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Gavin Griffin Borgata Classic Winner

The 2008 Borgata Classic came to an end today and the winner was Gavin Griffin who took home $1,375,609 and $25,500 seat in WPT Championship! Gavin Griffen bested a field of over 500 players and won in heads up play against David Tran.

The final hand of the poker tournament was Griffen with Jc-Qs against Tran’s Ks-8s. The flop was 9d-Ac-8d. Which Tran was in the lead but for a short time as the turn was a Qd. The river was a 10d and was no help to Tran who took second place and received $737,685.

The final 9 players at the final table in order of their finish was: Gavin Griffin, David Tran, Thomas Hare,Noah Schwartz,Lee Watkinson,Ervin Prifiti,Shane LaBounty,Justin Bonomo and Scott Blackman.

This is not the first big score for Gavin Griffen has also won events at the World Series of Poker and the European Poker Tour.

2008 Borgota Poker Classic

The 2008 Borgota Poker Classic part of the World Poker Tour tournament series began on the 27th and will be played through January 31, 2008. The buy-in to the event is $10,000 and is being played at the Borgota Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City. The event started with 501 players with 1st place taking home a $1.4 million dollars.

Notables that have been eliminated are: Mike Matusow, Jamie Gold, Ted Forrest, Barry Greinstein and Steven Dannenmann.

American Player Robbed at Aussie Millions

Jason Potter (21) cashed in at the Aussie Millions getting 31st place and winning $30,000 dollars. Potter is a professional poker player who dropped out of school to focus on his poker career and has over $300k in career winnings. After cashing out at the cashier in the melbourne casino he decided to go to McDonalds.

It ended up being a very expensive meal when he was robbed by a man with a knife who directed him to give him his money. (It is believed that the assailant had watched him cash out and knew he was holding lots of cash).  Police are now looking for the attacker and have contacted banks to watch for someone trying to deposit large amounts of money.

Cricket Player Plays at Aussie Millions and gets penalty

Shane Warne, an australian cricket player who has retired from the sport is currently trying a new game, poker. He is currently playing in the 2008 Aussie Million main event and is sponsored by 888.com. I don’t know much about him playing cricket but it seems like he doesn’t get the rules of poker because on his first day of tournament play he received a penalty. He got penalized for 5 minutes because he sent a text message during play which is prohibited at the table. Not the best start to his new career…

Source: UK Reuters

Aussie Millions 2008 Main Event

The Aussie Millions Main Event is currently being played in Australia at the Crowne Casino. The main event has more then a million dollars in prize money with some of the biggest names taking part including Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Hachem and other poker pros. The tournament is a week long and today was the second day of players starting because of the large amount of entries (most large tournaments now have multiple first days to accommodate all poker players looking to participate). Look for more updates in a couple days on the Aussie Millions 2008 action.

Kahnawake Gaming Commision Absolute Poker Audit Results

One of the biggest stories of 2007 in the online poker industry was the scandal at Absolute Poker. One of the employees was using a super account and was able to see hole cards and won multiple tournaments using this unfair advantage. You can read more about the allegations and how it all came about at gambling splendor.

When this happened the Kahnawake Gaming Commission which is basically a regulatory body for the online gambling sites took action. They immediately did an audit of Absolute Poker has have come up some facts and the the conclusion that this  did indeed happen (there was a superuser) but it was not sanctioned or initiated by AP and they have since put in place many security measures to make sure this doesn’t happen again. They will also have to pay a half million dollars and are subject to random audits for the next two years.

This is not the complete set of rules and you can find out more about the results of the audit at Poker ATI.

Full Tilt Poker FTOPS VII

Full Tilt Poker has just announced the schedule for the 7th Full Tilt Online Poker Series.  The series will comprise of 20 events (5 more events then the last FTOPS) with over $20 million dollars in guaranteed money! The series starts on February 6th and will run to Febuary 17th.

The first event will be a $750k NL Hold-em event and the FTOPS will end with a $2 million dollar No Limit Hold-em event. Check out Full tilt planet for the full FTOPS schedule.

$10 Free at UB and Absolute Poker

Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet are running a promotion this month that gives new players depositing for the first time $10 dollars added to their real money poker account. This poker bonus is on top of the normal absolute poker referral code bonus. If you would like to take part of this promotion use the bonus code: CHIP10. This poker bonus is only valid for January, see you at the tables!

Happy Holidays

I would like to take this chance to thank all the visitors to HotPokerBonus.com, if it weren’t for our readers we wouldn’t be able to maintain this website. We hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday.  For the past 2 years Hot Poker Bonus has been growing rapidly and we hope to continue that momentum into 2008.

Antigua Wins $21M in WTO Dispute

The World Trade Organization has just ruled that Antigua and Barbuda have won the right to violate copyright protections up to $21 million dollars a year. This settlement is from US regulations that currently try to block Antigua gambling companies access to US players. Although this settlement may seem like a win for Antigua it was a long shot from their $3.44 billion dollars they originally asked for.
Source: NYPost