Cardrunners pro Brian "Stinger885" Hastings decided to play poker the other day and ended up winning $190,000+ over 2,500+ hands at only 20/50PLO.  Mostly headsup but there were also some 6max games mixed in there.  Thats a sicko 38+ buyins!!!  You can learn all that from cardrunners, and also get a nice free tshirt just by signing up.

Some not so great news for Poker Training site PokerSavvyPlus, one of their lead instructors Dani "Ansky" Stern will no longer be making videos for them. Its too bad as he's been widely regarded as one of the best NLH video instructors in the industry today. As posted in his blog:

For the last 2 years I have made instructional videos and written articles for PokerSavvy+. I've made good relationships with the company, and thoroughly enjoyed both my work with PokerSavvy, as well as the community that has supported me over this time. However, the launch of my new TV show has opened up some new promotional opportunities for me that make staying at PokerSavvy impossible right now. As such, I’ve decided I need to move on to pursue those opportunities.

I want to thank PokerSavvy and its community for all the support over the last two years. I've been grateful for the positive feedback and the connections I've made.
PokerSavvy and its community have been very good to me and I’m sad to leave
them behind. I hope that I've been able to help many community members improve
their game. I know that making these videos has helped me improve mine.
PokerSavvy has always provided great content and I expect nothing but the same
to continue moving forward.

Thanks again. Stay tuned for more great pros and videos from PokerSavvy. And watch out for me in more pink tutus on TV.

Dani Stern

You can continue to watch Dani on G4TV's 2 Months 2 Million for now.  The first 3 episodes have been pretty good so far.  Something tells me that this might not be the end of Ansky making poker videos, stay tuned...

Finally, Canadians are now welcome to play at Bodog !!!  Bodog.ca is now open for registration to Canucks.  After Calvin Ayre retired from the gambling operations of his massive enterprise, this clears the way for Canadians to play on the Costa Rican based Poker Room, Casino, and Sportsbook.  Click here to read more information on Bodog

A new poker training company is hitting the web hard this month and they are know as "poker training network".  They are a self described multi-level marketing company looking to target poker players by selling them monthly training packages.  To be an affiliate you need to buy a package for up to $399 + $49.99/month.

Their website is really vague at this point as they are pre launching and now soft launching.  Poker Training Network says they have video training for affiliates but those videos are pretty fluffy and do not say anything of substance you couldn't find else where on the web.  I have found about 5-6 different domains and various social networking pages all pumping this revolutionary poker training network product. It sounds like they are using the name Poker Edge software as their name brand product and its very similar to the existing poker edge products that many online poker players use so we will see if there is a name conflict it he coming days.

I needed to write a quick news item as people are starting to search to see if these guys are legit. At this point do not believe anything they say until we have done our poker training network review and give you the straight answer on if its worth it or not.

So stay tuned for more poker training network MLM reviews and news to see where this shakes out.  I can say one thing about them; their budget seems to be big and they try to portray a large legitimate business.

G4 Cable station premiered their new series 2 months, 2 million last Sunday night.  The premise of the show is to showcase four online poker players attempt at making 2 million dollars in 2 months as the title so eloquently suggests.

Brian “Flawless_Victory” Roberts, Jason “pr1nnyraid” Rosenkrantz, and Dani “Ansky” Stern, and Emil “whitelime” Patel are the cast of online poker pros who are trying to make it big. Three of the pros are working for Deuces Cracked by producing high quality poker training videos so they do have a small chance of making the 2 million dollars in the next couple months. The first episode was 22 minutes long and was jam packed with reality style footage of them playing poker, making prop bets, and going clubbing.  It did seem that they were trying a bit too hard in front of the camera but the premise of the show still showed a lot of promise.  They have ten episodes in total planned over the next 10 weeks.

Each player is held accountable for pulling their own weight by a weekly prop bet that makes the player who makes the least or losses the most do something embarrassing in public.  I won't ruin who lost the first month but it was pretty funny to watch the outcome of the lost prop bet.  I also really like their "tilt room" that they use when the players need to blow off some steam, that alone might be worth watching the show.

Poker Training Guide does recommend you check it out as its good for poker and their is a lot of potential in the new poker series 2 months, 2 million.