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Last night was a big night for Patrik Antonius as he showed his high stakes skills over the suspected German Limit Holdem professional deprimiert. Antonius has always been one for high stakes, high stress games as he took down the famous (albeit mysterious) Full Tilt Poker ninja Isildur1 earlier this year. Antonius and deprimiert played a total of 605 hands last night before deciding to stop playing. During almost the entire game of $2,000.00/$4,000.00 Limit Holdem, Antonius was the obvious player in charge. By the end of the night (about 3 hours of play), Antonius had built his chip stack up with about $391,000 from deprimiert.

This isn’t the first time that Antonius has taken deprimiert for a ride, however. In fact, Antonius also demolished the player last week for about $306,000. Despite the two huge wins for Antonius, the professional poker player has still only broken about $74k in winnings for the month of September – recovering from some major hits he took earlier in the week.

Antonius certainly didn’t ride his skill the whole way with last night’s game, however. In fact, there were several hands where Antonius got a great deal of help from the deck. One hand in particular saw Antonius flopping the best hand with a low straight for a $50,000 pot. Another hand gave Antonius another straight for a big pot around the same size.

While Antonius continues to ride his winning streak in early September, deprimiert has not been so lucky. After a strong August up around $200,000, deprimiert is now down almost $260,000 for September – quite a hit for only the second week of the month.

Speaking of big players in September, Brian Hastings has come out the farthest ahead for the month with about $458,000 in winnings. Most of his substantial winnings have come from another poker player down on his luck for Fall of 2010 – Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies.

Over the past few months, it has become clear that Daniel Moravec and his company Best Odds Corporation plan to go ahead with their lawsuit against the owners of Poker News Daily, MacPoker.com and MacPoker.net, Protos Marketing. Moravec is suing for a trademark on the term “Mac Poker” and seeks damages from Protos Marketing. To date, Protos has already paid out $50,000 in litigation fees but the Chairman of the marketing company, Michael Jackness, has stated that they have no plans to let their sites go without putting up a significant fight.

As part of his defense against Moravec, Jackness has begun reaching out to the online community and asking that they sign an affidavit that Mac Poker is a general term and not able to be trademarked by any one site. There are more than 400,000 results for the terms Mac Poker, argues Jackness, and anyone promoting sites using such terms should be very concerned about this and similar lawsuits. Another cause for concern is the possibility that Apple might step in and force all domains with the term “Mac” off by claiming their much more legitimate trademark on the term as it applies to poker. Should this be the case, the majority of the first and second page of Google Search results would simply disappear.

The situation is confusing for many webmasters and affiliates involved. Best Odds Corporation filed for the trademark earlier and received notice that their application had been approved for “Mac Poker.” However, as will all trademarks, this application was placed in an opposition period where adequate opposition could overturn the application. However, if inadequate opposition is voiced by September 25th, the trademark will be awarded to Best Odds Corporation. What is confusing to many webmasters about this situation is the decision by Best Odds Corp. to go ahead with a lawsuit before the end of the opposition period. Many are claiming that, by suing Protos Marketing, Best Odds has brought more attention to their opposition period and will be “stabbing themselves in the foot.”

Another issue in question right now is whether or not Macpokeronline.com (the site owned by Best Odds Corp.) was the first to coin the phrase “Mac Poker.” If it can be proven that sites specializes in this phrase existed before Macpokeronline.com went live, their claim to Mac Poker as a trademark would not be legitimate.

Whatever the result of the trademark proceedings, it is still unclear as to whether the lawsuit will remain a separate issue or if the possible loss of the trademark would result in a loss of the lawsuit.

Move over Real Housewives… recently Entertainment LLC announced the cast of their latest poker reality show, Fatty’s… Where Poker Gets REAL. Fatty’s is a New York Members-Only Club, and the show will follow the club’s owner, Mike “The Nose” Castaldo along with professional poker players and a cast of regular local players who will interact with pros and celebrities throughout the year, both on and away from the tables. Viewers will watch as these largely enthusiastic amateurs try to balance their everyday lives with their passion for poker. With five tables going and a room full of egos, the game itself is only half the drama.

