Chiaradio told reporters that Lee’s professionalism and personality showed that a relationship would benefit both parties. Lee will be a valuable asset in bringing more energy and excitement to top poker rooms. Lee has also a vast experience from his career in business, particularly in marketing and new business development. He was a former marketing and new business manager for Fortune 500 company. Foxwoods will sponsor Lee’s radio show and as he will represent the casino’s World Poker Tour (WPT) room.

Lee is expected to appear in marketing campaigns for Foxwoods for two years. Lee made his mark in the poker scene in 2005, when he took the 13th WSOP Main Event for $400,000. Foxwood found the perfect candidate in the person of Bernard Lee. Chiaradio said that Foxwood Casino Resort is the premiere gaming destination and Lee is the top poker personality so the relationship is a perfect match. Lee has crashed tournaments around the United States. The question now is whether other casinos will follow Foxwoods’ idea of signing up with Lee to find the best match.

Paul Wasicka was known from the time he started in the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event and finished as a runner-up. Furthermore, his NBC Heads-Up Championship win in 2007 boost his popularity. Antonio Esfandiari, Josh Arieh and Gavin Smith had firm tournaments results when they work with Sam Chauhan. The same thing happened with Paul Wasicka. Having a mind-set coach like Sam Chauchan brought remarkable results for Wasicka.

In a current press release, Chauchan stated “Part of being the best in poker is getting rid of your limiting beliefs. Those are the beliefs that stop one from going forward. Some athletes in the world have mindset coaches. It only makes sense that poker players wanting to take their game to the next level commit to learning various forms of neurological linguistic programming through hypnosis and physiological reading.”

Considering the skip that Paul Wasicka accomplished from the ninth place to the top, being at the headlines is expected.

Full Tilt desires to offer all their poker players a new series that offers enormous cash prizes. Erik Seidel will be hosting the first event of the FTOPS that will have a buy-ins that ranges from $200+ $16 no-limit hold’em tournament that guarantees players a prize pool worth $1,000,000.

There are at least 200 seats are guaranteed by the Full Tilt Poker to be given away during the event. The first one is to be held on February 9 and the bets one will be on the said date, February 10. Another day of event of the cheaper satellites will be held on Feb 14. They will have the no-limit hold’em knock out tournament that will offer a prize guarantee worth $800,000.

Prior to the event on February 14, there will also be huge events on February 12 that will be hosted by Gavin Smith and on February 13 that guarantees 50 seats with $50+ $5 satellite. All of the satellites mentioned above have required usage actually money to buy-in.

Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands CEO has been very busy for the past few days and for being hired as a Tallahassee lobbyist. He has made a lot of important contributions in Florida in regard to the pro-casino political campaigns.

Recent reports confirmed that Ft. Lauderdale legislator Ellyn Bogdanoff left with the plan of the expansion despite his early disagreement on the expansion of the State. He seems to side to the other side now.

The poker gaming industry has been looking for different markets to help them survive the stress they are undergoing for the meantime. Stress was brought about by the major investments that gaming industry has provided in places like Las Vegas and Macau.

In recent times, Miami has been attracting more and more companies to invest in their state. Miami is becoming on the target market of other big companies who wanted to invest in a different state. Big companies are targeting Miami in order for them to increase their stock values due to Miami’s economy at this point.

Holdem Manager provides their support to the latest introduction of Full Tilt as the tracking program sees the Poker Rush tables they have included in the site. Players need to click for the “Options” menu to see the “Rush FTP Notes Export”. They can proceed with the process by simple clicking “Go” and players need to update their note time to time.

If the Heads-up Display approach for some players did not work, they can review some notes provided by the Rush Poker to continue with the work. When players can’t hold their momentum, they can easily click on the “Start Auto Import” within the Holdem Manager to be assured you have up-to-date stats.

According to the poker review site, Holdem Manager is the best piece of poker software for it is leading poker tracking programs in the industry that weighs $55 for a Small-Stakes Edition and $80 for a Professional Edition. Aside from Full Tilt, Holdem Manager is also compatible with numerous online poker sites that include PokerStars, PartyPoker, RedKings, Titan Poker and Everest Poker.

