PTP News Hit and Run: January 23rd, 2010

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Sonic is set to take over the online pokerverse, and big names at the Aussie Millions. Catch up with the world of poker news in the PTPN Hit and Run.

Interesting post by Bill Rini at Bill’s Poker Blog about the newly launched Sega poker room, which is not available in the United States. He talks about why Sega has an advantage over other start-up poker rooms. Definitely worth a read.

Someone is impersonating Dario Mineiri. Or an alien is abducted him. Either way, the photo below is clearly not him. No scarf for the Scarfed One (trademark pending) at the EPT stop in France. We’ll report more as events warrant. Or you can just read PokerStars’ blog.

There’s been a lot of movement at the state level to legalize table games, including poker, in the United States of late. The latest news comes from Iowa, which is considering legislation to allow poker tournaments to be staged there.

If you combine two small poker networks, what do you get? One slightly less small poker network. Everleaf and UPN joined forces, although don’t expect them to be rivaling any of the major sites/networks any time soon.

Preview of the $100K Challenge at the Aussie Millions, where Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Phil Ivey at the featured table:

And more from the Aussie Millions, where former World Series of Poker main event winner Joe Hachem talks about wanting to win a big tournament on his home turf. Story here.

If you want a recap of the week of poker and you’re too lazy to read, here’s a video recap, including some stuff out of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and Full Tilt Poker’s Rush Poker:

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