Although it’s not the first stop for the second season of the tour, the APPT will kick off its main event in Manila on Thursday. It will mark the bringing together of the APPT with the Filipino Poker Tour. Since the APPT hit Manila last year, the Philippines has matured into the strongest poker market on the continent, according to PokerStars

Members of President George W. Bush’s administration are working to finalize a number of legislation before they leave the White House in January.

On Sunday, Gus Hansen was playing Pot-Limit Omaha on three different tables and managed to drop some big bucks. It appears that most of the big pots that Hansen played at during his sessions on Sunday, he ended up on the losing end.

More than 750 poker players came out to participate in the qualifiers for the HPT stop, and 171 players ponied up the buy-in for the main event. The result was a $274,089 prize pool for the event

After 104 hands of heads-up action dominated almost entirely by the 22-year-old Dane, Eastgate turned the wheel straight to counter his Russian adversary’s two pair and clinch the title, claiming his first World Series of Poker bracelet and a first prize totaling $9,152,416 becoming the youngest-ever WSOP  Main Event-winner in the process. After the November Nine were reduced to the November Two over more than fourteen hours of play on Sunday, Demidov and Eastgate returned to the Rio’s Penn and Teller Theater at 10 p.m. on Monday evening to finish the job, battling it out in front of a raucous crowd of hundreds of poker fans who jammed the auditorium to witness the event.