Day 5 of Doyle brunson classic championship was fast and furious with players busting at a fast rate.The final table of six players feature a member of the World Series of Poker November Nine who is better known as Chino Rheem,three frequent World Poker Tour final table participants and 2 young online pros.

Day 4 for 2008 World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Classic Championship ended with 18 players.6 of them will advance through the final table the day after which will be televised.There will be lots of big stack play as a large amount of chips were given to each player in the beginning of the tournament.Mike matusow made a huge comeback on day 5 when he was short in chips but managed to join the top 5 at the end of the day.

There will be huge overlay for pokerstars tournament on Sunday, December 28 at 3:30 p.m. ET as they are hosting a $500,000 guarantee for an $11 tournament.It will be the largest tournament of all time when it comes to field size.Pokerstars has contacted Guinness to have the achievement recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Pokerstars PCA will be hosted in nassau during january and several smaller events starting at $1,000 has been added.The whole event takes 5 days to finish and there will be a $25,000 buy-in high roller event on 7th of january.The PCA poker camp is making a comeback which gives online qualifiers the chance to be coached by Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker and other Team PokerStars members.

World Series of Poker have strongly considered to remove re-buy events for the 2009 series and the main reason for that is many players feel that the re-buy events allowed players with bigger bankroll to “buy” a bracelet.Daniel Negreanu says that the rebuy events takes away the prestige of winning a bracelet but layne flack had a different opinion and went on to say that doyles brunson may have bought a bracelet in the early 70’s when the field was very small and deal making were common.

Poker After dark will start its 5th season of the series on december 29th which consist of 4 episode which have not been aired from the previous season as well as episodes that are already scheduled to be filmed.The new season will be split into 2 category;Tournament Matchups with $20,000 buy in and Cash Game Matchups with the blinds being $200-$400.

Mexician offical shut down Latin America Poker Tour with only 89 players remaining and did not give any explanation.Pokerstars will compensate for this by hosting a freeroll at pokerstars.net for these players and the final nine will be flown to the LAPT Vina del Mar event on January 20-22, 2009.Extra $50,000 will be added to the prize pool courtesy of Pokerstars and every players were compensated with $500 in their Pokerstars player account.

Pokerstars asia pacific poker tour kicked off with many well known pros like Chris Moneymaker, John Juanda, Van Marcus, Carter Gill, Wooka Kim and Gavin Griffin.All of them were busted out of day 2.Terrance chan who is a high stakes fixed limit heads up specialist were 1 of the player who got busted out on his first hand of the day.

Over the past 2 years,russian poker player has been very impressive.Alex Kravchenko got in fourth place in 2007 world series of poker and this year it was ivan demidov who finished a amazing second place.Pokerstars has announced that it will be sponsoring RPT (russian poker tour) in 2009.The first russian poker tour is set for January 25 in St. Petersburg for the buy in price of $5,000.  The second event is set for February 22 in Moscow with the price to play going up to $10,000 for the buy in.

David benyamine who is 1 of the best mixed game player in the world is no longer a red name pro on full tilt poker.The whole thing has been kept secret as there is no press release from full tilt.There is a rumor that he has a new deal on the table on other poker site.