A glamorous party at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel And Casino held earlier this month saw celebrities and professional poker players turn out to help celebrate the launch of a new online casino at VictoryPoker.com.

Leading online poker site PokerStars.com celebrated dealing its 40 billionth hand last week and marked the occasion with a series of special promotions that awarded added prizes of almost one million dollars.

Poker players that enjoy beer, wings and beautiful women in tight clothing are being offered a free invitation to the inaugural land-based AbsolutePoker.net Poker Academy in Hollywood tonight.

It took roughly eight hours for the 24 players who started Day 4 of the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Main Event to play down to the eight-handed final table. The player who played the most fearless poker throughout the day was Sam Stein. He was rewarded with the largest stack of the final eight players and will be the only player not capable of being eliminated on the first hand of the final table on Wednesday afternoon.

Table 1 1. Joe Sebok 2. Phil Laak 3. Justin Bonomo 4. David Williams 5. Joe Cassidy 6. Yevgeniy Timoshenko 7. Tommy Vedes

It was a record setting Sunday on PokerStars as the Sunday Million reached an all-time high in number entrants and its prize pool. As part of its 40-billionth-hand celebration and the fourth anniversary of the Sunday Million, a guaranteed $4 Million prize pool was offered.

A new survey from the soon-to-be-launched RealDealPoker.com online poker site has confirmed that its players overwhelmingly expect a fair game on a site that can be trusted.