OFFICIAL IFP WORLD POKER CHAMPION!!!

IFP World poker champion

The International Federation of Poker(IFP) made history in poker news after launching its first World Championship in history, and the final table, or what they call “The Table” featured some amusing play from the word go. When all was said and done and it was down to two players, it was Raul Mestre the IFP World poker champion from Spain, matched up against Victoria Coren from the United Kingdom for the first place finish and the grand prize. IFP World poker championship was held between November 17-20, 2011 in two iconic locations in the city of London: EDF Energy London Eye & London County Hall.

Starting of IFP World Poker Championship!!

Play went on for 11 hours on Saturday, and it spotlights a starting field of 135 players who were ultimately taken down to only 9 final players, who made up the final table. This final table featured all types of players from across world, and presented 3 women, Sandra Naujoks (Germany), Marsha Waggoner (Australia), and Coren. The 1st place prize for the first IFP World poker Champion was an exciting $250k payday, and would also give them the bragging rights to say that they were the first ever IFP Champion.

Final Table of IFP World Poker Championship!!

The final table action started off with players from various countries including IFP World poker champion Raul Mestre (426k) from Spain, Igor Trafane (369k) from Brazil, Sandra Naujoks (167k) and Tim Reese (44k) from Germany, Takuo Serita (41k) and Kinichi Nakata (29k) from Japan, Victoria Coren (204k) from United Kingdom, Slavko Tomic (44k) came from Serbia, and Waggoner (32k) came from Australia. From those chip stacks begin the last final table, there was a wide range of starting stacks, and two of the bigger stacks were the ones who found themselves alive at the end of the day. Coren was highly combative in the early going, eliminating Kinichi Nakata and Tim Reese from the tournament within the first hour of the start of the tournament. She maintained this aggressive approach as she began to climb up the leaderboard to threaten chip leader and IFP World poker champion Raul Mestre. His heads-up opponent Victoria Coren had a right to argue she had been unlucky not to have gone one step further.

To separate down the last and final table action, all the remaining players was given a prize for their exclusive hard work and efforts by giving them watches from Perrelet Company. Perrelet was the sponsor of the event, and gave them a Perrelet Turbine watch. It’s a nice prize for any of them, particularly due to the fact that it has a value of around US $6500.

The action begin off soon, as Victoria Coren eliminated Kinichi and Tim in just 1st hour of play, and kept flying up the leader board all around the day. The action saw Takuo and Sandra eliminated in 7th and 6th places, respectively. The 2 players who finally made it to heads up play in Victoria and IFP World poker champion Raul Mestre then made 2 big knock outs when Victoria sent Waggoner home in 5th, and IFP World poker champion Raul Mestre sent Tomic home in 4th place. This left three players remaining, with IFP World poker champion Mestre holding 732k chips, Trafane holding 486k chips, and Coren holding 134k chips. Three handed play went on for three hours before the elimination finally came.

The biggest hand came when both Victoria and Igor Trafane got it all in with A-Q, but Victoria has spades. The flop fell with all spades and left Igor debilitate with only 14k in chips. Igor Trafane was then knocked out by IFP World poker champion Raul Mestre on the very next hand, which set up the match between Coren and Mestre.

IFP World poker championship

Here is a look at the final table payouts from the tournament:

1. Raul Mestre (Spain) — $250,000

2. Victoria Coren (UK) — $100,000

3. Igor Trafane (Brazil) — $50,000

4. Slavko Tomic (Serbia) — $25,000

5. Marsha Waggoner (Australia) — $20,000

6. Sandra Naujoks (Germany) — 17500

7. Takuo Serita (Japan) — 15,000

8. Tim Reese (Germany) — 12,500

9. Kinichi Nakata (Japan) — $10,000

IFP World poker champion begun up strong, but Victoria waited for her spots and finally latch on the chip lead from him. The 2 went back and forth for a good while, before Raul pushed all in, with Coren calling. Raul turned over pocket fives and was up against the A-J of Coren. IFP World poker champion Mestre held up though, and held a chip lead of 1.17 million to 180k. Coren put up a good fight to make the comeback, but IFP World poker champion Mestre eventually took it down when he had his A-5 up against the A-3 of Coren. In this poker news of IFP World poker champion Raul Mestre won it all, and took home the $250k prize, while his opponent Coren got a nice consolation prize of $100k.

