Three top poker pros sign with PartyPoker

After staying out of the battle for sponsoring players for the entirety of their existance,
Party Poker now signs three professional poker players to begin a team of sponsored
players.

The first player to sign earlier this week was english poker professional Ian Frazer.
After frazer, the brasilian pro Filipe Ramos and Remy Biechel from france joined
the team too.

Check Raise Management with two new Poker Pros

Check Raise Management is a new company which helps poker players manage
their carreers and affairs in the poker world.
Check Raise Management is in the business since only 6 month but already has a
couple of poker pros as their clients. The two last poker pros signing with Check Raise
Management are Sammy George and Jude Ainsworth.

Scotty Nguyen signs with Expekt Poker

Scotty Nguyen - one of the best poker players - signed with the swedish pokerroom
Expekt Poker which belongs to the iPoker network.
Dan Vilkman - Expekt Press manager - said they are happy to have Scotty Nguyen
with them and declaired him as the "Prince of Poker".

Scotty Nguyen is one of the most successful poker players and took home over
10 Million Dollar of tournament winnings and ranks 7th of the most successfull players.
Lately Scotty was all over the news when he announced to stop playing poker if
he makes less than $4 Million in the WSOP Events in 2009. But now things have
changed: Even he makes less than $4 Million in the WSPO Events 2009, he has
to play poker because of his contract with Expekt Poker.

RPM Poker announces poker pro team

Another online pokerroom has announced the creation of a professional poker team
to represent them on live events.
RPM added the best young stars at poker to their new team. Team RPM will represent
RPM Poker at online events as well as live events across the world.

Team RPM members are: Steven Silverman, Andrew Lichtenberger, Stephen Chidwick, Aditya Agarwal, Dan Smith, Mark Herm, Dan Kelly, Chris Dombrowski, Jim Collopy, Terry Eischens, Daniel Santoro, Brent Roberts, Anthony Spinella,  Jeff Papola, Russell Crane, Shawn Busse, Brett Switzer, Kory Kilpatrick and Randy Haddox.

Jamie Gold joins Poker Icons

After Jamie Gold left ACED earlier this month, he now signed at Poker Icons.

Earlier this month, Jamie Gold left ACED Poker but that deal dissolved amidst non-payment speculation. But now he has a new deal with Poker Icons.
"I'm very excited about joining Poker Icons," Gold said. "Their international presence
and expertise in poker makes this relationship fit perfectly. I'm really looking forward
to this partnership."

Lee Jones signs with Cake Poker

Long time industry icon Lee Jones left his position as COO (Chief Operating Officer)
of the poker training site CardRunner after nearly one year. Now Lee Jones
signs with Cake Poker, the flagship site of the Cake Poker Network.

Jim Varnon, co-founder of StoxPoker, is following Lee Jones as the new Chief Operating Officer at CardRunners. On his reason for leaving CardRunners, Jones commented in
a post on the site’s forums, “The issue is that we’ve got too many managers for the
work that needs to be done, and that’s too many mouths to feed. Everybody else
is tied to CardRunners by a substantial equity position, so I’m the natural
candidate to step aside.”

Jamie Gold leaves ACED Poker

Since half a year Jamie Gold had a exclusive partnership with ACED poker.
But it seems there was a little fight going on between Jamie Bold and ACED Poker
behind the scenes which was brought out to the internet community by Lisa Wheller,
which is Jamie Gold's PR Manager. Now Jamie Gold left ACED Poker and is now
on his own.

WPT Venice - Mike "Timex" McDonald is Chipleader

At the moment the World Poker Tour (WPT) has a visit in Venice (Italia). From 6^th to 10^th
of May there is a Texas Hold'em NL €4.000 Buy-in event held in the Casino de Venezia.
397 Players registered for this tournament and today after the first 3 days there are only
36 players left. Chipleader is Mike "Timex" McDonald holding a stack of 545.700 chips.

Sweden about to ban Online Poker?

Sweden seems to be planning to play online poker rooms. Playing online poker is not allowed in Sweden but it's impossible for the police to enforce this law. Now the swedish
government want's to block internet gambling sites. Which would also affect alot of
online poker rooms. Let's hope for our players from sweden that this will not happen.

Vadim Trincher wins WPT Foxwoods

The WOT Foxwoods tournament played in Mashantucket, Connecticut is over.

Winner is Vadim Trincher who was born in russia. He came as chipleader to the last
day and there won in Heads Up against Amnon Filippi taking home 731,079 U.S. Dollar.
In the last hand Trincher raised Filippi on the Flop (Js,5s,5c). Filippi pushed
all-in and Trincher called. Filippi showed Jd,4c and Trincher showed 6s,7s - flush
draw. Trincher hit the flush when the turn card was dealt - 8s. The river was
neither a Jack nor a 5 - it was a Ks and so Trincher won this final hand.

Here see the payouts of the final table:

1. Vadim Trincher 731,079 Dollar
2. Amnon Filippi 409,405 Dollar
3. Lenny Cortellino 214,449 Dollar
4. Matt Casterella 138,905 Dollar
5. Alex Perelberg 106,007 Dollar