Right, let's get started. All the links:
- Mike Matusow Wins NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship - "
All that may have changed this weekend, though, as Mike Matusow defeated Phil Hellmuth in the finals of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC) and pocketed $750,000" - [www.pokernewsdaily.com]
- "Aspers Casino in London is giving players the chance to celebrate the Chinese New Year in style with a bumper cash giveaway" - [www.bluffeurope.com]
- "However, if you've haven't been within earshot of the poker community this weekend you'll not know about Mike Matusow's victory in this year's NBC Heads-Up Championship title" - [www.bluffeurope.com]
- WTO Issues Final Approval for Antigua to Retaliate in US Online Gambling Dispute - "The World Trade Organization (WTO) granted Antigua final approval on Monday to proceed with the sale of items protected under US copyright law as a means of compensation for what Antigua describes as unfair trade practices that "devastated" its economy" - [pokerfuse.com]
- Diaz Dominates Estrellas Madrid - "
Numbers may have been down in the French capital for the Euro Finals of Poker but there were no such concerns in Spain's largest city with a bumber field of 632 runners on hand for the Madrid leg of the PokerStars Estrellas Poker Tour" - [www.bluffeurope.com]
Gary Benson (Image: Poker Asia Pacific) Eighty-three entrants may not sound like many by today's standards, but these 83 players brought their wallets with them and made a total of 257 rebuys/add-ons between them, boosting the prize pool substantially" - [
The Spades region saw John Hennigan (poker player) Mike Matusow, Phil Ivey, Justin Bonomo, John Monnette, Sam Simon, Barry Greenstein, and Viktor Blom all win their first matches to advance" - [