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Another online poker tutorial video from gder01, and this one just might be his best. Really, there are too many good nuggets of info on MTT strategy in this one to list them all. Just watch and learn.

Online Poker Pro Shares Winning Strategy (#2) video here.

Poker News + Other Links Because Agne Stankunaite Is Another Hot Chick on Italian TV

Let us dumb this down. Italian TV is loaded with insanely hot chicks. Perhaps the hottest in the world, all with ridiculously perfect culos that rank right up there with Brazil's best, long, stately legs that make Shannon Elizabeth look like an amateur and gorgeous faces that ... well, who really cares about faces. And Lithuanian supermodel Agne Stankunaite (yeh, unfortunate last name) is hands down the hottest one we've seen in the past cinque minuti. See photos of Agne below, and a super hot video of her on Italy's Ciao Darwin TV show here.

First, some poker news links and other stuff worth a click ...

• Dark clouds over Ultimate Bet as lightning strikes twice for "dhc2lovr". (link)
• 5:46 of Daniel Negreanu talking about the delayed WSOP Main Event final table. (link)
• LV Sun's Jeff Haney breaks from his poker purist propensities to support Harrahs' final table experiment. (link)
• We now know what a scofflaw is. (link)
• If it's only being held in one city, is it really a "poker tour"? (link)
• A poker player begging to be staked gets him a news feature in New Hampshire. (link)
• Josh Arieh is upbeat, optimistic after Bodog split. (link)
• Pokerati-ers discuss Bodog's move. (link)
• Is the annoying "You're not Johnny Chan" chick still running this Playboy charity poker tournament? (link)
• Speaking of, 2008 Playboy Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole's fagina commands your "respect". (link)
• A dude "Hoyt Corkins" a rocket up his ass, and has video to prove it. (link)
• Did we mention that Kimberly Lansing looked smoking hot at the WPT Championship? (link)
• Mike Matusow rammer det røde felt. (link)
• Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr has the gams for Italian TV. (link)
• Can we get better photos of Miss Asian Poker Tour please? (link)
• Barely legal poker ok'd on Indian res in Iowa. (link)

Ludmilla Radchenko Dancing at a Strip Club Video Makes for a Good Post

For us Entities, Wicked Chops Poker is as much about learning about this great, big world of ours as it is about talking poker, and one of the great nuggets of wisdom we've learned here is that Italian TV is loaded with insanely hot chicks. Girls like Elisabetta Gregoraci, Melissa Satta, Rosaria Cannavo and Elena Santarelli, to name a few, are basically hired to dance around in various states of next-to-nothing on TV shows (<-- a click that's worth it), and they're proof that men still rule supreme in Italy, and if you're a chick, you're either hot and on TV or you're not and in the kitchen whipping up some pasta and ah meatballs. The latest Italian TV girl we've found is Ludmilla Radchenko, whose first name sounds like something you get from eating bad chicken and her last name gives away the fact that she's from Russia. Siberia, Russia that is. Go here for Ludmilla's Wiki bio. As the headline above promises, Ludmilla somehow through the grace of Zeus danced at an empty strip club in Florida and there's video evidence of it below complete with a cheesy strip club DJ dude ruining the moment. NSFW-ish we suppose. Clickable photos of Ludmilla in Maxim Italy below the video. Ludmella strip video on YouTube here.

Best Online Poker Strategy Video Ever

We don't know what Full Tilt Poker was thinking in signing the CardRunners gang when there's the guy below doing advanced instructional poker videos on YouTube for free. He goes by john voight on 2p2, gder01 on YouTube and "Water Boat" on FTP, and his SNG/MTT strategies will blow your mind and force you to rethink everything you thought you knew about poker.

Pushing with A-K when you're short-stacked? Not so fast. Don't think Q7 is a great hand to slow play? Think again. Can't grasp that getting all your chips in on the first hand of a tournament with pocket twos in a 4-way pot is a "magical" scenario? You're probably not a winning player.

