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APAT, (Amateur Poker Association & Tour) last week announced their fourth season of live poker tournaments. This year is set to be more exciting than ever with the introduction of two new formats, the Professional League and the Specialist Series a long side the traditional Amateur Championships giving this tour something for everyone with varied buy-in’s and almost every type of poker game you can think of, including 5 card draw!.

Betfair are now the official sponsor of APAT and will be running online seat buy-ins as well as online qualifiers for the live events, as well as the APAT online championship.

Yet again APAT have outdone themselves in quality, variety and substance and this looks to be the best series ever. We are going to be trying to play as many events as possible, so hope to see you on the road! Check out the season 4 schedule here!.

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G5 Poker today announced the launch of a brand new poker forum for live poker players.  G5Poker.com has been sucesfully listing poker tournaments up and down the country and is happy to add this extra site to it’s portfolio of offerings.  Sign up for free at http://forum.g5poker.com/

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UK poker pro Paul Zimbler faced US legend Doyle Bronson in the first contest of his gruelling 78 hour 25 min Heads Up Guinness World Record Attempt. Taking place at the World Series of Poker Europe presented by Betfair, the unique World Record attempt is being staged in aid of the Make a Wish Foundation and Sparks children’s charity and aims to raise over £50,000.

World record HU attempt

Playing in the Casino at the Empire leister Square Paul took on a staggering 190 players continuously over the 78 hrs and went head to head with members of the public and a range of celebrities and high profile poker pros including Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, Huck Seed, Neil Channing, Jesse May, Devilfish, Robert Williamson III, The Hendon Mob, Annette Obrestad, Roberto Romanello, Michael Greco and November 9 Finalist James Akenhead.

Paul Zimbler commented: “While my main motivation was to raise as much money for charity as possible, it will be great to take on some of the biggest names in world poker on the way to establishing a new Guinness World Record.”

Poker players and supporters wishing to get involved in the action or show their support should visit http://www.justgiving.com/Paul-Zimbler0 to make a donation and help Paul Zimbler reach his target of £50,000.

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LONDONERS GET THE CHANCE TO MEET POKER PRO AT BOOK LAUNCH

Broadcast Journalist and Poker professional, Victoria Coren, will be

launching her latest book, ‘For Richer, For Poorer’ on Thursday 10th

September at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London.

From 7pm, Victoria will be available to share her poker tips, as well as

sell copies of her latest book. The casino will also be hosting additional

Poker games with Victoria, in celebration of the launch.

A poker memoir, ‘For Richer, For Poorer’ tells Victoria’s story of how she

managed to climb to the top of her game from when poker was relatively

unknown, to high class tournaments in casinos around the world, earning her

lifetime winnings of $1.5 million

Victoria was the first woman ever to win an event on the European Poker

Tour in 2006, winning £500,000 as well as being the first player to win

both a televised professional tournament and a televised celebrity

tournament.

As a poker commentator, she has presented Late Night Poker and The Poker

Nations Cup for Channel 4, World Poker Tour for ITV2, The Grosvenor UK

Poker Tour (Channel 4) and The William Hill Poker Grand Prix 2 (Sky

Sports).

Martin Ramskill, General Manager at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London

said: “We are delighted to be hosting Victoria’s book launch, as she has

been playing poker at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino for years. This looks

to be a big event, so we would recommend getting here early so that you can

have the chance to meet Victoria and learn the secrets of the game.”

Attendance is free to anyone aged 18 years and over. Photographic ID will

be required for all customers.

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TIPS

THE INTERNATIONAL POKER SCHOOL

1st Seminar September 12th 2009 @ The Village Hotel, Hertfordshire

TIPS offers poker players a chance to not only improve their game and go to the next level but also to play against Europe’s best pros for big prizes and entry into the world’s biggest tournaments.

TIPS guarantee that the best player of the day will get much more back then just his course fee.

Over the next 12 months they’ll be offering courses all over the UK with a target of providing players with different specialist courses to accommodate all types of players and every kind of poker game.

TIPS will open this September with their launch being taught by some of the most recognized names in the poker world.

Paul “Action Jack” Jackson, Julian “YoYo” Thew, Marc “Mr. Cool” Goodwin, Nikhil Persaud, Carlo Citrone, Liv Boerre and Paul Zimbler will all be available to teach you their secrets.

There are a many other big names joining TIPS to help and teach you in the future. See website for details.

Hosted at the Village Hotel in London this full-day course will provide you with:

• Three sessions each one with different professional players
• The ability to ask the pro’s any questions you want
• Q & A session
• Sit & Go Tournaments with the pro’s to practice your skills and win prizes
• A final Shootout Tournament with seats to the WSOPE side event on offer
• Food & Drink

This event costs only £325 but you’ll have to hurry as the day is being capped at just 50 players.

So if you want to reach that next plateau, play against the best or just to have a lot of fun then visit www.theinternationalpokerschool.com and purchase you ticket.

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