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Jennifer Tilly

Jennifer TillyJennifer Tilly is a Canadian actress as well as a professional poker player. She was born in America and is the actress Meg Tilly’s elder sister. She was born in the Las Vegas’ community of Harbor city. Her birth name was Jennifer E. Chan. Tilly’s mother belong to a Finnish, Irish, indigenous American lineage, while her father was of Chinese American lineage. Tilly acted in tiny roles and later in major roles in movies like “No small affair”, “High Spirits”, “Made in America”, and “Return to Babylon”. Apart from her acting sills, Tilly honed her poker skills and made her entry into the Poker arena.

She clinched the World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and the Ladies’ No-Limit Texas Holdem contest on Jun 27, 2005, outsmarting six hundred other participants. Tilly continued her accomplishment by succeeding at the 3rd WPT (World Poker Tour) conducted at Los Angeles’ Bicycle casino, on Sep 1, 2005. She also made her appearance in the GSN Poker Royale sequence.  Tilly made her appearance in the Poker Superstars’ 3rd season; however in the first round, she was expelled. Tilly also participated in the Celebrity Poker Showdown that was broadcasted in the American cable channel, Bravo. Ida Siconolfi, the online poker champion of Bravo hammered her out in the 3rd place, whilst Tilly’s A♣ K♥ was unsuccessful to recover against the K♣ K♠ starting hands of Ida.

Tilly also made her appearance in the 2007 version video game of World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions together with Phil Lake, her boyfriend, which Activision made public in the 2007 year.

A look into the poker results of Jennifer Tilly

Tilly took part in the No limit Hold’em Event no:19 of the WPT Event Season 6 / LA Poker Classic held in February 12, 2008 and secured the 13th slot and earned a prize money of $2,990. Tilly was successful in clinching the first position in the No Limit Hold’em of WPT season 6 in the Bellagio cup VI conducted on July 9, 2010 and earned prize money of $124,455.

In the 2011 Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza III, Tilly got the 34th position and earned prize money of $12,253. She secured the 2005th slot in the Event no: 56 in the WSOP No limit Hold’em of the 43rd WSOP (World Series of Poker) held in July2, 2012, and earned a prize money of $3,324.

In a 2005 TV interview, Tilly said rather than her acting she was very keen to concentrate on her poker career. However, in Dec 2008, she declared her retirement from poker. In her Bluff magazine’s monthly column, she said she adore poker, however the magnitude in Poker is an intangible vision. There are several modifications. She said she has not completely giving up poker. On Jan 2010, Tilly continued her poker career.

Tilly’s earnings as on 2012 July, surpassed $590,000.

Maria Stern

Maria Stern is professional poker player from America, who triumphed in the 1997 WSOP (World Series of Poker) $1500, 7 Card Stud contest. In that identical year, her spouse Max triumphed 2 of his 3 bracelets.

She started playing poker in the year 1991, once wandering for years to several tourneys with her spouse; both Max & Maria stay in Las Vegas as well as in Costa Rica.  Seven Card Stud is Maria’s most popular game, how she is also a talented Texas hold’em player. Her live tourney earnings surpassed $380,000 as on 2008.

Maria completed the 4th slot in the WSOP (World Series of Poker) in 1992 in the $1000 Women’s Seven-card Stud contest. She clinched a bracelet in the $1500 Seven-Card Stud contest. Inspite of her achievement, until 1997, she was not able to come back to the poker arena. She returned back with a bash securing the first slot in the in the Limit seven stud contest of WSOP. Maria got the 7th position in the Limit 7 card stud of the 2005 Orleans Open winning a prize of $1,210.

Maria got the 39th position in the Ballys Las Vegas Poker contest - WSOP Circuit tournament held on November 10 of 2005. She also secured the 4th position in the 2007 World Series of Poker Circuit tourney at the Caesars Palace Las Vegas contest 1 and earned $20,404. She also managed to obtain the 8th slot in the Poker Stars Latin American Poker Tour (LPT) held at SanJose in Costa Rica $24,425 as prize money.

Maria Stern was also able to have some decent winnings in the other poker tourneys. She managed to grab the forty-fourth position in the in the $ 300 No Limit Hold’em of Deep Stack Extravaganza III held in 2005. She used to play with consitency and astuteness. She took park in the Vine Del Mar Latin American Poker Tour II and obtained the 19th position in the two thousand five hundred dollar No hold’em contest and earned $5,238 as prize money. Stern also played in the $3500 No limit holdem event of SanJose Latin American tour and clinched the 8th slot with $24,425 as prize money.