Online poker community has been turmoil in recent days, the rumor that the Full Tilt Poker, the message was to make a straight American player. After the events of Black Friday, the U.S. players have had the account at Full Tilt Poker is stopped, and is used is not able to take the sample. Full Tilt Poker with the end of this past Monday, I’m sorry, no exact date was given.

Full Tilt Poker spokesman for a number of places in the game of poker’s most popular message boards society. In the message, a spokesman announced that there was no “timetable” for the U.S. players finally paid. The spokesman continued that “there was nothing better than the priority of U.S. players to get rewarded.”

Full Tilt Poker promise of hard Herculean task to return the goods to U.S. players comes as consolation to the large number of American players are still waiting to get paid, especially if we consider that Full Tilt Poker has really had nothing new to say about the question since this debacle started back on 15 April. Adding to the disappointment American player is the fact that PokerStars has begun treatment for the withdrawal of U.S. players within two weeks of Black Friday.

It was reported last week in the eGaming Review that representatives of Ray Bitar, co-founder of Full Tilt Poker and one of the men named in the indictments of Black Friday, have been seeking investors for an injection of as much as $150 million in cash so that the company will be able to repay its US players. The US Department of Justice reportedly unfroze an account at the Bank of Ireland belonging to Full Tilt Poker that could release more than a third of the money that Full Tilt Poker owes. Full Tilt Poker owes its US players between $100 million and $150 million.

Full Tilt Poker has been a problem with payment processors, and property in the accounts in the past. It was not hard, as they would normally pay their own money to customers, when they had solved the problem of payment. Now, have not been able to do so, because the simple truth, that their bank accounts were held. Therefore, the Full Tilt Poker is now an investor.

It’s good to see your family members to be with you when you decide to go for an event like WSOP, but it would even better if you have your family playing at the WSOP. You don’t know how it feels then Hinkle brother’s are here to explain it.

Hinkle Brothers Grant & Blair who made good news during the 2008 WSOP by winning bracelets each, now it’s the youngest brother out of four Hinkle brother “Manson” who is making the news with his debut at the age of 21.

There is lots of expectation from the young lad as he hails from a well poker educated family. And how can’t it be when two of your elder brothers are WSOP bracelet winners.

When asked about his expectation this is what he had to say “I have high expectations, well not high, but I feel like I’m better than the field, at least in this (event), but realistically you’re going to have run real good to go deep or anything,”.

Mason Hinkle was inspired to play poker after seeing his elder brothers winning WSOP bracelet in 2008. That’s when he took up playing poker online in order to improve his poker skills. He made a fair amount of winning playing at FullTilt. His online poker skills caught his elder brother’s attention, after which they were extremely satisfied with Masons poker skills.

Grant says “Mason’s probably got the most potential. “He’s young and pretty smart too. We didn’t really teach him that much. He picked a lot of it up on his own.”

Now the only brother missing from this poker circuit was Taylor Hinkle who is 23 and is yet to make his debut in WSOP. Well lot depends on Mason.

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In the current maximum buy-in no-limit hold’em, the name of the game is to take your entire opponent’s stack. Bottles come and go … does not matter. But still get on the right side of the fighting major, and you can earn serious works. Fortunately, the purchase limit on games of which we speak, there is no shortage of tasty targets to shoot.

The practice of collecting these objectives knowing they are there, and know how to install them and take them down – is what separates the wheat from the chaff (straw and its currency) in no-limit hold’em.

Shooting, we’re talking about, you need three things: knowledge, planning and execution. Examine in turn.

Awareness: By now, it should be second nature to watch what’s going on around you at the poker table, and to be highly sensitive to such fundamental matters as which players are strong and which weak are, who bets without the best hand, who gives off reliable tells, and so on. If you find that you lack a riveted understanding of who’s doing what at the table, the problem lies within… within your own awareness.

Heightening awareness is not really a matter of concentrating harder, although concentration doesn’t hurt. Rather, it’s a matter of being open and receptive to what’s happening at the poker table. In the best of circumstances, you’re acquiring meaningful information without conscious thought. There just comes a time when you know (because you have acquired understanding through awareness) that a certain player will make early-position raises with bad aces, for example, and will then get hooked on the hand.

Planning: Once you’ve acquired key information, like the fact that a certain player bets bad aces, you enter the planning phase of your target practice. You ask yourself, what conditions am I looking for? What specific circumstances will enable me to take this guy’s whole stack? You already know what he needs: a bad ace in early position. What, then, do you need? Yep — a good ace in a better position. You also need to know what you intend to do with that good ace when you get it.