You might recognize the name “Fatty’s” from the 2010 World Series of Poker. A group of ten players representing the club, four of the “characters” who will appear on the television show, along with five contest winners, played in the Main Event wearing their team uniform. Now we know that the main purpose of their trip to Vegas was to create buzz for the show, but they still played poker while they were there.

Corporate sponsors were also well represented at the Main Event as well. The Fatty’s 10 could be recognized wearing their sponsors brands such as Blue Shark Sunglasses, Hardcore Watches, and ScottEVest shirts, which signed on to be the official uniform of Fatty’s for the WSOP Main Event. Each of the 10 Fatty’s players made it out of Day 1, with one, Kenny Hofmann, eventually making the money, placing 278^th and taking home $41,967.

Show creator Scott “Mayhem” Einiger received a lot of attention after knocking out the Worlds #1 ranked poker player Phil Ivey on Day 2. “He got knocked out, and I literally fell out of my chair, so I know I will be hearing from my friends at Fatty’s. That was kind of special!” (Einiger is also a Senior Partner with the New York law firm Abrams Fensterman, which represents All In Entertainment LLC.)

Here’s a rundown of the very colorful cast:

Lacey Jones, #3 on our “Hottest Woman in Poker” list also auditioned and won a spot at the Fatty’s tables. She too will appear in episodes along with some of her celebrity friends. Jones first made it into mainstream poker while playing in a tournament on ESPN. She was originally hired as a model for the tournament, but due to her play she was contracted by Absolute Poker to represent them at live events on the felt. In a press release, Castaldo praised Jones, saying “we are all thrilled to have Lacey Jones involved in this project. She is a highly regarded poker player with a great personality and will be a perfect fit with the unique characters that play at our members-only club. Lacey has a flair for bridging the gap between amateur poker players and the top pros of the world.”

Big Al is a close friend of the Nose. Al is one of Fatty’s more experienced players in the “tournament world.”  He has made very deep runs in the WSOP Main Event in four of the five years he has played, highlighting his many poker accomplishments. Al is also a cancer survivor who saved his uncle’s live by donating one of his kidneys to him. Big Al’s love for pizza and his joy of out-eating anyone who challenges him are legendary and almost match his love of poker.

Old Man Bill is not only a WWII Merchant Marine veteran, but he is one of the most feared players at Fatty’s games. He also happens to suffer from narcolepsy. He has a habit of dozing off in the middle of games and uses it to his advantage, pretending to sleep to lure players into making ill advised bets against him.

Tommy is a very well respected poker player whose skills are only rivaled by the gourmet preparations he serves at Fatty’s. The type of food he creates can only be matched at a five star restaurant. He not only can cook though, he has also cashed in at the WSOP.

Chris is Tommy’s twin brother and is also part of the team that makes Fatty’s click. Chris is amongst the most respected players at Fatty’s and has also cashed in the WSOP. He also serves as a dealer for his cousin, Mike’s club.

The rest of the cast consists of  interesting characters who contribute to the overall experience of playing in a private, New York City club. The entire cast of Fatty’s share a common bond: “The Dream” to experience the opportunity to play in the World Series of Poker Main Event and other major events with poker elite in the battle to become a world champion poker player.

In an added twist to typical reality programming, Fatty’s Poker has teamed up with Fantazzle Fantasy Sports Games to give viewers a chance to sweat the players on the show. Details of the fantasy contest have not been released, but it will likely be similar to games that Fantazzle has run in the past in which contestants select a “team” of poker players in an effort to pick the ones who will have the most combined success in a given poker tournament, reminiscent of fantasy football. Fatty’s and Fantazzle plan to award seats at the club’s tables and 2011 WSOP seats as prizes for the show’s viewers.