Though Stern had her base in Las Vegas, she traveled far and wide, participated in almost all the major tourneys in the Poker arena. She made her appearance in the 2006 New Orleans open in the seniors –No limit Hold’em charity contest and secured the first position with a prize of money of $5,935.

She also participated in local $ 100 Limit Hold’em poker tournaments such as Luck Be A Lady and Ladies Poker Dream Weekend where she got the fifth and first position respectively.

Jennifer Leigh

Born in Wilmington, Jennifer Leigh Professional poker playerJennifer is one poker player who is famous for more than a reason. She has posed for the Playboy, was formerly a hacker, and is an excellent World of Warcraft player. She has also launched a clothing brand ‘Jayel Brand’ and has been in the limelight for a long time following her stints in different career paths she chose.

Jennifer got into playing poker at the start of the year 2004. She was exposed to the game by her hacking team members. She was into games because of her father, she really enjoyed playing and that is how when she came to know about poker, she was intrigued and tried it out.

When she was new to poker she began with playing only $5 SNG online tournaments and then moved on to playing limit holdem games with high stakes. When she realised she was really good at the game, she read around six books on the game and analysed hand histories online to improve her skills.

About her ever changing career lines, she says she was always confused about how she must use her various talents in various fields. And because of this, she had ups and downs due to her choices. But she has enjoyed her experience and thinks that her experiences have enriched her professionally.

She was a part of the International Poker Association Tour and played at the Poker Royale’s Battle of Ages, was placed on the 9th spot at the World Championship of Online Poker and cashed $10,000 and in the limit holdem event she won $1000. She defeated host of pros like Dan Harrington and T.J Cloutier at the Battle of Ages. She also played at the PokerStars Caribbean and appeared on Cardplayers’ radio show called ‘The Circuit’. She was one of the highest ranked poker players on the internet and likes playing split pot games.

She is a shrewd programmer and knows a lot about computers. When she is not playing poker and travelling around the world attending tournaments, she stays at her residence in Wilmington. Like any other girl, she loves shopping, clubbing with her girlfriends, and travelling to beautiful tourist destinations. Jennifer gives great importance to fitness and works out with her trainer to be in shape. She loves spending time with her friends and family.

She likes Ted Forrest, Jennifer Harman, Phil Ivey and thinks they are the most amazing poker players ever.

Jennifer has signed a deal with Iron Duke Poker. She is fondly called as ‘Princess’. She wants to see more women play poker and win in the male dominated poker world. She donates a part of her winnings to American Heart Association. Her total winnings exceed $1, 00,000.

Tiffany Michelle

Tiffany MichelleTiffany Michelle is a multi talented poker player. She is also an actress, musician and writer. She came into the limelight after her spectacular performance at the World Series of Poker 2008 Championship event. She was the only woman standing amongst 6844 players playing at the event. She won the 17th spot in the event and created history as she was the only woman to go as far this in any tournament.

She has won several titles owing to her beauty and her style of playing poker. She was one of the Top Ten Most Fascinating Poker Players of 2008, Top Twenty Hottest Celebrity Poker Players by the Maxim magazine in the years 2010. She was also one of the 16 hottest celebrity poker players in the list of the Maxim magazine in the year 2012.

Her career in poker began while she was a professional actor. She loved playing house games with her co-stars. Since she had enough knowledge about poker, she began hosting and commentating on poker related shows on-camera. She was an on-air reporter during a live broadcast of the 2006 World Series of Poker by the Bluff Magazine. For Pokernews.com, she took interviews of poker players, updates masses about the happenings in the poker world and covered worldwide poker events like the World Poker Tour, European Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker and several other red carpet events. She was the first woman hired by Pokernews.com to do so.

After her amazing performance at the World Series of Poker, she made her mind to play poker professionally. She was more than confident about playing the game and wanted to make it big in the poker world. To begin her journey in a grand way, she got associated with Ultimatebet.com, got onboard as a Star Player and a celebrity spokesperson.

She attracted a lot of media attention because of her beauty and charm. She graced the covers of magazines like Rounder, Ocean View, Steppin’ Out and Casino Player. She has appeared on various reality shows like World Series of Blackjack, The Amazing Race, Worst Cooks of America and LA Ink.

