Tournament director Matt Savage interviews Daniel Negreanu on Day 2 of the 2010 Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament.

Phil Laak bets Gavin Smith $700 that he can’t stuff 15 marshmallows in his mouth in 150 seconds, and Gavin tries his best to prove Phil wrong!

Tom Dwan

Realistically, I thought it would take him a lot longer.

Last Saturday, Tom “durrrr” Dwan won more than $1.3 million crushing PixKim, Di “Urindanger” Dang, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Brian Hastings and Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro. With the win, Dwan has recovered almost all of the $5.5 million he lost to Isildur1 last year. Since Dec. 1, he’s up $4.9 million online — no one has won more in that same time.

Durrrr is also up about $1.75 million in his Million Dollar Challenge against Patrik Antonius with less than 17,000 hands to play. It’s an almost insurmountable lead, and Antonius would have to go on the heater of all heaters to not have to pay the extra $500,000. Who knows if Antonius will even attempt to play the rest of the challenge and just pay up, either way, durrrr looks to add a healthy amount to his ever-growing bankroll.

It’s meteoric rise for durrrr, who less than five months ago was on a $5 million downswing courtesy of Isildur1.

Anyone who doubted Dwan’s ability — and I’ll count myself as one of those — can back off some. He’s clearly one of the best poker players in the world.

Six masked men, armed with guns and machetes rushed mid-day Saturday into the Berlin Grand Hyatt hotel trying to steal about €240,000 in entry fees.

See how one security man tries his best and nearly succeeds in stopping them. An exclusive report from german TV, for the first time with english subtitles!

Poker pros Howard Lederer, Jennifer Harman, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson and Layne Flack share their thoughts and tips on the art of bluffing.

On the last episode Jason Mercier received a warm welcome and wasted no time with sending chips to Tom Dwan. Daniel Negreanu tried to break his high stakes curse and sucked out to Durrr to get his money back. Check out this weeks High Stakes action.

In reports, masked men armed with guns and machetes rushed mid-day Saturday into the casino at the Berlin Grand Hyatt hotel trying to steal about €240,000 in entry fees.

My friends said they heard no guns and saw no machetes being held by the robbers. In fact, a bunch of the poker players didn’t even come in contact with the robbers, who were down the hall at the tournament registration area.

Here’s the scene from behind the tournament registration area, which you can see one of the robbers getting caught by a casino official, who releases him/her when another bandit threatens him with what looks like a rope stand — and definitely not like a gun or machete.

Here’s video of the poker room as the robbery is taking place:

In case you’re wondering, when play resumed tournament directors offered players the option to take their chips back in any active hand and declare it dead. Also, there’s no indication that any prize money is being withheld from any of the tournaments.

Here’s the statement from tournament organizers:

“Yesterday at approximately 2:15 p.m., an armed robbery took place at the European Poker Tour (EPT) event in Berlin. Nobody was seriously injured.

No shots were fired and the suspects quickly fled after a security guard intervened. The police investigation so far has shown that the suspects had a handgun and a machete. Contrary to tabloid reports, no Kalashnikov assault rifles or hand grenades were used. The suspects did not enter the tournament area and the money taken was substantially less than what has been reported.”

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A gang of masked robbers stormed in armed with automatic weapons and machetes during this weekends EPT tournament at the luxurious Grand Hyatt hotel and casino in central Berlin. Luckily no one was seriously harmed during this dreadful event, but, it does bring a whole new meaning to the concept of ‘Rush poker’.

The robbers are believed to have gotten away with roughly one million euro.

This video was recorded as it happened on eptlive.com at March 06 2010.

Vanessa Rousso goes up against Father Andrew Trapp, coached by Daniel Negreanu, in this Million Dollar Challenge game.