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Poker pro Eric “Rizen” Lynch has accepted the job as Poker Room Manager with Lock Poker.

In his new role with the online poker site, Lynch will be driving all decisions around the product, promotions and player communication.

“I am personally looking forward not only to the opportunity to continue to work with the outstanding LockPRO team, but also to interact with the Lock players and really explore what we can do to improve on all levels,” he said.

“My dream has been to really get involved in the daily operations and have a serious impact on how things are done.

I’m excited have the opportunity to bring my unique insight as a professional poker player to the table to help Lock continue to innovate.”

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Annette Obrestad. Annie Duke. Liv Boeree. These are just a few of the names you think of when asked who is the best female player in poker today. Well, add a new starlet to your list.

In February, Natalia Nikitina did what all others have failed to do and won a WPT event in Paris for €243,830. Now poker’s first female WPT winner chats exclusively with PokerPlayer. Let’s see what she has to say…

Natalia, how does it feel to become the first female WPT winner?

It’s a great feeling and I am very proud to accomplish this.

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Poker magazine publisher Radoslav Průcha took down the Paradise Poker Tour Prague in the Czech Capital this weekend.

The Czech native came from behind to beat fellow countryman Luboš Galuška heads up and collect a €30,000 at the Card Casino.

“I’ve been playing poker for a number of years so to win an event like this is fantastic,” he said.

“In many ways the feeling of being the winner is even better than the money. I re

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Hall of Famer can’t stop winning

Being a professional poker player would be pretty cool. Being a professional poker player for more than two decades even cooler. So how cool is winning $3.5 million in just eight weeks? Well, really, really cool.

Ladies and gentlemen, Erik Seidel is on arguably the biggest heater ever seen. S

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Lucky PL.com players will have a shot at thousands of dollars in cold hard cash over the coming weeks.

Players will want to immediately boot up their 888poker client as the site is running a $500 freeroll later today for any PL.com players who earned 100 status points in January.

On Sunday Betfair will be giving away an exclusive package to London Live. If you generated 50 player points in January you are golden.

Last but definitely not least is William Hill Poker which is hosting its monthly $2,500 next Saturday.

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Brits dominate 10th annual European Poker Awards

Jake Cody’s stellar form in 2010 was recognised this week, as the Rochdale pro was awarded the European Poker Awards Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year titles at the Queenie Club in Paris.

With an EPT title, WPT bracelet and over $1,700,000 in live tournament winnings, Cody was arguably the UK’s most successful player in 2010. And with an UKIPT High Roller title to his name already in 2011, no one will argue against the youngster fattening his pockets over the next 12 months.

But Cody wasn’t the only Brit recognised in Paris this week.

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After 13 months of rumors and hearsay, Isildur1 was officially confirmed to be Viktor Blom on Saturday night.

Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom

Blom, who became a Team PokerStars Pro in December while still under the Isildur1 alias, was revealed as the notorious online high stakes player when he took his seat in a $10,000 promotional 100-hand heads-up match against Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier.

The 20-year-old Swede was nonchalant about finally confirming what many hailed as the worst kept secret of the poker world.

“I think a lot of people have known for a long time who I really am, so it didn’t make a big difference to me,” said Blom.
Isildur1 took the poker world by storm in the fall of 2009 when he played several of the biggest hands in the history of online poker against the likes of Tom Dwan, Brian Hastings, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey.

Known in the poker community for his reckless play Blom famously appeared on Full Tilt Poker, spun his roll up to over $5 million with huge wins against Dwan and Ivey but then lost it all and more, mainly to Hastings.

Blom joins a team of world-class players including Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Vanessa Rousso and Grospellier.
“I think I’m the best online heads-up No-Limit Hold’em player in the world but I’m looking forward to learning a lot from the other Team pros and helping them with their games, too,” he said.

Blom went on to say that he particularly had a large amount of respect for Negreanu and Norwegian teammate Pro Johnny Lodden.

With his identify officially out in the open, Blom said he had plans to play more European Poker Tour events in the future.
He also plans to continue his 2,500-hand SuperStar Showdown matches on PokerStars. Blom has already re

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Danish poker superstar Gus Hansen is off to a rocking start in 2011 and finished up $1 million this week.

Hansen played over 2,500 hands this week and racked up $999,480 against online sharks like UarePileous, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and even Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

The Great Dane is now up $2.1 million in 2011 and has rocketed to the top of the online cash game leaderboards. He is now the biggest winner on Full Tilt. His closest competition on the site is Patrik Antonius who has won $1 million this year.

What’s more if you go back to October, Hansen is up nearly $5 million in the last five months. He’s maki

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Titan Poker is having a sale, offering discounted entries to 14 major tournaments on the site with a combined prize pool of $750,000.

Titan Poker Team Captain Sorel Mizzi.

The New Year Super Sale tournaments begin Jan. 7 with discounts ranging from 50% to 80% off the regular online poker tournament buy-in prices.

This includes Friday’s $60,000 Guaranteed event with a 50% discounted buy-in of $50+$5, and an 80% discount for the High Roller Monday $35,000 Guaranteed; Monday Night Omaha $5,000 Guaranteed; and Super Tuesday $30,000 Guaranteed.

The series wraps up Jan.

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Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond put together a massive score over the weekend on Full Tilt Poker.

Coming off a big victory against Gus Hansen earlier last week, Galfond played over 1,000 hands of $500/$1,000 Cap PLO against Scott “URnotINdanger2” Palmer on Saturday.

Palmer had been one of the biggest winners in 2011 but Galfond put a stop to that raking over $600k from the online pro.

Prior to this week Galfond had been in the midst of one of his biggest downswings ever. He had

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