These videos are a "must see" for any new player signing up to play online poker for the first time. Just please tell us when and where you're playing so we know to stay away from your table.

Watch one of his better tutorials below. Also be sure to check out Lesson #20 - Erections and Poker and Lesson #17 - Pocket Pairs. And for wicked chops on the guitar, check out his popular 6 Easy Guitar Solo Techniques video. One of us watched it last night and just got signed as the new lead guitarist for Nickleback. It's that good!

Online Poker Video Tutorial Strategy for Winning Money here.

PS: Be sure to check out his groundbreaking Poker Pro Cash Game Strategy video here.

2008 WSOP Main Event Final Table: What People in the "Industry" Are Saying

The delay of the 2008 WSOP Main Event final table has been a source of major debate within the poker world the past week. Most hate it and never liked it, some hated it and then liked it, and some liked it all along.

Just like anal.

Another anal joke? Really?

In our latest webisode of The TOKE, we talked to some "industry" and so-called "media" types for their take.

Opinions on the 2008 WSOP ME Final Table delay

Poker News Can't Crack My Poker Face

Todays poker news is brought to you by VC Poker's ridiculously entertaining series Crack My Poker Face. Think American Idol rejects show meets drunk, inbred-looking Brits at a music festival meets two dudes who can keep a straight face even while watching some tard dry hump a stuffed pink elephant or a skanky chick diddling herself (the video below). Watch all the clips here.

• Heavy metal poker hottie Liv Boeree rocks Ladbrokes European Ladies Championship (link)

• UK glamour model Abi Tit-muss is a poker player now (link)

• Techradar.com on how to beat poker bots (link)

• Nevada PPA-er Ken Illgen rails Sen. Jon Kyl over UIGEA regs (link)

• Poker folk songs are the new poker raps (link)

• Ekstra Bladet's poker page may have a thing for Gus Hansen (link)

• PurePlay secures $15 mil for subscriber/ad-based poker site (link)

• When they say a tricycle took a poker player who was shot to the hospital they don't really mean a tricycle do they? (link)

• WPT posts another loss, this time $2.8 mil in Q1 of 2008 (link)

Borgata $500k Guaranteed Poker Tournament Ends in 4-Way Chop

The Borgata $500k Guaranteed tournament wrapped last night in Atlantic City, ending in a four way chop with Schuyler Twaddle of Chesterbrook, Penn. taking the biggest piece of the ~ $750k remaining prize pool.

An east coast poker regular, Twaddle was one of the guys arraigned for his connections to the Mastronardo bookmaking ring back in 2006, which involved an Internet betting service called betroma.com and ex-Eagles wide receiver John Mastronardo.

Finishing with the second most chips at the time of the chop was Weiwen Lang with BodogAri ending up third and in fourth was Mark Reynolds.

Just missing the chop but still cashing $104,625 was 2007 WSOP-C Harrah's AC winner John Racener.

Full coverage of the event here.

A video of someone walking down the street in Atlantic City here.

2008 WSOP Guide: You Can Probably Get Laid at Rehab

Much like our bedrooms were to single women in the 90's, there's something about Rehab at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas that makes the ladies do absolutely vile things they'd never even consider doing at any other time.

And we're not just talking about anal here.

Sex in pools. PCB Spring Break levels of drunkenness. Hotly licking the cover of Racket Magazine with a near perfect ass.

All of this makes Rehab the absolutely perfect place to drown your 2008 WSOP sorrows. Or just be a totally decadent-sex-in-pool-having-really-hope-they-don't-have-video-of-this-degenerate.

Rehab Las Vegas video

Borgata $500k Guaranteed Poker Tournament Impresses, Final Table Underway - UPDATED

We give Atlantic Shitty a lot of crap for being a craphole because it is a craphole. Seriously people take craps right on the street. We don't make this stuff up, we've seen it happen. But there is one shiny beacon in the shitheap and that is the Borgata.

