Challenge Boris Becker In PokerStars Heads-Up

British poker players get an opportunity to play against former tennis star Boris Becker in PokerStars heads-up challenge.

Players will have to go through number of qualifiers before facing Boris where $5,000 and two tickets for the opening day of this year´s Wimbledon will be at stake.

You can find the tournament through selecting Tourney and Regional in the PokerStars lobby or searching for Becker Battleship in the tourney filter.

Cereus Online Poker Network Becomes More Popular

Ultimatebet and Absolute Poker, powered by the Cereus Online Poker Network, have reached number 6 position this week, beating Everest Poker.

It was reported last week that Cereus was just barely fighting off Microgaming’s poker network for number 7 spot. This week, Cereus has 400 average real cash player lead over Microgaming, which is at number 8.

Titan Poker Freeroll

A $20,000 Titan Poker freeroll is available for new clients who make first deposit in June 2009. All new depositors in June will receive 4 Year of World Poker Satellite tournament tokens.

Year of World Poker Satellites will be staged throughout the month, and each satellite will award 50 places to the Year of World Poker Freeroll tournament on July 2. The winner of that Freeroll will win a $35,000 Package including:

- Asian Poker Tour Macau
- ECPokerTour
- Irish Winter Festival
- Irish Open 2010
- World Series of Poker Main Event 2010

Vitaly Lunkin Wins $1.9M

Vitaly Lunkin from Russia won $1.89 million at the World Series of Poker. This is his second gold bracelet after topping 201 of the world’s top players over four days.

“It was the most difficult tournament of my life,” Lunkin said. “Every player at the table was a star.”