February might be the shortest month of the year, but DoylesRoom.com is making it a month worth remembering by fusing the hottest online poker action with tantalizing Hollywood stars.

DoylesRoom.com today announced that joining the Legendary Doyle Brunson will be A-list celebrities Nicky Hilton and Jamie-Lynn Sigler in the DoylesRoom.com Celebrity Bounty Tournament. Two of top ranked online players in the world, Jim “P0KERPR033” Campbell and Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis will also join in on the action.

Returning guest bounty Nicky Hilton is not only heiress to the Hilton Hotel empire, but she is rapidly gaining recognition as an enchanting poker hostess and savvy fashion designer. Award-winning Jamie-Lynn Sigler is best known for her role as Tony Soprano’s daughter, Meadow, on the Emmy-Award winning HBO series, “The Sopranos.” Both will compete alongside poker champions in this popular online poker tournament.

The DoylesRoom.com Celebrity Bounty Poker Tournament represents the natural evolution of the wildly successful weekly DoylesRoom.com Bounty Poker Tournaments—where, every Wednesday at 8 pm ET, avid online poker players have the opportunity to play along with the likes of ten-time WSOP Champion Doyle Brunson, ‘The Mad Genius”, Mike Caro, and other esteemed poker pros. Online poker players reap serious rewards when they eliminate key players from the tournament.

On Wednesday, February 27th at 8 pm ET the excitement escalates as the star-studded cast emerges and the Celebrity Bounty Tournament begins. For a $27.50 buy-in, online poker players can compete in this fast action multi-table Texas Hold’em elimination tournament. One lucky online poker player can win a lucrative $25,000 cash prize, simply by knocking out all three key bounties. A handsome $5,000 prize will be awarded if a single player knocks out two key bounties and $500 will be awarded to the player who knocks out any single bounty.

First-time Bounty Tournament players have nothing to lose and everything to gain with DoylesRoom.com’s generous buy-in rebate. All first-time entrants will receive a 100% refund of their buy-in and fees. With the chance to win serious cash while playing for free against living poker legends and happening celebrities, this surefire smash of a tournament will fill up quickly.

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With our new Final Table Freeroll, you can win it big when you make it to three consecutive final tables. This qualifies you for one of the ten seats in our exclusive €15,000 final table, where every player takes home winnings between €250 and €3,500.

Any of our 19 daily guaranteed tournaments qualifies, as well as the Sunday €100,000 Guaranteed (see list of Guaranteed Tournaments above). If you are not sure whether a tournament qualifies for the Final Table Freeroll promotion, just check in the poker lobby. In the tournament information, all qualifying tournaments are identified as “FTF QUALIFIER”.

Your three final tables must be consecutive, i.e. you must make the final table in three guaranteed tournaments in a row with no other guaranteed tournaments in between where you don’t make the final table. Players from the same household or IP address cannot use the same final tables for qualification.

The Final Table Freeroll starts when ten players have qualified through their participation in three consecutive guaranteed tournaments. Once you’ve qualified please send an e-mail within 24 hours to pokerkings@pokerresponse.com to claim your seat at the Final Table Freeroll. After we have verified your qualification, we will provide you with detailed information on the date and time of the Final Table Freeroll.

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Europe’s top poker players are heading to Vienna for the Party Poker European Challenge 2 at the Spring Poker Festival 2008. Play in our special qualifying tournaments and you could be there to face them.

As the event’s main sponsor, we’ve put together dream packages, worth $7,500, to give you the experience of a lifetime when you take your seat at the table on March 10.

Each package includes a $4,700 buy-in to the tournament’s main event. Entry to the €60K East v West Team Cup. Six nights’ accommodation in a top hotel. Transfers from the hotel to the venue.An invitation to a special welcome event and spending money and travel costs totaing $1,100.

You’ll only be eligible to play in the €60K East v West Team Cup on March 10th if you are a national of a European country. Even if you’re not European, you’ll still be able to enjoy everything else the package has to offer.

Here’s how you can win your place in Vienna, visit Party Poker

It's the biggest adrenaline rush in online poker!

A huge six-figure prize pool coupled to the intensity of unlimited rebuys in the first hour is enough to make your keyboard sweat. Buy-in for $60+5 and take advantage of one add-on at the end of the first hour. 2,000 in starting chips and 15 minute blinds make this a must play event. Clear your calendar at 2pm ET (19:00GMT) every Sunday!


Satellite your way to payday!

