Online Poker

The wild ride for Swedish online poker pro Isildur1 continued in recent days, as the newcomer dropped a colossal $2.9 million on the felts of Full Tilt Poker. According to Poker Table Ratings, Isildur1 is now a losing player overall. Read more »

On Friday, players on Full Tilt Poker, the world's second largest online poker site, will once again be able to compete in Sit and Go Madness. The 48-hour promotion kicks off at 16:00 ET and runs through Sunday. Read more »

Brazilian online poker pro Caio Cesar "caio_pimenta" Pimenta was the big winner on the virtual felts Sunday with his victory in the PokerStars Sunday Million, the site's weekly flagship event. Pimenta outlasted a field of 9,077 players to claim a prize of $259,243.98, the 19-year-old's largest online score to date. Read more »

Recently, Russian online poker player innerpsy shattered the record for the most number of online poker hands logged in 24 hours, or one day. His total: a whopping 40,088, which attracted the attention of the entire Russian poker community. Read more »

Only a few days remain in the Full Tilt Poker Holiday Hundred promotion, offering online poker players a $100 bonus on the world's second largest site. The room has seen its high-stakes action balloon in recent weeks thanks to Isildur1. Read more »

Everest Poker, an independent online poker site, is continuing to build its influence in France by signing Fabrice Soulier. 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event third place finisher and fellow French player Antoine Saout is also a sponsored pro of the site. Read more »

Last week, heralded online poker grinder Shaun Deeb announced that he was retiring from tournaments. In addition, it appears that his future in the online poker world may be up in the air. Read more »

The fifth European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) has gotten off to an excellent start on Monday, with "thanasis1982" becoming its first tournament winner. Read more »

The ongoing clash between Isildur1 and the game's most vaunted high-stakes cash game players reached new levels over the weekend, as the cagey Swede played record-setting sessions with Full Tilt Pros Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, and Tom "durrrr" Dwan. Read more »

While Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, and Tom "durrrr" Dwan have swapped six-figure pots with the Swedish phenomenon Isildur1, online poker fans and players have been offering their thoughts on Isildur1 and high-stakes play. Poker News Daily sought out the opinion of two top professionals in the game today for their outlook on this week's battles on the virtual felts. Read more »

The ongoing Eurolinx and BetOnBet sagas continues, as the investigation of the now-defunct online poker rooms has left the jurisdiction of Malta's Lotteries and Gaming Authority (LGA) and is now in the hands of the Malta Police Department. Read more »

The high-stakes world of online poker has received a shot in the arm in the month of November, with Patrik Antonius capturing the largest pot in online poker history, $879,000, at the expense of lsildur1. Read more »

Tuesday signified a landmark day in the online poker industry, as Ultimate Bet, a USA-facing site on the CEREUS Poker Network, rebranded itself UB.com. The two-letter acronym has been the site's nickname since its launch 10 years ago. Read more »

Full Tilt Poker's 14th installment of its Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) came to a close Monday morning when a champion was crowned in the $535 buy-in Main Event. Austria's "zhivago2" outlasted a record-setting field to earn a payday of $418,839 and the gold FTOPS jersey. Read more »

Recently, officials from Bodog announced the formation of the Bodog Network, a family of sites encompassing the various Bodog brands around the world with expansion to non-Bodog domains expected in 2010. Poker News Daily sat down with Jonas Odman, Vice President of the Network, to review the company's plans to take on new sites. Read more »

A few months ago, a player from Sweden by the name of Isildur1 came onto the scene at the nosebleed-stakes tables and has rampaged through opponents. This player, whose true identity remains anonymous to add to the intrigue, has played about 85,000 hands against top pros and showed a profit of over $3.6 million. Read more »

This week, Third Bullet Poker, a site on the popular Cake Poker Network, announced that it was merging its player base with the network's flagship site. Read more »

This year, we've seen two major stories break on Poker News Daily involving small poker sites shutting down and player funds disappearing in the midst of scandals involving shady ownership groups. Pitbull Poker was shut down amid dwindling player numbers and a superuser scandal, but perhaps the bigger story was the surprising shutdown and liquidation of Eurolinx Poker. Read more »

Over the weekend, Dani "ansky451" Stern, star of the G4 online poker reality series "2 Months, $2 Million," signed with DoylesRoom to become the newest member of the Brunson 10. Poker News Daily sat down with site namesake Doyle Brunson to learn more. Read more »

Excited about the upcoming U2 tour, but can't afford to hand over your next month's rent for tickets? Cool Hand Poker might be your answer. Read more »