Absolute Poker has added new forms of payment for their satellites tourneys. Players will now choose from cash, tournament dollars and AbsolutePoints.

Most online poker rooms have encouraged their players to donate money and all funds will be doubled and sent to different charities that are providing help to Haiti.

This upcoming Friday will be the last day in which players will be able to buy into any UBOC tournament with a 50% discount. The tourneys will start on January 20th and there will be a total of $4 million at stake among all 18 tournaments.

After been in house arrest for more than three years David Carruthers was finally sentenced to 33 months in jail. His sentence was favored by the fact that he pled guilty to the racketeering charges when he was arrested.

The AIDS foundation, amfAR will be hosting a charity tournament that was capped at 39 entries, it will be played tonight at the Atlantis Resort where the PCA is taking place.

Day three started at the PCA and the field was been dramatically reduced, they will play it down until there are 224 players and the money bubble has burst. Many poker pros remain in contention for the top prize which is $2.2 million.

In a strategy that looks for more investment from players, Microgaming has changed it’s rakeback method and consequently the more aggressive players will benefit by receiving a bigger portion of rakeback.

After a long wait PokerStars has finally announced that they will be hosting the North American Poker Tour this year, the first event will take place in the Las Vegas and further details will be announced in the near future.

Full Tilt recently announced that starting on February 10th, their new FTOPS event series will start. There will be over $23 million at stake in a total of twenty seven events.

The PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu has set his goals for 2010, among those goals are winning over a million in live tourneys and moving up on the all-time money list, he set a total of 8 goals for the present year.