08 March 2010
Tom “durrrr” Dwan wins $1.33m online
Tom “durrrr” Dwan has now broken the seven-figure mark for 2010 earnings, doing most of it on Saturday night after a huge session left him $1,338,000 to the good.
03 March 2010
Cole South loses $1,000,000 at Full Tilt’s PLO tables
Lady Luck is a fickle mistress. Not 24 hours after blogging about his 2010 earnings – in excess of $3,500,000 at the time – CardRunners instructor Cole “CTS” South has lost $1,004,046 in a disastrous session of $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha.
dean23price wins PokerStars Super Tuesday
The PokerStars Super Tuesday, a $1,050 tournament with a quarter-million dollars guaranteed, saw 390 players compete to create a prize pool of $390,000 and a first place prize of $75,000.
02 March 2010
Tom Dwan and Cole South discuss the mysterious Isildur1
We say “Swedish online high-stakes player”, you say “Isildur1.” Apparently there’s more than one of these guys though, as DrPill, who has been making some waves on the nosebleed tables, is also Swedish. And a high-stakes player. Online.
01 March 2010
Patrik Antonius nets another $200,000 win
Patrik Antonius has had a few winning sessions in a row now – nothing new by any means but it does mean he appears to be out of the bad spell that January cast on him. In the first month of the year he lost $1.8m before dropping another six figures in the first week of February.
26 February 2010
Tom "durrrr" Dwan wins $1m online in 24 hours
Tom "durrrr" Dwan always seems to be rebuilding his bankroll after his massive losses to Isildur1 late last year. Well, he's built quite a lot in the past day or so after putting in nearly 3,000 hands and taking home $995,566.
Cole South brutalises Ziigmund for $787,000
Cole South, instructor extraordinaire at CardRunners, has proved his mettle after beating Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies out of a huge sum over 320 hands of $300/$600 PLO.
UK online player wins Full Tilt FTOPS XV Main Event
Unfortunately for Full Tilt Poker the $500 main event of their fifteenth FTOPS tournament series was a little overshadowed - despite beating its $2.5m guarantee it couldn't quite match up to the hype surrounding a 36,000-player Sunday Million.
24 February 2010
Isildur1 loses $300,000 at Full Tilt Poker
One thing we didn’t see last year was Swedish legend Isildur1 taking on Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond. Well, wait no more – it happened, with Galfond taking $149,000 from the Scandinavian mystery man.
23 February 2010
Patrik Antonius finally has a winning session
It’s fairly safe to assume that Isildur1’s rampage around the nosebleed online games late last year taught every player a lesson or two in keeping variance down. At least, that’s our theory when you look at how popular the $200/$400 capped PLO games are.