Tiffany resides in Los Angeles today and is a very busy person because she pursues poker as well as her talent at performing arts. She also launched her own clothing line in the year 2009. Apart from playing poker, acting and music she is also actively involved in non profit organizational work. She thinks highly about such organizations and offers them full support. The organization closest to her heart is the L.A Youth Network.

Her career in terms of acting and music has also been worthwhile since she has done some fabulous work in these two areas. She was widely appreciated for her role in the film Carrie’s Choice opposite David Fumero. In terms of her music, she has expertise in playing the piano and guitar.

2012 WPT Legends of Poker Final Table Set

2012 WPT Legends of Poker Final Table SetThe final table for the top six players has been set at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event in Bell Gardens, California. Currently Josh Hale is the chip leader with 7.325 million chips, almost double of any other player at the table.

According to the tournament database of the TheHendonMob.com, Hale has made just six live cashes since 2007 for a total of $44,300, and this win (if he wins) would be a lifetime achievement for him. His earlier achievements include a fifth place finish in the $125 No Limit Hold’em $1,000,000 Guaranteed Event at 2011 Legends of Poker earning $35,000.

Hale reached the top on the leaderboard by filching the bulk of the chips on two hands. The first bulk he made before dinner when after a flop of J-T-8, Hale called check against David Marshall to see Marshall follow-up with an all-in, as a result Hale raised his chip count for another 2 million chips. Then Hale flipped over 8-8 for bottom set, forcing Marshall to need some sort of combination of running card but nothing worked for Marshall. But with just A-T for middle pair, top kicker, and two more 3’s on the turn on river, Marshall had to face the elimination from the WPT Legends of Poker Main Event in 11th place.

After eliminating Marshall, Josh Hale reached chip count up to 4.835 million chips.

The other big bulk came when Max Steinberg raised pre-flop to 150,000, and then Jim Willerson moved all-in for 1.025 million. Hale pushed over the top of Willerson that forced Steinberg to surrender finally. Willerson had two black Kings, but Hale surprised him by turning over Aces. Eventually, Willerson was back homel in 7th place.

This is how the final table’s composition was determined.

In the final table there will be blinds and antes at 30,000/60,000/10,000 and two players, Max Steinberg and Jeff Madsen who have chips over a million. Greg “FBT” Mueller and Raouf Malek have also maintained enough comfortable stacks of 3.49 million and 3.13 million, respectively. However, they are not at the vulnerable stage of being eliminated unless they commit any mistake in their moves. The final table of the WPT Legends of Poker Main Event will began at 4:00pm PT. The live tournament can also be enjoyed on WPT.com with just a 30 minute delay.

WPT Legends of Poker Main Event – Final Table Chip Counts

  1. Josh Hale – 7,325,000
  2. Greg Mueller – 3,490,000
  3. Raouf Malek – 3,130,000
  4. Ali Eslami – 2,900,000
  5. Jeff Madsen – 1,030,000
  6. Max Steinberg – 1,020,000

World Championship of Online Poker Starts Sept 2

Yet another exciting season of online poker is right round the corner as the World Championship of Online Poker is about to start on September 2 through till September 23, 2012. This is one of the richest series of online poker series which consists of a total of 65 events running across 22 days of action.

Here’s the schedule for the 2012 WCOOP (all times EDT):

