2011 July 29 Poker News, Events and Happenings

The Nightly Turbo is bringing you the day’s top poker news stories including a look at the World Poker Tour ratings, where you can bet on the 2011 November Nine and more.

Davin “mTw-DaviN” Georgi, “le kork,” & Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom emerge as week’s biggest winners, while Ben “Sauce1234″ Sulsky drops $328K,000.

The fifth season of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour kicked off on Friday with the tour taking to the Crown Poker Room felt in Melbourne, Australia for the first time ever. At the end of the day, Mitch Carle leads the way.

July 29 - Members of the new online poker group include former Penn governor Tom Ridge and WSOP bracelet winner, Greg Raymer.

PokerNews and PokerStars have teamed up once again to send you to play in the WCOOP Main Event in September.