While this show is still in production and has not been picked up by a network, some are speculating that it will end up on Spike or Fx. ESPN, Starz, and HBO are also in the running. Auditions for future appearances will be held in Atlantic City.

After surviving a star studded final table at the European Poker Tour Vilamoura main event on Thursday, British poker player Toby Lewis came out on top to win the coveted tournament title – not to mention a nearly half million Euro prize. The 20 year old poker newbie described his feelings after the event as being “pretty happy at the moment.” The final table at Vilamoura consisted of a few notable poker vets included the EPT superstar Rob Hollink, the legendary soccer player Teddy Sheringham and the runner up to this year’s Aussie Millions event – Frederick Jensen.

Lewis is just beginning his poker career. In fact, his largest win before Vilamoura in a live event was when he played in Venice at the IPT PokerStars event. Lewis has every right to be happy at that event as the final table was indeed a struggle with Swedish poker star Martin Jacobson fighting him the whole way. After building his stack with a hefty win over Jacobson on the day before the final day, Lewis went on to face him head to head for the tournament title.

More than 380 players took part in this year’s Vilamoura EPT event – making it the largest poker tournament to ever take place in the country of Portugal. The 5,300 Euro buy in made up the more than 1.8 million Euro prize pool – of which Lewis took home more than 460,000 Euros. Other records weren’t safe at the EPT Vilamoura, either. The professional poker player from PokerStars, Luca Pagano broke the record for most EPT cashes at Vilamoura with his 16th – finishing in 52nd place.

The finishers from the final table at Vilamoura were as follows:

• 8th Place: Coutinho, Sergio
• 7th Place: Hollink, Rob
• 6th Place: Jensen, Frederick
• 5th Place: Sheringham, Teddy
• 4th Place: Trickett, Sam
• 3rd Place: Lee, Jason
• 2nd Place: Jacobson, Martin
• 1st Place, Lewis, Toby

The next event in the European Poker Tour will take place in London and will be the first of the major EPT events in season 7. This event will take place from September 29th to October 4th (main event).

To celebrate Labor Day and the beginning of football season, Full Tilt Poker has announced that they will once again be offering their popular Fast $50 for any player that has cleared a welcome bonus (or any other bonus) on the site by September 1st. This promotion will continue this month to September 12th and be provided to all players currently with a real money account on their site.

In order to access this promotion, players must simply log in to Full Tilt Poker and click on the Requests menu on their account page. After in the area, click the Check My Bonus Offer button and you will be greeted with a window asking if you would like to take advantage of the Fast $50 offer now. After you have accepted this offer, you can immediately begin to clear the bonus on the site. You are not required to make any deposit to qualify for this offer and new players to this site still have time to make a deposit, clear their initial bonus and take their Fast $50 before the expiration date.

For players that have already cleared any bonus at Full Tilt Poker by September 1st, the Fast $50 will now be immediately available. However, players that have no account at Full Tilt Poker will still have a chance to unlock and clear this bonus before time runs out. While you have until September 12th to qualify for the Fast $50 promotion, you must make your first deposit and clear it by September 9th in order to qualify. This works in the same way for players that still have a bonus that they are clearing but already have a real money account at Full Tilt Poker. The only requirement is that it is clear by September 9th. So, if you have had a bonus sitting around for a while, now is your chance to log some play time for Labor Day and earn even more money for your online poker bankroll at Full Tilt Poker.

The Fast $50 promotion bonus will be cleared at $0.06 for every FTP that you earn during real money play on the site. The bonus is also paid out to each qualifying player in 10% increments – or $5.00 at a time.

One of the easiest ways to clear your bonus quickly in order to take advantage of the Fast $50 promotion is to spend some time at the Rush Poker tables at Full Tilt Poker that were introduced this past January. Rush Poker is a new way to play at Full Tilt that eliminates all down time associated with the game. As soon as you fold out of a hand, you are shuffled into a new table where you can immediately begin a new hand. In addition, the player time banks for Rush Poker are reduced to provide less waiting time when actually playing in a hand.