Patrik Antonius Signs Online Poker Deal with Full Tilt; Kathy Liebert Joins Poker Stars

Two big names in tournament poker have officially signed on with the two largest online poker rooms.

Today it was announced that Patrik Antonius inked a deal with Full Tilt Poker and Kathy Liebert joined team Poker Stars.

Both Antonius and Liebert will be playing at the final table of 2008 WSOP Event #1 ($10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em). Final table play begins shortly. Read our recap of Event #1 here and get live blogging of the final table here.

Read more on Patrik Antonius at Poker News here. Read Kathy Liebert's kind of sort of press release after the jump.

Catch back for RawVegas.tv's Patrik Antonius vlog in an hour or so.

UPDATE: Patrik's vlog below.

Patrik Antonius Full Tilt Poker video blog

* Photo credit PokerNews.com.

Kathy Liebert will be looking to earn her second WSOP bracelet under the
PokerStars brand.  Liebert enters today’s $10k Pot-Limit Hold’em WSOP final
table with 285k in chips, as the only woman on the table.

PokerStars is excited about working with Liebert again is and is confident that
she will add to the PokerStars gold bracelet count when the final card hits
tonight.

Kathy Liebert is first on the Women's All Time Money List with over $4 million
in tournament winnings to-date. She won the $1,500 Hold 'Em Shoot Event at the
2004 World Series of Poker. She was one of three women to win an open event in
that year's WSOP and is looking to be the first player to win a bracelet in
2008.

Although Liebert has made a career out of poker, she still uses her financial
acumen to invest in the stock market.  She also holds a blue belt in karate.

Liebert can be found playing at PokerStars under the name “Luckat.”