Italian pro Alessio Isaia has just won the 2011 WPT Venice, after defeating a field of 523 players over five days to claim the coveted title, as well as collect the €380,000 ($520,000) first place prize.

With his win the 24-year-old Full Tilt Pro has now taken his live tournament earnings to around the $1.3 million mark and commenting on his famous victory said:

“I’m very happy. I’ve been trying to win a big tournament for three or four years. I came close in the EPT, but I never achieved it. I’m eve

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Guedea Hudec, office manager and lead book keeper, stated, “I’m out here to support my fellow online casinos industry workers, and also because I feel all of us deserve benefits, much like the CEO Gangloff Carruba and other Executive level management share”. Degrasse Wangberg, an office staf member, stated: “I want better health insurance and online casinos training seminars. How am I supposed to grow in this job’ How am I supposed to support six in my family with rising medical bills without insurance’ I agree with the online casinos strike organizer, Labonville Flott and support this cause completely. As with any

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Alexander Kuzmin has won the 2011 WPT Southern Poker Championship, after overcoming a field of 214 players over five days to capture the title, as well as collect the $601,469 first place prize.   The $10,000 buy-in event was held at the Casino Beau Rivage in Biloxi and managed to attract a top flight of pros all vying for a share of the $2,011,600 prize pool.

By the time the final table of six had been reached, the remaining players were comprised of an incredibly talented group including the 2009 winner Allan Carter, with all the other players with their fair share of past tournament poker success except relative rookie Pat Mahoney.

First player to be eliminated from the table was Ryan Hughes in 6th place ($89,374) after a battle of the blinds saw small blind Hughes holding 7c-4h up against Shorr with Jh-10c.

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Yesterday we saw RedBus Bingo take away their £2 free welcome bonus for new players so now if you sign up to this site you are only eligible to receive a bonus when you make a deposit of between £5 and £100. We are always left scratching our heads and wondering why bingo sites do this but it seems more often than not of late that brands will often launch with just a cash match bonus rather than the “free trial” that used to be standard. You could say that we have had a run for our money with the RedBus Bingo free bonus, it has been in place since it’s launch last May.

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