Most of the time, of course, you’d be in there rising, but in this situation, you’re hoping not to have to. You’re looking for the specific harmonic convergence of a targetable foe with a weak ace, you with a strong ace, and no one else in the pot. This last part is hard to contrive, especially without raising, but the circumstances will arise from time to time, and you want to be ready when they do.

Why not, you may wonder, go ahead and rise with your good ace here? Is it not the best hand, and won’t it serve to shut out the rest of the field? Yes, and yes, but it also may scare off your prey, before he’s had a chance to trap himself fully with his bad ace. Stick to the path of your planning, even at the risk of having the plan go awry through the unwanted involvement of others. (You’re still in there with an undisclosed good ace, so you’re not in terrible shape.) You flat-call his raise with your good ace, and hope that you get him heads up. If everything breaks your way, you’re ready to take a flop against a single foe with all of this going for you: cards, position, awareness, and planning.

Execution: Here comes the flop. Ideally, it’s something like A-4-4, the sort of flop that will embolden your foe’s bad ace while also reducing the risk that he hit his kicker. If you have your foe measured correctly, it won’t surprise you when he gets out. You also know such crucial things as how deep his money is, how deep yours is, how willing he is to cling to a bad ace, how wary he is of you, and other factors that, taken together, will tell you how to execute your plan. Will you flat-call now and rise on the turn? Should you make a modest raise here and hope that he reraises? Go all in and tempt him to commit his stack? Your specific actions will depend on the specific circumstances. Just make sure that they don’t depend on fear.

Fear, you see, will cause a lot of players who feel they have the best hand to raise all in, hoping to drive their foe off his hand and take what the pot has to offer. I am not of that mind. I’m out to win his whole stack, and I’m willing to accept a little risk (that he’ll hit his kicker on the turn) in the name of grabbing that stack.

Of course, if your foe is truly glued to his bad ace, you can go ahead and put his feet to the fire right now. Part of your awareness and planning, after all, was to contrive a confrontation against just such a foe that will make just such a mistake. So, you may be able to make a huge raise here and be confident of getting the call that you want. Contrarily, if the flop offers some sort of secondary threat, like suited or straight cards, you might want to protect your investment with a big bet here.

In all events, the key to execution is, well, executing. There’s no point in planning for a situation like this if you fail to follow through. In other words, why pick a target if you can’t pull the trigger? There will be times when you’ll back off because some sixth sense (actually, your simple awareness) alerts you that your foe is stronger than he seems. That’s OK — as long as your decision is informed by a clear perception of the situation and not colored by fear of negative outcomes.

There’s a secondary benefit to this triptych of awareness, planning, and execution: It puts your poker game into a global frame of mind. Instead of just lurching from hand to hand, betting your big hands and hoping they hold up, you find yourself strategically engaged in the game from the moment you sit down until the moment you cash out. Instead of reacting to situations, you’re creating them. Since these situations are creatures of your own creation, you’ll be much better equipped to handle them — and profit from them — than anybody else.

It feels like home? Try this: Go to the next No-Limit Hold’em situation a bit ‘account of shooting. Look for the union awareness, planning and execution, and see if you can use this alliance to steal the blinds, because a bluff, bluff drive, or create and exploit other opportunities. When you start thinking about your own poker in this way, you can take the game to a higher level, and more profitable as well.

Some might be surprised to hear that a group of 50 people had been playing a game of poker in one of Male’s restaurants. However, there is no reason to be surprised because it was played in the open and not in secret; the only person not aware of it was the restaurant’s owner.

“I thought they were sitting around here every day, playing cards for fun. Some customers complained about them and I asked them not to play cards in the restaurant. They asked me to give them about a week to stop because they have currently started a competition. When I finally looked into what was going on I found out that they were playing poker,” the owner, who demanded anonymity, said.

Playing any kind of card games is now banned at the restaurant.

Rumours of poker being played at houses and several other public places are common in Male. Unconfirmed reports also say that some people have been arrested for playing poker.

A police spokesperson said today that the police are investigating public complaints related to the promotion of such games and the like, despite it not being labelled exactly as poker.

Despite no Maldivian taken into custody for playing poker, Haveeru understands that the police recently sought an arrest warrant to apprehend a group of expatriate workers for playing poker.

