Would you like to go to the Bahamas, and play in the amfar-PokerStars charity poker tournament at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure? Well, PokerStars is practically giving it away this coming Sunday. In the effort to spread the love, PokerStars is hosting a $5.50 satellite tournament in which the top 2 finishers will receive the ultimate vacation package. The package includes a flight to the Bahamas, a four night stay at the Atlantis Resort & Casino, and of course the entry into the $5,000 buy-in charity event. The satellites will be running this Sunday, so log onto PokerStars to try for your Caribbean adventure.

Jennifer Tilly, the actress turn poker player, will hosts the 2nd annual charity tournament to help raise money for a ‘Cerebral Palsy’ cure. The event for the ’One Step Closer Foundation’ is set for Saturday, December 12th, and will be a $550 tournament with $200 re-buys. Everybody who’s everybody is supposed to be in attendance. People in the likes of Dean Cain, Shannon Elizabeth, Montel Williams, Simpsons creator Sam Simon (last year’s winner), Playboy Playmates Stacy Fusion, Jennifer Leigh, and Brande Roderick (there are too many celebrities to mention). Jamie Gold, Barry Greenstein, and Phil Laak (Tilly’s boyfriend) are a few of the professional poker plays that will be in attendance. Hopefully we will be ‘one step closer’ to curing Cerebral Palsy.

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure will host a charity poker event to help raise money for AIDS research. PCA will host a $5,250 no limit Hold’em event to raise money for amfAR, the AIDS research fountain, which will run on January 8th, 2010. Half the money from the prize pool will go to amfAR, and PokerStars is going to pay that same amount out of their own pocket. Big names are expected to show up for the event, and all the players in the tournament are encouraged to donate their winnings to the amfAR foundation. It’s always great to see the game of poker and the poker players give back in a big way.

The PokerStars.net European Poker Tour in Prague has come to an end, and local Jan Skampa walks with the first place prize of 682,000. Along with his big payday, Skampa also won a seat to the European Poker Tour Grand Final and of course the coveted trophy. Skampa was the first player to make back to back EPT finals table since Season 1. Ram Vaswani and Julian Thew were the other two to do so. It was a tough field for Skampa which cultivated in a heads up victory against Eyal Avitan. Avitan had the chip lead when the two began heads up play, but it was Skampa who walked away the first place victory.

Earlier, I was playing some poker on Full Tilt, and just happened to notice that Isildur1 was battling it out with Ziigmund. Sadly, I wish I was playing the stakes that these two phenoms were playing, but it was defiantly worth watching. Isildur1 and Ziigmund were four tabling there usual $500/$1,000 pot limit Omaha. Isildur1 had things going his way, because he walked with nearly a $1.8 million victory (which makes me rather sick). The railbirds were chatting away about his massive up swing, and obviously most of them were bagging for a little piece of the pie. You never know what you’ll get when Isildur1 is playing at the tables.