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While most players today are making their money by playing online poker and taking advantage of rakeback deals, Carlos Mortensen is sticking to the old-fashioned way by earning his cash through live tournaments.  And Mortensen recently earned a lot of cash when he took the $393,820 top prize at the WPT Hollywood Poker Open. This was the third World Poker Tour win for Carlos Mortensen and this ties Gus Hansen for the most all-time wins in the WPT.  Perhaps even more important than this is that Mortensen was able to move past Daniel Negreanu on the all-time WPT money list.  …

HeadsUp Entertainment already owns two of the biggest forms of Canadian poker entertainment in the Canadian Poker Player Television Network and Canadian Poker Player Magazine.  However, HeadsUp is trying to reach past their Canadian audience and into the US online poker player market.  Because of this, HeadsUp Entertainment has decided to try and make a bid to purchase the Canadian Poker Tour. HeadsUp Entertainment chief officer Kelly Kellner expanded on the reasoning behind trying to buy the CPT by saying, “Over the next 12 months, we will manage more than 550 casino-based events in Canada, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, …