A café owner from Male reported seeing groups of people playing poker in his café even now.

“It starts as just having fun. A group of 3-4 people will start playing with a single deck of cards. One day a person lost and he had to pay a lot of money. There was an argument about it,” the owner said.

Some people who talked to Haveeru on the grounds of anonymity said rumours are circulating that poker is being played regularly in some houses and some well-known businessmen are involved in playing poker.

The owner of the restaurant where the game of poker allegedly took place said banning card games in the restaurant was not well received by the youth.

“But we cannot allow such an activity to continue here. Some of them do not come here anymore. They go somewhere else to play,” the owner said.

Despite the fact that playing poker is not directly illegal under the law, former Attorney General (AG) Husnu Suood said people who play poker are punishable under Article 88 of the Penal Code as poker is prohibited under Islamic Shari’ah law.

According to a ruling issued earlier by the High Court, a person found guilty of committing a deed, which is against the Islamic Shari’ah law, will be punished despite not being punishable by law, he added.

Lady Gaga is a constant struggle to overcome a cloud of exhaustion “hanging over” during their grueling touring schedule.

Poker Face hit a producer has been touring non-stop for the past 18 months shows Monster’s Ball and the beginning of 2010, has raised fears for his health, canceling a series of concerts, and fatigue. Gaga for her constant fatigue is a serious problem, but decided to continue his work routine punished because of his fans.

In an interview with Sir Elton John for V magazine, she says, “At a certain point exhaustion becomes a state of being, and mentally I have to be strong and overcome it. It’s like a cloud, a fog really that hovers over me. But in a way I will never ever escape it. Art is my whole life.

“Monsters (NSAIDs) are my medicine. They will heal me, physically and emotionally, every night at exhibitions.

The CEO of Caesars Entertainment Corporation, Gary Loveman, came out publicly calling for proper regulation of online poker in the United States, following the indictment of poker sites on 15 April. Loveman is the first director of a large company to comment on the allegations, but the announcement earlier Steve Wynn is to cut the ties to Poker Stars and cancel a recent agreement signed between the two.

In an opinion piece written for CNN, Loveman said there was a desperate need for a framework for managing the legalization of online poker in the United States. The piece entitled: Online Poker: legalize it! Loveman wrote: “The question we face is not” Will there be online poker? “Millions of Americans have already answered that question through their regular season games and the latest accusations will not change. In fact, less than 24 hours after the three poker sites have been closed to other foreign operators began to fill the void. ”

“Instead,” Loveman wrote, “The question is:”? “If we take the time to legalize online poker, enable the security and legitimate industry in the U.S. and bring jobs and income in the country” unequivocally, the answer is yes. ”

Loveman goes on to explain that there is “considerable feeling” to repeal the UIGEA. As such, suggests the introduction of a “reasonable legislation” to provide regulatory oversight to protect players from fraud and fraud. The bill gives operators working with the police, the prevention of problem gambling and control of the game before the legal age.

“One day, we look back to 2011 and the ban on internet poker senseless laughter – as we now thinks of the band,” says Loveman. “Before the day comes, the better.”

Both poker sites Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet are falling. What you probably know was caused by the U.S. Department of Justice to close, but why Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker store and not of AP and UB (both which are managed by the same “Cereus” by company).

What is even more extraordinary that, despite the conclusion of areas, the charming away of many of their bank accounts company ‘and true poker site pop-ups, connotation you cannot sit down for real money, you can in fact play money? When you click on a place to play your pop-up saying it cannot play if they are placed in the United States, when you click OK sits on your desktop.

There have been rumors that Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker are the same conversations with the Department of Justice for their areas of return, but why do so as regards the others, and why do they continue to play U.S.? Will they go in this direction for U.S. players to continue playing and just open a confiscate non-domain?

When the poker software seem to be out-of-the-way for new players, unless the programs were by now players, computers, new customers in the world should not be able to use the poker site.

When Full Tilt Poker launched the idea of ​​the new Onyx Cup tournament, there were many remarks from professional poker players, message board posters, and writers of poker. Onyx Cup, for those who have not heard yet, have a series of live events, with buy-ins ranging from $ 100,000 to $ 300,000 and the estimated jackpot of $ 30 million. Events were planned to occur all through the world, culminating in the $ 250K to buy the Grand Final.

