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Full Tilt Poker has released some more details on the six-stop Onyx Cup Series of high buy-in poker tournaments, with the dates and location of the second stop announced, as well as tentative dates and locations for the remainder of the tournament stops.

Monday at 1PM Full Tilt Poker posted a video detailing their new poker live poker tournament series, The Onyx Cup, a six-stop tournament series with buy-ins ranging from $100,000 to $300,000. The aim of the series is to limit the entries to poker’s truly elite.

A few weeks after the John Racener/Sorel Mizzi/Shaun Deeb Chinese Poker fiasco, we have another cheating accusation, this time involving Team UB Poker’s newest pro, Prahlad Friedman, and two of the top online players in the world.

Last night at The Big Event at the Bicycle Casino it was tournament pro and philanthropist Victor Ramdin who outlasted Team PokerStars Pro and 2005 WSOP Champion Joe Hachem to win the championship and pocket the $500,000 in first-place prize-money.

The upcoming Spring Championships of Online Poker (SCOOP) at PokerStars is shaping up to be the biggest to date. With 38 different tournaments, each taking place at Low, Medium, and High buy-ins, the 2011 SCOOP will see 114 tournaments play out over the two weeks of the series.

The 5th anniversary of the PokerStars Sunday Million was definitely going to be one of the biggest poker tournaments in online history, but I don’t even think PokerStars expected the kind of turnout that the tournament produced this past Sunday.

With two of the 12 months down for 2011 the winners are starting to stand out from the crowd at the online poker tables. Poker enthusiasts will notice a huge upheaval in 2011, with longtime winners struggling, and players accustomed to being on the “red” list finding themselves in the black!

The 2011 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship took place this past weekend and the tournament was chock-full of surprises, big hands, and finished up with one of the hottest players in poker taking on a very surprising opponent in the finals.

Once again the 64 player field at the NBC National HU Poker Championship is divided into four brackets –think NCAA Basketball’s March Madness brackets for a frame of reference—and now that the field is finalized, the first round matchups have been released.

On Tuesday the World Poker Tour issued a press release detailing the popular poker tour’s new agreement with Poker Road Radio. The deal will see Poker Road Radio’s (www.pokerroad.com) broadcasts become a fixture at most domestic WPT® stops.