Full Tilt Poker is well known for their high stakes action, some of the regular names at their tables are Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies, Gus Hansen and Cole South. Yesterday Ziigmund was running hot; he played his top game against durrrr, Hansen and Cole South and finished the sessions with more than half a million in profits. Read more »
Starting yesterday, August 4th, and running through next Sunday the 16th, PokerStars will be running multiple daily “Extreme” satellites to their WCOOP tournaments with over a million dollars in added value. These tournaments will run twice, or three times daily depending on the day of the week and all will have either 50 or 100… Read more »
Titan Poker held two tournaments yesterday that awarded seven seats to the World Poker Tour Marrakech Super Satellite that will be held today at 2pm MDT. Here is a list of the skilled players that earned a seat yesterday to the WPT Marrakech Super Satellite: Read more »
Full Tilt Poker players and poker players in general can now transfer their chips to other poker rooms using the new service from SendmyChips.com Transfers can be made between Full Tilt Poker, Ultimate Bet, Absolute Poker and Cake Poker. Players will have a transfer level limit, which will increase as they log more transactions in… Read more »
The ANZPT Queensland main event will extend to five days, and the first two days will be played at two different locations:the Conrad Treasury Brisbane and the Conrad Jupiters Gold Coast. Members from Team PokerStars Australia will be taking action at the tables including Emad Tahtouh, Eric Assadourian, Celina Lin, Grant Levi and Tony Hachem.… Read more »
The Second event on the Asian Poker Tour this year will begin next week, August 12th in Macau. The tournament will feature a buy-in of 34,400 HKD (roughly $4,500 USD) and the eventual winner is expected to earn around half a million dollars. Last year’s champion, famed online professional Yevgeniy “Atimos” Timoshenko defeated a field… Read more »
This past Sunday Ultimate Bet hosted its $530 Super Satellite for their 8th Annual Aruba Poker Classic tournament that will be held October 3-10th. Read more »
The coverage of the 2009 Champions Invitational will air tonight at 8 pm EST. There won’t be any unknowns at this table, as the entire lineup of players are WSOP Main Event winners from years past; 19 of the biggest names in poker! • Eleven time WSOP Winner Phil Helmuth • 2008 WSOP Champion and… Read more »
Cake Poker was founded in 2004, and is one of the fastest growing poker sites on the internet. Over the years Cake has steadily increased its traffic as one of the few sites that still supports US players, and is currently one of the largest online poker rooms in the world. At Cake Poker players… Read more »
InterPoker is now running a promotion called “Sounds of Money”, a series of August Freerolls that will be giving away over €7,500 in prizes. All you have to do to participate is play the required number of raked hands and it’s free to enter. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday there will be a freeroll tournament… Read more »
DoylesRoom is now running qualifiers for the first ever English Poker Open, a new European poker tournament with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. The tournament will take place from September 15th-17th, 2009 at the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Room in Nottingham, England. It is a state of the art facility that features 45 tables,… Read more »
The WPT is hitting exotic Marrakech this October, and Titan Poker is offering players many chances to win packages that include seats, flights and accommodation in the beautiful Northern African country. Every Wednesday at 20:30 GMT, Titan Poker will host a WPT Marrakech Super Satellite and award an $8,000 package to the winner. These packages… Read more »
PokerStars is currently the biggest online poker room; they have the largest amount of traffic and along with the traffic they have the biggest online tournaments. Here's a list of results for Monday August the 3rd, 2009. Read more »
The high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker were the battle zone for Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Cole South. They had two sessions in which Cole South came on top with a profit of more or less $290K. Later on, Cole South had a small session with Gus Hansen in which he also made a… Read more »
Starting tomorrow, August 4th, PokerStars will begin implementing a synchronized break schedule to better accommodate players who play more than one tournament. For years those who enjoy playing more than one tournament at a time have been left running to the bathroom between hands or losing blinds while they go to get a drink. However,… Read more »
Below are the results for the biggest tournaments played at Cake Poker on August 3, 2009. Read more »
There were a few big tournaments at Titan Poker this Sunday, here are the results: Read more »
Over the years, online poker tournament payout structures have differed greatly. Some are very steep paying only 10% of the field; some are much flatter, paying up to 25%. There are events that only payout the final table, and remarkably there are even winner take all tournaments. However, UltimateBet is hosting a $5,000 Freeroll tournament… Read more »
DoylesRoom is now running qualifiers for the first ever English Poker Open, a new European poker tournament with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. The tournament will take place from September 15th-17th, 2009 at the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Room in Nottingham, England. It is a state of the art facility that features 45 tables,… Read more »
Here are some results from the biggest tournaments that took place Sunday August 2nd, 2009 on Full Tilt Poker. Read more »
It was a busy weekend on PokerStars, with many big tournaments with huge guarantees. Here are the results from some of the largest: Read more »
Adrenaline junkies and Phil Hellmuth fans must be rejoicing, as the wildest variant of Texas Hold’em will be available on the Cereus network’s sites Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker. The Seven-Deuce tables should start operating at 5:00pm ET on Sunday, August 2nd. Seven-Deuce is essentially a prop-bet that took hold of the Hold’em psyche – trying… Read more »
Ultimate Bet will be hosting a Deep Stack tournament on August the 1st at 5:30pm ET; the prize pool has a guaranteed minimum of $100K, $25K of which will be paid to the first place. The direct buy-in is $300 + $20, but satellites can be entered for as little as $1.50 . Ultimate Bet… Read more »
Winning a bracelet from one of the major poker tournaments in the world brings in fame and respect at the poker tables, and many online players that have won a bracelet have spoken about the life changes they have gone through after they reached one of the main goals for a poker player. Earning a… Read more »
With their latest software update, Full Tilt Poker has implemented a new automated deal making system that is enabled at all final tables. With this new system, if all players agree, they are able to enter a separate Full Tilt window where they can pause the current tournament, and negotiate new payouts. Prior to this… Read more »
