* Poker Stars has this week announced a further Poker Tour, the North American Poker Tour (NAPT). Theoretically, the NAPT has already begun for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas, which is already running, acts as the opening event. The main event is the Tour NAPT, the Venetian, which is dated 20 To 24 Held February in Las Vegas. Thereafter, the NAPT Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, follows from 7 To 11 April. Both events will have an entrance fee of $ 5000 and both sections of the tour will advance cheaper buy-in events have. NAPT Other sections are planned. Joanna Krupa, which is perhaps best known through her appearances on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” will be the presenter of the TV NAPT events.

* PokerStars gives its players the opportunity the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Joe Cada at the North American Poker Tour Venetian to meet. The qualifying competition will begin with the daily freerolls at PokerStars Clock at 21:00 ET in which the top 45 players get a seat in the weekly finals. There are also $ 1.10 via satellite at 20:00 clock and 23:00 clock every day, in which 1 of 5 players won a place in the weekly finals. These finals are always on Sundays at 18:30 clock until 13 Held in February. Each of these awards 18 seats for the Grand Final. And that in turn is at 21:00 Clock, 13 February there. The winner of the Grand Final will win a prize package which includes a place in the Venetian NAPT, as well as a ticket to Las Vegas five nights, and $ 1,000 spending money, and a day with Joe Cada.

* Now that 2009 is over, has named Steve Card Player “gboro780″ Gross to the Online Player of the Year 2009 (OPOY). The 24-year-old from Marlboro, New Jersey won $ 1,216,413 last year and earned 10,188 points on the Card Player OPOY leader board. He beat David “SirSands Sands by almost 800 points. His biggest cash earnings came in February when he the Party Poker $ 322 FTOPS XI won Event 10, and pocketed $ 275,601. But this victory gave him a 14 per cent of its total number of OPOY points. Gross also came in 2nd place in Full Tilt’s $ 1 million Guarantee tournament in January, where he won $ 126,506 and was second in PokerStars SCOOP event in April where he won $ 128,000. Overall, he won 21 tournaments online 2009th CardPlayer OPOY Previous winners are Alex AKAHoosier1 “Kamberis (2008) and Isaac” westmenloAA “Baron (2007).