31 May 2011
Tobias Reinkemeier wins PokerStars Sunday Million
We saw a rare and not-so-rare sight at the final table of the PokerStars Sunday Million this past weekend. The rare sight was a nine-way deal, meaning every player at the final table chopped up the prize pool before playing for the remnants and the title.
Isildur1 loses $220k to Sauce123 and gavz101 on PokerStars
Viktor Blom has had a solid May so far with over $550k won at the high stakes tables on PokerStars, mostly at the PLO games. That’s what we would have been writing had Isildur1 not taken on Sauce123 and gavz101 at the heads-up Omaha tables this weekend.
27 May 2011
Cole South moves to Canada, wins $100k at Full Tilt Poker
Cole South is one of the first well-known US players to relocate in order to continue playing high stakes online. CTS showed up at Full Tilt this week with his location changed to Canada and immediately got the action going again by jumping into the $200/$400 PLO games.
SCOOP NL Turbo champion wins his prize again at PLO cash
Isildur1 was surprisingly not the most active player at the $25/$50 tables on PokerStars yesterday with SCOOP Event #26 ($1,050 NL Turbo) winner Le kork taking to the $25/$50 PLO tables with what seemed to be reckless abandon.
23 May 2011
Gus Hansen destroys Antonius, takes back 2011 money lead
We recently reported that Patrik Antonius had been quite simply obliterating all opponents in the PLO, NL and fixed limit games ever since Black Friday with more than $3m racked up since April. However, Gus Hansen has now been on a tear of his own.
ElkY is a boss – Bertrand Grospellier wins SCOOP $25k HU
Team PokerStars pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier is having what can only be described as a Seidel-esque month. When it comes to PokerStars-sponsored High Roller events, the former Starcraft player simply cannot be stopped. At the EPT Madrid he took down both the €25,000 High Roller and the €10,000 Turbo 6-max High Roller.
19 May 2011
PokerStars SCOOP awards over $1.6m on Wednesday
I say “SCOOP”; you say “multi-million dollar prize pools”. I say “Limit games”; you say... nothing because you’ve fallen asleep. Nevertheless, a Stud-and-Draw-dominated day of SCOOP saw several big winners yesterday – though a couple of big NL fields helped towards that end.
18 May 2011
Big online win for Isildur1
After a number of appearances on the live tournament circuit searching for that elusive maiden win, Viktor Blom is back doing what he does best. Railbirds can rejoice as the PokerStars pro has returned to the online tables for some high stakes cash action.
11 May 2011
Jake Cody wins PokerStars SCOOP Event #2: $2,100 NL
When you’ve won the EPT Deauville and the inaugural WPT London in the same year for a combined total of over $1.65m where do you go? Some would say the WSOP is the next logical stop but Jake Cody thought he’d swing by PokerStars and grab a cheeky SCOOP title.
L0ve2playU loves to play PLO; wins 38 buy-ins in one session
We don’t know who is behind the screenname L0ve2playU but they certainly loved to play at PokerStars $25/$50 PLO tables, taking home a staggering $192,000 profit from a super-session equating to 38 buy-ins. That’s Omaha.