  • Sunday, September 2
    • Event 01 - 11:00: $215 NL Hold’em (6-Max)
    • Event 02 - 12:30: $10,300 NL Hold’em (High-Roller)
    • Event 03 - 14:30: $215 NL Hold’em
  • Monday, September 3
    • Event 04 - 11:00: $320 PL Omaha
    • Event 05 - 14:00: $320 NL Hold’em (6-Max Shootout)
    • Event 06 - 17:00: $215 NL Hold’em (Turbo w/ rebuys)
  • Tuesday, September 4
    • Event 07 - 11:00: $215 NL Draw
    • Event 08 - 14:00: $215 Triple Stud
    • Event 09 - 17:00: $1,050 NL Hold’em
  • Wednesday, September 5
    • Event 10 - 06:00: $265 PL Omaha (Knockout)
    • Event 11 - 11:00: $320 NL Hold’em (Ante Up)
    • Event 12 - 14:00: $215 NL Hold’em (Heads-Up)
  • Thursday, September 6
    • Event 13 - 06:00: $215 PL Omaha H/L (6-Max, 1R1A)
    • Event 14 - 11:00: $265 NL Hold’em (6-Max Knockout)
    • Event 15 - 14:00: $215 Razz
  • Friday, September 7
    • Event 16 - 11:00: $215 PL Omaha (6-Max)
    • Event 17 - 14:00: $215 NL Single Draw 2-7
    • Event 18 - 17:00: $320 NL Hold’em (10-Minute Levels)
  • Saturday, September 8
    • Event 19 - 11:00: $109 NL Hold’em
    • Event 20 - 14:00: $215 FL Hold’em
  • Sunday, September 9
    • Event 21 - 11:00: $215 NL Hold’em
    • Event 22 - 14:30: $530 NL Hold’em
  • Monday, September 10
    • Event 23 - 11:00: $215 NL Hold’em (4-Max)
    • Event 24 - 14:00: $320 7-Card Stud
    • Event 25 - 17:00: $215 PL Omaha (Turbo, 1R1A)
  • Tuesday, September 11
    • Event 26 - 11:00: $320 Mixed Hold’em
    • Event 27 - 14:00: $320 FL Badugi
    • Event 28 - 17:00: $1,050 NL Hold’em
  • Wednesday, September 12
    • Event 29 - 06:00: $265 NL Omaha H/L (6-Max, Knockout)
    • Event 30 - 11:00: $530 NL Hold’em (10-Max, Triple Shootout)
    • Event 31 - 14:00: $320 8-Game
  • Thursday, September 13
    • Event 32 - 06:00: $320 NL Hold’em (6-Max)
    • Event 33 - 11:00: $320 PL Omaha (6-Max, 1R1A)
    • Event 34 - 14:00: $320 Triple Draw 2-7
  • Friday, September 14
    • Event 35 - 11:00: $215 NL Hold’em (Rebuys)
    • Event 36 - 14:00: $530 FL Omaha H/L
    • Event 37 - 17:00: $215 P/NL Hold’em (The Big Game Format)
  • Saturday, September 15
    • Event 38 - 11:00: $530 NL Hold’em (Heads-Up)
    • Event 39 - 14:00: $320 HORSE
  • Sunday, September 16
    • Event 40 - 11:00: $215 NL Hold’em
    • Event 41 - 12:30: $10,300 NL Hold’em (High-Roller Heads-Up)
    • Event 42 - 14:30: $1,050 NL Hold’em
  • Monday, September 17
    • Event 43 - 11:00: $320 PL Omaha (Rebuys, 6-Max)
    • Event 44 - 14:00: $320 NL Hold’em (2X Chance)
    • Event 45 - 17:00: $265 NL Hold’em (Turbo, Knockout)
  • Tuesday, September 18
    • Event 46 - 11:00: $320 Mixed NL Hold’em/PL Omaha
    • Event 47 - 14:00: $530 7-Card Stud H/L
    • Event 48 - 17:00: $1,050 NL Hold’em
  • Wednesday, September 19
    • Event 49 - 06:00: $215 NL Hold’em (1R1A)
    • Event 50 - 11:00: $215 NL Hold’em (Big Antes)
    • Event 51 - 14:00: $320 PL Omaha H/L
  • Thursday, September 20
    • Event 52 - 06:00: $320 NL Hold’em
    • Event 53 - 11:00: $530 NL Hold’em (6-Max)
  • Friday, September 21
    • Event 55 - 11:00: $530 NL Hold’em (1R1A)
    • Event 56 - 14:00: $1,050 FL Hold’em (6-Max)
    • Event 57 - 17:00: $215 NL Omaha H/L (Ante Up)
  • Saturday, September 22
    • Event 58 - 11:00: $530 PL Omaha (Heads Up)
    • Event 59 - 14:00: $2,100 HORSE
  • Sunday, September 23
    • Event 60 - 11:00: $215 NL Hold’em
    • Event 61 - 12:30: $10,300 8-Game (High-Roller)
    • Event 62 - 14:30: $5,200 NL Hold’em Main Event
Beth Shak

Beth ShakBeth Shak is renowned poker player from America. Since 2004, she has been an active participant in the Poker arena. Shak has made her appearance in the Playboy’s Poker Tournament, WSOP (World series of Poker), “Aces & Angels” and also in the “Rock it” fashion spread of YRB magazine. She is also seen in You’ve Got of AOL.com, Good Morning America, MTV Cribs and The Today Show. Shak is also a humanitarian, entrepreneur, shoe expert, etc. For a decade she has administered a private vintage designer clothing unit.

