Online Poker site UltimateBet announced the addition of 24-year-old Hollywood actress Tiffany Michelle to its Star Players Team. The actress and singer/songwriter is one of the newest addition in UltimateBet’s already impressive lineup of pro poker players.

The cameras were rolling at this year’s World Series of Poker when Tiffany Michelle, the last female player left standing in the Main Event, outperformed her way to an impressive 17th place finish, beating the largest field to date by a woman.

The Hollywood actress walked away with $334,534 in cash and was sporting UltimateBet gear as part of the online poker site’s much-talked-about UB Army program.

Tiffany Michelle, who can be found playing online poker at UltimateBet under the username “Tiffany M”, has appeared in variety of films and television series, including appearances on Nip/Tuck and E.R. As a way to supplement income between her acting and songwriting career, Michelle began playing online poker at UltimateBet.

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What do poker players do when they’re not grinding it out in online poker rooms or live poker games in casinos? Why, watch poker on television of course! So here’s some welcome good news to poker aficionados out there. Despite rumors to the contrary, “High Stakes Poker” has been renewed by Game Show Network (GSN) for the fifth season.

Living under a rock and have no clue what “High Stakes Poker” is about? It’s basically a show that features the most popular poker personalities putting up $100,000 or more of their own money in a ring game of No Limit Texas Hold-em. With pots so sick that it can reach over $1 million, you can imagine the magnitude of poker drama involved.

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Everywhere in the world, poker is hot. The poker industry is still on an uphill climb and more and more people are getting into the game. This doesn’t mean, however, that the rules you use in Las Vegas are the same rules being used on the other side of the Earth. And any serious poker player knows that confusion on the rules in the middle of a poker game (or even worse, in the middle of a hand), can cause a great deal of frustration—not to mention a mountain of chips.

Thanks to the Federation Internationale de Poker Association (FIDPA) and the International Poker Rules (IP Rules), this problem should no longer be a cause to tilt. Professional poker players Marcel Luske and Michelle Lau established FIDPA and IP Rules to make sure that there is an international set of rules and standards for poker games.

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The third largest online poker network in the world was formed on Thursday, with UltimateBet and Absolute Poker combining user bases and features to launch CEREUS.

CEREUS is the result of more than 12 months innovation and development. Absolute Poker and UltimateBet will join the network and retain their unique assets to continue as individual brands, but they will now share more players, more action, more tournaments, incredible new features and massive promotions.

Paul Leggett, Chief Operations Officer of both Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, said:

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Bodog Poker is once again giving its online poker players the chance to freeroll their way to poker stardom and riches while traveling to exotic locations in total Bodog style.

The Asian Poker Tour in Macau is scheduled for Aug. 26-31 with a guaranteed prize pool of $1.5 million, and Bodog Poker is giving players a chance to win an exclusive all-expenses-paid trip to play the event for free.

The freeroll tournaments are scheduled four times daily throughout the month of July. The top 25 finishers per qualifier move onto the APT Macau Seat Giveaway Finale on Saturday, Aug. 2, with the top prize being an $8,000 prize package that includes the event’s $5,300 buy-in, round trip flight, spending money and a six-night stay at the luxurious Galaxy StarWorld Hotel & Casino located in the heart of Macau.

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Bodog Poker recently awarded the very first seats into the 2009 World Series of Poker main event. The seats were awarded to three players, “pokerfanx789,” “dudix,” and “Boswan,” as a result of a promotion involving the site’s Bodog Poker Mini Series final event.

Bodog Poker hosted a Mini Series this year, a 25-tournament series that mirrored the Hold’em events at the 2008 WSOP with buy-ins equal to 1% of the actual WSOP event buy-in.

The final event was a 27-player tournament consisting of the top four players on the Mini Series tournament leaderboard, 18 players from the semifinal qualifier and five selected through wild-card drawings of players who entered at least three Mini Series events.

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History will be made this summer with Bodog Poker’s $250K Guaranteed Poker Tournament. It gonna be the largest prize pool tournament ever and it on this Sunday, August 10 at 4pm EST.

A guaranteed $250,000 in total prize money will be awarded, no matter how many people register, and to give players of all skill sets and bankroll sizes the chance to get in on the action, Bodog is running around-the-clock qualifiers starting today for as little as $1, as well as offering a direct buy-in for only $250+$20.

Bodog that guarantees online poker players the absolute best value for their tournament dollars. Every month, Bodog guarantees its players millions of dollars in prize pool money in daily and weekly tournaments, including its popular Sunday $100,000 guaranteed which will be replaced with the $250,000 guaranteed tournament on Aug. 10.

Bodog Poker $250K Guaranteed Poker Tournament Runs This Sunday

Among the World Series of Poker Day 2A casualties was poker pro Scotty Nguyen. The “Prince of Poker” had been short-stacked most of the day.

Some may remember how Scotty Nguyen blew a huge chip lead coming up to the final table in last year’s WSOP, leaving him to bust out in 11th place. Apparently, this failure to capitalize on his lead left him distraught for months and barely able to eat.

Part of Nguyen’s rehabilitation was promising himself that he would win either the HORSE Championship or the Main Event in 2008. Hopefully, he’ll have his appetite back after taking down the most prestigious victory in poker as well as the $2 million that went with it.

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The Full Tilt Online Poker Series IX will run from August 6th to 17th. FTOPS IX will consist of 25 online poker tournaments, each one with a guaranteed prize pool. The guarantees range from $100,000 at the lowest all the up to $2.5 million for the Main Event and total combined prize pool will be at least $15 million.

Among the highlights from FTOPS IX is a two-day $2,620 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event with a $2,000,000 guaranteed prize pool and the Main Event, a $535 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament with a $2,500,000 guarantee.

All FTOPS IX winners will recieve a gold FTOPS jersey and a FTOPS avatar. In addition, every player to make a final table will be awarded a limited edition FTOPS jacket.

Here are the 25 schedules for the Full Tilt Online Poker Series IX

Who’s your favorite poker player? If your answer is Daniel Negreanu, read on. Particularly if you want a chance to get personal tips and get coached by one of the world’s most popular and most skilled poker professionals. How the heck is that going to happen? With Pokerstars $17,000 Weekend with Daniel Negreanu Freeroll, of course.

Scheduled this Saturday on July 12 at 14:30 EST, Daniel Negreanu fans can win an exclusive weekend with their idol valued at $15,000 plus $2,000 in cash for travel expenses to Las Vegas. Pretty sweet deal especially since winners will be living in style at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and will even be invited to a private party or rather, barbecue, at Negreanu’s Vegas residence.

So aside from being wined and dined, what exactly do you get? Let’s just say you get a crash course on how to vastly improve your game. The package includes a 2-day seminar led by Negreanu himself on various poker topics including pot odds, implied odds, bluffing opponents and tournament strategy. Winners will also work with Negreanu in live workshops at the poker tables.

PokerStars to Hosts $17,000 Weekend with Daniel Negreanu Freeroll