Aruba is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful places on the planet and this month ClubWPT.com will be sending one very lucky player there to enjoy a luxurious poker vacation! The Aruba event is called Battle on the Beach and includes 8 poker tournaments with a combined prize pool guaranteed at $250,000.

The Aruba Battle on the Beach event is scheduled to run from April 30 through May 4, 2012 when the weather is the perfect amount of warm and the sky is at its bluest.

The guaranteed prize pool tournaments at Bodog will be getting a lot more attention as the site’s traffic is up an amazing 26% and growing since the world’s leading online poker sites recently closed their doors to US players. A whole slew of guaranteed events are on the roster every day at Bodog starting with the daily $3,000 Guaranteed which takes place at midnight all the way up to the $100K Guaranteed which is held every Sunday afternoon at 4PM ET.

Recently, the online poker room, 888Poker.com, has announced intentions to host a special charity poker tournament of which 100% of the proceeds and an additional $1 per player will be donated to the Japanese Red Cross.

Here is the statement from 888Poker.com:

“The massive earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March 2011 have caused widespread destruction, nuclear pollution and suffering, seen on television screens around the world.

It looks as though Daniel Negreanu isn’t about to let the younger poker players pass him by as this year he intends to give them a run for their money. In his latest blog he wrote about his desire to keep up with the younger players by increasing his game play on the virtual felt.

Durrrr Challengers Dan “Jungleman12” Cates and Tom “Durrrr” Dwan got back to the grind on Monday night where they played a very lengthy stretch of heads up poker.

For the first ever session of 2011, the two played for around 6 hours logging an impressive 2,918 hands during that time period. They played some extremely intense heads up No Limit Hold’em at the $200/$400 stakes.

 Online poker phenomenon “Isildur1” is back at the tables according to FlopTurnRiver.com.