This unique internet poker tournament is open to college and university students only, and only those residing in North America (U.S, Canada, Mexico). According to LifeofSports it is the only tournament like it currently in existence in North America.

The top prize is a year’s free college tuition along with a bonus vacation to Cancun, Mexico, a grand prize worth about $20,000.

Cake Poker will be hosting regular freerolls to award contenders seats in the main event. The 3 top placers in each freeroll tournament will win a shot in the May 2009 finals.

The 2008 HollywoodPoker GSOP schedule of events is as follows:

• I: Nov 21 – NL Texas Holdem
• II: Nov 22 – NL Texas Holdem
• III: Nov 23 – NL Holdem Deepstack
• IV: Nov 24 – NL Holdem Shorthanded
• V: Nov 25 – PL Omaha
• VI: Nov 26 – NL Texas Holdem
• VII: Nov 27 – PL Omaha

There are several ways for contenders to win their way into the Grand Slam Finals on December 7:

• daily Hollywood Poker 2008 GSOP satellite tournaments – all NL Texas Holdem tournaments, held from Nov 21 – 29 at 3 pm and 8 pm EST, with buy-ins considerably lower than those for the direct GSOP events
• the Grand Slam Finals leaderboard tournaments - following the above-mentioned events will be 3 Grand Slam leaderboard qualifiers on December 6 where the top 100 players on the Grand Slam leaderboard will vie for 1 Grand Slam Finals seat
• direct Grand Slam Finals qualifiers -regular, Turbo, and Omaha qualifiers with buy-ins ranging from $7 + $1 to $20 + $2

The 2008 GSOP is not to be confused with Hollywood Poker’s ongoing Grand Tournament, a monthly event with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool taking place on the last Friday of every month.

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UltimateBet Poker, for one, signed to its Star Players Team, Adam Levy (aka “Roothlus”), a top online poker player made recently famous by being reamed for 5 minutes straight by Phil Hellmuth, Jr. at a WSOP featured table.

Levy joins “Hollywood” Dave Stann (aka “The Bad Boy of Blackjack”) as the other most recent addition to the UltimateBet Star Players team. In 2007, Stann was named one of the Top 10 poker players in the under-$1,000 buy-in category, and in 2008 he boasts a-quarter-million in winnings so far.

Anyone can become an UltimateBet Star Player - even you. All you need in order to be so honored, as put by Team UltimateBet superstar Annie Duke are:

• an obvious and unarguable high skill level
• high integrity
• respect of one’s peers

Might you be the next UltimateBet Star Player?

While closing one door, however, World Poker Tour will be opening another, with a new relationship between the WPTE and social networking mammoth, MySpace. The MySpace WPT community will offer MySpace members opportunities a chance to play free multiplayer online poker games with other MySpace members.

Materials planned for the new online community include

• Video clips
• Player profiles
• Tournament news
• Poker strategy tips and tricks
• Behind-the-scenes reports

Also, the WPT’s US-legal subscription site, ClubWPT.com, will remain open, and MySpace WPT members can win real money (over $10,000) and prizes (including WPT tournament seats) for $19.95 per month.  Also, be sure to check out our poker site reviews to find out more about ClubWPT and more.

The fight taken up by organizations like the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMega), and the Interactive Gaming Council (IGC), took a severe hit last week when a Kentucky district court judge refused motions to dismiss the case. This leaves the sites 30 days to do what’s necessary to block “illegal” gaming activity coming from online poker players in Kentucky or else be shut down for good.

Meanwhile, the owners of the 141 seized domains have been ordered to appear before the court for a forfeiture hearing on November 17 to prove that they each have effectively blocked online traffic from Kentucky players.

Canada’s Kahnawake Gaming Commission, one of the largest in internet poker boasting sites such as Bodog, Crazy Poker, Everest Poker, Noble Poker, Poker.com, Titan Poker, and more issued a statement railing against Gov. Steve Beshear’s actions.

This following the siezure of one of the game’s most popular online poker rooms, Doyle’s Room, the internet poker site of the Godfather of Poker, Doyle Brunson. The fate of this and other poker sites large and small could be decided as soon as October 15.

The 1 million-plus members of the Poker Player’s Alliance, meanwhile, are avidly seeking legislation (such as S. 3616, introduced byby Senator Robert Menendez) to regulate internet gambling in the United States so that all 141 of these sites may be permitted to continue to exist, and serve poker players all over the world, including the U.S. The Senator asserts that such a move, which would include taxing these sites, could help the US government open the floodgates on a whole new source of revenue.

Sounds like legal online poker in the U.S. is good for everyone! (Everyone, that is, but the contentious Kentucky governor.)

Finnish poker wunderkind Ilari Sahamies, who goes by the handle “Ziigmund” at Full Tilt Poker, started out the month down over 1 million dollars, and in just one month’s time (and 3,000+ hands), he managed to win himself an unbelievable $1.9 million – all at FullTiltPoker.com alone – making him up about $600k now for the year.  He probably made more money in rakeback this month than an average poker players does from just playing.

Known as a Pot Limit Omaha specialist, Zigmund notched most of his winnings this past month in Full Tilt Poker’s illustrious RailHeaven tables (a favored feeding ground of this month’s 2nd highest earning player, poker pro and Team Full Tilt member Phil Ivey), the high-stakes $500/$1000 No Limit Holdem cash games. From this he earned $900,000 of his $1.9 million.

This should come as comforting news to all us amateur players out here who need a little hope that turnarounds can indeed happen.

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Judith75 earned her table-mates the world record-breaking PartyPoker bad beat jackpot with four-of-a-kind 9s, which lost to player Hiyall’s winning royal flush.

For their efforts:
• Hiyall won $177,341.79 of the jackpot
• Judith57 won $354,683,57 of the jackpot
• And the rest of the players at the table won $22,167.72 each

Now get this! It was only a $0.50/$1 table with a pot value of a measley $24.

Until then, the record Bad Beat Jackpot was previously $922,000, still sweet but no million dollars, that’s for sure.

Bad Beat Jackpots give players with certain exceptional poker hands (such as a straight flush) who then lose the pot to a better hand, an opportunity to still walk away from the table with money. It’s one more great way most online poker sites give players to win money, besdies just winning tournaments and individual pots. .