Poker player Jake Cody, who recently won the European Poker Tour Deauville, is the new winner of the inaugural World Poker Tour London Poker Classic main event. The 22-year-old British player took home a £273,783 prize and is one step closer to winning poker’s Triple Crown, since all he needs now is to win a World Series of Poker bracelet.

Mark Kroon dreams about playing at the Full Tilt Poker Series tournament tonight. This poker tournament will be taking place during the weekend at the Torrelodones Casino. Kroon, 47, has traveled from Madison (Wisconsin) to face the others 231 poker players who have the same dream he has: to take home the $110.000 reserved for the winner. The buy-in costs $1.600, but 80 of the participants, such as Kroon, have qualified by internet with much lower amount.

The 2010 World Series of Poker, the most important poker event in the world, will be aired as of tonight at 8 p.m. ET on sport channel ESPN. The first episode, which will last two hours, will bring the $50,000 Players Championship, a poker tournament that attracted 116 poker players from all over the world and featured a prize pool of $5.6 million, with $1.5 million for the winner.

On 4th July legendary poker players including Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson, Daniel Negreanu, and Antonio Esfandiari sat on the Tournament of Champions tables to play for the title and the $500,000 jackpot at stake. After 14 hours of poker hands and fierce competition, only one of them was proclaimed the winner of the poker championship: Huck Seed.