Brunson, ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner made a comment to President Barrack Obama made from his twitter account. In response, he received a barrage of Tweets in response to his post that say “The Democrats say ‘give Obama time.’ Us Republicans [sic] agree, 25 to life seems appropriate!”

Some persons commented on Brunson’s post that it was stemmed from racially motivated feelings towards the President. However, after a couple of hours, Brunson made a new statement that his post has nothing to do with the color of the skin of the President. He also added that he may not like the 1st year of ruling of Obama but this has nothing to do with his physical features.

As of the moment, Brunson appears to be laid off the political Tweets for a while. The Full Tilt Red Pro and the 2006 WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Madsen disagreed with the Tweets of the poker legend.

The deal from the Commerce Casino together with the Bicycle club is being worked out by the Morongo to pursue the online poker in California. According to the Morongo’s spokesperson, Patrick Dorinson, they have been asking added support from different tribes to pursue with the deal that fell apart due to the issues that risen that it was rush through the legislative process.

One of the most influential groups, California Tribal Business Alliance has shown their disagreement in the proposal. They claim that it could violate the exclusivity clauses in gaming compacts with the casino tribes.

There are around 1.4 million Californians enjoying poker in an online poker via offshore websites. The proposal seems to gather potential revenue streams for the state and the Senate Governmental Organization Committee will take up all the questions about this online poker on the 9th of February.
Invitations have been distributed and speakers for February 9 are all ready to support the hearing. However, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIEGA) prohibits the use of credit cards and all fund transfer for the illegal online gambling except for the intrastate internet gambling.

Full Tilt Poker, as the world’s second largest poker online site raise a total of $586,423 from all the donations of the poker players from the site together with the funds from the no-play tournaments and aid for Haiti programs that they have made. In addition, Full Tilt created a special user account to accept incoming donations for the Haiti victims. This account allows the poker players all around the world to send their contributions easy.

Poker Players Alliance claims that their 7-digit donation does not include private contributions and the contributions from Red Cross and UNICEF. They revealed that 50,000 online poker players have donated a total amount of $ 760,000.

PokerStars also made a special player account named Haiti Fund. Poker players can easily transfer their funds to this account to help the Haiti victims. On the other hand, Cake Poker as another USA-friendly site that also made another effort to collect funds from their tournaments for the victims. Together with the three online sites mentioned above, RedKings, UB.com, Absolute Poker and DoylesRoom also held their poker tournaments as fund raising for the Haiti victims.

In 2008, the crusade began under the urging of Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear. It includes a lawsuit threat to different online poker sites including the Pokerstars.com and the FullTiltPoker.com that were considered poker giants.

Even though Kentucky does not have any law that would make Internet poker sites illegal, Franklin Country Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate sided with the State. However, Joe Brennan Jr., Chairman of the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association overturned his ruling and has represented the gambling sites.

Kentucky lawyers made a perplexing rule last December by claiming that are going to add US citizens names in the lawsuit which can be very irrelevant to the case. Unfortunately, they refused to give specific names.

Poker sites will still continue to operate since this lawsuit remains pointless for they can continue without their domain names. Full Tilt Poker made a move as a precaution by buying fulltilt.com.

The issue will be brought up in the U.S. Supreme Court if denied by the Kentucky Supreme Court but this can be pointless and it does not seem to be a lawsuit when it comes to a higher court.

The pool prize of the poker game is the only factor that has changed but the game schedule everything else remains the same. The prize at stake for the entire week will reach $25 million. Highlights if the game will include the promotion that offers $1K tournament that will happen on January 25, 2010 at around 9pm with $600K prize pool guarantee.

Another tournaments that will attract the players is the daily $1 tourneys that guarantees a $20k prize pool and a special tournaments that poker players can be played from 3:15 pm until 8:15 pm. Full Tilt also provides the Fifty-Fifty that will have $100K on the line every night for the whole week. Another tourney for players is to battle against each other to reach the top positions that prize pool reaches $75K and will be boosted to $150K every night for the whole week.

Poker players will be able to take a shot for $400K prize pool for a small $20 buy-in in the promotion of the Double Deuce. A total of $2.5 million will be at stake for the one week double guarantees of Full Tilt.