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Online poker has produced a lot of great players, and a lot of interesting nicknames, and both are combined in the man known as Imper1um, or by his given name - Sorel Mizzi. Mizzi has topped the online poker world for some time, and a recent victory in a unique event has helped to solidify his position as one of the best online players - even though this event was live.

The big poker boom started in the United States (although it owes a nod to Europe for the idea of showing the players' hole cards on TV) and then echoed out to Europe. From there the Oriental world picked up the action, and now it looks like Africa is gaining ground.

Pub poker is not a new idea. As long as there has been poker, people have been playing it in pubs, and the idea of organizing these games into a league has been around for a while. Online poker isn't new anymore, either. What is new is a live pub poker league moving online, and that is just what The Nuts Poker League has done.

The Ladbrokes Poker Million at Ladbrokes is a very popular event in Europe that pits players from the site against one another in a live setting, something they may not be used to.

The world of online poker has a lot of attractive qualities, and one of the biggest is the opportunity for a poker player to participate in a World Series of Poker style poker series from the comfort of their own home. The latest such series is the one posted by Titan Poker, the European Championship of Online Poker.

It was a long time coming. Online poker room Everest Poker had been teasing and enticing for nine long months about their Everest Poker Avalanche event, and they wouldn't even tell the players where the final event was to take place. It turns out it wasn't going to happen just in one place, but in a traveling tournament aboard a Costa Cruise ship in the Mediterranean.

For years mankind had a dream to climb mount Everest, a dream that was finally realized in 1953 when Sir Edmund Hillary made it to the top. Since then some 4,000 people have lived the dream, and online poker room Everest Poker has a dream of its own they want you to share in.

Full Tilt Poker is at it again, with yet another Full Tilt Online Poker Series. This is the sixth installment, kicking off early next month on November 7th, and it will run through November 18th. Like all the previous installments, this online poker series boasts pro poker players hosting each event, as well as huge, ever increasing prize pool guarantees.

They can write about the game of poker, but can they play? That is the question that started the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker, an online poker tournament that anyone can play - as long as they have a regularly updated poker blog. This year more than thirteen hundred players showed up and battled it out for $40,000 worth of prizes that included iPods, Xbox consoles, and a lot more.

The World Series of Poker Europe is coming up pretty quick and one online poker room is offering a final shot at winning a free seat to the party.