Professional Poker player, Phil “ The Unamomber” Laak has set a new world record for the longest game of poker ever played after putting in more than115 hours of consecutive playing in a special endurance challenge held at the Bellagio poker room in Las Vegas.

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Professional poker player, Phil “The Unabomber” Laak will be looking to set a new Guinness World Record for the most hours of poker played in a single sitting, and to do so, Laak is inviting three lucky winners to fly to Las Vegas and play the heads-up endurance challenge.

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The “Unabomber” will try to enter his name into the Guinness Book Of  Records by besting the current record of 76 hours, 25 minutes and 45 seconds set by British pro Paul Zimbler during the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe.

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Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Executive Director John Pappas, released a new statement on the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on HR 4976, the Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2010. The bill would legalize and regulate several forms of online gambling, including online poker, but will also maintain the current ban on other forms of gambling such as online sports betting.

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Harrah’s Entertainment, owner and operator of the WSOP, has unveiled the new gold bracelets for this year’s tournament series.

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Harrah’s Entertainment revealed that the World Series of Poker will expand its family of circuit tournaments with the new addition of the first WSOP Africa. The inaugural event will kick off October 24th through 31st at the Emerald Resort and Casino in South Africa and is expected to attract some of the best poker players in the world.

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The World Series of Poker Academy, the premier series of live and interactive instructional camps lead by the world’s most winning professional poker players, has announced the addition of new seminars and instructional modules to its annual Tournament Academy event running at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino during the 2010 World Series of Poker.

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Professional poker player Carlos Mortensen has taken down the WPT Hollywood Poker Open $10,000 no-limit Hold’em championship event, becoming the new top earner in the World Poker Tour history with over $5.75 million in winnings and tying with Gus Hansen for the most WPT titles won by a poker player with three victories in total.

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Online poker site UB.com has announced that Season 2 of its popular poker television news show, Poker2Nite, will begin airing on March 3rd at 11 pm ET on Versus.

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Full Tilt is revolutionizing the online poker world with the unveiling of Rush Poker, a brand new and ground-breaking poker type designed to offer the latest in high-speed poker experience and decrease the wait time between online poker hands.

This tremendously quick and extreme poker action gives players the opportunity to move through different poker tables, play different challengers in every poker hand and choose the type of game (Hold’em, No Limit, etc) and set the stakes they want to play. Users will also be able to organize the game list by other groups such as number of poker players, average pot or number of poker hands per hour.

Once you decide upon the Rush Poker game you wish to play, all you have to do is double click on that game to enter the Rush Poker lobby. Rush Poker players are also able access a Rush Poker game by utilizing the “Rush Poker Lobby Widgets” available in Standard View.

Rush Poker is the world’s fastest poker game and can only be found at Full Tilt Poker. Give it a try today for the most intense poker action in the world.

For more details, please visit http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/rush-poker/details

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