09 March 2011
Huge week for Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey may have suffered a surprise early exit from the NBC National Heads Up Championship but he has more than made up for that disappointment with some great online results.
08 March 2011
XWINK – turning $4,000 into $2,000,000 in four days
You may remember in 2009 that a player known as XBLINK ran up $11 to several hundred thousand dollars in the space of a week after binking an $11 tournament. Now a player known as XWINK on Full Tilt Poker is competing against the likes of Patrik Antonius and Tom “durrrr” Dwan at nosebleeds on Full Tilt Poker.
Record Sunday Million with $11m prize pool won by bdbeatslayer
Anyone who followed the 40,000,000,000th hand anniversary Sunday Million last year knew that the 5th Anniversary Special would shatter the $5m guarantee. No one predicted just by how much, though – huge interest and build-up to the tournament lead to the Sunday Million attracting 59,128 entrants and building a prize pool of $11,825,600.
07 March 2011
Phil Ivey wins $900,000 from Daniel Cates and Scott Palmer
Despite many of the high stakes poker world’s major players engaged in either the non-NAPT event in Los Angeles or the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championships in Vegas, the big games on Full Tilt Poker still went strong with Phil Ivey winning over $900,000 in one of his typically short but big sessions.
05 March 2011
$5m guaranteed in this week's PokerStars Sunday Million
This Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of the PokerStars Sunday Million, a $215 tournament running every week on PokerStars that guarantees a prize pool of $1.5m and tends to make five or six people a week $100,000 or more richer to cheer up Monday mornings.
04 March 2011
Phil Ivey beats Kagome Kagome out of $432,000 at $3k/$6k Limit
Phil Ivey and German heads-up Limit Hold ‘em specialist Kagome Kagome took to the $3,000/$6,000 tables over the past evening and Ivey opened up another can of ass-whoopin’, taking the German to the cleaners for $432,000.
28 February 2011
Isildur1 beats online qualifier by just $10 in SuperStar Showdown
Well we weren’t expecting a tight-knit battle between great poker minds as PokerStars Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom took on Hungarian online qualifier DodgyFish72 in a SuperStar Showdown one-tenth the stakes. However, we did get a close and swingy match with the result being only one big blind either way.
24 February 2011
Bad day at the office for Isildur1
Viktor Blom hasn't had the best couple of days. In addition to an early bust out at EPT Copenhagen the Swede had a pretty woeful time at the online tables dropping $175k in just 400 hands.
23 February 2011
Ivey crushes Kagome Kagome for almost $500k
Phil Ivey took the high stakes tables on Full Tilt earlier this week and did what Phil Ivey does best. Namely crush his opposition and book a bumper profit.
22 February 2011
Blair Hinkle takes $1m at FTOPS Main Event
The latest edition of Full Tilt Poker's FTOPSFTOPS online tournament extravaganza came to a record-breaking conclusion over the weekend with the $600+$40 FTOPS Main Event creating the biggest tournament prize pool in the site's history.