Isildur1 keeps amazing the poker world with the astonishing feats he is achieving against some of the top players in the world. Less than 48 hours ago he was on the losing side of the largest online pot, which he lost to the Full Tilt Pro Patrik Antonius. In his most recent session Isildur1 crushed… Read more »
To say that Tom “durrrr” Dwan has had a difficult year is probably an understatement. He dumped over $4 million in just the first two months of ’09, but somehow managed to overcome the deficit and grind back to even by the middle of the year. But durrrr’s roller-coaster year has continued and as of… Read more »
Sunday was another crazy day at the PokerStars tables as thousands of players registered to the major tournaments which made competition extremely tough. The Sunday million had 8,587 players wanting to take the $252K first place prize home win them. It took 9.5 hours to play down to ten players, when icedavid pushed all his… Read more »
Party Poker players will get the chance to win extra money for the holidays with three new promotions that guaranteed at least $1 million in prizes. The first promotion is the Cash Game Race which will have players earning Party Poker points at the cash ring games. The player that accumulates the most points from… Read more »
Absolute Poker is constantly working to make things easier for their customers. Their goal is to improve the customer experience, and in search of that they have implemented the use of icons in their lobby to make it more user friendly. For ring games they have implemented the six icons that will identify the following… Read more »
Railbirds around the world have been overwhelmed by the quality and quantity of action they’re seeing at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker. However, railbirds aren’t the only contented group at Full Tilt Poker, as two of the red pros are enjoying Isildur1’s action as well. Up until this weekend, Isildur had been… Read more »
Tom “durrrr” Dwan, recently signed by Full Tilt Poker, had a great run in London at the Live Million Dollar Challenge. The rules of the challenge stipulate that players must play 500 hands or go broke before ending the match. Dwan’s first opponent was Marcello “luckexpress” Marigliano who played well and eventually got the better… Read more »
After being in the market for over 10 years, Ultimate Bet is slowly trying to change their image. UB wants to reach more people world wide and to give prospective players additional motivation to sign-up, they have added a variety of new tournaments to their schedule. In addition, UB has also improved the structures of… Read more »
Playing poker in one of the oldest European Poker tournament has its benefits, not the least of which is the history and tradition surrounding the event and its past winners. The Irish Open has long since attracted the biggest names on the European poker circuit, no doubt due to the tournament’s prestige and prize money… Read more »
The tournament at Vilamoura has seen very tough competition; the starting field of 322 players is now down to 38 players, only three of which are PokerStars Pros. PokerStars Pro Ruben Visser held the chip lead at one point in the tournament until Jeff Sarwer managed to take it from him. However, Frenchmen Antony Lellouche… Read more »
Isildur1 made his first appearance at Full Tilt Poker in September of 09 and he has kept a low profile ever since. The only thing that is known about him is that he comes from Sweden, that’s it. He jumped into the poker scene and brought a lot of gamble with him to the virtual… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker held a press conference recently to announce their newly signed contract with the online sensation Tom “durrrr” Dwan. He was even assigned as the host for the main event of the FTOPS XIV which concluded on November 15th. But the largest poker room in the world, PokerStars, signed a player of their… Read more »
Ever since DoylesRoom announced that they would be searching for some of the top players in the world to represent the new generation of poker players, the search has been intensive. The first four players added to the Brunson 10 where: Chris “Moorman1” Moorman, Amit “amak316” Makhija, Alec “traheho” Torelli and Zachary “Crazy Zachary” Clark.… Read more »
Ultimate Bet just celebrated their tenth anniversary, and to celebrate they’ve added Joe Sebok to the Ultimate Bet team in hopes that he can help them compete with the likes of PokerStars and Full Tilt. Joe is one of the brightest young business minds in poker and his popularity reach an all-time high last week… Read more »
Titan Poker will be hosting the ECOOP events for the fifth time, the first time it was hosted back in 2007 the total prize pool was $2.5 million, and this year $4,550,000 in cash prizes are guaranteed. The first tournament in this year’s series will be on Monday November 23rd and it will have a… Read more »
Not all the PokerStars pros survived day 1B at the beautiful Vilamoura Marina in Portugal. Some of the names that won’t be returning for day two include: Peter Eastgate, Vanessa Rousso, Dario Minieri, Carter Phillips, Huck Seed, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Pascal Perrault, George Danzer, Marcin Hocrecki, Bertrand Grospellier and Juan Maceiras. But the good thing is… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is enjoying all the attention they have received due to the insane action on their high stakes tables. The newcomers have ignited a hype that media, railbirds and Full Tilt have definitely benefited from. The first wave of enthusiasm was felt when the mysterious screen name martonas appeared and started giving action… Read more »
Over the past few days, Isildur1 has been a staple at the high stakes tables on Full Tilt Poker. He has been playing against some of the best poker players in the world, as names like Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Cole South and many others have tried to take advantage of the… Read more »
Titan Poker offers all their players the chance to win a sponsorship contract for six months in which they will get to represent the poker room in different tournaments around the world. The recent winners are: Jan Bjoersland from Norway, who started playing poker after watching some TV shows and has been hooked ever since.… Read more »
The Cereus Network has been working on renovating their brands and products and part of that led to a new tournament schedule that will offer players thirty daily guarantees. The new Sunday schedule at Absolute Poker will have $400K spread out in the different tournaments through out the day. The schedule will include one $200K… Read more »
Day 1A of EPT Vilamoura ended with 76 players out of the initial 136. Among the field were several PokerStars pros and qualifiers who had a good day at the tables and ended with big chip stacks. When play stopped the chip lead was in the hands of the PokerStars qualifier Dominykas Karmazinas, who had… Read more »
PokerStars player Joe Cada went into the final table in fifth position in chips and was down two several big blinds at one point during play, but he managed to step-up his game and battle his way to victory. Despite displaying both skill and perseverance at the final table, there are still doubters who say… Read more »
The second run of the $25K Heads-Up PLO World Championship will be taking place at 3 pm on November 21st. Big names like Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Chris Ferguson and many other red pros will attempt to take down this prestigious event. Full Tilt Poker will have many satellite tourneys… Read more »
Every Wednesday at 9:30 pm DoylesRoom will offer a bounty tournament in which players will get the chance to test their skills against some of the poker pros that call Doyles their home. Some of the names that could be spotted on the virtual felts are: Todd “TBrunson” Brunson, Mike “The Mad Genius” Caro, Zachary… Read more »
Not all online poker rooms can offer players the chance to represent them at the major live events around the world, but the contract PokerStars is offering will include a $5K monthly salary and $40K to spend on the live events around the globe. Players will get to choose the live tournaments they participate in… Read more »