We give you 8 daily chances to Satellite your way into the Sunday $175k Guarantee for only $6+.50 Satellites can be found in the game lobby under Scheduled Tournaments>Satellites>Sunday Showdown

At least 1 in 10 Satellite entrants will win a seat at the Final every Sunday. Satellites start with 1,500 chips, offer unlimited rebuys for the first hour and blinds escalate every 12 minutes.

For more information about these and other great offers, visit DoylesRoom The Home Of Doyle Brunson

Although it isn’t illegal to play poker in Sweden, it is prohibited to organise cash games and tournaments.

The law is rarely upheld, but when evening papers began covering such events, the Swedish Gaming Board decided to intervene.

Over 50 reluctant policemen travelled 70km from Uddewalla to Grebbestad to stop a live event involving 682 players.

Organisers were prosecuted for breaching the law, despite a previous case of a similar (but smaller) event winning against the state last month.

Danish and Norwegian poker clubs aren’t safe either. The Danish Casino Federation, representing its six casinos, reported 12 clubs to the police. The first victim was the former chairman of the Hobro Kortklub, fined 500€ for holding poker tournaments with 20€ buy ins.

17 Years and 17 Hours: PartyPoker.Net Spokesman Mike Sexton scoops $1 million at the 2006 WSOP Tournament of Champions and gives half of it to charity

It was 17 years ago that Mike Sexton won his first World Series of Poker bracelet, but it took just 17 hours for him to win his second WSOP tournament: The much-heralded 2006 WSOP Tournament of Champions at the Rio in Las Vegas. The PartyPoker spokesman and host is justifiably on top of the world, having returned to the winner's circle in an event that he actually helped to create in 1998.

Sexton, elated but exhausted after a grueling 17 straight hours of play, finally had a chance to see the $1 million passed his way, after years of providing commentary as it went to other players. He promptly announced that he was giving half the prize money to five charities, which will each receive $100,000.

"I am so happy to win," said a choked-up Sexton after the match. "To win the million-dollar prize and this title means everything to me. To come back again all these years later and win this tournament really makes me proud. It's very special to me, as I was the founder."

Twenty-seven players started the event that brought together WSOP Circuit winners and 2005 WSOP final table players for a $2 million freeroll at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Sexton received a freeroll into the tournament as the ambassador for PartyPoker.net, 'The World's Largest Poker School'. At the end it was down to just three big names: Sexton, Mike Matusow, and Daniel Negreanu. The banter and hectoring by the latter two provided amusement for the crowd, but Sexton kept his cool as some extraordinary poker was played out in the spotlight.

Sexton eliminated Matusow in the 12th hour of the event, when Matusow went all-in with A-4, only to have Sexton beat him with pocket 7s. Then it was down to Negreanu and five more hours of back-and-forth play, during which the chip lead changed several times. A key moment came when Negreanu, seeking one card for a diamond Flush draw, moved all in, but Sexton held on with a top Pair, taking a 4:1 chip lead.

"I thought I had as good a chance as anyone because of the structure, and I got more confident as I built my chip stack up," said Sexton.

Finally, at just after 06:00 ET, Sexton pulled pocket Aces to Negreanu's KQ, with a 10-8-4 flop. When an Ace and an 8 hit the table, it gave Sexton the full house he needed to pick up his second WSOP bracelet in 17 years. The first was in 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo in 1989. Sexton's 37th finish in the money makes him one of the top 10 WSOP players, and he now has nearly $2.7 million in total tournament winnings to his name.

"Because I've been doing commentary on the WPT for the past five years, I'm a much better player than I was before," Sexton said. "Poker is a game of skill, and there's a big advantage in having seen every hand. I see what players are doing and I'm adapting my game."

Sexton was proud to announce the charities that he would be gifting half his winnings to, a pledge he has made over the past few years and one that he says he will continue. The recipients included The Special Olympics, The Buoniconti Fund, who work to help cure paralysis, The Paralyzed Veterans of America, The Wounded Warrior Project, which helps families of those wounded or killed in battle, and Children Incorporated, which helps provide food and school supplies for underprivileged children around the world. Children Incorporated is the primary recipient of donated monies from fellow poker player Barry Greenstein, known as the 'Robin Hood of Poker'.

Sexton said: "Barry is a pioneer. Poker can do good things for underprivileged people."

If Sexton is on a roll, there may be more "good things" to come, as he plans to play some of the other WSOP tournaments, including the main event.

"I hope this is the start of something, and I wish all the PartyPoker.net players the best of luck, whatever event they are playing in."

PartyPoker spokesman Warren Lush congratulated Sexton: "Mike's victory is fantastic because he's someone who gives so much to poker… it's wonderful to see him receive something in return. His generosity gives poker its newest millionaire philanthropist."