Initially, Shak has trained to play poker by visiting the online Poker room, Full Tilt Poker, and utilizing the ‘play money”, she got accustomed and was capable enough to play with the actual money. Whilst Shak commenced playing live, she felt different and got trained not to allow men threaten her. Shak said she desires not to be “a fine player …for a women”, but to be regarded as an excellent player. For full tilt poker, she got signed as a Red Pro in the year 2007.

To her credit, Shak has 10 tournaments, thereby getting herself positioned amid the top ten percentile in the All time money list for women. She secured the 8th position in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Ladies contest held in 2005. This event was her 2nd live contest. Shak got second positon (out of more than eight hundred participants) in the 2007 WSOP in the $3k No-Limit Hold ‘em contest.

Shak has made it to the EPT (European Poker Tour)’s Season five final day completing in the top thirty out of more than five hundred participants, as per the season five results of the EPT (European Poker Tour).

Shak secured the 40th slot in the No Limit Hold’em of Bellagio Cup II Tournament in 2006. She got the 76th position in the WSOP Short Handed Event NO: 5 of the 37th Annual World Series of Poker held in 2006.

Shak was able to clinch the 52nd position in the Event no: 29 WSOP No Limit Hold’em of the 39th World Series of Poker in June 15th 2008. She secured the 48th slot in the WPT No Limit Hold’em contest of WPT Event Season 7/ Festa Al Lago held in October 5 of 2008. Shak secured the 11th position in the No Limit Hold’em Nationally Televised Regional finals of 2010 WSOP with $26,232 prize money.

As on 2009, her complete live tournament winnings surpassed $450,000. Out of those victories, $363,118 was earned from the WSOP.

In her personal life, Shak got wedded to Daniel Shak, fellow poker player. However at present they are separated. She has 3 kids from her marriage with Daniel Shak. Besides being an active poker player, Shak is a philanthropist taking part in several charity poker tournaments, and has collected money for several noble causes.

2012 WPT Legends Poker Day 2 - Ali Eslami Leads Race

2012 WPT Legends of Poker Day 2: Ali Eslami Leads Tight RaceThe 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event has started at high pace at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, out of 247 just 84 players remain after Day 2.

On Sunday, the play was a combined field, with 303 survivors from the two Day 1 flights. Stephen Graner was the only one player who began Day 2 in the top ten on Day 3. Well, it was Ali Eslami leading all players with 618,500 chips.

The race was absolutely tough with the top four players on the leaderboard - Joseph “subiime” Cheong (574,000), Jason Koon (567,000), Antonios Roungeris (551,000), and David Miscikowski (550,500).

The chip leader, Ali Eslami, though, has reached close to the final table in many major tournaments, but last year in summer at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) he made to the top ten in two events, finishing third and eight. Last year also, he made three top ten finishes – sixth, seventh, and eighth, as well as a final table appearance at the WPT Hollywood Poker Open. Eslami has also achieved some big wins at the 2011 WSOP Circuit Regional Championship at Harrah’s Rincon, earning $282,242.

All the top players with chip counts in the group have experience of having big achievements in tournaments. Joseph Cheong finished third in the November Nine in the 2012 WSOP Main Event, and made a runner-up finish in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mixed Max event this summer. Lee Markholt had two wins - the 2008 WPT World Poker Challenge in Reno and the Professional Poker Tour’s Five-Star World Poker Classic in 2005. Jason Koon made a runner-up finish in a WSOP event this year and placed fourth in the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25,000 High Roller event. And Max Steinberg had a WSOP bracelet win this year in one of the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em events and one close reach in 2010, finishing second in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event.

The other players who were there in the tournament but out of the ten list - Todd Terry, Greg “FBT” Mueller, Jesse Martin, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, and Jeff Madsen. The prize money will be distributed among a total of 63 players. It is expected that the money bubble will burst in relatively short order on Monday. Day 3 has been scheduled for either six 90-minute levels or until there remains just 18 players still in the field.

World Poker Tour Legends of Poker – Day 2 Chip Leaders

  1. Ali Eslami – 618,500
  2. Joseph Cheong – 574,000
  3. Jason Koon – 567,000
  4. Antonios Roungeris – 551,000
  5. David Miscikowski – 550,500
  6. Max Steinberg – 511,500
  7. Daniel Strelitz – 463,500
  8. Lee Markholt – 449,500
  9. Stephen Graner – 433,500
  10. Jim Willerson – 431,500

Linda Johnson

Before venturing into the world of poker, Linda Johnson was an employee of the United States Postal Services. Today, she is one of the few women poker players to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. She is an excellent poker player with more than 5 money finishes at different events. She also won a bracelet at the World Series of Poker.

