POKER NEWS

08 March 2010

Tom “durrrr” Dwan wins $1.33m online
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
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
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
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 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

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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 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
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
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
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.