POKER NEWS

12 November 2010

Jungleman12 wins over $300,000 at PLO from Ziigmund
Jungleman12 wins over $300,000 at PLO from Ziigmund

We all know Daniel “jungleman12” Cates as a heads-up NL specialist but he has been expanding his game into the four-card regions by taking on players at PLO – and who better than Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, considered by many to be among the best Omaha players in the world?

09 November 2010

URnotINdanger2 takes on sauce1234; loses $300,000
URnotINdanger2 takes on sauce1234; loses $300,000

While Jonathan Duhamel and John Racener were playing out their heads-up match for the first prize of $8,944,310 and the WSOP Main Event title; Scott “URnotINdanger2” Palmer and Sauce1234 took each other on for a hundred times as many hands.

05 November 2010

Gus Hansen wins over a quarter million at CAP PLO
Gus Hansen wins over a quarter million at CAP PLO

Despite Gus Hansen having won over $2,000,000 online in the past month he is still down over $1,500,000 for the year – however if he can keep up the amazing run he’s been having playing the 7-game; $2,000/$4,000 Omaha 8 and the highest stakes PLO then he’s on course to be up almost $3,000,000 by the time 2011 hits.

01 November 2010

Ziigmund down $1.6m for October; durrrr up $990k
Ziigmund down $1.6m for October; durrrr up $990k

Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies has had a dire October, rounded off with a loss to Gus Hansen in the high-stakes 8 game that lined The Great Dane’s pockets to the tune of $244,000. This makes Sahamies unfortunately October’s biggest online loser with over $1.6m of his bankroll in the hands of other high stakes players at Full Tilt Poker.

29 October 2010

Ziigmund wins $200k at PLO; loses $60k at the seven-game
Ziigmund wins $200k at PLO; loses $60k at the seven-game

The action has been fairly dry in the high stakes games at Full Tilt Poker recently but what little there was, unsurprisingly, involved Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies. On Friday, Ziigmund took on Luukie21 at the PLO tables and managed to walk away good to the tune of $200,000.

27 October 2010

Gus Hansen wins $500,000; loses $350,000 in two days
Gus Hansen wins $500,000; loses $350,000 in two days

Gus Hansen is still on his way to erasing his $2.3m loss for 2010 before the new year but he had a setback after being up $1.4m; the CAP PLO game was not kind to him and he lost $366,000 to put him down to $1.1m up in the past seventeen days. Oh, is that all?

Ultimate Bet Bad Beat Jackpot hit for over $100,000
Ultimate Bet Bad Beat Jackpot hit for over $100,000

The UB Bad Beat Jackpot has been busted again after an unlucky player got their karma turned right around with a $102,877 payday. The player, whose screen name is WHATAGUY431, lost with a near-nut hand and received six-figures for his troubles.

25 October 2010

Urnotindangr wins 1200 big blind pot from Prahlad Friedman
Urnotindangr wins 1200 big blind pot from Prahlad Friedman

Prahlad Friedman, the best online poker player in the world circa 2004, has enjoyed something of a comeback playing under the screen name “Prefontaine” at PokerStars, specifically the $25/$50 and $50/$100 heads-up games that were his speciality on Ultimate Bet years ago.

22 October 2010

Gus Hansen wins $600,000 at Full Tilt Poker
Gus Hansen wins $600,000 at Full Tilt Poker

Gus Hansen has continued his great run at the nosebleed stakes on Full Tilt Poker, earning another $600,000 score last night playing $500/$1,000 CAP PLO against Luukie21. A series of $80,000 pots made him a six-figure winner and puts him up over $1.2m for the month.

PLO session doesn’t go well for Daniel “jungleman12” Cates
PLO session doesn’t go well for Daniel “jungleman12” Cates

Daniel “jungleman12” Cates has stated in numerous interviews that he wishes to improve his PLO game – when you can afford it, how better to do so than to compete against the best players in the world? Cates lost over $200,000 at PLO last night but played almost 2,000 hands against David Benefield and harrington25.