The last event for the European Poker Tour in ’09 has taken players to the beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic. Day 1A started with 219 players and around 150 remain. Some of the pros who are ding well so far include: JP Kelly, Florian Langmann, Sandra Naujoks, Arnaud Mattern, Marcel Luske, Marcin Horecki, Joep… Read more »
Since Isildur1 appeared at the Full Tilt high stake tables a few months ago, he’s managed to have successful sessions against some of the best poker pros in the world. He has taken money from all of them, but now some of them are starting to win it back. However, not all players have been… Read more »
The fifth tournament scheduled in the Asia Pacific Poker Tour will lead players to Sydney Australia and the Star City Casino where some the best poker players in the world will surely show up to play. Many PokerStars qualifiers and pros have already arrived, including Joe Hachem, Lee “Final Table” Nelson, Emad Tahtouh, Grant Levy,… Read more »
This past weekend, thousands of players fired up their Full Tilt software for a chance to win a percentage of the large guaranteed prize pools. The Sunday Brawl had 2,794 players which bumped up the original $500K prize pool in $858,800. As the tournament progressed and there was only three players remaining, mikkelstrack, Michael “YrrsiNN”… Read more »
The fifth edition of the ECOOP events can be considered a complete success, as out of the seven tourneys that have been hosted at Titan Poker, only one of them has not exceeded the guaranteed prize pool. The ECOOP will continue tonight with a $500K guaranteed NL Hold’em event. During the weekend Titan Poker awarded… Read more »
As always, the biggest tournament on PokerStars this weekend was the Sunday Million, which attracted an outstanding field of 9,077 player. The enormous field took more than nine hours to play down to the final two tables and an additional three hours to complete from there. At the end caio_pimienta outplayed the field and took… Read more »
Patrik Antonius is no doubt one of the best high stakes players in the world, and his stats in 2009 were reflecting that…at least until October. Antonius’ bankroll grew to almost $7 million in the first ten months of the year. In the past month or so he’s played plenty of sessions against the new… Read more »
Full Tilt has been the center of attention in November, mainly because of the insane action surrounding Isildur1, but there are other things going on at Full Tilt that deserve the poker community’s gaze. As a consequence of Isildur’s action, some pros have suffered significant loses, but one player stands out from the rest and… Read more »
One of the best things about having free time is getting the opportunity to win extra money, and what better place to do that than PokerStars? Players get the chance to win life changing money on PokerStars this Sunday in the Sunday Warm-up and Sunday Million, which feature guarantees of $750K and $1.5 million respectively.… Read more »
The $100K, the biggest guaranteed tournament at Doylesroom, takes place on Sundays, but on the last Sunday of every month Doylesroom increases the prize pool to $250K. This upcoming weekend players will get their monthly shot at a healthy chunk of $250K. Doylesroom will be running satellites to the big event around the clock with… Read more »
Party Poker has recently added some interesting promotions for their players. But before players get involved in qualifying for tourneys that will have them flying to Vegas for a chance to win $1.5 million dollars, they will have the opportunity to play at the $300K guaranteed tournament this upcoming Sunday. One of the recent promotions… Read more »
Yesterday, after a losing session against Brian Townsend, Isildur1 returned to the tables with nothing but revenge on his mind. His session started with Patrik Antonius, and Isildur1 dominated the entire session, making it look easy against Antonius. At the end of their session Isildur1 had won back much of what he’d lost to Townsend.… Read more »
The first promotion available for all Full Tilt players is the Holiday Hundred, which will award a $100 bonus to all players that have completed all the requirements in a certain time frame. For existing players who made an initial deposit and cleared any bonus they had pending by before 6:30 pm on November 15th,… Read more »
The French government recently changed their taxation policies after to 2% player stakes. Players in the country tried to make their government listen to their ideas and possible solutions in the best interest of both the government and players themselves. French authorities did listen to the players request and decided to change the taxation plans… Read more »
The online sensation and mystery player Isildur1 got involved in a session against Brian Townsend. An interesting fact is that Isildur’s matches usually occur at the highest stakes but his session against Townsend was at the $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha tables. Townsend seemed to be on a hot streak and he completely dominated the entire… Read more »
Traveling around and playing poker in some of the most exotic locations in the world is every poker players dream. That might be the reason why thousands of players fight to earn a PokerStars passport each year. Because the competition for the top spots in the Yearly Tournament Leader Board is a task that only… Read more »
Not all journalist like to point out the positive things about a person, some like Van Smith feel the need to dig-up the past of really good people to some how make them look like monsters. That was the case with November niner Darvin Moon. Darvin is known for been a hard working man and… Read more »
PokerStars has renewed their Depositor Freeroll promotions again. They want to reward players for their loyalty with half a million dollars in total cash prizes. All existing players will only have to enter the code “500K” when they are making a new deposit and they will automatically be entered into the freeroll. The promotion consists… Read more »
Party Poker is inviting all their players to participate in their new points race for a chance to win up to $1.5 million against some of the best poker players in the world. The winner of the points race will be awarded a $9K package that will include seven night accommodations at one of the… Read more »
Cake Poker hosts a monthly $250K tournament each month and this upcoming Sunday all players will get a chance to win a percentage of such a large prize pool. The tournament will start at 5 pm and the full buy-in is $268. But not all players can afford such a buy-in and for that reason… Read more »
Absolute Poker has made some improvements to their poker software, with the main focus on improving user experience. The new features implemented are new icons that will help players find tournaments easier, as well as a revamped tournament schedule and a reinforced tournament structure that has been modified to provide better game-play. The new tournament… Read more »
Isildur1 is spoiling all the railbirds around the world. He seems to have enough gamble in him to multi-table against the best players in the world, and profitably, too. His November sessions were completely crazy as he managed to win almost $6 million in just the first fifth teen days of the month at Full… Read more »
Shaun Deeb has been around at the virtual felts for quite a while now and is well known as a great tournament player. In 2006, he finished in third place at the Yearly TLB at PokerStars, and then in both ’07 and ’08 he topped the leaderboard, which is in amazing feat. Shaun Deeb received… Read more »
The Latin American Poker Tour it’s already in its third season and it has been a complete success. The schedule includes five stops, with the first one concluding this past weekend. It was held in beautiful Costa Rica in Central America. Players from all parts of the world flew to the Playa Conchal and got… Read more »
Yesterday was an important day at Titan Poker as the European Championship of Online Poker started and over $4.5 million will be at stake in the thirteen events that are remaining. Today’s tournament is a Limit 7 Card Stud event with a $250 buy-in and a $50K prize pool. The first tournament, held yesterday, was… Read more »
