09 November 2009
Isildur1 wins seven figures from durrrr
Isildur1 continued his epic upswing tearing through the bankrolls of high-stakes players as he played a huge heads-up PLO and NLHE session with Tom Dwan, earning over $1,220,000 throughout the course of the night.
PokerStars Sunday Million awards $236,000
There may have been some sort of final table going on in the Rio at Vegas on Saturday, but the day after we were mostly concerned with the final table of the PokerStars Sunday Million.
06 November 2009
Isildur1 loses $340k to Cole South in huge session.
Isildur1 has been attacking the high-stakes games at Full Tilt more and more frequently, suffering or enjoying huge swings into the red or black due to his highly aggressive game.
03 November 2009
Durrrr loses nearly $2,000,000 at high stakes PLO
Good news for us – the high stakes games are back in full flow. Bad news for durrrr – he’s wondering where $1.95m of his money has gone. A disastrous series of PLO sessions at Full Tilt Poker has seen durrrr drop first $1.1m then $850k over the course of the weekend. That’s gotta sting.
Siola wins $187,000 in PokerStars Sunday Million
This past Sunday, 7,962 players paid up via satellites and direct buy-ins to compete in the PokerStars Sunday Million, creating a prize pool of $1,592,400 with a first-place prize of $240,000.
30 October 2009
No More Flips for You, Young Mr Ivey
A while back, news circulated in forums across the Internet that Full Tilt Pros had been instructed to refrain from partaking in flips. However, it seemed to make very little difference as it still continued.
Run It Twice – Not popular with Full Tilt Pros
The new feature at Full Tilt Poker’s cash game tables, Run It Twice, has not proved widely-used at the higher stakes it is available at. Despite it occurring constantly on cash game shows such as High Stakes Poker, the Full Tilt Pros can take it or leave it, it seems.
29 October 2009
Ziigmund Crushes 7-Game High Stakes for $1.1m
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies doubled his 2009 winnings last night, destroying the 7-game high-stakes tables on Full Tilt for over a million dollars; most of that coming from the pockets of Brian Hastings and David Benyamine.
27 October 2009
Ladbrokes Poker introduces new tournament structure – Survivor Poker
Ladbrokes Poker have unveiled a new type of tournament poker structure at their site, where the objective is to maintain your chip stack to be higher than the bottom 10% of the players – the bottom 10 are eliminated at the end of every blind level.
26 October 2009
Isildur1 Takes On the World's Best With Relentless Aggression
A mystery player showed up at the high-stakes tables on Full Tilt Poker over the weekend, playing the best that the site had to offer from the $100/$200 stakes upwards. The player, known as Isildur1 and hailing from Sweden, won around $400,000 from Haseeb Qureshi but wound up over half a million down.