Linda is also a consultant and journalist and has been playing poker professionally since more than 3 decades of her life. Actually, she was persuaded by her father to take up professionally since he thought it was one profession where gambling was at its best. Even when she worked at the postal services, she was promoted to higher posts because she was a sharp and skilled worker. She did her job until she was old enough to gamble legally and then she took to poker, never turning back.

To grasp everything about poker, Linda made it a point to read a lot of books about the game. She earned some additional cash through the game as she put her pay cheque money on the game tables. She was really scared to lose all her hard earned money and that is why she studied the game before playing for high stakes.

Her efforts paid off as soon she became a sought after poker player. She was so good at poker that she frequently defeated her postal services staff at the game; they were very intimidated by her play and even stopped playing with her.To satisfy her hunger for the game, she started playing at the casinos of California and Las Vegas. It was here that she played her first tournament in the year 1978.

In those times, a woman playing so much of poker and winning a lot was not common. Also, Linda was only one to be registered. This fact gave her a hard time as she was teased and made fun of, flirted with and mocked. But this lasted only until she made to the final table of a game. Finding her winning too much, the guys made a team and competed with her to bring her down. But even then she did not lose her confidence and played on, her stakes were sky rocketing and she was on fire.

She quit her job with the postal services and started playing poker professionally. When she was 27, she participated in the World Series of Poker and won the fifth spot in the Ladies Seven Card Stud event. In 1997, which was one of her successful years as a player, she won a bracelet at the World Series of Poker after she won the $1500 Seven Card Razz event for $96,000.

She was fondly called as ‘the First Lady of Poker’ because she was a poker player for a really long time. She made an appearance on the show Poker Royale- Comedians Vs Pro Series. She was the publisher of the CardPlayer Magazine for a period of 8 years which she later sold to Barry Shulman. Even today, she contributes through articles to this magazine. She was the one to found the Tournament Directors Association which set the rules for events like the World Poker Tour and is actively involved in charity.

Everest Poker Joining iPoker Network

Everest Poker Joining iPoker NetworkIn a latest move in the poker world, the long-independent Everest Poker has finally decided to join up with the iPoker Network. The association is considered to help both the network and the poker room.

Though, Everest Poker has not been at the forefront in the online poker industry, but has always challenged the industry leaders like PokerStars and PartyPoker. It has earned almost similar respect amongst poker players like these leaders.

Everest became famous in the poker world a few years ago when it positioned itself as one of the major sponsors of the 2008 and 2009 World Series of Poker with its logo appearing on every table in the tournaments and events.

Unfortunately, Everest’s fame did not last long and faded gradually. According to PokerScout.com, EverestPoker.com ranks 23rd in online poker competitor in the industry, with a seven day average of 570 cash game players, and its French site, EverestPoker.fr, is still doing well, ranking 15th with a seven day average of 650 cash game players. This incredibly is a great match for Playtech’s iPoker Network as PokerStars.com is the largest online poker network in the world with 2,800 cash games players per weeks.

This will significantly increase traffic of EverestPoker.com. At the same time, iPoker.fr is virtually inactive that may also bring the players from EverestPoker.fr back to their own poker room.

The announcement was made just before the iPoker Network is heading towards splitting into two. The first room, the upper tier “iPoker 2” has been created to get its member poker rooms to attract profitable customers, while the rest will remain on the old network to meet the requirements such as a minimum of 6,000 active players per month, plus add least 850 new players per month, each having to contribute at least $5 in rake or tournament fees. Some other requirements such as evaluation of deposit to cashout ratios will also be met.

Originally, the EverestPoker aimed at bringing all tables on iPoker 2 to house all players from the included skins, but that has since been reconsidered as a result the players will only be segregated at No-Limit Hold’em cash game tables up to $2/$4 and some Sit-and-Go tables. Now, every member poker room, irrespective of their tier, will share multi-table tournaments.

A representative of Poker770.com confirms that Two Plus Two, Titan Poker, Poker770, William Hill, Bet365, and Paddy Power Poker will be the founding members of iPoker 2 when it has been scheduled to launch on September 1st.

According to a report from eGaming Review, Titan Poker and fellow iPoker skin CelebPoker were about to merge ahead of the split, and the two rooms, Pokerhuis and Gutshot Poker, were all set to leave the network.