The biggest on-line poker news to come along in a while is happening at PokerStars.com. The online poker site is holding a free Online Poker Blogger Championship on October 23rd '05 at 4:00pm EST. The big news about this online freeroll No-limit Hold'em Championship Tournament is the prize structure. The winner will receive a $12,000 package to the 2006 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, a WPT sanctioned event. Now's your chance for a shot at poker stardom, all filmed for later TV broadcast and the best thing about winning this one is you are the latest WPT millionaire. Not a bad deal for a freeroll tournament. The entrants into the October online event are limited to active bloggers that have maintained a blog for at least sixty days. Complete details for this tournament are available at PokerStars.com.

So even if you don't win the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure you still have a chance at some nice stuff. Maybe one of the 24" Dell Flatpanel LCD Displays going to the next five finishers, or be one of the next ten finishers and get your own XBox 360. The next twenty players will receive one of the new 4 gig iPod nanos. If you're a blogger and want to play in an online freeroll Championship tournament with fellow bloggers for some nice prizes, then stop by PokerStars.com.

Back to the real world, a LIPS (Ladies International Poker Series) Tournament is scheduled for this weekend at Sam's Town Las Vegas beginning at 10:00am on Saturday and Sunday morning. The entries are limited to a maximum of seventy players. Details are available at LipsTour.com.

Did you know an all-new, robust interactive coming tournament scheldule has been released and is available at PokerPlayerNewspaper.com. Users have the ability to input data into the tournament schedule for the convenience of everyone. Poker Player Newspaper is your single source of data for details of poker tournaments complete with a calendar that is populated by the users.

An interesting article about the World Poker Tour was in the MSN news Thursday. The WPT has entered into negotiations with the Travel Channel to broadcast the Professional Poker Tour (PPT) event series. The Travel Channel already broadcast the WPT regular tournament series. The WPT organization recently sued the Travel Channel and its parent, the Discovery TV network, for interfering with negotiations between WPT and a Cable Network other than the Discovery Network. Apparently the "other company" backed out of the deal. When will the PPT find a home? A note about the WPT and the PPT events; we, the media, are forbidden to photograph the final table after the first player has been eliminated and we cannot photograph the winner. Now, you know why we don't offer our trademark champion's photograph of WPT event winners with all of their loot.