While she cracked them a day earlier, yesterday Fatima Moreira de Melo also known as Snorro78 lost against pocket aces. With that los her german poker adventure came to an end on day 2 of the tournament.

On day one she found herself in a pot where she started with pocket sevens. What she didn´t know was that her opponent held pocket rockets, the best starting hand available. On the flop she got lucky and hit her set of sevens which gave her the pot win.

Poker babe and former professional hockey player Fatima Moreira de Melo is ready for the next step in her poker career. Next month she will be participating in the European Poker Tour in Berlin. Last month Fatima won more then $20.000 in a online poker event.

Fatima has developed a great talent to play poker. In a rapid pace she reached the dutch poker top. A ninth place in the Dutch Master Classics of Poker, a 12th place in the Dutch Chapionships and most recently winning the online poker event is the living proof of this.

The online victory was an absolute boost in confidence, she stated. Since her online victory she tried to change her game slightly to bring a litle more aggression in her play.

Alan Lake, a british engineer of Thorney Leys, won the Sunday Warm Up on PokerStars after a nine hour tournament. The tournament started with 4.557 competitors.

He said: “It was quite surreal really. You start on with nine people at a table, and you play until there is only one table with nine people who have knocked all the others out. As each person was knocked out, I was looking at how much money there was."

May you be in search of some valuable domain names, poker.org isn't available anymore. Domain selling platform Sedo sold the domain name for $1 million to PokerCompany.com. Never before that much was paid for a dot org domain.

PokerCompany allready owned the domains BlackJack.org, EveryPoker.com en RakeBack.org, well known names for everyone with a gambling habit and a credit card.

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$1 million may be a record for a dot org extension, but for a dot com extension you have to pull a much bigger wallet. For example, Insure.com swapped owners last year for a stunning $16 million and Sex.com was sold for $14 million in 2004.

On March 18th, the worlds most famous domain again goes under the hammer because current owner Escom seems to have some financial problems. If your interested you first have to deposit $1 million to the New York law firm Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf.

Again, this years EPT in Denmark was stuffed with lots of well known poker players. One of them was the eccentric Betrand “ElkY” Grospellier.

This formerly professional video gamer won millions playing online poker for the past years and also in live games he managed to achieve some big results.

"Elky" won $3.4 million in 2008 by winning the WPT Championship and the PCA on the Bahamas. One year later he won $433.500 by dominating the High Rollers Event on the same Carribean island.

High stakes heads up challenges between poker professionals are very common nowadays. Most of all, international top players try to make things interesting by placing so called "challenges" and "propbets".

Bart Spijkers and Lex "RaSZi Veldhuis, both well known dutch poker players, challenged each other to play 30.000 hands online heads up. Who ever will end up with more then he started with, will win the 50.000 euro on top of his winnings.

Most spoken about challenge must be Tom "Durr" Dwan's "Million Dollar Challenge". Dwan challenged anyone to play 50.000 hands against him. If he lost, he would pay his challenger 1.5 million dollar. If he wins, he only claims one third of that amount. Patrick "The Flying Finn" Antonius was the first to challenge Dwan.

In currently 52 sessions, almost 33.000 hands are allready played. Tom Dwan leads by $1.414.551.

Adelaide teenager James Obst collected more then $1.5 million playing online poker since he was only 14. Mostly, he says, playing online poker from a laptop in he's bedroom.

James was introduced to poker by he's friends during an victorian chess tour and he was soon playing more then 10 hours a day online.