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1. Twenty-three-year-old Brian Hastings managed to beat a field of 152 players to win a $10,000 Heads-Up Championship. For his victory, Hastings earned $371,498, but it was not about the money. I’ve had much bigger scores than this online ($4.2 million in the single biggest session against “Isildur1”), but there is only one gold bracelet and this means more than the money to me” – said Brian in his interview.

 
2. This week PokerStars announced that it will offer half-price buy-ins to some of its biggest weekly tournaments on June 17. For one day only, you can get into your favorite Sunday majors for 50% of what it normally costs to enter. The guarantees remain the same. Here are the tournaments you'll be able to play on the cheap: Sunday Kickoff ($54.50), Sunday Warm-Up ($107.50), Sunday Storm ($5.50), Sunday Million ($107.50) and Women's Sunday ($27.50). Do not miss your chance to play in the biggest tournaments of the week!


 

3. The other day the 1998 WSOP Main Event winner - Scotty Nguyen published his memoirs in the first of a three-book series entitled: “That’s Poker Baby!” The first volume is a mix of poker strategy, mental game coaching and anecdotes from Nguyen’s playing career.

4. On Thursday, the World Series of Poker announced 12 more entrants for the highly anticipated Big One for One Drop, a $1 million buy-in tournament taking place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas from July 1 through 3. Among the newcomers are: Jason Mercier, Eugene Katchlov, David "Viffer" Peat, Vivek Rakjumar, Andrew Robl, Nick Schulman, Ben Lamb, Jean-Robert Bellande, Sam Trickett and Noah Schwartz, as well as Winmark Corporation CEO John Morgan. According to WSOP Communications Director Seth Palansky, an updated One Drop list will "hopefully" be released later this week. Sources have told that 46 spots have been filled, meaning there are only two remaining before the event is capped.


 

5. And finally, the most important news - UEFA Euro Cup 2012 Football Championship started yesterday. Good luck to all teams!