Online poker news
A field of 568 players turned out for Event #20 of the ongoing UB.com Online Championship (UBOC) on Tuesday night, a $215 Sniper No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack contest. In the end, a two-way chop between SANDMAN201 and TCB21 occurred, with the finalists walking away with $22,000 and $18,000, respectively. The top 54 players finished… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is pulling out all the stops this week, doubling the guarantees on its tournaments to the tune of $30 million. The unique promotion resulted in one of the largest $1K Mondays ever held. Officially dubbed Double Guarantees Week, the action at Full Tilt Poker is expected to be quite hectic between now… Read more »
Brandon Cantu proved long ago that he’s no one-trick pony. In 2006, he won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event for $757,000, outlasting the likes of Carlos Mortensen and Brent Roberts at the final table. Two years ago, he was up to his winning ways once again.… Read more »
The richest UB.com Online Championship (UBOC) tournament held during its current cycle took place on Sunday. Event #16 was a $2,100 No Limit Hold’em High Roller Deep Stack tournament that brought in a field of 387 players. The prize pool totaled $774,000 – a full $24,000 above the guarantee – and a top prize of… Read more »
Daniel Negreanu isn’t about to let the game of poker pass him by. The Team PokerStars Pro member from Canada wrote in his blog this week that he plans to put in a lot of volume on the world’s leading online poker site in order to keep up with the “younger players.” He may even… Read more »
The 2010 Casinomeister Awards were recently announced, with Microgaming receiving the award for Best Software Provider and other companies picking up trophies for their performances. The Casinomeister Awards have been handed out for the last decade, honoring the best and worst in the online gaming community. This year, awards were given in 40 different categories… Read more »
Mike “1GOLEAFSGOEH1” Leah took down Event #14 of the UB.com Online Championship, or UBOC, on Saturday. Leah stormed through the field of the $215 No Limit Hold’em Turbo Triple Chance tournament that doled out a short stack to each player. Leah’s victory was worth an even $26,000 and he edged out P0KERCCINI heads-up. Leah, a… Read more »
Not one, not two, but three players participated in a chop of Event #12 of the sixth UB.com Online Championship, or UBOC. The $162 Sniper No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack tournament drew a field of 563 players and boasted a prize pool that passed $75,000. In addition, a bounty prize pool of $8,400 was up… Read more »
Online betting giant bwin has announced the launch of the first real money online poker app for the iPhone, joining Full Tilt Poker and Switch Poker as the only rooms in the mobile arena. The free Texas Hold’em app is available now in the App Stores in the U.K. and Austria, where bwin is based,… Read more »
Thursday marked a slow day in the sixth UB.com Online Championship, or UBOC. Only one tournament was held, a $163 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack event (#11) that offered up a $75,000 guaranteed prize pool. The contest drew a field of 626 players and, when the last river card had been dealt, PWNOOBS walked away… Read more »
Kicking off on Full Tilt Poker on February 6th is the 19th running of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS. The quarterly tournament extravaganza boasts a slate of 45 events this time around and features not one, not two, not three, but nine multi-entry tournaments. Multi-entry tournaments were introduced as part of Full… Read more »
A No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Six-Max event carrying a $530 buy-in played out last night as part of the UB.com Online Championship, or UBOC. The field numbered 514, pushing the prize pool to well over a quarter of a million dollars, and Stuart “THEDONATOR” Paterson came away with the title following a heads-up chop.… Read more »
On Tuesday, a field of 543 players turned out for Event #7 of the ongoing UB.com Online Championship, or UBOC. The $320 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack tournament featured two-time bracelet winner Brandon Cantu as its host and offered up a $162,000 prize pool. When the final cards were dealt, ED_ANGELIS walked away with a… Read more »
The fifth event of the ongoing UB.com Online Championship, or UBOC, ended in a heads-up chop between FINEIRISHLAD and PDI88. The $215 No Limit Hold’em Rock Star Bounty, which featured UB.com pro and Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian as its host, drew a field of 615 players to create a prize pool passing $120,000. An equity… Read more »
The first event of the sixth UB.com Online Championship (UBOC) kicked off on Sunday night and featured a healthy field of 664 players. The $530 No Limit Hold’em contest whittled down to one man, Laurence “DONT_RIVER_ME” Houghton, who came away with a $78,000 top prize. In September, Houghton took down a PokerStars World Championship of… Read more »
The PartyPoker Challenge on PokerTableRatings started registering players on Wednesday, with actual competition beginning on January 18th. Players can get in on the action by completing two different steps. A player must have a PartyPoker account and an account at PokerTableRatings. Through playing at the minimum levels of $0.05/$0.10 No Limit or Pot Limit Hold’em,… Read more »
A new online poker room is set to launch a revolutionary concept that could help prevent players from going on tilt. No Bad Beats Poker this week announced the upcoming launch of its premier gaming concept designed to protect players from bad beats, suckouts, and bad luck. The patent-pending feature is scheduled for beta release… Read more »
This week, it was officially announced that 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel has joined Team PokerStars Pro. In an announcement on the PokerStars blog, Duhamel was welcomed to the Team PokerStars Pro lineup: “Though you might have assumed so by now, this morning PokerStars made it official: Duhamel, the… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker, the world’s second largest online poker site, added another innovative feature to its software this week. The poker room known for pioneering Rush Poker and Cashout Tournaments has introduced Multi-Entry Tournaments, which will allow players to enter the same tournament multiple times. Go ahead and get the Sorel Mizzi jokes out of… Read more »
Carbon Poker is in the midst of its month-long Super Money Tree promotion, giving players the opportunity to win virtually unlimited amounts of cash. While January is almost two weeks old, there is still time for those who have yet to play this month to qualify for the highest prize levels. At the lowest level… Read more »
The Australian domain name Poker.com.au recently sold for the sum of $100,000, but according to an expert interviewed by SmartCompany.com.au, if it weren’t for the country’s legal environment, it would have gone for much more. The Interactive Gambling Act of 2001 makes it illegal, among other things, to offer online gaming services to residents of… Read more »
PokerStars recently unveiled its Home Games section at its dot-net site. The new promotion allows users to set up their own home game network for play between friends. This option is currently available only on the free play segment of the PokerStars empire, but it is expected to become a part of the dot-com software… Read more »
Seemingly lost amid the furor over the announcement that Viktor Blom was Isildur1, Canadian poker pro Peter Jetten announced over the weekend that he had signed a sponsorship deal with Full Tilt Poker. The announcement came on Sunday prior to Jetten taking the felt at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event through Jetten’s Twitter feed… Read more »
On Saturday, the saga over the identity of mystery Swedish online poker pro Isildur1 came to an end when PokerStars announced that it was indeed Viktor Blom. The pro, who recently updated his Facebook account to show that he was employed by PokerStars since December, promptly faced off against fellow site pro Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier… Read more »
In what will either be the worst kept secret ever in the poker world or the most stunning reveal of all-time, the identity of the online phenomenon Isildur1 will purportedly be unveiled on Saturday evening in the Bahamas. Several poker news sites have announced that the identity of Isildur1 will be revealed at 7:00pm ET… Read more »
