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According to the website Klout.com, social media in the poker world is led by players like Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth and Phil Ivey.

Klout gathers information from all social media sites and aggregates it into a score, measuring the number of people you reach, how effectively you influence them, and how significant a presence you are within your network.

Some of the names on this list seem obvious, cough Daniel Negreanu, but others prove that sometimes it doesn't take exhaustive social media effort to have one of the biggest voices in poker.

It also proves having 1 million Twitter followers won't get you the number one spot.

Keep reading to see whose social media voice is the loudest in poker. And while you're at it, follow us on Facebook and Twitter!

***Update: Due to popular demand we've compiled a new, much more reality-based ranking and we did it with the help of one Kevin Mathers.

Click here for Kevmath's Real Top 10 Social Media Players in Poker.

Click here to follow everyone on both our Top Social Media Poker Players with a handy Twitter List!

Have lingering feelings of resentment towards Howard Lederer?

Try a touch of electrocution, in cartoon form.

It won’t get your money back. But it is a brief respite from waiting for a statement from Full Tilt Poker’s Board of Directors.

Not much of a relief, but a little.

Hold the button, watch him fry.

It’s good to be the king of poker.

22-year-old German Pius Heinz has had a couple of weeks to settle in to his new role as World Champion (and defacto ambassador) of poker, and so far so good.

As he outlined in our news feature yesterday, Germany is showing signs of embracing the game of poker on a wider scale and Heinz hopes to be a big part of it.

Read on for the full transcript of our interview that includes the story behind the white hoodies, the Pius Heinz chant and his thoughts on the now infamous KJ hand between Ben Lamb and Martin Staszko.

Where has the month gone?! It feels like November just started when, in reality, it’s actually almost over.

It’s amazing how quickly time can fly when you have too many things to do!

The VPP grind continues. I’m on track for the month so far, having earned 13.6k VPPs to date.

Tired of playing with the same old chips? Boy have we got the poker chip set for you.

Famed designer STAHL is auctioning off a special “Meteorite” chip set on November 29 that includes diamond-encrusted chips filled with fragments from an actual ancient asteroid.

Each individual chip is cased in 18-karat white gold and topped off with the aforementioned diamonds, Burmese rubies and Sri Lankan sapphires.

The chips come in a luxurious handmade leather briefcase with Swedish calf skin and a reindeer calf suede inside.

So what does it cost for 120 gem-studded poker chips, five ivory dice and a deck of playing cards in a custom leather briefcase?

There’s been a lot of speculation about the psychology behind the folks who’ve been indicted in the Full Tilt Poker debacle.

A lot of the recent talk has been about the purported actions of Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer, two of poker’s more respected long-time players.

Lederer is often referred to as “The Professor” because of his thoughtful manner and penchant for deep analysis and insightful questions. Chris is actually closer to this role in real life since he holds a Ph.D. and has spent more than a few hours in front of college classrooms.

Until now few have had anything but admiration and respect for them both.

Of course, we’re still in the classic “innocent until proven guilty” mode. I have no idea what the outcome will be. They may be found guilty; they may be exonerated. I am only interested here in the psychological issues.

The question raised most often is: How could these very smart dudes with position, money and prestige do the things they are accused of? It is a good question. It is also one that gets asked every time an odd-ball crime gets committed.

By now you know that Pius Heinz won the 2011 WSOP Main Event.

You probably watched the live stream, the full broadcast and have memorized every single bustout hand.

There were a few things they didn't focus on in the broadcast, however, and we’ve compiled a list of the various happenings you may have missed if you weren’t in Las Vegas for the grand finale.

After the jump you’ll find nine stories that went a bit under the radar. Also be sure to check our 2011 WSOP Main Event picturebook.

So I’m done playing liveaments and back to the online grind. Last entry I wrote that the games would be getting a lot tougher from now until the end of the year thanks to the Supernova and Supernova Elite grinders. This has been very true and perhaps even worse than I expected.

The SnGs just have a crazy number of regs right now. I have never had to game select so meticulously before. Saturday during the day was particularly terrible, which makes sense since all the grinders were online to play the Supernova freeroll. I feel like I spend more time game selecting than playing poker.

This is what I get for deciding to earn all my VPPs in the last third of the year. You can bet that I’ll be done grinding by this time in 2012!

