WSOP Watch June 30th. Multiple Irish cashes this week.

As an increasing number of Irish players flocked to Vegas this week in preparation for the impending main event, as did the number of players added to our Vegas 2009 In-The-Money list

Jason Tompkins went deep in the $2,500 mixed Holdem event, finishing a very credible 27th of 527 entries for a prize of $8,739.

John O’Shea had his second WSOP cash this year when he came 32nd in the $1,500 PLO HI/Lo for $5,398

Albert Kenny came 23rd in a $1,500 NLHE for $19,587 which seemed a paltry reward considering the field had 2,781 players. Paul Leckey came 254th in the same tournament for $2.753.

Donnocha O’Dea was among the chip leaders in the $3,000 triple chance event, but with three tables left was eliminated when his pocket Aces didn’t hold up against pocket Jacks all-in pre-flop. O’Dea was given $14,967 for his 26th place finish. James Daly came 79th in same event $5,892

paddypowerpoker.com invites players on Paddy’s Vegas Vacation.

paddypowerpoker.com today invites players to take part in Paddy’s Vegas Vacation, which is scheduled from June 30th to July 3rd. The tournaments take place each evening at 8.45pm and the poker room is adding at least $100 to the prizepool of each.

“Paddy’s Vegas Vacation is designed for those of us who can’t get to Sin City for the start of the world championship event later this week” said Paddy Power, Communications Manager at paddypowerpoker.com.

“We’re adding cash to the prizepools and there are a variety of tournaments to choose from – we may not be in Vegas but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy some thrilling tournament action during the most exciting time in the poker calendar!”

Marcel Luske joins PokerStars

PokerStars (www.pokerstars.com) the world’s largest online poker site, has announced a new addition to Team PokerStars Pro after signing Marcel ‘The Flying Dutchman’ Luske. The highly experienced Dutch poker pro, who won the European Poker Awards ‘Life Time Achievement Award’ in 2008, has had a long and successful professional poker career, with tournament cashes in virtually every country on the globe.

Nordmann vant 1,5 millioner kr i Sunday Million

Natt til mandag kunne nordmannen med kallenavnet ”Sleire” innkassere 1 482 406 kroner på kontoen etter en 12 timer lang turnering mot online pokerspillere fra hele verden.

WSOP 2009: Jeff Lisandro gana su tercer brazalete

Parece que ganar varios brazaletes está a la orden del día en las WSOP 2009. Jeff Lisandro se ha unido al club de los ganadores de múltiples brazaletes este año ganando su TERCER brazalete WSOP y todos sus éxitos han llegado en torneos de stud.

Vinny Price wins third and final leg of GUKPT Summer Series

21-year-old Vinny Price from Birmingham has won the third leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Summer Series in Walsall. Price outlasted 121 other players in the £500 buy-in event earning himself £16,000 after making a deal to split the prize money with his heads-up opponent Toby Lewis.

After the deal had been made Price and Lewis continued to play for the trophy and a seat in the Champion of Champions event. The final hand saw Price make a full house when his 6-4 on a 6-4-9-4-8 board beat Lewis’s K-9.

DevilfishPoker.com launches World’s Biggest Rake Chase.

Online poker players of all levels can chase their way to thousands of cash prizes this Summer at DevilfishPoker.com in the World’s Biggest Rake Chase.

DevilfishPoer.com today announces its World’s Biggest Rake Chase promotion running from July 1 to September 30 and offering over €1.7 million in prizes.

The World’s Biggest Rake Chase is free to enter for players of all levels and bankrolls and takes place over three monthly chase periods — July 1 to 31, August 1 to 31 and September 1 to 30. All real money play counts towards this World’s Biggest Rake Chase including cash games, sit & go tournaments and multi-table tournaments.

To participate, players must sign up using the the links on Poker News Headlines then email their username to rakechase@devilfishpoker.com.

John Kabbaj wins WSOP Pot-Limit Hold’em

John Kabbaj, a Pot-Limit specialist from London has won Event #45, the $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold’em tournament, at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas this week. It was third time lucky for Kabbaj as he has made it through to a WSOP final table twice before. He won his first WSOP bracelet and a massive $633,335 first place prize after battling his way through a field of 275 players and eventually defeating his heads-up opponent Kirill Gersaimov, who took home the second place prize of $391,369.

PokerStars annonserer 3. sesongen av APPT

PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) har annonsert datoene den tredje sesongen av denne touren. Denne høstens fem eventer starter sent i august i Macau med en HKD $40,000 turnering. Deretter er det stopp i Sør Korea, New Zealand og Filippinene før det avsluttes med Grand Finale i Sydney tidlig i desember.