From being serviced by decently hot cocktail waitresses (such as Margarita at right) to devouring a big ole juicy 36 oz. Gotham from Old Homestead to pruning ourselves in one of the deep tubs in an opus suite and placing a wager on the Jets game in the Borgata Sports Book/Poker Room, we love ourselves some Borgata every once in awhile. And best of all, when we're at the Borg, we don't feel like we're gonna get knifed every time we walk out to our cars. Little things like that make the difference.

Anyway, all this is an indirect way to get to the point that the Borgata is hosting its deep stack $500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool poker tournament this week, and proving once again it knows how to do things right, it drew an impressive 775 runners (including Curb star Cheryl Hines) to the $2,000 buy-in tournament, pumping the prize purse up to $1.55 million. Contrast that with PokerStars LAPT Rio event that only drew 314 players for a smallish $785,000 prize pool and you have an economic comparison study between the First World and the transitional, emerging, developing or whatever you call the second-ish world countries of Latin America.

The event, which started on Sunday, is down to its final 10 players competing for the $395,095 first place prize, and it looks exactly like what you'd expect from an east coast tournament, with a Russian, Asian and a little bit of an Arab-Israeli conflict going on at the table. Most notable of the group is Alan Engel, aka Bodog Ari, who is stacked in the middle with 1.8 million in chips. We've always been big fans of the kid, for keeping a relatively low profile while kicking ass online and having some occasional insightful non-poker stuff to say on his blog here. So good luck to him.

Here's how the final table is lined up at the Borgata today:

1 Matthew Milliken -- Madison, WI -- $3,578,000
2 Kambiz Behbahani -- Fairfax Station, VA -- $2,773,000
3 Harry Frankel -- Monsey, NY -- $2,112,000
4 Mark Reynolds -- Eldersburg, MD -- $1,866,000
5 Alan Engel -- Las Vegas, NV -- $1,809,000
6 Hamid Michael Hakami -- Baltimore, MD -- $1,745,000
7 Eric Siegel -- Melville, NY -- $1,004,000
8 Mihail Stoykov -- Philadelphia, PA -- $935,000
9 Steve Ryan -- Lake Ronkonkoma, NY -- $800,000
10 Jin Chung -- New York, NY -- $785,000

Stay posted here for results from today's final table at the Borgata.

UPDATE: So what do we know? The above wasn't the final table but just the top 10 of the final 21? going into today. The Borgata site (here) made it look otherwise. Thanks to the guys at LivePokerRadio.com for cluing us in. Go here for their live updates from the floor of the Borg. Last we looked they were down to 7 players, with BodogAri one of them, and they were discussing a chop. Or more like arguing one as players talk taxes and shit. Good luck with that.

Photo above of mouthfully-named Borgata employee Margarita Kobilianets from the Babes of Borgata 2008 Calendar.

No-Namer from the Netherlands Wins LAPT Rio

Julien Nuijten, a 19-year-old total relative unknown from Amsterdam, Holland, has won the first event of the Latin American Poker Tour, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Nuijten, who reportedly played the $2,500 buy-in poker tournament on a whim, started final table play as the chip leader and commanded his way to the title and $222,940 payday, which should be enough to buy him some sweet clogs, a field of tulips and loads of hash back home. And maybe a windmill or two. According to the PokerStars folks, Nuijten is a high-stakes poker player online and is a former Magic: The Gathering world champion, thus joining the ranks of fantasy wizard geeks turned cardtossers like David Williams, Noah Boeken, Dario Minieri, Eric "Efro" Froelich and Adam Levy.

Finishing in second for $117,750 was Russian-American Vitaly Kovyazin, who isn't a cab driver like we had assumed earlier but we were right that he is from Brooklyn where he is a "construction manager." So we probably got the Red Mafia part correct too. Which means we'll shut up now.

Alex Brenes, the brother of the insufferably annoying Humberto Brenes, finished fourth, earning $62,800.

