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The feature guest this week on Pokercast is Lyle Berman, three time WSOP bracelet winner, CEO of Lakes Entertainment, and chairman of the board of World Poker Tour. Lyle talks about several topics including the World Poker Tour moving to a new TV station, his WSOP play and PokerTek. Also on the program is professional poker pro David Peat, talking about his recent appearance on Poker After Darks first Cash Game episode. Mike and Adam also talk some tournament news, forum static and of course give away the password for the July 27th Poker Stars VIP Club freeroll.

The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) returns September 2008, with a guaranteed prize pool of $30,000,000, that’s double the total guarantee of last year, making it the biggest online poker tournament series in the world!

There are over 33 different events in total, covering a wide range of poker games, including Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, Razz, HORSE, 2-7 Draw and more. Each event has a huge guarantee prize pool, with many reaching more than $2,000,000!

The series culminates with the $10,000,000 guaranteed Main Event, September 21. Last year’s Main Event was won by ‘Ka$ino’, who took away prize money of $1,378,330! With cash prizes this big and a bracelet for the winner of each event, the WCOOP is THE series to be a part of. Don’t miss out on taking your seat!

You can buy in directly to any WCOOP event, or win your seat via one of the many PokerStars satellites running now. To register, Visit PokerStars, Download  and open the PokerStars lobby, click ‘Events’ and ‘WCOOP’.

The 2008 WCOOP runs from September 5-22.

History of the WCOOP Main Event

Since the WCOOP started in 2002, the Main Event prize pool has grown at an incredible rate. Swedish player ‘MultiMarine’ won $65,450 for his victory in that year. But by 2003, first place prize money had risen to $222,750, and was won by ‘DeOhGee’. ‘Ragde’ won $424,945 in 2004, while ‘Panella86’ picked up $577,342 the following year. In 2006, pro player J.C. Tran walked away with $600,000, before ‘Ka$ino’ won a massive $1,378,330 in 2007.

Visit PokerStars And Get Ready For The Biggest Online Championship Today!

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Tiffany has fired back her own salvo at Tony G and Poker news Ltd after Tiffany felt that she recieved and unfair and scathing attack on her for wearing The Ultimate Bet Logo alongside the Poker News Logo she  during the Main Event.

She Goes on to say:

"There is no denying the positive press and exposure I brought Pokernews by wearing their logo and being their representative during the 2008 World Series of Poker main event. After such a successful series, I am greatly dismayed by Pokernews' subsequent actions. No one has ever questioned my integrity before this and I am so distressed that Pokernews is using their powerful public forum to spin such a negative recounting of the facts of what occurred during the final two days of the main event."

Wicked Chops Poker was the first to discuss this on their blog, You can read the Whole of Tiffany's statement here.  Tiffany Michelle's Statement

SunPoker.com,  will have Moneybookers as a deposit and withdrawal method within the next day or two. This is great news as it is one of the most popular E-wallets in the World and will make it alot easier for you the player.

They are also offering a $500 Guaranteed Daily Tournament starting next Tuesday, July 22, at 22:00.  This is a rebuy 6 max tournament and runs every day. Buy-in is $20+$2.

Plus Sun Poker is giving everyone a chance to win a seat to play in the Casinos Austria Poker Tour in Graz, Austria by having a week long chance of qualifying for the Sunday finals.

Depending on what stake you want to play at Sun Poker has the perfect tournament. Starting on Monday the 21st of July, players can sign up for a street where 50% of the field advances to next days corresponding Street #2 on Tuesday.

Play through Streets 1-6 to play in the €200 + €20 Final on Sunday. Winner of that gets a €2,500 CAPT Package to play in the live Graz tournament.

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