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PokerStars pro Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew has played over 4 million hands online as yet, but has so far avoided downswings like his latest session. Now, however, he lost 40 buy-ins in a single day.

As we noted, Jonathan Duhamel won the 2010 WSOP Main Event, taking home $8.9 million after defeating John Racener HU in 43 hands. The social media was soon full with congratulations and reactions from poker pros; here is a short compilation of these.

WPT Barcelona winner Ali Tekintamgac got disqualified from the PPT Cannes main event final table, under suspicion that Pokerb00m.eu bloggers helped him achieve his 4th place in the event. The site is currently “under maintenance.”

Here's a little update to Jared Huggins' story: the unlucky but forever optimistic, once homeless poker player have now uploaded his audition video for the PokerStars Big Game show. If he receives enough votes, he can easily be the loose cannon in the largest poker site's hit tv show.

Tom ’durrrr’ Dwan clearly is the greatest high stakes winner of October with $990,000 in profit, while Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies lost over $1.7 million.

The highly controversial Lithuanian-born poker pro, 'Tony G' (Antanas Guoga) is a distant relative of Vlad the Impaler, as he writes in his blog at PartyPoker.

Nanonoko is one of the most popular grinders of all time according to PTR'S (PokerTableRatings) database, however, he became much less popular in the last few months. His PTR profile had 175,680 views in March 2010, but in September, he only had 48,891.

One of the most successful French poker players, Bertrand Grespellier is rumored to give up poker for StarCraft 2.

Jared Huggins' story moved people all over the world. He lost his bankroll, his jobs and has been evicted from his home. After 6 moths spent on the streets the help came. From whom? The poker community of course.

The long awaited Poker Hall of Fame Class of 2010 was announced yesterday morning. The newest members of the Hall of Fame are 1995 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Dan Harrington and eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel.

According to high stakes blogger Sohello ’BankTheMan’ Shah of the Swedish expressen.se, a “20 years old” person, who “has during the end of 2009 and the whole of 2010 become one of the poker world’s hottest topics,” is soon to be signed by one of the major online poker providers.

After a well deserved break that lasted three weeks, Doyle Brunson returned to his blog and now he posts again regularly. In his latest entry, he shares his thoughts about the nominees of the upcoming Poker Hall of Fame ballot, taking place on 7th November. The induction of two new members into the Hall is going to be one of the 2010 WSOP Finale shows.

PokerStars is rather active signing newer and newer pros, signing with Liv Boeree almost 2 weeks ago, they revealed their latest addition to the elite Team PokerStars Pro, the russian pro player, Maxim Lykov.

Canadian Full Tilt Red Pro Scott Montgomery got robbed yesterday, on 10th October, in one of the restrooms of the Bellagio. He was forced to hand over $2,000.

Once the world's biggest poker player Phil Hellmuth have not won a single tournament for 3 years and 110 days now, his bad luck surrounds his cash games as well.