The results from the final nine below:

1st -- Julien Nuijten (Holland) -- $223,000
2nd -- Vitaly Kovyazin (United States) -- $117,750
3rd -- Nikolai Senniger (Germany) -- $86,350
4th -- Alex Brenes (Costa Rica) -- $62,800
5th -- Oliver Kugler (Germany) -- $47,100
6th -- Eduardo Henriques (Brazil) -- $31,400
7th -- Rafael Pardo (Colombia)  -- $23,500
8th -- Juan Carlos Burguillos (Venezuela) -- $15,700
9th -- Severin Walser (Switzerland) -- $11,775

The next LAPT event is in San Jose, Costa Rica, scheduled for May 22-24.

Gratuitous Brazilian supermodel above is Raica Oliveira, who famously dated soccer star Ronaldo before he was into the whole transvestite hookers thing See lots more of Raica here.

Poker News: Latest on Ultimate Bet Superuser Scandal, Bloggers on WSOP Final Table, ZeeJustin Joins Bodog + More

:: Nat Arem stands by Ultimate Bet on superuser scandal (Click here)

:: Up for Poker's Otis makes case against WSOP Final Table delay (Click here)

:: Haley's Poker Bl-Aughh! cuts through some of the Harrahs BS (Click here)

:: Short-stacked Shamus asks the "bastardization" question (Click here)

:: Micon thinks Jeffrey Pollack is monkey fuck-ing around (Click here)

:: Justin Bonomo zeejoins Team Bodog (Click here)

:: Poker Players Alliance to p-diddy for voters with "If You Play, Have a Say" campaign at WSOP (Click here)

:: Redada en un club de póquer de Barcelona (Click here)

:: Coast to Coast Poker Championship kicks off in America's Hat (Click here)

:: Curb Your Enthusiasm's Cheryl Hines pretties up the Borgata's Sunday $500k guaranteed event (Click here)

:: Vind en nat med Philip Hilm på eksklusivt hotel (Click here)

:: Photographic evidence of Bar Rafaeli's hotness in a bikini (Click here)

:: Video evidence that kids walking around dizzy can be hazardous to poles (Click here)

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LAPT Rio Final Table Not So Hot, Very Much Unlike Brazilian Model Fabiana Tambosi

The Latin American Poker Tour's debut event in Rio de Janiero, Brazil has reached its final table after two full days of play at Intercontinental Hotel, located just off the beach where the hiked-up-the-culo bikini bottom was born and where it's apparently cool for pervs with video cameras to film young girls wearing next to nothing while making creepy humming noises.

The $2,500 buy-in event has a not-so-impressive $785,000 prize pool and drew 314 players, almost half of who came from the home country of Brazil, with US Americans making up the second largest contingent and Argentinians third.

Despite the decent turnout of Brazilians, disappointingly only one has made the final table, Eduardo Henrique, and we're gonna go out on a limb and say Eduardo is really annoying, like probably on the same level as Humberto Brenes annoying, who's brother Alex by the way is also at the final table. Perhaps we're wrong about him (likely not) but it's just that every photo we've seen of this cacafuego he's got that Mattias Andersson thing going on acting like he just scored the winning goal in a World Cup final. Painful. Hey Maridu, please smack him the next time he does that.

Leading the final table today is Holland's Julien Nuijten with 970,000 in chips. That's pretty much all we got on him. Second in chips is the sole "US American" Vitaly Kovyazin (380,000), who we haven't read any bio info on but can confidently say he's a Russian cab driver who lives in Brooklyn and has some ties to the Red mafia, fought against the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 80s and bought his wife in Kiev for about 4000 rubles, some denims and a couple of cartons of Marlboros. We're also gonna guess he knows Glum Girl Gromenkova.

Rounding out the final table and gunning for the first place prize of $222,940 are two Germans (somehow), a Swiss player, a Colombian and a Venezuelan.

Follow the action today in Portuguese here.

Photos above and below of stereotypically stunning Brazilian model Fabiana Tambosi, who like pretty much everyone at the LAPT final table we had no idea existed until today.

