30 June 2009
Sleire Wins $228k In PokerStars Sunday Million.
After almost ten hours of play, the final nine of the PokerStars Sunday Million were set and the majority of the $1,600,000 prize pool was still to play for. Compared to the rest of the tournament the final table flew by in less than an hour when Sleire beat BeechSquad heads-up to take home $228,000.
26 June 2009
No Surrender and William Hill in Charity Tourney.
Pancreatic cancer charity No Surrender and UK bookies and poker room William Hill have teamed up in a bid to host the UK’s largest ever poker tournament. With $30,000 and a $10,000 Las Vegas package up for grabs too it’s well worth playing.
PKR Super Series Is Back Again
The next-generation online poker site PKR.com has announced the return of its Super Series, commencing for the third time this summer. The series will feature 11 events in 12 days and over $200,000 guaranteed.
24 June 2009
Fancy a Job? Play Staked at RedKings Poker
RedKings, a successful and rapidly-growing site on the OnGame network, are offering a series of placements to play poker for free at their site. OnGame have just had an overhaul of their software which makes it much sleeker and easier to use – a joy to play on for a summer job.
Sunday Million Returns: Vidikin Victorious
The PokerStars Sunday Million was not running for the past couple of weeks, much to the confusion of the Bluff Europe staff who found themselves with nothing to write about on Monday. Well, except the WSOP.
23 June 2009
Durrrr-molition Man! Dwan nearly 20 buy-ins up.
In what has been by far the longest session of the Durrrr Challenge thus far, Dwan and Patrik Antonius played almost 5,000 hands of heads-up PLO to bring the challenge to over 20,000 hands played.
Urindanger Takes Amazing Profit at $300/$600 PLO.
While Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius were at loggerheads across four heads-up tables for fifteen hours straight it was easy to forget there was some other high stakes action going on.
19 June 2009
PKR.com gets a facelift
PKR.com has made some major changes to their website, promising players more of a community feel as well as giving them plenty of extra content.
Gus Hansen Gets His Own Back Against Dwan
Gus Hansen and Tom “durrrr” Dwan have been playing a lot of heads-up PLO recently. Amid the extreme variance inherent in that game, the chips have had a slight trend toward durrrr’s stack, with Hansen taking several $500,000+ losses.
Stryyke Poker Moves to Cake Network.
Stryyke Poker have recently announced that they will be moving from bwin’s OnGame network to Cake, a popular US-friendly network of sites. This move comes amid allegations of delayed payments and reports that OnGame had terminated contracts.