Betfair Poker Pro Team Profile

The UK's John Tabatabai's ultra aggressive style saw him quickly gain a name for himself within the poker community, consistantly winning cash and going deep in several tournaments before being sponsored to play at higher limits. John later joined the team at Badbeat and after learning to discipline his aggression has consistantly performed well ever since. His most recent wins have been particularly impressive, coming second in the WSOPE main event after being beat by Betfair's very own Annette Obrestad, before winning the All Africa Poker Tournament in March 2008.

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PokerStars PCA Poker Festival

Poker News from Pokerstars is that the expansion of events surrounding next month's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) has meant a reworking of the ever-popular European Poker Tour destination into the PCA Festival of Poker.

The schedule of events for poker's annual trip to Nassau will now span January 5-10, 2009, and include several preliminary events in addition to the main event, which itself features a heightened $9,300+300 buy-in.

The expanded schedule at the Atlantis Resort Casino on Paradise Island includes also includes a "high rollers" tourney starting on January 7 with a $25,000 buy-in, and several consolation events during the festival's later days. The later events offer

buy-ins ranging from $1,000 to $5,000. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier will return to defend his main event title from the 2008 PCA, which was worth $2,000,000.

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Mansion Poker Player named Player of the Year

MansionPoker Pro Marc Goodwin has become the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour's (GUKPT) Player of the Year after an incredible run of final tables. Just as MansionPoker.com is making huge strides in becoming the name in online poker, the incredible Marc Goodwin proves to be a worthy association to the winning Mansion team.

Showing Mansion's ability to pick a winner, Goodwin topped the GUKPT Rankings leaderboard and took the title of GUKPT Player of the Year. With a combined points total of 369, he finished well clear of his nearest rival, Jeff Kimber in second place. This rounded off perfectly what has been an impressive showing by Goodwin this year with a superb GUKPT event win in Manchester in April, which was built upon with a side event win in Blackpool whilst he also made a further 7 tables in GUKPT events including three 2nd places.

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New Bad Beat Jackpot at Paradise Poker

Paradise Poker have launched a new Bad Beat Jackpot of 100,000 EUR

For more details of Paradise Poker's Bad Beat Jackpot read all the poker News at LivetheDreamPoker.com

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LTDPoker Launch Ultimate Poker Rake Race

LTDPoker have really upped the ante, closing out the year with fantastic poker rake promotion.

The leaderboard style Rake Race is free to enter but that doesn't mean that LTDPoker are not putting up a great prize.

The winner will get a $55,000 poker sponsorship deal to play at top online poker rooms.

Paddy Power Poker
Mansion Poker
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Betfair Poker
Gala Poker

For more details about the rake race challenge go to LTDPoker Website.


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LivetheDreamPoker VIP Live Poker Night

On Friday Night LivetheDreamPoker held there first VIP Live Poker Night and it was a roaring success.

Many of the players were CEO's and top City Professionals from prominent investment banking.

Despite the recent economic downturn the executive poker players were in high spirits and the bets were big!

Whilst we strongly advise against drinking alcohol when playing in online poker, we couldn't help getting in the spirit and the bubly was flowing!

Darren Rose was the eventual winner. His best moment was posing with the LivetheDreamgirls!


LivetheDreamPoker hold a number of Live Poker Events in London at top London Venues.

Andy Hindmarsh, CEO of LTDpoker who regularly visits Vegas and the WSOP commented "I love particpating in Live Poker events and am proud to be able to host such a great evening especially on the back of LTDPoker's thrid birthday celebrations this month."

LivetheDreamPoker is the new online poker community site from LTDPoker and has lots of poker news, forums and blogs all for the poker community.

How wide is the gap between online poker and live poker players ?

The poker community was beginning to get riled with the unpredictable characters rising up the ranks through online poker. Players began to be classed as ‘live’ or ‘online’ poker players, each type of player was lumped into a style based on their preferred method of gaming. Live players were steadier, less aggressive players who made plays based on ‘reads’ of other players betting patterns and physical tells whereas Online players were hyper-aggressive youngsters who fired away at every pot without regard to what their opponents might have.

Whilst these steretypes may once have been trues now, in order to be a good poker player, you have to be well rounded, and most skilled players play BOTH types of poker well.

Online players watch enough poker on TV and put in enough time playing live to understand the skill of live poker. And, because of the MASSIVE number of hands online players can see (online players average twice as many hands per hour as live tables, and often play many tables at once: therefore, a young internet pro like Tom ‘durr’ Dwan has likely played more hands in four years than Doyle Brunson has in 70 years), online pros have an excellent grasp of the math and odds of the game.

Meanwhile, live players have moved onto the internet. Why? Because they can play a lot more in a shorter period of time. Players like David Benyamine, who used to spend years grinding out the biggest cash games in the casinos, can now make MILLIONS in a single month online. And because of the popularity of online poker the big names in the live poker community have made businesses out of the growing online poker community - "Devilfish" and Doyle Brunso have their own poker rooms.

So, what’s better?

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