Lee Davy provides you with his usual weekly poker news round up including all the highlights from the World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP), a wonderful Big Brother performance by Vanessa Rousso, and much more.

The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is the dog’s bollocks. 70-events, $45m in prize money, and at the time of writing only 13 of those events remain before we start counting down to next year’s extravaganza.

It is the most prestigious, illustrious and exciting online poker festival in the history of the game. It’s an opportunity for poker’s atheists and agnostics to get shit done without a poker God in sight. It’s an opportunity to create a legacy, and that target has been peppered this week.

PokerStars revved the engine of this one by organizing the highest buy-in event in the history of online poker. It was $51,000. How long before we are staring at a million bucks per head?