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The High Heels Poker Tour (HHPT) is inviting male poker players to one of its poker events for the first time in its history. The HPPT will be co-sponsoring the Battle of the Sexes No-Limit Hold'em poker event on October 10th, 2009 that will be held at the Tampa Bay Downs, Florida to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

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A spokesperson for the High Heels Poker Tour said that they are very proud to be able to create a one-of-a kind poker competition to include everyone, male and female poker players since breast cancer is not a gender specific ailment.

The tournament will feature a unique gaming format that has male and female poker players play separately until only five male and five female players remain in contention. The players will then be combined to a final table of ten. Whoever takes down the poker event will win bragging rights not only for themselves but their entire gender.

The tournament will feature a $100 buy-in with $20 re-buys and an optional $50 add-on at the end of three rounds. Before the Battle of the Sexes tournament, the HHPT will be hosting a $200 No-Limit Hold'em event at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on October 2nd, 2009 as part of its Fall Classic Poker Series.

The High Heels Poker Tour will also be hosting two more poker events in Florida before the end of the year. The HHPT was founded by Lauren Failla in 2007 with the goal of empowering female poker players to become champions in the poker circuit.

10/08/2009, Thursday
Matthew Dorst

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Matthias “iambest2” Eibinger Leads $10,300 High Roller Final Table

It appears Austria is the best country to live in if you want to sample success in High Roller tournaments. That’s because the three players who top the chip counts at the final table of the $10,300 High Roller event all call Austria home.

Matthias “iambest2” Eibinger is the man to catch when the final table gets underway on November 11. Eibinger is regarded as one of the best poker players of his generation and he’s now on course to add a cool $251,174 prize to his already impressive poker resume.

Eibinger returns to the action armed with 6,704,751 chips, slightly less than 1.1 million more than Christian “WATnlos” Rudolph in second-place. The chip leader got lucky when his ace-four cracked Alexandros “Pwndidi” Theologis’ kings but he never looked back after that.

There’s a near two million chip gap between Rudolph and Austria-based grinder Daniel “SmilleThHero” Smiljkovic who has Russian superstar “hello_totti” hot on his heels.

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partypoker Ambassador Mikita “fish2013” Badziakouski has more than 2.5 million chips despite being in fifth-place at the restart. The aforementioned stars are joined by in-form Bert “girafganger7” Stevens, Mike “SirWatts” Watson, high roller crusher Timothy “Tim0thee” Adams, and short-stack Conor “1_conor_b_1” Beresford.

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Everyone is guaranteed at least $33,034 for their efforts so far with the top four finishers banking six-figure prizes. The champion takes home $215,174 and bragging rights over their peers.

You can read up on the Day 1 action via our Live Reporting pages and discover how David “dpeters17” Peters burst the money bubble.

EPT Online 06: $10,300 NLHE [8-Max, High Roller], $1M Gtd Final Table Chip Counts

Place	Player	Country	Chips
1	Matthias “iambest2” Eibinger	Austria	6,704,751
2	Christian “WATnlos” Rudolph	Austria	5,626,653
3	Daniel “SmilleThHero” Smiljkovic	Austria	3,793,541
4	hello_totti	Russia	3,739,093
5	Mikita “fish2013” Badziakouski	Belarus	2,540,686
6	Bert “girafganger7” Stevens	United Kingdom	1,729,524
7	Mike “SirWatts” Watson	Canada	1,321,374
8	Timothy “Tim0thee” Adams	Canada	1,197,681
9	Conor “1_conor_b_1” Beresford	United Kingdom	596,697

Sweden’s “Kihlström” Leads Race For $356K in Arena Championship

Seventy-one players returned to the PokerStars felt for the penultimate day’s action in the $1,050 Arena Championship and only nine of those hopefuls remain in contention for the $356,768 top prize.

Start-of-the-day chip leader Fabio Luiz “FLBonatto” Bonatto ultimately had to make do with the $10,335 prize awarded to the 20th place finisher. We’ll see Bonatto again soon, no doubt, as he’s a former Sunday Million and Platinum Pass winner. It just wasn’t meant to be in this particular event.

Sweden’s “Kihlström” claimed the overnight chip lead and has some serious distance between themselves and the chasing pack. Kihlström’s stack contains 170,012,665 chips, almost double the amount Norway’s “DON JOHAN” has in their arsenal (87,244,397).

While that lead is huge, there are some big names still in contention for the title so the Swede won’t have matter all their own way. Jeiko “JEIK0” Palma is nicely poised in third-place while Russia’s Andrey “drupa-lucker” Chernokoz is still in the hunt.

The final table shuffles up and deals at 19:05 GMT on November 11 under the watchful eyes of the PokerNews Live Reporting team.

EPT Online 01: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Arena Championship], $1.5M Gtd Final Table Chip Counts

Place	Player	Country	Chips
1	Kihlström	Sweden	170,012,665
2	DON JOHAN	Norway	87,244,397
3	Jeiko “JEIK0” Palma	Paraguay	74,096,435
4	MachadinhaRS	Brazil	71,347,493
5	ImTheNuts1	Poland	59,889,077
6	Guilherme 'Guizãoo_' Carmo	Brazil	44,202,079
7	Andrey “drupa-lucker” Chernokoz	Russia	39,268,132
8	Audrius “Stakelis24” Stakelis	Lithuania	38,905,165
9	smoothieg	Canada	21,534,557

Daniel “SmilleThHero” Smiljkovic Wins $2,100 PKO For $113,490

Daniel “SmilleThHero” Smiljkovic took down the $2,100 NLHE 8-Max PKO event and padded his bankroll with a combined prize worth $113,490. Smiljkovic managed to take down this star-studded event while navigating his way to the final table of the $10,300 High Roller; what an absolute boss!

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