Cornel Andrew Cimpan wins the LAPC Championship Event

The WPT L.A. Poker Classic Championship event came to a conclusion yesterday and, after several well known names such as Chris Ferguson and Antonio Esfandiari took leads at various early stages of the tournament, it was a relatively unknown player, Cornel Andrew Cimpan, that walked away with the honours and a massive $1.6 million payday to boot.

The final six from the WPT LAPC Championship event at the Commerce Casino:

1st Cornel Andrew Cimpan – $1,686,760
2nd Binh Nguyen – $935,424
3rd Mike Sowers – $654,797
4th Chris Karagulleyan – $430,963
5th Pat Walsh – $310,694
6th Chris Ferguson – $240,538

Poker News Headlines’ Top 5 Poker Babes – Jennifer Tilly

The Poker News Headlines Top 5 Poker Babes continues today with babe number 4.

Number 4 – Jennifer Tilly

Jennifer Tilly is one of Hollywood’s elite actresses. Her involvement in poker began after meeting boyfriend Phil Laak. Although her poker results are few and far between it could be argued that, these days, she is a bigger poker personality than Laak. Tilly, often found sporting a low cut dress, is a regular on many celebrity poker TV shows and some of more serious professional ones.

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Poker News Headlines’ Top 5 Poker Babes – Shana Hiatt

In a shamelessly sexiest series of posts starting today we present The Poker News Headlines Top 5 Poker Babes.

Number 5 – Shana Hiaat

Shana Hiatt’s appearances on the old World Poker Tour TV shows brought her to the attention of dribbling poker players everywhere. A former Playboy cover girl in 1995, Hiatt has also appeared as a presenter on other TV poker offerings such as Poker After Dark following a bitter legal dispute with her former employers at the WPT. Shana recently gave birth to her first child and she remains a firm favourite amongst poker fans today.

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Stay tuned to PokerNewsHeadlines.com for Poker Babe Number 4 tomorrow.

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London Poker Circuit Announced

888.com are to sponsor the recently announced London Poker Circuit. The online gaming group put it’s name to a series of live poker tournaments due to take place in London between March 16 and November 11 2009.

The LPC is due to take place at The Westbury Mayfair, The Kingsway Hall Hotel Covent Garden and The Kensington Close Hotel And Spa.

On offer is a promised combination of affordable “amateur” buy-in events with several £10,000 “high-roller” buy-in tournaments.

Matt Robinson, Vice-President of Brand Marketing for 888.com said; “‘888Poker.com is delighted to have joined forces with the London Poker Circuit and we look forward to delivering a successful land-links partnership.”

Phil Gregg, Chief Operating Officer for Cola Holdings and Cola Hotels commented; “The LPC is offering unrivalled live poker tournaments to the best players on the European circuit.”

The LPC festival schedule looks like this:

March 16th – 22nd: The Kensington Close Hotel & Spa
May 4th – 10th: The Kingsway Hall Hotel, Covent Garden
July 27th – 2nd: The Kensington Close Hotel & Spa
August 17th – 24th: The Kingsway Hall Hotel, Covent Garden
October 5th – 11th: The Kensington Close Hotel and Spa
November 2nd – 8th: The Kingsway Hall Hotel, Covent Garden

Between those events The Westbury Hotel, in Mayfair, will run various £10,000 high-roller tournaments.

Poker Playing Cops too busy at Home Game to investigate Burglary

Poker playing police officers at Thames Valley Police HQ in the UK were just settling down to their regular Texas Holdem game at their social club when local householder, Graham Hall, decided to report a burglary at his home.

Hall was turned away from the police station by an on duty security guard at the front desk. He was told to call the non-emergency telephone number given to him on a fridge magnet!

Mr Hall suffered the burglary at a rental property he owns nearby to the police station. After making a call to the non-emergency he was promised officers would investigate as soon as possible. A week later he is still waiting for hear from the Thames Valley Card Sharks.

Mr Hall said; “A security guard popped up from behind the desk and said: ‘Good evening. Are you here for the poker?’

“I said: ‘I thought this was a police station, not a casino.’

“I told him I’d come to report a crime, but he said I couldn’t do it there. I was flabbergasted – you can’t even report a crime at the police headquarters.”

A spokeswoman for Thames Valley police said yesterday: “The security guard assumed Mr Hall was a member of staff there for the game.

“When it became evident he was not, he explained that we could not take details and directed him to the non-emergency number.”

She said that the matter was not dealt with urgently because it was classed as a “non-dwelling burglary”.

A spokesman for the local licensing authority, Cherwell District Council, said gambling was legally permitted at the headquarters social club.

NBC’s 2009 National Heads-Up Poker Championship attracts star names

The 2009 National Heads-Up Poker Championship on US television network NBC is set to attract some of the biggest names in poker.

64 seats have been reserved for this years event, which features previous champions and recent award winners.

Some of the big names confirmed so far include; Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Huck Seed and Andy Bloch. Also invited to play are the three previous WSOP main event winners; Peter Eastgate (2008), Jerry Yang (2007) and Jamie Gold (2006).

As we go to press, 60 of the 64 seats have been filled. Alongside Eastgate a handful of other top European players will battle it up against a mostly American field. Dario Minieri and Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier will also be heading to the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for the filming.

And what are all these big names playing for exactly? Well, it’s a very sweet looking $1,500,000 prizepool up for grabs this time around. With so much money on the line it’s little wonder that the big names are trying their shot at this event.

The 2009 National Heads-Up Poker Championship takes place between March 5th and March 8th 2009.

Durrrr Challenge Update: Dwan establishes big lead over Antonius

Session 4 from the Tom Dwan vs Patrik Antonius ‘Durrrr Challenge’ ended yesterday with Dwan establishing a healthy profit and a big lead over Antonius.

Dwan was in sparkling form and simply out-played Antonius over the entire session, which ended just shy of the 4000 hand mark for this particular challenge. When the dust settled Dwan was $206,000 ahead for the session which leaves him almost $150,000 ahead for the challenge over all.

The early exchanges have certainly gone Dwan’s way but Antonius will be quick to point out that less than 10% of the challenge is complete. So, it’s a little early to be making any confident predictions at this stage but things are certainly looking very sweet at Camp Dwan.

Poker Pro’ Arrested following murder of Parents

Ernie Scherer III is being held without bail at a Las Vegas jail following his arrest as a suspect in the murder of his parents. The poker player son of the murdered couple, found dead in their California home last year, was arrested on a murder warrant in Nevada last week.

60-year-old Scherer and 57-year-old Abendroth were found dead inside their home in the Castlewood Country Club community outside Pleasanton, Calif, following what police described as a ‘brutal beating’.

Ernie Scherer III has been a professional poker player for some time and has a list of creditable results to his name including a 7th at the World Poker Tour at the Bellagio in 2005. His full time job was that of a real estate investor.

Police raided the home of Scherer III following a brief investigation and seized his car. Investigations into the murder are continuing.

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