The Daily Turbo, Clash at the Poker Table, Poker-after-dark & more

The Daily Turbo brings you the day’s latest news regarding the poker. Sunday is a special day for all poker professionals on which one million can be won. Yesterday was Sunday and “Ran77” had won the amount. All the poker professionals had played very well.

In Australia, January means “Aussie Millions” time. This event was started in 1997 and it has been growing year by year. In 2010, January 14 to 31, 800 players are expected to participate in this event

Last week, the House-Financial-Services Committee has held a meeting to discuss internet gambling and poker.

Assault at Poker Table

A fight broke at the Asia-Pacific Poker Tour event in the last week. According to Devonshire, during the second chance tournament at Bellagio Sunday night, Tony Korfman choked a guy after the tournament.

According to Devonshire, Korfman might have reported the matter to the event Director Jack McClelland, who will take necessary action.

Poker-after-dark

The fifth season’s finale of NBC’s Poker-after-dark will start in two weeks for giving an unprecedented action. Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan and Phil Hellmuth are all hitting this finale.

The minimum buy-in in the finale is $100,000 and the maximum buy-in is $250,000. Blinds starts at minimum $200/$400 and can increase to #300/$600. Prop bets is also allowed.

Full-Tilt Poker Million

James Akenhead has won the Full-Tilt Poker Million title and $500,000 in World-Series of Poker Main-Event and World Series of Poker-Europe Main Event.

James said “I have made many final tables but did not come first in the final table. Winning a big event is really fantastic. I have trusted my reads and I did not make many mistakes in this event. So, I was able to win the event.”

Taylor Caby stood seventh, Luke “FullFlush” Schwartz stood fourth and Juha Helppi stood second in the game.

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