He beat out a record field of 592 in the €10,000 buy-in main event to take home the title, his first bracelet, and the top prize of €1.4 million ($1,927,310).

It’s not the first time the 25 year old has won. Earlier this year, he took the title at the Bellagio Cup VII, in Vegas.

The last stage of the main event was played inside the Hotel Majestic Barriére’s ballroom with hardly any spectators and no loud cheering sections, unlike that of the main event in Vegas.

When play got down to 12-handed Fox accumulated enough chips for the lead and kept it upon entering the final table. After nine hours, he finished what he started to take the top share of the €5,692,800 ($7,836,414) prize pool in his first WSOP Europe main event, but he had to withstand a final table weighed down by big names of the online and live poker world to get there.

So let’s here it for Elio.

Awesome play, man.

Oh, geez. Another B.s. email, self promoting crap.

And then I realized, hey, this is titan and I’ve played on titanpoker and actually enjoyed.

It is European based and I played it when I was in Europe, by the way.

Now, to celebrate its 6th anniversary, Titan Poker will stage its first-ever Heads-Up Championship.

Here is the rest of the story, courtesy of titan: Players will compete in 24-hour races scheduled throughout the month to win one of the 32 spots in the elimination bracket format of the championship.

A total of over$25,000 in prizes will be awarded with $7,500 reserved for the top 8 players in the finals.

All players who earn more than 60 Titan Poker Points during the month of September will be able to participate in Titan Poker’s$6,000 Anniversary Freeroll, which will take place on Thursday, October 6th at 20:00 GMT+1.

Titan Poker will reward its players with additional promotions and surprises throughout the month as part of its Mystery Week Giveaway Poker Promotion.

A new mystery giveaway will be revealed to players each week. In order to be eligible for the giveaway, as well as to the other anniversary celebrations, players must opt-in to indicate their desire to participate in the promotions.

Poker novices and veteran poker players alike are invited to try out the free poker download at Titan Poker and join the online poker room in its 6^th year anniversary celebrations.

And now, a warning. Online gambling is illegal in the U.S. So I advise anyone who wants to play do so outside the borders of America.

Until some smart legislators legalize it.

It’s bound to happen.

Travnik, you should know (at the age of 20) became his country’s first ever player to win a major live poker tournament.

The WPT Slovenia took place in the town of Portoroz, a picture-postcard coastal resort with just 2,849 residens.

However, despite becoming a local hero after winning the tournament, the young man seemed overawed by the attention and after shunning all interviews called his mother to collect him.

He played the game in an aggressive style throughout the tournament.

By the time the final table of six had been reached, Travnik was battling it out against three Italians, a Swede and a Romanian.

Eventually, after seven hours of play Travnik (1.204m) would go heads-up against Italian player Vincenzo Natale (3.15m)

However, Travnik soon went behind by a massive 10 to 1 as the Italian rode roughshod all over him, before he managed to mount an amazing comeback.

Travnik took a big lead after drawing level before then being 4-bet into while holding J-J to Natale’s 9d-8d. Soon after the final hand of the competition came with Natale all-in preflop holding K-8 to Travnik’s A J.

With the board then falling J-7-5-2-10 Natale collected $99,481 for his runner-up finish, while the top prize, plus a $25,500 ticket to the 2012 WPT Championship in Las Vegas went to the young Travnik.

From Vegas, our correspondent (I went to school with him), reports that more than 6,800 Main Event entries began their pursuit of first place cash totaling $8.71 million on July 12.

Worldwide, 75,672 entries in 58 different tournaments makes this year’s WSOP the biggest ever.

Sponsors are loving it.

Once away from America, online gambling is generally legal. And the ONLY sites I write about are legitimate and not about to rip you off. OK?

That understood, next time you are considering online poker, check out titanpoker.com. It’s a leading site in Europe to be sure. They have recently (according to a press release I received) launched  a series of poker satellite tournaments to determine the winning players that will participate on its behalf at the Irish Winter Festival 2011 tournament in Ireland in October.

Winning players will be awarded with a €1,800 (that’s euros) Prize Package, including the €1,000 + €100 buy-in to the Irish Winter Festival Main Event tournament, which will be staged in Dublin, Oct. 29.

Titan Poker’s players will have won four nights at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, and will receive €354 for flights and spending money.

Three winners’ packages, each valued at €1,800, are guaranteed at the weekly Irish Winter Festival 2011 Super Satellite, staged every Sunday night with a buy-in of €150 + €12.

To qualify for a seat at the Super Satellite, online poker players can play one of Titan Poker’s many scheduled and sit ‘n’ go qualifiers.

Try out the free poker download at Titan Poker. Check it out.

But remember, OUTSIDE the U.S. only.