26 November 2009
Chris Moneymaker wins Wednesday $250k
2003 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Chris Moneymaker has beaten a field of 800 to win the $300 buy-in PokerStars Wednesday Quarter Million, besting a final table including Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy.
23 November 2009
Shaun Deeb quits poker tournaments
Shaun Deeb, known more commonly by his fans as “Shaun f***ing Deeb”, is an online tournament legend – a pinnacle grinder who aims to, and often does, finish top of every leaderboard on PokerStars. The Team PokerStars Pro is one of the original online legends.
Jose “papadelpoker” De La Guardia wins PokerStars Sunday Million
After last week’s $2.5m behemoth, the PokerStars Sunday Million returned to more normal – but still humungous – levels with just over 8,000 players taking the prize pool to $1.717m, guaranteeing $252,000 for first place.
19 November 2009
Ivey wins $900,000 from Isildur1 at Hold ‘em
Isildur1 continued his manic tear across the highest stakes on Full Tilt Poker last night, with durrrr; Cole South and Phil Ivey all challenging the Swedish superstar. Although Ivey triumphed, winning $900,000 in just 1,000 hands, South and Dwan fared less well.
17 November 2009
FTOPS over – zhivago2 wins Main Event
Full Tilt Poker’s fourteenth run of their FTOPS tournament series came to an end over the weekend, with over 5,000 players competing in the $535 Main Event and generating a prize pool the better part of $3,000,000.
16 November 2009
Isildur1 continues to crush high stakes games
The elusive Isildur1 has once again left forums reeling, with his $6m profits in the past 24 days convincing some that he cheats, some that he’s a bot and some that he’s simply on the heater to end all heaters.
Patrik Antonius – biggest ever online winner
A thread on the Two Plus Two forums has achieved remarkable controversy and popularity as the biggest ever online winners and losers are discussed. Tom Dwan is nowhere to be found in either top 10 after losing millions to Isildur1 while Phil Ivey is the overwhelming king of NLHE and PLO on Full Tilt since 2007, having earned eight figures.
PokerStars host record-breaking $2.5m guaranteed
Just because they can, PokerStars decided to top out the guarantee on their weekly $1.5m Sunday Million tournament by a cool million. The $2.5m guarantee was obviously too much incentive, as 18,283 players signed up to shatter records.
13 November 2009
Isildur1 continues to durrrr-molish Dwan
Isildur1 has continued to rampage through the high stakes games, choosing to take the somewhat unconventional path of going via Tom “durrrr” Dwan’s bankroll. Since his million-dollar win over the newest Team Full Tilt member, they played a new series of sessions that saw him extend his monster lead.
Swedish player takes PKR by storm
PKR are reeling – in the past few weeks, a Swedish player named PatIvey (who apparently possesses a little of the Antonius/Ivey magic himself) has been winning tournaments left, right and centre.