Perhaps getting lucky in love has brought a little luck to David Benyamine's poker game as well. The pro, who got engaged earlier this year to fellow Full Tilt Poker pro Erica Schoenberg, had quite the productive week online.

According to HighStakesReport.com and HighStakesdb.com, Benyamine has had several winning sessions of hundreds of thousands of dollars this past week.

His streak for the week began Aug. 4 when he picked up $314,000 over 21 sessions of Pot-Limit Omaha on Full Tilt Poker. Most of that money came from EDEE's wallet.

EDEE ended up losing about $500k for the day to various opponents online. About $100k of his losses were from one of his hands against Benyamine. Women poker players.

Benyamine was in the small blind with EDEE in the big blind, and Benyamine calls the big blind. EDEE raises it up to $1,200, which Benyamine promptly calls.

The flop comes 6c-8d-Qs, and EDEE bets $2,400 with Benyamine calling.

The turn brings a king of spades, and EDEE checks and then raises it to $16,800 after Benyamine bets $3,200. Benyamine then goes all-in and gets a call from EDEE. Play $500 match poker bonus.

Benyamine turns up 7c-5c-8c-8s to EDEE's 9s-8h-Js-Ah. The river pairs up the queen on the board giving Benyamine a full house and the $100,792 pot.

He rolled in some more cash on Tuesday with a little $1,000/$2,000 H.O.R.S.E. action on the poker site as well.

At a table that also included Eli Elezra and Doyle Brunson, Benyamine boosted his bankroll by $143,000 during the session. Brunson, who plays as texdolly, also pulled off a $69k win, while Elezra put a $142,000 dent in his bankroll according to HighStakesReport.com.

Benyamine was back at a little H.O.R.S.E. play the following day and his winning ways were still with him. Play route 66 poker.

Elezra returned for a little more punishment, and Gus Hansen and Andy Bloch also took a seat at Benyamine's table. After 620 hands of play, Benyamine was up another $163,000, while Elezra took a $22,000 hit, and Hansen was down $81,000. Download poker wallpapers.

The next day Benyamine took on the $200/$400 Pot-Limit Omaha, but didn't get the same results. Sitting at a table with Hansen again, Benyamine lost $129,000, while Hansen more than made up for his H.O.R.S.E. loss with a $432,000 winning session.

Switching to $1,000/$2,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo that same day, Benyamine got his revenge and took a big chunk of his $427,000 winnings from that session directly from Gus Hansen's pocket. Hansen shipped $293,000 over to Benyamine during the game. Stay tuned to our poker blog for latest updates.

Andy Bloch even joined in and ended up losing $74,000 in the process.

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The Bar Poker League will have venues in Wisconsin starting in September, according to the league's creator the World Poker Store.

WPS announced this week it had expanded into Wisconsin, spreading its services and the Bar Poker League even further across the U.S. It also opened up another corporate office in Fort Myers, Fla., in order to support the Bar Poker League and gaming partners in the Southeast.

"As part of the company's growth initiatives, offices in Minnesota, The Netherlands and now Florida will serve as headquarters for operations in their respective regions both domestic and overseas," says the company in a press release. Women poker.

According to Greg Needham, WPS vice president of marketing and business development, the company felt another office in Florida was necessary to support the multiple business models in each are the company has expanded into. Play $500 match poker bonus.

"The expansion of the league to Wisconsin is a prime example of how our Minnesota offices will allow us to open throughout the Midwest, and we expect similar impact in Europe and the Southeast region of the U.S.," Needham said.

"We are excited to launch the league in Wisconsin and look forward to adding more venues to the Bar Poker League poker tournament family."

The company already had successful operations running in Minnesota and Florida before heading into Wisconsin and Europe. There are also plans to expand the league into 23 other U.S. states where it will be legal to set up the games.

The league continues to add new members and open new venues for its free No-Limit Hold'em games as well. It currently has more than 100 tournaments running per week in bars and restaurants. Online poker.

To help with expansion and taking the Bar Poker League and the World Poker Store into the future, the company recently added several top poker pros from around the world to its advisory board.

Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, Marcel Luske, Hoyt Corkins, Patrik Antonius and Liz Lieu have all signed on to advise the company on current poker trends as well as make promotional appearances wearing the WPS logo. Stay tuned to our poker blog for latest updates.

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NETeller's U.S. customers who had money frozen in their accounts for more than six months are already seeing results as withdrawal procedures finally became available on Monday. Several customers have reported the money is already in their bank accounts.

Poker pro and author Lou Krieger, who reported in his blog on Monday that he had received the e-mail from NETeller and started the process to withdraw funds, reported yesterday the money was already in his account. Download poker wallpapers.

"I'm happy to report that those funds were transferred to my checking account today, no more than 24 hours after I requested them," he wrote.

He said he's glad it worked out as well as it did and hopes every U.S.-based customer has access to their funds as quickly as he did.

"Sometimes speed doesn't kill. Sometimes it's wonderful," Kreiger said.

He isn't the only one reporting positive results. Members of the NETeller Customer Coalition are reporting successful withdrawals already as well. Play route 66 poker.

The group's forum is filling up with comments about a less than 24-hour turnaround in some cases to seeing their funds deposited in bank accounts.

When the group was first formed, the moderator told PokerListings.com that members had a total of more than $500,000 locked up in NETeller after U.S. customer accounts associated with online poker & gambling were frozen. The group has since grown to more than 800 members looking to get their money from the e-wallet.

Now that people are getting their money back, the moderator of the group chose to step down and said the forum will be shut down in a few months once most of its members have received their money. He also pointed them to another site to continue their support of poker and each other.

One of his parting comments was to encourage members to support poker players rights to gamble online.

"On behalf of the poker players & women poker players out there, I DO think there is one last thing you should do if you haven't done it already," he writes in the forum.

"You've got 'found money,' put it to good use. Outside of finding me at a poker table and donking some cash to me (which would be much appreciated), join and donate some money to the Poker Players Alliance. They have 800k members to our 800 and are truly working the bigger issue."

To request funds, after U.S. customers receive an e-mail from NETeller, they can sign into their accounts and request the release of their funds.

U.S. customers will have until Jan. 26, 2008, to make their request and have funds transferred to the bank account on record or sent to their mailing address in check form. NETeller will not charge withdrawal fees. Play $500 match poker bonus.

"As NETeller is rturning $94 million to hundreds of thousands of U.S. customers, it will take some time for all payments to be processed," says the e-wallet on its site.


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