11 February 2010
Ziigmund wins $400,000 at Full Tilt Poker
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies has had a typically up and down year. In January he was one of the biggest online winners with a total profit of $1.1m for the month. In the first week of February, he was back down to $0.
10 February 2010
Dwan extends lead over Antonius to $1,392,760.50
Despite the huge variance in high-stakes heads-up Pot-Limit Omaha, many are predicting that Tom Dwan has near enough secured the $500,000 side bet from Patrik Antonius after 33,000 hands.
09 February 2010
PostFlopAction wins $994k in a week
You know those guys who win a major tournament then disappear out of the poker world? Cough, Jerry Yang, cough. Alexander Kostritsyn is not one of them.
Nearly $250,000 first prize in Sunday Million
Despite the fact that the majority of the American populous were watching the Indianapolis Colts lose to the New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl, PokerStars still managed to get a beefy $1,806,200 prize pool in the Sunday Million.
08 February 2010
iPoker player claims he was denied jackpot
The iPoker network is one of the largest, incorporating such favourite sites as William Hill, Black Belt Poker and Betfred. However, the network has been the centre of controversy on the Two Plus Two forums as you can read here.
Gus Hansen wins $1.7m in January
Gus Hansen has gotten off to a great start – evidently the growing popularity of the 7-Game on Full Tilt has done him favours as he leads the winning players for the first month of 2010, having made a tidy $1,743,125 in the month.
03 February 2010
Patrik Antonius down $1.8m for 2010
Here’s something you don’t see often – Patrik Antonius, the winningest (yes, that’s a real word) online poker player of all time, is down $1.8m for 2010. We’re only 33 days in, Patrik!
02 February 2010
Huge Sunday Million generates $550k first prize
PokerStars has once again set online poker records – this time they hosted their largest ever Sunday Million tournament as 19,377 players registered to create a prize pool of $3,875,400.
01 February 2010
Gus Hansen nets nearly $400,000 at Full Tilt Poker
Gus Hansen was very active this weekend at Full Tilt Poker’s high stakes 7-Game tables, excelling at the Pot-Limit Omaha section, playing almost 2,000 hands and earning $383,959. He took six figures off such esteemed names as Phil Ivey, Cole“CTS” South and Brian Townsend, the latter of which donated the largest sum to the Danish treasury as he dropped $230,000.
29 January 2010
Ziigmund canes Antonius for $844,000
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies won over $600,000 at Full Tilt Poker last night. Despite some losses he managed to squeeze in 435 hands of $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha with fellow Finn – in fact, his poker mentor – Patrik Antonius.