04 April 2011
SuperStar Showdown - Scott “URnotINdanger2” Palmer wins
After despatching and then losing to Daniel Negreanu in a special edition of the SuperStar Showdown lasting two weeks, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom took to the PokerStars tables again last night to battle long-time nemesis Scott “URnotINdanger2” Palmer across four tables of $50/$100 heads-up.
30 March 2011
UK player Pogo650 wins over $100,000 at PokerStars $5/$10 LHE
As the milestone 60 billionth hand approached at PokerStars yesterday the cash game tables filled up with several hundred thousand hands being dealt every 10 minutes and some players finding it impossible to get a seat at a table. Eventually at around 2pm UK time hand 5,999,999,999 played out and the games paused.
22 March 2011
PokerStars set to deal 60 billionth hand – you can win six figures
We know it seems like just last week that PokerStars celebrated dealing out their 50,000,000,000th hand of poker and tbvle received $57,140 for being in the right place at the right time, sitting down at a $0.02/$0.05 NL 6-max table that was dealt hand number 50bn.
18 March 2011
PokerStars SCOOP 2011 leaderboard prizes announced
We already brought news that a tentative schedule for the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker 2011 had been released, featuring 111 tournaments of high, medium and low buy-in across 37 events. The prize pool was set with a guarantee of $63,000 for the series with twelve seven-figure guarantees including a $1m, $3m and $5m guaranteed Main Event.
15 March 2011
Gus Hansen loses $560,000; wins $345,000 at Full Tilt Poker.
The swings in Gus Hansen’s life are continuing but fortunately for The Great Dane they are still continuing at an upward trend despite an overall loss of $200,000 in the past 48 hours at Full Tilt Poker. On Sunday night-cum-Monday morning he lost over half a million dollars.
14 March 2011
XWINK loses a million dollars to jungleman12 and NoPasaran
XWINK, the 21-year-old Canadian famed for running up minor sums into seven-figures on both UB and Full Tilt, dropped over a million dollars taking on the high stakes regulars at both capped and uncapped PLO games.
11 March 2011
XWINK continues run; wins $1.2m in 36 hours on Full Tilt Poker
We recently reported that Canadian player XWINK, famously known as XBLINK on UB where they turned $11 into $700,000 in the span of a few weeks, had done similar feats on Full Tilt where a $4,000 deposit became millions.
10 March 2011
Czech player wins game with PokerStars Pros via Home Games
PokerStars Home Games have been all the rage since their launch earlier this year with hundreds of thousands of players – from weekly pub chancers to WSOP bracelet-winners – setting up their own fully-customisable private cash games and tournaments to play with their friends no matter where in the world they are.
PokerStars release 111-event SCOOP 2011 schedule
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker is back for 2011 and this year there will be 37 events apiece for low, medium and high stakes guaranteeing $45,000,000 in prize money across two weeks. Everyone can take part, regardless of bankroll, and satellites start running next week for those who want to take shots.
09 March 2011
Jungelman12 extends lead in Durrrr Challenge
It's been all quiet on the Durrrr Challenge front lately, well for a couple of months anyway. Tom Dwan and Daniel Cates finally got down to business again earlier this week squaring off for a short session of $200/$400 No Limit Hold'em.