Bouncing around the web...

Wicked Chops Poker finds the Full Tilt Online Poker Series Main Event champ (who banked over $400,000 in his win) and give dubbeemin his due interview. From the sounds of the chat with WCP, other players won't be seeing that $400,000 on the tables anytime soon:

WCP: Will you please invest your winnings wisely and not gamble it all away? dub: I'll go ahead and pre-apologize to the people in the poker community that thought they were going to get a $400,000+ infusion...it's not happening. Come get what you can from me at the tables on Full Tilt, but I'm looking at houses.

PokerStars is holding the Scandinavian Poker Awards on the continued success of their European Poker Tour (EPT). Season five is starting off in beautiful Barcelona, Spain on September 10th with the award ceremony honoring the best EPT players from season four on the 9th. Here's the press release below:

EPT SEASON 5 LAUNCHES WITH FIRST POKERSTARS EPT AWARDS PokerStars EPT Awards - rewarding players for their achievements during EPT Season 4

Douglas, isle of man, AUGUST 18, 2008; PokerStars, the world's largest
online poker room, is launching the first European Poker Tour Awards, being
held on the eve of the EPT opening event in Barcelona. The ceremony will
honor the best players from the entire EPT season 4. Team PokerStars Pro
Daniel Negreanu will be hosting the awards alongside Gloria Balding.

The EPT Barcelona Open is being held at the Gran Casino Barcelona from
September 10-14 with the EPT Awards ceremony taking place at the stylish
Opium Mar in Barcelona, on September 9. The launch of the EPT Awards follows
the success of the PokerStars.com Scandinavian Poker Awards which takes
place annually in Copenhagen.

There will be seven EPT award categories, including two where the voting is
open to the general public and all EPT accredited media. An expert panel of
judges will preside over the remaining five categories.

The People's Choice Award and the Poker Writer's Award will open to voting
on the official EPT website; www.ept.com/awards/index.html from August 18 -
29, 2008. The People's Choice Award will be open to the public, and has been
described by EPT Executive Producer John Duthie as "the public's chance to
pick any player who competed in EPT Season 4 to win this special award." The
Poker Writer's Award invites all accredited media to vote for the player
they have most enjoyed writing about or interviewing during EPT Season 4.
Voting for both these categories will remain open until August 29, 2008.

The remaining five categories are:

* Best Newcomer
* Best Performance
* Best Overseas Player
* Best PokerStars Qualifier
* Player of the Year

There are five nominees in each category, and an expert panel of four
judges will make their decisions based on each nominee's performance during
EPT season 4. Among those up for an award are: Norwegian Trond Erik Eidsvig,
who made three final tables in his first EPT season, Briton Julian Thew, who
won EPT Baden, Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier from France,
who won the PCA, and Hungarian Denes Kalo who came 2nd in two EPT events
including the Monte Carlo Grand Final.

The judging panel is made up of the following: John Duthie (Executive
Producer of The EPT), Lee Jones (former PokerStars.com Card Room Manager),
Victoria Coren (writer, TV presenter & Team PokerStars Pro member) and John
Caldwell (Editor-in-Chief of PokerNews).

About PokerStars:

PokerStars (www.pokerstars.net) is not just the world's largest online
poker room (with 14 million players worldwide) - it's also the world's
leading poker tournament site. This makes PokerStars the premier destination
for the world's top players - with over 100,000 tournaments running every
day. PokerStars is world-renowned for offering the highest levels of
security in the online poker world. To date, PokerStars has;

* Dealt over 19 billion hands
* Run more than 100 million poker tournaments
* Entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the first and only poker
website to reach the 160,000 simultaneous players mark

PokerStars; the official sponsors of: The European Poker Tour
(www.ept.com), The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PokerStars Caribbean
Adventure), The Latin American Poker Tour (www.lapt.com), The Asia Pacific
Poker Tour (www.appt.com) and The World Cup of Poker.

PokerStars is the home of Team PokerStars Pro, a group of 29 professional
and up-and-coming players from around the world who play online at
PokerStars and are sponsored by the site in international tournaments around
the world. For more information please visit www.pokerstars.net