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Most poker players would be happy to win a free entry to one poker mega tournament. But the 21-year-old Australian, Michael Schwaiger has just won two of them. Playing online satellite tournaments on the Internet poker room Titan Poker, Schwaiger won free seats for the Sun City Million Dollar Poker Tournament in South Africa and the Titan Poker $2.5 Million Guaranteed Tournament.

World Poker Tour Enterprise, Inc. (WPTE) is the company that organizes the WPT tournaments. The company is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange, where it is being traded for less than $1 since July 1, 2008.

The Democratic National Convention will be held from August 25 to August 28 at Coors Field in Denver. Several events will be held there during this time. One of them is a charity poker tournament announced by the Poker Players Alliance for August 26.

The 2008 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker (Season VII) commenced on August 23 at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California.

Dennis Phillips is one of the nine who will sit at the final table of the WSOP Main Event in November. He has pledged 1% of tournament winnings to the Prevent Cancer Foundation’s Bad Beat on Cancer fundraiser.

The successful Italian gambling operator, Snai, has decided to enjoy the ever-increasing popularity of online poker and launch a new poker room on Playtech’s Italian network.

PokerTime.com, part of the prestigious Fortune Lounge gaming group, has launched a particularly lucrative new monthly leaderboard competition, with $200,000 a month up for grabs. All players need to do to advance on the leaderboard is to play at PokerTime.com and earn themselves Poker Points.

A talented mixed game poker player, Yuval Bronshtein from the United States, proved his greatness by winning two events at the Full Tilt Poker Online Poker Series within twelve hours.

A Finnish publication has reported that a number of online and land poker players have been contacted by the country’s tax authorities demanding that they declare any winnings from their poker entertainment, going five years back.

One of the industry’s popular poker sites, Chan Poker, created and endorsed by Johnny Chan, 10 times World Series of Poker bracelet winner, has advised its players that it will not be operating anymore, effective immediately.

PokerStars, the online poker room that sponsors the European Poker Tour (EPT) has said that this year it will guarantee a prize of £1 million to the winner of the London event of the EPT.

CryptoLogic Limited, a leading Internet gaming software provider, has signed a three-year contract with the Gaming Media Group Limited, which owns The Poker Channel and PokerHeaven.com.

Poker Battle is a high-end poker community that promotes poker life-style through various means. This September it will be launching its premium fashion line. The pre-launch event will be held by the Poker Battle Warriors at the main event of the Partouche Poker Tour in Cannes during the first week of September.

Last week the bad beat jackpot at PartyPoker was one at $1,013,381.63. The irony was that the pot was worth only $24. Judith75 had four nines and fortunately lost to Hiyall, who had a royal flush.

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has been extremely popular since 2004 and will return for season VI between January 4 and January 10, 2008 at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas.