William Thorson’s total live tournament winnings as of 2008 is over $1,800,000. He made a name for himself by appearing in two final tables at the European Poker Tour. He has also cashed four times at the World Series of Poker. Now, Swedish poker star has joined poker notables Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem and Barry Greenstein at Team PokerStars.

Not bad for someone who started playing online poker at the play money tables. Thorson has been playing at PokerStars since 2002 using his screen name “William.” When he started playing with real money, his first deposit was a measly $50. He’s gone a long way considering that he can now afford to shell out $10,000 to join World Series of Poker main events.

Considered by many as the number one player on the Swedish poker scene, Thorson humbly admitted in interviews that despite his many accomplishments, he still considers being chosen for Team PokerStars Pro an honor. “It’s a great team with many of the world’s greatest players and I’m honored to be included in such company. I’m proud to have my skills recognized in this way. It’s a great opportunity for me and I hope to achieve big results,” said Thorson.

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Titan Poker players were celebrating on Sunday as the popular poker room awarded $250,000 in cash in an exciting weekly poker tournament.

Titan Poker, the largest online poker room on the iPoker Network, stages a $250,000 Guaranteed Prize tournament every Sunday evening. Players from across the globe join the tables at the internationally renowned poker room to compete for their share of the prize money.

On Sunday June 15, Carsten Wolf from Germany finished in first place to take home the top prize of $52,500. Closely behind him, French player Jean Louis Fromenton played throughout the night to claim second place and $27,500 in cash.

Jean said: “I started playing at 20:00 and finished at around 4:00 in the morning - and it was worth every minute of gameplay. I am so happy that I won this fantastic prize! I don’t have a special strategy when it comes to poker, I am very easy going and I just really enjoy playing!”

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Now this is what I call a sweet marketing strategy. Just as Patrik Antonius is set to sit down at the 2008 World Series of Poker final table, Full Tilt Poker snaps him up. Even sweeter, Andy Bloch, another member of Team Full Tilt, will also be in the WSOP final table with the chip lead. So there will be two finalists wearing gear emblazoned with the Full Tilt Logo.

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Who is Patrik Antonius? Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you should be aware that he is considered one of the most solid young poker players in the world. He has earned nearly $1.7 million in live poker tournament earnings and has had six top 15 finishes in major poker tournaments upon entering the international poker scene in 2005.

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Titan Poker, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, is offering an exciting prize package to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas this July. The Executive Package is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for any poker player. It includes a $10,000 buy-in to the Main Event as well as registration fees and a 14-night accommodation (July 3rd - July 17th) for two in a luxury suite along with money for flights and spending.

For the ultimate World Series of Poker experience, Titan Poker will also include executive perks such as two tickets to the “Blue Man Group” show in the Blue Man Group theatre at the Venetian Resort, dinner for two at the exclusive “SW Steakhouse” at the Wynn Hotel, and limousine pick-up to and from the Las Vegas airport.

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PokerStar online poker room, has announced a Super Satellite poker tournament that will be held on January 19.

The winners of the super satellite poker tournament will receive on of 16 EPT Gand Final at Monte Carlo price packages that include all inclusive poker tournament buy in, expenses and travel to the EPT Grand Final poker tournament event.

The EPT Poker Stars Monte Carlo Grand Final event takes place this April from the 12th to the 17th, and is expected to draw huge crowds and millions of dollars in prize money.

Poker players can choose to buy in directly to this event, or more savvy online poker players may choose to play in a feeder satellite tournaments. PokerStars is offering those tournaments starting at $5.50. Qualifiers to the event kick off today on PokerStars.com

The biggest names in European poker are in Paris tonight for the annual event which gives recognition to outstanding performers in five categories.

The event coincides with the European Finals of Poker (EFOP) held at the Aviation Club de France in Paris. There’s at least one Brit nominated in each category, as Julian Thew, Ram Vaswani, Jen Mason, Madeleine Harper, and last year’s player of the year Roland de Wolfe have all been recognised for their efforts in 2007.

Pro player 19-year old Norwegian poker phenomenon Annette Obrestad has been nominated in three different categories. Annette was the first person to win the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event. The win also made her the youngest bracelet winner to date at the age of 19. She followed that up with a second-place finish in a European Poker Tour event as well this year.

Other nominees in Most Notable Tournament Performance of the Year are:

Bruno Fitoussi, France

Alex Kravchenko, Russia

Annette Obrestad, Norway

Carlos Mortenson, Spain

Ram Vaswani, England

Player nomination was determined by a panel of poker experts and player representatives from around the continent. Here are the rest of the categories and nominees [...]

PokerStars online poker players will have the chance to win the PokerStars Passport starting on December 1 2007. The winner on the PokerStars Passport gets entries to ten big live poker tournaments. What is a PokerStars Passport?

Poker players to win the PokerStars Passport will start their world travels at the EPT German Open in Dortmund in January 2008 and ending the tour at the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.

In between the world tour, the winning player of the PokerStars Passport can choose any eight big tournaments on the European Poker Tour or Asia Pacific Tour. And best of all, the PokerStars Passport winner can also choose the World Series Main Event as one of the eight stops aroung the world.

Interested enough…here are the mechanics for the PokerStars Passport [...]

Heading into the European Poker Tour final table, after busting out more than half of the final EPT table participants, Annette “Annette_15″ Obrestad looked like she’s adding another victory into her poker resume less than two months after taking down the World Series of Poker European Main Event.
The 19-year-old Norwegian poker player entered heads-up againts [...]