Jamie Gold Leaves Aced Poker and Joins Poker Icons

A short while ago Jamie Gold signed what was said to be the biggest online poker sponsorship deal with new poker room Aced Poker.  Well a few months and Jamie Gold bounty tournaments later, it seems that Jamie Gold has left the emerging poker room.  Apparently, after the original press release the Aced Poker team was difficult to reach and Gold’s agent started to feel that the whole thing was just a publicity stunt.  Aced Poker implied that they may not be able to pay what they had agreed to and Gold’s agent instructed Jamie to pull out of the deal.  Gold did just that and after about 3 months the relationship between Jamie Gold and Aced has finished.  This is just the story from Jamie Gold’s agent though.  Aced Poker representatives say that they had every intention to continue with Jamie Gold, but he decided to pull out of the deal.

Some of the happier moments of Jamie Gold’s partnership with Aced included the initial announcement that took the poker world by storm and the Aced Poker team victory at the second Dream Team poker event where Jamie Gold led the team to victory.

Jamie Gold apparently didn’t like what was going on with his agent because it has been reported that Jamie split from her and joined a more popular poker pro agency, Poker Icons.  This move makes it seem like Jamie did not like the way his agent handled the whole Aced Poker fiasco.

Even after this unfortunate event Aced Poker is still a strong poker room in the online poker world.  Read a full Aced Poker review to learn more.

Full Tilt Poker Brings Back the $25K Heads Up Championship

After the success of the last $25K NL Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha heads up championships Full TIlt Poker is bringing back the $25K no limit heads up tourney.  The best heads up players from around the world are sure to compete in this big online event including Full Tilt Poker professionals like Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen and Patrik Antonius.  The last time this tournament ran David Singer took down the title when he beat “whitelime” in the finals.  The other two notable mentions included Andy Bloch and Brian Hastings.

This tournament is set to begin at 3Pm EST on Saturday May the 23rd.  The tourney will play down to the final four and then go on break for the evening.  The final four will go back at it at 4pm EST on Sunday the 24th and play down to a champion.  There will likely be sweat tournaments again where you can play in the semi-finalist’s tourney who you think will win it all.  Then if you win your sweat tournament and your player wins the $25K heads up championship you will win an extra prize.

Check out all the action at Full Tilt Poker.  If you are new use Full Tilt referral code “THEFULLTILT‘ when signing up to get your 100% up to $600 bonus on your first deposit.

This tournament could be what brings a relative unknown into the poker spotlight.  Make sure to book the weekend off in order to rail all of this high stake heads up poker action.