On Day 4 Phil Ivey and Phil Hellmuth started off in the top four, they were joined by David Singer and Jennifer Tilly. As the day progressed Tilly was pushed out of the number two spot by Michael Watson whilst online player Blair “blur5f6″ Hinkle stepped into fourth displacing Phil Hellmuth to fifth. But the fortunes are ever changing and the two Phils snatched the top two spots moving into the million chip count. But the roller coaster ride that is the WPT LA Poker Classic meant that Hinkle was the meat in the two Phil sarnie.

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But the wild cards are always on the look out for action and Nam Le pushed up to number five slot.

A pair of tickets to Wrestlemania XXIV could be just a pocket pair away for one lucky Canadian poker player. Leading online poker site UltimateBet today announced the launch of free World Wrestling Entertainment Wrestlemania online qualifiers where Texas Hold’em fans can fight their way to WWE Wrestlemania XXIV in Orlando this March by winning a series of online poker tournaments.

“We’re about to witness some pretty intense takedowns,” stated UltimateBet.net spokesperson George MacLean. “And wait until you see what happens after the online poker qualifiers are over.”

Online poker Texas Hold’em fans can sign up for a free account at UltimateBet.net’s online poker room and enter a no-charge qualifier, running daily for residents of Canada, to make their way to the final event. The champion of the online Texas Hold’em winner-take-all match on March 2, 2008 will win the ultimate WWE Wrestlemania prize package that includes

Bodog Poker is hosting the inaugural Bodog Poker Open from March 3. The BPO will comprise of five preliminary events which lead up to the Main Event on March 9. The $500 buy in event means that online poker lovers can compete for serious money - and the winner can walk away with a cash prize and an engraved Omega Speedmaster watch, valued at $4,400.

The first Bodog Poker champion will win the title and walk away with an engraved Omega Speedmaster watch, valued at $4,400.

To make the prize pool even juicier Bodog will be adding a total of $75,000 in additional money to the BPO’s prize pools which will create a larger payouts for each event and give the players great bang for their buck.

Bodog North American CEO Alwayn Morris talked about what it meant for the company to be hosting its first online series.

Players can buy in directly to any of the events with cash or Bodog Tournament Credits or win their way in through any number of low-cost satellites starting on Monday Feb. 11. With buy-ins ranging from as low as $100 the Bodog Poker Open is truly a tournament for players of any size bankroll.

Winners of the preliminary events will win entry into the main event in addition to their tournament winnings.

Here’s the Bodog Poker Open schedule:

Bodog Poker today kicked off its qualifiers for the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, and the site is likely going to award more than 120 seats into event before the WSOP tournament is held on July 3.

Three main-event poker satellites, called Main Event Semifinals, are being held on a weekly basis starting tonight and leading up to the main event:

Tuesday at 7:15 p.m. ET

Thursday at 9:15 p.m. ET

Saturday at 3:15 p.m. ET

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series is back. Wednesday, February 6th marks the kick off of FTOPS VII, not four months removed from the the series’ sixth installment.

Full Tilt pros will play host to 20 events, producing a guaranteed prize pool of $10 million dollars for the series.

Full Tilt Online Poker Series VII schedule of events:

Nearly two dozen online poker players this week brought a whole new meaning to the term “cheating in online poker” while playing at Europe’s BetFair site.

The online poker website operated by BetFair.com is demanding that users pay back winnings that were a result of a software glitch.

As much as $200,000 was paid out to players of the site’s Texas Hold ‘Em game. A glitch in the system caused players with losing hands to receive cash prizes. When multiple players made an “all in” bet, they all received the award for coming in second place, regardless of how they actually scored.

The glitch made its way around online gambling communities and within hours, hundreds of thousands of dollars was doled out to people with losing hands. Betfair quickly fixed the problem, and then sent out e-mail notices to everyone involved.