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Action was fast and furious in Event #10 of PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker, a $10 rebuy tournament. The event drew 12,636 players and netted an additional 39,000 rebuys and 6,000 add-ons for a total prize pool of $579,330. This nearly doubled the PokerStars guaranteed amount of $300,000.

When the Final table was reached, it was renown poker author Jon apestyles Van Fleet who was holding the chip lead at just shy of 96 million chips. Van Fleet is an author of the popular series of poker strategy books called Winning Poker Tournaments One hand at a time. True to the advice he preaches in his books, he used his chips aggressively during his fight to take the tournament down.

Talk of a deal first popped up after the first player was eliminated, but Van Fleet quickly ended that when he quipped, I dont really like to deal.

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Vegas Mate 3.5, the latest version of my award-winning iOS travel app, is now on the App Store. This update is free for all existing users.

New Features

We’ve added iCloud support. What that means is if you have both an iPhone and iPad, when you create a trip plan on one, it will be synced to the other automatically.

In addition to that, we’ve improved the search quite a bit for special terms like ‘view’, ‘brunch’, etc… It even works with the names of some of the famous chefs. Now that we have the mechanics for improved search, we’ll be adding to this regularly so that no matter what you’re searching for, you’ll find it.

The ‘Places’ and ‘Nearby’ tabs have been combined – you can now sort places by name, distance, rating or cost easily.

For iPad users, there’s a new feature that lets you view hotel prices, by date, on the map.

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Pro poker player Karina Jett is scheduled to help promote the Ante4Autism charity poker event in Las Vegas next week. The poker community has long been associated with charitable causes due in part to the benevolence of poker players in general.

The event will take place on January 31 at 7:00 p.m. at Binions in Downtown Vegas. Ante4Autism is sponsored by home furnishing execs and raises money for autism research.

Co-host and PMD Furniture Direct exec Jerry Williams says, “We are very excited to have Karina Jett help us at our event. S

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Two of the biggest names in Canadian poker have seen their places in the world top ten come under threat.While Shawn Buchanan and Sorel Mizzi are still among the elite players making the Global Poker Indexs top ten, they have both lost ground since the chart was last published.Buchanan now sits in eighth place on the chart with 2,430.85 points, having lost two places.Meanwhile, Mizzi is clinging on to his status as a top ten player, dropping three places to tenth with 2,374.73 points.Jason Mercier of the US maintained his place at the top of the chart on 3,015.08, with Erik Seidel and Bertrand Grospellier swapping places in second and third respectively.Eugene Katchalov, Sam Trickett and Vanessa Selbst round out the top six, while Will The Thrill Failla and Matt Waxman can also still brag about being among the top ten best poker players in the world at present.

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