30 July 2012
Brit wins PokerStars Sunday Million
It proved to be a great weekend for British players in the Sunday Majors this weekend with players from the UK taking down big scores at both PokerStars and OnGame. Craig McCorkell took the honours in the OnGame $150k Champion Chip tournament while over at PokerStars it was welshwizard9 who scooped the Sunday Million.
18 July 2012
Massive heater for Ilari Sahamies
The high stakes online PLO games are noted for their massive swings and someone who can certainly vouch for that is Ilari Sahamies. After a torrid start to 2012, the Finn has hit a serious hot streak posting a series of massive wins.
12 July 2012
Big score for Sander Bernsden
The high stakes online action has understandably been somewhat quiet given the competing attractions of the WSOP and the crazy high stakes action at the Aria.
28 May 2012
Ilari “Ilar FIN” Sahamies crushes, Viktor Blom busto?
Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies had an excellent time of it at the Omaha tables with a $294,000 profit over a little less than 700 hands playing $100/$200 against various opponents in both ring games and heads-up.
12 April 2012
Jens Kyllonen continues to crush with a $172k win at PLO
Jens Kyllonen has been one of the major names in the railbird discussions of high stakes games on PokerStars. At first it was because he won all the money in 2012, but a bad March set him back over $600k.
29 March 2012
Ilari Sahamies wins over $750,000 in three days playing PLO
The artist formerly known as Ziigmund continued giving at getting action at PokerStars, though fortunately for him it went much better than it has been in 2012. Previously down over $1.1m, he has now recovered most of those losses.
12 March 2012
“slyfox151” wins Sunday Million 6th Anniversary special
PokerStars celebrated the sixth anniversary of its Sunday Million last night with a $6,000,000 guaranteed edition of the $215 buy-in tournament. With over 33,000 entrants the guarantee was easily met with a first prize of over $1 million.
05 March 2012
Isildur1 wins $1m, loses $500k in three days at PokerStars
Isildur1 has returned to the high stakes tables at PokerStars and as you might expect the swings have reflected this, with six figures won and lost on an hourly basis. On Thursday, Viktor Blom won almost $600k.
27 February 2012
MaiseE continues to storm PokerStars with $1.1m profit
One of the newest screen names to arrive at the high stakes tables on PokerStars is also one of the most profitable as MaiseE continued his or her tear, racking up over $1.1m in profits in less than two weeks.
24 February 2012
Vladimir Schmelev tops the online leaderboards at HORSE tables
Vladimir “GVOZDIKA55” Schmelev has been headlining the action online in the past few days as he battles the man thought to be Phil Ivey, known at the PokerStars high stakes tables as RaiseOnce.