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Sebastian Ruthenberg wins the EPT of Barcelona 2008. When starting at the second place of the final table, just after the chipleader of that moment Martin Nielsen. After the 8 hour during final table, Martin Nielsen the chipleader when starting the final table was busted at the eight place. The total top 8 of this EPT was:

1. Sebastian Ruthenberg (Germany) €1,361,000
2. Fintan Gavin (Ireland) €792,000
3. Davidi Kitai (Belgium) €455,000
4. Daniele Mazzia (Italy) €351,000
5. Dren Ukella (Germany) €292,000
6. Jason Mercier (USA) €227,000
7. Samuel Chartier (Canada) €178,000
8. Martin Nielsen (Denmark) €119,000

Dublin has been chosen as Poker Capital of Europe 2008 by the magazine Bluff Europe. The Irish capital had a little range on London that finished at a good second place.

The top 5 of the list was:

1. Dublin
2. London
3. Vienna
4. Amsterdam
5. Barcelona

The jury was impressed about the pokerscene in Dulbin. There are many pokerrooms, clubs and tournaments available all over the town. And every year new poker tournaments seem to be started. And not only for the high stakes!

The most well known tournament is ofcourse the Irish Open, which attracks many proffesional players to Dublin. Also the first event of the WSOP Europe will be played in Dublin. There seemed to be no other city that deserved this price this year!

The European Poker Tour has officially announced that this season will consist 10 events. The European train will be in the Hungarian Budapest on 28 October. This tournament will have a buy-in of €4000 + €300.

The Budapest EPT will be the third EPT in the 2008 season which will have bigger prices, bigger contest fields and bigger buy-ins then ever before. As you’ll know the EPT season start at 10 September in Barcelona. Ofcourse we will keep you up to date of all news about the EPT!

There will be a lot of poker in London this autumn. The World Series of Poker Europe start in September and in October the EPT is heading for London.

The EPT of London has one of the biggest price pools in the history. With a minimum of £1 million pounds, that means almost $2 million dollars it is the third biggest tournament of the year! The two tournaments with a bigger price pool were the WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E and the $100,000 Aussie Millions.

The poker scene is obviously growing in London, one of the main examples of this fact is of course the poker in the park initiative. This are free tournaments organized at the park and free to join for everyone.

Londen is preparing for the pokerplayers to arrive. The WSOPE runs from 19 till 27 September, with the main event being a Texas Hold’em tournament with a £10,000 pound buy-in. After the WSOPE the poker pro’s will have three days off till the EPT starts. From 1 till 6 October the EPT London will again bring all the finest poker professionals together in London.

For every poker lover London will be the place to be this autumn!

Neil Channing wins the Irish Poker Open of 2008. 667 players joined in this €4500 buy-in tournament. This ment 72 players ended up in the money.

Channing was able to beat well known professionals like Doyle Brunson, Andy Black and Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott in this 3 million guaranteed tournament.

By winning this tournament Channing earned €801.400!

Full Tilt noticed that Mr. Little was online almost 24/7 the last few months, and decided to take a further look into this case. They found out the account was used from multiple IP addresses. Jonathan Little was fired by Full Tilt Poker.

Since the pros playing at Full Tilt get paid per hour, it is very profitable to be online as much as possible. But also the pros need to read and follow the Terms and Conditions! Account sharing is just not allowed! Due to this violation by Jonathan Little Full Tilt Poker saw no other options then disabling Jonathan’s account and ‘fire’ him.

I think this is really well done by Full Tilt, showing no regret, neither to their own affiliated professionals. What do you think?

Between an impressing field of contesters of the best poker professionals of the world, Chris Ferguson managed to win the NBC Nationals Heads-Up Championship of 2008!

After finishing in the second place the last 2 years, he finally succeeded to win this great tournament.

The complete final results:

Chris Ferguson

1 Chris Ferguson $500,000
2 Andy Bloch $250,000
3 Huck Seed $125,000
. Phil Ivey $125,000
5 Gus Hansen $75,000
. Jonathan Little $75,000
. Orel Hershiser $75,000
. David Benyamine $75,000
9 Mike Matusow $25,000
. Phil Laak $25,000
. Greg Raymer $25,000
. J.C. Tran $25,000
. Doyle Brunson $25,000
. Scott Fischman $25,000
. Freddy Deeb $25,000
. Michael Mizrachi $25,000

In the best of three final Chris Ferguson was able to defeat Andy Bloch. After Andy winning the first match, Chris was able to win the second and third match with showing the best of his HU game. The second match won by Chris by calling going all-in with QcQd against a short Andy Bloch showing Kc3d.

Eventually the third match was not as exiting as the first two, finally finished by a coinflip (yes a real coinflip) made by Andy. Calling with a pair of Tens, with Ferguson showing JJ. With no help on the turn and river, it was Chris Ferguson winning the NBC National Heads-Up Championship of 2008.

Andy Bloch

As most online poker players probably noticed the last days, many poker sites had connection problems (either very slow or no connection at all). Rumors are going around that they suffered from a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Attack.

This attack is used by computer hackers to bring websites down and are placed by computers all around the world, sending billions of so called ping packages to one server. If this server does not have a good protection against these attacks, it can cause downtime. As happened to Full Tilt Poker, Party Casino, Titan Poker, Virgin Games, CD Poker and Europa Casino. Also some big Russian Poker sites were attacked like PokerListing.

This finnaly shows the reason of the embarrassing outage of Full Tilt Poker during the FTOPS Main Event, when almost every player lost his connection.

These connection losses are not very good for Full Tilt’s reputation, since a lot of players are wondering if their losses will be refunded. What do you expect from Full Tilt?

Can you imagine loosing billions on online poker and casino games?

The US Government can! A study of accountantsfirm Price Waterhouse Coopers, in name of the UC-Group, gives an insight of the income losses for the US Government for the upcomming 10 years! If they regulate online poker and casino , they will earn a little of 16 billion (16,000,000,000!!!!).

In this calculation sportsbetting is not even included, it’s all about casino games and poker!

Individual taxes would generate 56% of the total amount. The amount could rise up to 42 billion if other sport betting was included and all states where gambling is prohibited..

Am i the only one wondering how long Online Poker will be forbidden in the USA?