Updates form PokerStars, Microgaming wants fish and Liz Lieu poses for you in today’s edition of all things notable in the pokerverse – the PTP News Hit and Run for December 23rd, 2009.
Daniel Negreanu’s got some rules for tournament poker that he is pledging to follow in 2010. Read and, if you like, adopt his five-rule plan here. Speaking of Negreanu, PND has an interview with Mike Kosowski, the guy who beat Daniel to take down the $1 million top prize in the Poker Stars Million Dollar Challenge.
From PokerStars on TV to the PokerStars EPT: The poker tour has announced a new stop on its 2010 schedule in Berlin, Germany. Read details on the PS Blog here. The room also rolled out some pretty significant upgrades to their online poker VIP Program; overview on that here.
Mircogaming announced an initiative to motivate room operators to bring in more ‘fish’ by changing the way the network calculates rake. In related news, Liz Lieu posted some holiday photos for readers of her blog. Sample:
More pics here. Hey, slow news day.
WPT champion Daniel Alaei answers questions about the tournament grind and moving between cash and MTT play in the CardPlayer interview posted below:
Finally, PokerStars announced who of the 2,000 applicants would make the cut and form the first group of Team PokerStars Pro online. Notables include Steve “stevesbets” Jacobs, Thomas “Boku87″ Boekhoff and Boumaaza “Chiren80″ Bachir; read the full list here.
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