POKER NEWS

12 May 2010

Jungleman12 is May’s biggest high stakes winner
Jungleman12 is May’s biggest high stakes winner

The high stakes games haven’t exactly been booming this month but that’s largely because Isildur1 has been conspicuous by his absence and many of the regulars have taken to playing the capped games where only 40BBs can be bet per hand.

11 May 2010

Dwan and Ivey win big at Full Tilt Poker
Dwan and Ivey win big at Full Tilt Poker

Yesterday was a rare occasion where both Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Phil Ivey lost money at Full Tilt Poker but the two made up for it today by winning around $250,000 apiece and thus setting the Universe back in order.

10 May 2010

Ziigmund wins big as Tom Dwan and Ivey lose a million
Ziigmund wins big as Tom Dwan and Ivey lose a million

Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies got back on the up after a recent downswing; winning $387,000 playing CAP PLO with the likes of Urindanger and theASHMAN103 who also won decent slices of cash.

06 May 2010

Gus Hansen on fire; wins $300,000
Gus Hansen on fire; wins $300,000

The start of Gus Hansen’s 2010 has been much better than his 2009. Well, he was up over $2m at one point but now he’s up $550,000 which is much better than his March status of down almost a million.

05 May 2010

Patrik Antonius back to even for 2010
Patrik Antonius back to even for 2010

If most people were up almost $50,000 from poker in five months we’d be ecstatic. Patrik Antonius is probably quite happy with that result also – for him it’s not a great deal of money but it marks the official end of a $4m hole.

04 May 2010

Townsend’s revenge – beats Ziigmund out of $400,000
Townsend’s revenge – beats Ziigmund out of $400,000

Last week we reported that Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies had beaten CardRunners’ Brian Townsend out of almost half a million dollars playing a few hundred hands of $200/$400 PLO.

03 May 2010

Durrrr Challenge – Antonius claws back; still down $1.8m
Durrrr Challenge – Antonius claws back; still down $1.8m

It seems that Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius are eager to get the 50,000 hand Durrrr Challenge over with – in the past four days they have played more sessions than we have seen since the very beginning of the challenge.

30 April 2010

Ziigmund smashes Townsend for over $400k
Ziigmund smashes Townsend for over $400k

Brian Townsend has still not had a very good 2010. He stepped up to challenge Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies at heads-up $200/$400 PLO yesterday and soon stepped down after losing at a rate of 500BBs every 100 hands, eventually dropping $482,000 in just 242 hands.

29 April 2010

Gus Hansen loses $600k as Ivey takes on Griffin
Gus Hansen loses $600k as Ivey takes on Griffin

A lot went on at the high stakes tables on Full Tilt over the weekend – we’ve told you about Tom Dwan taking on jungleman12 but the day after that everyone wanted a piece of the action – Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, Ashton Griffin and Brian Townsend all managed to win or lose six figures on Sunday.

Antonius wins $60k in long Durrrr Challenge game.
Antonius wins $60k in long Durrrr Challenge game.

Of the near-$4m Antonius had lost so far this year, he has won back over $2.7m which is probably why the durrrr challenge – thought to be dead by many – returned to Full Tilt’s tables last night.