POKER NEWS

07 September 2009

Ziigmund has great day, Dwan drops $880,000
Ziigmund has great day, Dwan drops $880,000

Tom “durrrr” Dwan has perhaps the greatest swings of any player to grace the felt, virtual or otherwise. Just this year he’s been widely reported to be down $4m, then up $1.5m, then down $2m and back up $1m again.

durrrr Wins $26k in 500-hand Challenge Session
durrrr Wins $26k in 500-hand Challenge Session

Nine months in and Tom Dwan’s Million Dollar Challenge is yet to reach the half-way mark against Patrik Antonius… and it’s only the first match!

vakAAttack Takes Down 15,000-Strong WCoOP
vakAAttack Takes Down 15,000-Strong WCoOP

PokerStars once again broke records, this time hosting the biggest ever World Championship of Online Poker (WCoOP) event as over 15,000 players competed in Event #6, the $109 No-Limit Hold ‘em event.

05 September 2009

€60,000 autumn Sit n Go race at Pokerheaven.com
€60,000 autumn Sit n Go race at Pokerheaven.com

Single table players of all levels can compete for the €60,000 on offer in PokerHeaven.com’s Sit n Go race. There will be three weekly races throughout September with top prizes of €2,000 for the €20+2 race, €1,200 for €10+1 race and €800 for the €5+50c race. The top 15 players in each of the three levels will win a cash prize.

04 September 2009

Ziigmund Takes Dwan for $420,000
Ziigmund Takes Dwan for $420,000

The action on Full Tilt Poker hasn’t diminished at all – just this morning, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies squared up in a heads-up Omaha session today that saw the Finn win the better part of half a million.

03 September 2009

Meet & Beat Bet24 – Tonight at 18:00 BST
Meet & Beat Bet24 – Tonight at 18:00 BST

On the first Thursday of each month Bet24 hold the Meet & Beat Bet24 Freeroll bounty tournament. Today is no different.

02 September 2009

angiebug4 wins $1.8m Sunday Million
angiebug4 wins $1.8m Sunday Million

The last Sunday of each month is a special occasion for PokerStars – not only does the Battle of the Planets $50,000 giveaway run but the Sunday Million usually gets pretty damn huge. This past week was no exception, with almost 9,000 players generating a prize pool of $1,798,600.

SunPoker Announce $10,000 September Giveaway
SunPoker Announce $10,000 September Giveaway

SunPoker are really motivating their customers to get grinding this month – yesterday, the first of two rake races worth $10,000 kicked off and runs until the second Sunday of the month – that’s the 13th, folks – when another commences.

27 August 2009

Antonius Takes Lead in durrrr Challenge
Antonius Takes Lead in durrrr Challenge

It looks like the durrrr vs Antonius challenge is well underway again – not only did Antonius win a large sum in a session on Tuesday; but the two played for 1,200 hands yesterday – during the course of this game, Antonius won $415,000 and thus totally erased the lead that Dwan had built two months ago.

25 August 2009

durrrr Challenge Resumes - Patrik Wins $392,000
durrrr Challenge Resumes - Patrik Wins $392,000

After a break of nearly two months – the WSOP and Martonas’ donations to the nosebleed stakes, aka Tom Dwan’s bankroll having something to do with it, we suspect – durrrr and Patrik Antonius resumed the four-tabling heads-up challenge across the $200/$400 tables yesterday.