One reason for the fact that Onyx Cup has been criticized for the fact that many believe that the timing of the launch is particularly severe. The United States and the world just recovering from a recession, and can be seen in bad taste for poker players to reach such a high buy-in and prize money when millions are struggling to scrape their salary – if they have one. Those in favor of the request Onyx Cup this luxury is exactly what players want to be seen as a way to escape the weight of his life.

Another critical point is that the Cup Onyx can cause even more friction and competition among the Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars, and new policy elements can be introduced. However, these sites disagree with their pro teams participate in top tournaments and carry out its competitors, some even deny it also.

But the point is that many believe that Onyx Cup should be taken for what it is – a showcase for some of the best poker players in the world who have earned their position and the luxury of being able to afford to buy such a scandalous charges.

Last Friday, there was a declaration of an upcoming broadcast was out. It was regarding Full Tilt Poker’s high-stakes poker tour. The poker community was numb waiting for the broadcast which came on Monday, March 14 at 13:00 EST.

Full Tilt Poker has announced the Onyx Cup Series. Onyx Cup Series is a tournament series having buy-ins from $100,000 to $300,000 estimating $30 million prize collection throughout the series. There will be 5 beginning events, closing in a $250,000 buy-in Grand Finale that will make out $1 million added to the prize collection.

The top three finishers in each event will earn points toward the Onyx Cup leaderboard. At the end of the Grand Finale, the person with the most points at the top of the leaderboard will earn the title of Onyx Cup Champion, and will be presented with the Onyx Cup, get a luxury sports car, and be acknowledged as “the player that conquered poker’s elite.”

Onyx Cup events will take place in the United States, Europe, and Asia and will be broadcast in 20 different languages across 40 countries. Qualifiers will begin on March 15 on Full Tilt Poker.

The announcement of the Onyx Cup came in the form of a video, hosted by Ali Nejad. He was joined by Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, Erik Seidel, and Tom Dwan to discuss the new event.

“It’s not just about the money in this event,” Ivey said. “It’s more about playing with the caliber of players that we’re going to be up against. You know, playing against the best players, and a lot of these guys here at the table are my friends and we’re friendly but we’re also super competitive against each other. There’s going to be a lot of pride that comes along with winning this event.”

When asked whether the event was a surprise to them or only just a matter of time with the way buy-ins have been increasing, Seidel said, “I do think it’s a natural progression because there’s so much money around and people are playing for such high stakes that it was inevitable. I think Full Tilt Poker was the only online organization that could pull this off because they have all the best players in the world.”

Onyx Cup Series will be there in Las Vegas dated May 11 and will mark a multitude of poker’s elite, including FT team members such as Howard Lederer, Erik Seidel, Chris Ferguson, Erick Lindgren, John Juanda, and many other.

Four days after the British Columbia Privacy Commissioner has given a cautious thumb for security in the province of online gaming portal, announced BC Lottery Corp. (BCLC), a partnership that extends some of its offerings beyond provincial borders for the first time.

PlayNow.com BCLC and Loto-Québec’sEspacejeux. Portals Commission announced on Friday they have teamed up to help British Columbia and Quebec to play poker online against others.

It provides British Columbians access to a bilingual platform with eight varieties of poker.

Espacejeux became the second site of the government-regulated online gambling in the month of December last year – after the launch of Play Now BC last June.
The partners promoted the new partnership with a February 20 tournament with $100,000 in prize money yesterday.

The Quebec and B.C. lottery corporations are basing the revenue-sharing formula for poker earnings on each jurisdictions gaming volume.

Also last week, B.C.’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham released a final report on a July 15, 2010, incident in which Play Now was shut down after BCLC discovered that hackers could gain access to customers’ private information.

The incident occurred on the same day as the site’s launch.

The commissioner identified a number of areas where the online site’s security was inadequate.

The investigation determined that the case was a breach of security, and elsewhere on the site improved.

Denham, however, recommends a number of different ways, BCLC to improve the security of the site.

In fiscal 2011, the budget released last week, reported total revenue of the Government of BC from the site was down 4.7% from projections in Budget 2010-thanks to reduce the consumption of lottery and casino.

Budget, BCLC is expected to moderate growth of 3.4% annual revenue gambling – many of them, “said BCLC, the background is the ongoing development of play now.

