Full Tilt Poker unveiled four new high stakes cash game tables on Monday. All four of the tables were obviously suggested by newly signed Patrik Antonius, as he has a reserved seat at all four.

The first of the four tables is a $500/$1000 Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em table called RailHeaven. You need at least $50,000 just to sit down at this table.

The next is a $2000/$4000 Omaha Hi-Lo Six-Handed table called Patrik. Same thing with this table - $50,000 minimum is the buy-in.

Full Tilt Poker Unveils New High Stakes Cash Game Tables

UltimateBet is guaranteeing to pay out at least 50 Main Event prize packages on June 21st in our appropriately named 50-Seat Guaranteed Tournament.

Each package includes a $10,000 World Series of Poker: Main Event seat and $2,000 for travel and accommodations. For those keeping score, that’s at least $600,000 in WSOP Main Event prize packages.

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Vancouver resident and former amateur ice hockey player Duncan “Pumper” Bell came out on top in a field of 1,397 players to win his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Event. This was the 13th event in the 2008 World Series of Poker.

Called “Pumper” for his aggressive poker strategy to “pump” or build up the pot, Duncan started the day with a massive chip lead and ended up winning the event in 73 hands in just three and a half hours. For his efforts, Bell took home $666,777. This is the second time Bell has cashed in a World Series of Poker event. In 2005, Bell came in at 318th place at the main event for $21,070.

Surprisingly, none of the big names of the poker world made it to the final table of Event 13. In fact, it was the first time for all nine finalists to reach the final table of a World Series of Poker event. Four of the nine finalists had yet to cash in a WSOP event.

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With thousands of online poker players seeking a seat to the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, Pacific Poker has come up with a package that is sure to draw in a throng of eager poker players. For a mere $500 + $25 buy-in, serious poker contenders can try to outskill and outplay their opponents to get into the biggest and most prestigious poker game of the year. What’s even better? It’s a weekly tournament held every Saturday at 16:00 PPT so if you don’t win this week, you can always try again.

What happens when you win the qualifier? Of course, you get the $10,000 buy-in to the World Series of Poker main event and the chance to win millions. Aside from that, you get $2,500 as a Travel Prize, $2,000 in spending money, 10 days accommodation in The Palazzo Tower of the Venetian Hotell and just because poker players are now treated like rock stars, you also get invited to a welcome party. Pretty sweet deal for such a small price.

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Top poker site Full Tilt poker is taking World Series of Poker qualifiers to the next level by offering an astonishing $10,000,000 to the 2008 WSOP Main Event Champion if they won their Main Event seat through Full Tilt Poker satellites and qualifiers. Dubbed the $10 Million Main Event Mania, this monstrous poker promotion has been running for the fourth year in a row.

The odds of this happening may be far-fetched but it is by no means impossible. Full Tilt has pledged to award at least fifteen $12K Main Event prize packages each week from March to June 22nd, 2008. The $12,000 entry includes buy-in to the World Series of Poker Main Event and an extra $2,000 so the winner can travel in style.

Full Tilt is hosting a series of WOSP qualifier tournaments including the 150 Seat Main Event Guarantee, Race to the Main Event Giveaway, $200 Tuesday Main Event Guarantee, $300 Wednesday Main Event Guarantee, $1000 Thursday Main Event Guarantee and the $500 Sunday Main Event Guarantee. With the sheer number of qualifiers available, it would be almost impossible for an avid poker fan to not find a game he or she can fit into.

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Who’d have thought they’d figure out a way to make the World Series of Poker Main Event even more exciting? The World Series of Poker has announced a change that will make poker players wet their lips with anticipation. The last nine players of the $10,000 buy-in main event at the WSOP will face off on November 9-10 instead of July 16 as originally scheduled. This change is expected to bring poker closer to home for poker aficionados all over the world.

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“Our intent is to provide an even bigger stage for our players,” said WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. “Now fans and viewers will ask ‘who will win’ our coveted championship bracelet instead of ‘who won.’ The excitement and interest surrounding our final nine players will be unprecedented.”

Read more on Final Table at 2008 WSOP Main Event to Compete on November 9-10 on ESPN

Titan Poker, funded skilled poker duo Bruno Peyrou and Marise Massabo, from Marseille, France, to fly to Madrid for the Eurocity Poker Open Madrid this May. This is the third time that the couple has flown to a major live poker tournament thanks to their shared passion for Titan Poker’s online tournaments.

The French couple’s world poker tour began last May when Marise won a seat worth $14,000 to Pokerface 2007 in Las Vegas — and brought her husband along for moral support. A few months later, it was his turn to win them a vacation, with an $8,000 seat to the World Poker Showdown (WPS) Costa Rica in January 2008. This month, Bruno won them yet another exciting poker trip, with a $3,000 ticket to Titan Poker’s sponsored ECPT Madrid Open 2008.

The couple flew to Madrid for this elite tournament, which was staged from the 9th to the 12th of May at the Casino Gran Madrid.

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An online poker player from Alaska has defied the odds by hitting two Bad Beat Jackpots at UltimateBet within a span of less than three months.

“Bad Beat Jackpot continues to excite members of the online poker community by showing them that anything is possible at our Texas Hold’em tables,” stated UltimateBet spokesperson George MacLean.

On Tuesday, May 6th at 3:03am ET, an online poker player with the moniker dhc2lovr popped UltimateBet’s Bad Beat Jackpot by losing with four tens to four queens in a hand of Texas Hold’em. The jackpot had climbed to an impressive $448,920.71. For his win, dhc2lovr secured $145,899.23 and 117 other UltimateBet players shared an additional $145,899.23, including the winner of the hand who walked away with $72,949.61.

It wasn’t the first time that dhc2lovr had found success playing Bad Beat Jackpot. On March 25th at 2:48am ET, dhc2lovr popped his first Bad Beat Jackpot to the tune of $171,498.31.

Online Poker Player Wins Two UltimateBet Bad Beat Jackpots

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is back with the FTOPS VIII, featuring a massive 24-event schedule, including three “mystery” tournaments. Full Tilt is guaranteeing more than $10 million in prize pools over the course of the event, which will run from this Wednesday, May 7, to Sunday, May 18. There will be at least five events with guarantees of $1 million or more.

Full Tilt is also holding a slew of additional promotions surrounding the FTOPS. The biggest promotion being held is the FTOPS Tournament of Champions, which will gather event winners from each event of the FTOPS V, VI, VII, and VIII to play a freeroll for a World Series of Poker main-event seat. Champions are automatically entered, and the tournament will be held on Saturday, May 24, after the FTOPS VIII is completed…

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Everyday this week through Friday, Full Tilt is rewarding cash game poker players with double the points from 1-3 a.m. ET and 1-3 p.m. ET.

Full Tilt Poker Ring Up Double Points

In cash games, Full Tilt points are awarded for every dollar that is dropped in rake up to three. That means that during these allocated hours, players can earn up to 6 points in one hand.