POKER NEWS

15 April 2010

Good day for Gus Hansen in Full Tilt's mixed game
Good day for Gus Hansen in Full Tilt's mixed game

In recent times, the real high stakes action has been found mostly in the PLO games. Gus Hansen yesterday proved that it's still possible to turn a very handy profit in other, less fashionable games though.

14 April 2010

Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies’s $550k blackjack win
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies’s $550k blackjack win

We all know that Ziigmund, aka Ilari Sahamies, can suffer some brutal swings in his gambling career. Of course, we’re not especially surprised to hear that his most recently-announced six-figure score didn’t come from the Pot-Limit Omaha tables at Full Tilt.

13 April 2010

Durrrr and Antonius dominating online
Durrrr and Antonius dominating online

2010 got off to a horrible start for Patrik Antonius. With one horrible session after another he was soon in the can to the tune of millions of dollars. April appears to have brought the mighty Finn's mojo back with a steady run of profits. Antonius is up by around $535,000 this month, a much better showing than the start of the year.

12 April 2010

Antonius takes a quarter-million dollar hit at Full Tilt
Antonius takes a quarter-million dollar hit at Full Tilt

Antonius is still down millions for the year despite making seven figures last week, with an additional quarter million leaving his bankroll over the weekend. He lost over $150,000 in the 7-game and about $100,000 more playing $200/$400 PLO.

09 April 2010

Tom Dwan's amazing $6.5m comeback
Tom Dwan's amazing $6.5m comeback

Last year when Isildur1 demolished (should that be durrrrmolished?) Tom "durrrr" Dwan's bankroll in his first rise to high stakes, many commentators - not Bluff Europe, we might add - predicted that the young Full Tilt Pro was finished at high stakes.

07 April 2010

Antonius continues hot streak, Dwan and Ivey profit
Antonius continues hot streak, Dwan and Ivey profit

Patrik Antonius has continued his nice run at Full Tilt Poker – over the past week he’s now up just under a million dollars, which should go some way to alleviating the pain of 2010 for the Finn.

05 April 2010

Patrik Antonius continues winning streak
Patrik Antonius continues winning streak

Patrik Antonius seems to be on the up, though when you’re playing high stakes PLO with the best players in the world there are no such things as upswings and downswings – just eternal variance.

02 April 2010

Dwan and Sahamies biggest winners of March
Dwan and Sahamies biggest winners of March

Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies are the two biggest winners on Full Tilt Poker in the month of March. Dwan has $3.26m to his name after the month is said and done; his Finnish colleague $1.82m.

01 April 2010

Tom “durrrr” Dwan – “I should be playing smaller.”
Tom “durrrr” Dwan – “I should be playing smaller.”

We recently reported that Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies went at it at the nosebleed PLO tables on Full Tilt. What we didn’t mention is that they weren’t just playing $500/$1,000 but $3,000/$9,000 as they put in an automatic raise and 3-bet before every flop.

Patrik Antonius wins a quarter million at Full Tilt
Patrik Antonius wins a quarter million at Full Tilt

Dwan’s results overshadowed that of Finnish legend Patrik Antonius, but it is worthy of note that the beautiful baldy managed to rack up a $250,000 win at Full Tilt Poker. Despite being very likely the biggest online winner in history, Antonius has lost millions this year and a winning session is rare for him online nowadays.