A mystery player appeared in Full Tilt Poker the other day and had posters on 2 +2 poker forum buzz online. An unknown player, “Lindqvro” just happened to be Dan “jungleman12″ Cates by storm over the $ 25 / $ 50 PLO tables. This Lindqvro had a lot of money and was using an ultra-aggressive style Cates some money somewhere in the neighborhood of $ 300K in four tables at once.

The fact that this unidentified player was from Sweden led many to believe that it was none other than Viktor Blom, who after recently signing with Poker Stars, would not be able to use his regular handle “Isildur1” anymore, as rights to that name belong to Poker Stars according to the sponsorship contract between Stars and Blom. After about five hours of posts on 2+2, poker community enthusiasts believed to have had it all figured out. The bankroll, the playing style, the “mysterious Swedish player” were all too familiar. Signs pointed towards Blom, who until recently was unknown to the world as Isildur1, but came out during the Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure, as a publicity stunt after signing a contract with the online poker room.

It is unclear who actually Lindqvro is, it is unclear whether or not it will still appear at Full Tilt Poker. Only time will answer to these mysteries, but Blom, it seems as if there was a fun game to be named, which is already beginning to be the first to say he is. If he wants to continue playing in secret, he may have a second home somewhere. Ultimately, however, learn their secret, because nobody has presented randomly then proceeded to play so aggressively and have the funds to back it up.

IT can be against the law, and is not a safe bet that the online poker players can gather their winnings.

But this form of gambling seems caught between Singapore, are attracted to it easily – because all you need is an Internet account and debit card – and costs, which can start from a few dollars a game.

In the game, players draw cards from a deck and try to make a matching or sequential suit.

Take the case of Mr. Nick Tan, 22, an accounting student at a private school, who found out about an online poker site from a friend.

“It’s been fun, in particular when they are able to do more than I lost. I think the economic background has given me an advantage over other players,” said Tan, who won nearly $ 6,000 (S $ 7,700) in six months. He recently quit playing to concentrate on his studies.

Places such as Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars used arcade game of 24 hours where players can put their skills against players 8:59, from time to time using chips purchased with real money.

Saturday Night Live veteran Norm MacDonald is the new host of the seventh season of High Stakes Poker and the player lineup for the first full on February 26 was also published.

Commenting on the new season had ended and difficult to achieve, to the press release on GSN, the cable network that airs the show. Most of the information was that Gabe Kaplan is out, because the show host and comedian Norm MacDonald is the new host.

MacDonald rose to fame as a member of the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, primarily as the host of the “Weekend Update” segment. He’s had leading roles in TV shows and appeared in several films since his SNL run ended in 1998. MacDonald is a poker player himself, and has played in the World Series of Poker and many celebrity tournaments.

The hiring of MacDonald appears to point to the fact that HSP is heading in a different direction creatively. Kaplan’s poker knowledge and his ability to analyze a hand is likely far superior to MacDonald’s. But MacDonald will bring an edge and humor that Kaplan lacked, and he may appeal to a broader audience.

Kara Scott will remain as the co-host, providing behind-the-scenes analysis and player interviews.

The other big news is that the full player lineup for the upcoming season has been announced. Here it is:
Mike Baxter
Eric Boneta
Doyle Brunson
Johnny Chan
Robert Croak
Jon Duhamel
Antonio Esfandiari
Phil Galfond
Bill Klein
Phil Laak
Jason Mercier
Julian Movsesian
Daniel Negreanu
David Peat
Bill Perkins
Andrew Robl
Phil Ruffin
Vanessa Selbst
Bob Voulgaris

Not surprisingly, the show, which is sponsored by Poker Stars, is heavy on PS pros like Negreanu, Mercier and Selbst. The lineup confirms that Full Tilt players will not appear on the show, as had been rumored in earlier reports. The relationship between PokerStars and HSP is likely the reason players like Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Phil Ivey and Antonius will not be included in the show. Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom is now a PokerStars pro, but he was not yet signed when the season of HSP was filmed last year at Bellagio.

Other celebrity lineup including 2010 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel, top online gambling pro Phil “OMClayAiken” Galfond and Doyle Brunson, who makes his seventh appearance of HSP.

Press said that the show contained a minimum buy-in is $ 200,000 and up to $ 500K, $ 400 – $ 800 $ 100 ante and blinds.

PSH new season will premiere on Saturday, February 26 and will air on Saturdays at 20 am and 11 pm NSG.

GSN also announced HSP will be distributed in 3D in the channel of DIRECTV, n3D spring.