2008 WSOP Guide: Best Strip Clubs in Las Vegas

If you're coming to Las Vegas to play some poker at the 2008 WSOP, chances are you'll likely have some free-time on your hands after you got knocked out of a tourney or in between events.

And since you're in Vegas, you're almost contractually obligated to visit one of the city's fine strip club establishments.

With so many choices, where should you go? Below is a video featuring the Best Strip Clubs in Vegas. It's a list that would make anyone over at Bluff Magazine proud.

Related posts:

2008 WSOP Schedule of Events
Live Blogging from the 2008 WSOP Media Conference Call
WSOP to Announce Delayed Main Event Final Table

Latin American Poker Tour Rio Starts Mañana

The country that has given us super-smoking hot supermodels like Adriana Lima and paved the way for girls everywhere to painfully have hot wax poured all over their fagina area and pretty much every square inch nearby except for a tiny strip up front then ripped away, solely for our benefit, is set to host the first stop of the Latin American Poker Tour.

The $2,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em poker tournament is being held May 3-5 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and on hand are an expected 300 runners including a host of South of the Border and US American poker pros including Brazilian Andre Akkari, 2004 WSOP champ Greg Raymer, 2003 WSOP Champ Chris Moneymaker, Victor Ramdin, Isabelle Mercier, a woman, Vanessa Rousso, a woman who went to Duke where she studied at Duke, Chad Brown, Gavin Griffin and the insufferably annoying Humberto Brenes.

We assume Federal, our favorite assassin-looking Brazilian friend, will be there as well.

We were going to post a promotional video for the LAPT Rio we found over at the blog FOWCP Maridu writes but the embed didn't quite work, so in lieu click here for another video we found from Brazil. Tad NSFW but it's the weekend so click away.

2008 WSOP Schedule of Events Brought to You by Miranda Kerr

Miranda Kerr is a 25 year-old Victoria's Secret Angel. She's from Australia, which means she also has a super-cute Australian accent. Australia is the home of 2005 WSOP Main Event champ "Salty" Joe Hachem. "Salty" Joe Hachem is called "Salty" Joe because he's salty. We have no idea whether or not Miranda Kerr is salty. However we do now she is smoking hot and looks even better in a bikini. We also know that by 1997 Kerr won a nation-wide model search hosted by Dolly Magazine and Impulse fragrances, which despite how hot she is, probably wasn't hard because Australia only has like 100,000 people and half of those are Aboriginese.

As you've likely figured out by now, Vanessa Rousso went to Duke Miranda Kerr is bringing you today's 2008 WSOP Guide. Today's helper: a schedule of all 2008 WSOP bracelet events. There are 55 of them. Please note that the we've updated the 2008 WSOP Main Event final table to reflect the new November dates.

Allen Cunningham Wins WSOP-C Caesar's Palace

We're not going to spend a lot of time on this one. That marathon live blogging session took its toll.

So...Full Tilt poker pro Allen Cunningham won the WSOP-C in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.

This is Cunningham's first WSOP-C title. He beat Ben Fineman for the title. And he won $499,162.

Justin Bonomo finished fifth for $96,612. The uber-present Blair Hinkle finished seventh and banked $80,510. Ralph Perry came in eight ($48,306) and Doug Lee came in ninth ($32,204).

Get full final table payouts from Poker News here.

Keeley Hazell BBC Bikini Photoshoot Video Makes for a Good Post

We didn't have any luck finding a photo of Kathleen Hennessey, but we did find the below video of Keeley Hazell doing some bikini photoshoot on BBC Three in the UK while we were painfully live blogging the WSOP media conference call. So we have that going for us.

We don't really watch Keeley Hazell videos with the volume up, it ruins our focus, especially if she's singing, so we're not quite sure what's up with the photograher dude talking and the young blonde girl with the sort of pudgy face and boobs just kind of staring at Keeley the whole time. Was this some sort of Make a Wish thing for her? If so, we wish her well, and we're glad she lived long enough to see what perfect 32Es look like in person.

Watch the video after the jump . . .