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Phil Ivey gets High Stakes Poker room named after him

May 24th, 2010

Pokerbloggs.com is starting a weekly “Poker Industry Updates” with a couple or several blurbs a week of what’s going on online and live in the poker scene.

On Saturday night Aria Resort & Casino at CityCenter opened up “Ivey’s Room” a high stakes poker room.

Pokernews interview with Phil Ivey at the opening of his namesake high stakes poker room

In other happenings, Annette Obrestad gets her own blog at Full Tilt Poker. You can visit Annette’s blog here. Annette recently signed with Full Tilt Poker and is getting ready to play in her first WSOP in United States. Annette is one of James’ favorites to take down or run deep in the 2010 WSOP.

Ali Tekintamgac from Germany has taken down the World Poker Tour Spanish Championship and a nice €315,000 plus a seat in the WPT World Championship!

Here are the results of the World Poker Tour Spanish Championship
1: Ali Tekintamgac — €315,000
2: Roberto Santiago — €160,000
3: Erik Iremark — €81,000
4: Manuel Blaschke — €71,000
5: Mads Hansen — €61,000
6: Tristan Clemencon — €51,000
7: Emil Mattsson — €41,000
8: Bartolome Romero — €31,000
9: Manuel Cozar — €21,400