POKER NEWS

04 August 2009

Sosnoviy and DOOLfan Win Big in Sunday Majors.
Sosnoviy and DOOLfan Win Big in Sunday Majors.

Two players struck gold on Sunday, taking down the two biggest regular tournaments available online. The PokerStars Sunday Million carries a $1.5m guaranteed prize pool despite the name; the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guaranteed regularly exceeds its 3/4m prize pool guarantee.

03 August 2009

Ivey Continues Rampaging Return With $1m Profit
Ivey Continues Rampaging Return With $1m Profit

Recently, we reported that Phil Ivey had made a return to the nosebleed tables - both $500/$1,000 and $300/$600/$100a tables on Full Tilt Poker with, as is often the case when one talks about Phil Ivey, exceptional results.

Great Week For CardRunners Instructors
Great Week For CardRunners Instructors

CardRunners boasts some of the best young online players in the world teaching you how to dominate the games as they did on their way to the giddying heights of Full Tilt's nosebleed stakes.

Urindanger and Rafi Amit To Play HU at Bellagio?
Urindanger and Rafi Amit To Play HU at Bellagio?

The poker community is rife with speculation after Di "Urindanger" Dang, a famed high-stakes player on Full Tilt Poker, had a recent online chatbox bout with Rafi "howitfeelslike" Amit at the nosebleed tables.

31 July 2009

Phil Ivey Returns to Full Tilt; Wins $750,000
Phil Ivey Returns to Full Tilt; Wins $750,000

From his perspective, the money is pittance. But still, $750,000 is $750,000 and it makes a bold statement when you return from playing for millions in the Bellagio and making the November Nine to immediately crush the biggest online games.

Richard Ashby Up Over $1m in July.
Richard Ashby Up Over $1m in July.

Richard Ashby has had, like all high-stakes cash game players, ups and downs. He can write off July as a massive “up” however, as he won over $1,000,000 in the past month playing anywhere from $25/$50 NLHE to $300/$600/$100a PLO tables.

Thomas Boekhoff attempts to turn $5 into $100,000
Thomas Boekhoff attempts to turn $5 into $100,000

We’ve all heard how Chris Ferguson turned $1 into $20,000 but could someone turn $5 into $100,000 in a year? Well that's the exact challenge that has been thrown down to Thomas ‘Boku87’ Boekhoff by Poker Stars.

30 July 2009

Everest Poker Celebrates 5th Birthday With $500k.
Everest Poker Celebrates 5th Birthday With $500k.

Everest Poker, official sponsors of the World Series of Poker, have hit their fifth year in operation and are marking it with a series of milestone events and promotions culminating in a live $500,000 tournament with a live final table at the WSOP.

route666 Takes the Road to Victory in the PokerStars Super Tuesday
route666 Takes the Road to Victory in the PokerStars Super Tuesday

After several hours of whittling down a strong field of 346 to just nine, the final table at the $1k PokerStars Super Tuesday was set. The chip counts at the start of the last hurdle for the players were as follows:

27 July 2009

Antonius Wins $500k But Not In durrr Challenge
Antonius Wins $500k But Not In durrr Challenge

Despite Niki Jedlicka putting in an unfeasible amount of hands to crush all comers at high-stakes PLO, Patrik Antonius has fought back. Initially he was a big loser against Jedlicka but when the two played an epic heads-up duel, Antonius’s 20,000 hands against durrr paid off as he won over half a million dollars.