I earned a bit of money in October. Here was how it ended up:

The 2011 WSOP Main Event final table is here and PokerListings.com is on the scene in the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio in Las Vegas.

We'll be reporting live on the final table all day, but in addition to that we'll be posting the highlights in photo form right here in our WSOP blog.

Check back frequently because we'll be posting batches of snapshots as they happen, complete with explanations and storylines from the 2011 November Nine final table.

The November Nine break is days from being done and Sam Holden is making the trip from his home in London to Las Vegas to compete for the biggest prize in poker.

We spoke with him at the recent EPT London main event for this feature on Sam Holden, and since there was so many extras that didn't make it into the story, we're publishing the full interview transcript right here.

Read on to hear what it's like to sweat the biggest day of your poker career for four months.

Supernova progress is well on track for 2011. Ideally I will make it by mid December so that I take some time off before the holidays. A friend recently pointed out to me that it’s also good to take time off because games get tougher around this time.

You know that old poker saying, “If you can’t spot the mark in your first 30 minutes at the table …”?

We're on location at the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe main event and this table brought that old adage to mind.

Connect the numbers with the explanations below and see if you can figure out who's sitting at this table with a target on hsi or her forehead.

In September, PokerListings contacted me about possibly doing some work for them on their site. I was the first person filmed for The Circuit during the WSOP in Las Vegas in July, and had received a lot of positive responses. Considering the fact that I had plenty of free time, I jumped at the opportunity.

Last time I blogged here, I talked about a volume prop bet I had. Considering my free hours in September, my goal was a little ambitious, but I was on pace to JUST make it by the end of the month.

However, I’m sad to say that there is no happy ending! I caught a very annoying cold on September 29, so I ended up buying out of my bet and spending the next few days in bed.

I briefly considered playing low stakes in an attempt to finish my bet, but I quickly decided it wasn’t worth it. Playing ill is almost always a bad idea.

I’m still happy with the volume I played last month, although the results weren’t very good:

Niall “onehandturks” Charlton is in Cannes playing the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe and he sat down with us to talk about the online grind and life outside of the game.

Charlton plays high-stakes Pot-Limit Omaha online, up to $100/$200, and according to highstakesdb.com he’s profited to the tune of $320,000 so far this year.

Charlton took a few minutes to chat on a break from the €5k PLO WSOPE event to speak with us. For more information check out the feature story we did.

The 2011 World Series of Poker Europe has arrived and PokerListings.com is going to be on the scene for the duration.

Taking place over the next two weeks at the Hotel Majestic in Cannes, it's safe to say this location is a step up from Leicester Square in London where the event was previously held.

PokerListings.com has installed itself just a few hundred meters down the promenade at the palatial, and aptly named, Palais Miramar. We'll be conducting all our business from the comfort of this waterfront apartment, and we thought it only fair to give you a walkthrough, even if you can't be here to see it yourself.

Starting with the view from our front door above, check out the following photos to meet the team and get an idea of what it's like to "work" on the international tournament circuit.

We’ve seen some incredible poker graphs over the years, including Nanonoko and Ben Grundy’s incredible runs, but we’ve never seen anything quite like the one for online player I7AXA.

As you may or may not know, I7AXA binked second place in the PkerStars Sunday Million this week for a total of $148k.

Sweet right? Well, apparently I7AXA wasn’t satisfied with his victory so he decided to take a shot at some high-stakes $5k heads-up hyper turbos.

Yep. You read that right.

It proved to be the worst mistake he could have made and just a few days after his huge win, he’s lost nearly everything.

As they say, “Degens gonna degen.”

Poker’s  a changing game, you hear it every day. No longer are you guaranteed to have even one weak spot at your table in a big buy-in tournament.

To give you an idea of what we mean, consider this patch of felt we captured on film from Day 3 here at the EPT London Main Event.

This is the kind of competition you’re going to face if you ever find yourself taking shot at a European Poker Tour or similar event.

This is the EPT London Day 3 table of death, by the numbers.

Two years ago we reported on Luke Schwartz's second ban from all Grosvenor Casinos over the alleged theft of a pickle and cheese sandwich.

That was after getting a previous ban for refusing to take his hat off lifted in order to play the 2009 EPT London main event.

Schwartz is back with a new sandwich, leaving us to wonder if he came by it legally or unlawfully.

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