hands.

The two Full Tilt Poker proffessionals played 463 hands and it ended with Patrik Antonius winning a total of $24 276,50. The largest pot was $155 199. After this small profit for Antonius, Tom Dwan is still ahead with $711 556, when a total of 27 773 have been played.

The year for James Akenhead has been tremendous, saying it mildly. Not just that he managed to get to the final table in WSOP, on the other side of the Atlantic he also reached the final table in WSOPE. His latest achievement is his victory in Full Tilt Poker Million VIII.

I have reached many final tables but never been number one so winning such a large event as Full Tilt Poker is fantastic. I think that I played really well. I trusted my instinct and my analysis and I didn’t make many mistakes throughout the tournament, James Akenhead says.

Results Full Tilt Poker Million VIII
1. James Akenhead – $500 000
2. Juha Helppi – $250 000
3. Dag Martin Mikkelsen – $200 000
4. Luke Schwartz – $150 000
5. Craig Wakeham – $100 000
6. Peter Vasilou – $75 000
7. Taylor Caby – $50 000