Two short stories from the world’s second-largest online poker room as 888Poker sponsor a German High Stakes poker show and donates close to $50,000 to Raising for Effective Giving.

In the next 24-hours, someone is going to be handed a purple jacket and think, “What the fuck and I going to do with this?”

Poker Central’s Poker Masters has reached the End Boss part of the game, and four of the final six players hail from Germany. Poker has had a very Vorsprung Durch Technik feel about it for some years, and so I think it would be a fabulous idea to have a televised German High Roller cash game.

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