18 November 2008
Cash Review: Hastings Feels The Sting
It’s tough being a young online pro. Just ask Brian ‘Stinger’ Hastings, CardRunners instructor and limit hold'em-crusher extraordinaire. Just this week he had to deal with downswings and upswings involving more money than the average British citizen makes in over ten years.
11 November 2008
MTT Review: FTOPS Series the highlight of the week
For once, the PokerStars Sunday Million wasn’t the major tournament of the week.
10 November 2008
Cash Review - Patatino Takes To Omaha
The only thing that tingles the loins of Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius more than Guy LaLiberte playing poker for hundreds of thousands of dollars is Guy LaLiberte playing Pot-Limit Omaha for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
03 November 2008
MTT Review: Pokerstars Sunday Warm-Up Smashes Guarantee
The PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up almost stole the show from its bigger brother last night as it smashed the $750,000 guarantee to produce a prize pool of more than $800,000.
Cash Review: It's obviously all about the Europeans the past couple of days!
The action in the high-stakes online cash games over the past week kicked off, as it always does nowadays, with Guy Laliberte losing a few hundred thousand and a RailHaven shark taking the profits.
27 October 2008
Cash Review: The Biggest Online Pots Ever x 4
Matt Perry brings us details of the day online poker saw the record pot won smashed four times in one epic session.
MTT Review: Darkillermax Wins Sunday Million
Another weekly round-up from the big MTTs this week, culminating in Darkillermax winning the PokerStars Sunday Million.
20 October 2008
Cash Review: Tom 'durrrr' Dwan On Fire
It’s a good time to be an online cash game player – the games are bigger and more frequent than ever, on top of which Guy LaLiberte has dropped $10.9m in this year alone. Since Forbes estimate his net worth to be the best part of $2bn that’s the equivalent to an average American losing about $12 a week, so it’s hardly breaking the bank. However, it’s very good news for anyone who wants to play $500/$1,000NL.
MTT Review: doulas12 wins the Sunday Million, and more
As far as online MTTs go, the PokerStars Sunday Million (or Sunday One-Point-Five-Million as it should now be known) is still the daddy. Falling slightly short of the players needed to make up the guarantee, 7,446 players went at it for a slice of the $1.5m prize pool and a first-place prize of $185,000.