16 August 2011
Trust no one? Online poker’s recent scams and how to prevent them [Editorial]
If a high street company stopped doing business and closed doors with nine figures in customer money locked behind said doors, we’d hear no end of it. If a sporting celebrity embezzled fans and students out of five figures, the back pages of the newspapers would shout it from the rooftops for weeks. Yet when similar situations happen in the world of online poker, short of the flurry of activity from observers (rarely anyone more relevant than railbirds and microstakes players) on NVG... nothing.
15 August 2011
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies wins over $200k at PokerStars.
Finnish Omaha specialist Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies has had a pretty crummy year thus far, especially at PokerStars. His “Ilari_FIN” account had lost over $800,000 when he first began playing on PokerStars instead of Full Tilt but finally he has begun to get some momentum and turn that deficit around.
Ponga80 bounces his way to a Sunday Million win at PokerStars.
The PokerStars Sunday Million continued last night, with 6,525 players pushing the prize pool over $1.3m and setting up a first prize of nearly $200,000 for one of the 990 players getting paid. With a little less than ten hours played, the final table was set with eventual winner Ponga80 starting second in chips but with position on the chip leader.
Fintan Gavin wins UKIPT Edinburgh for £61,500
Irish pro Fintan Gavin was the last man standing of 519 entrants for the UKIPT Edinburgh Main Event over the weekend, defeating Andrew Hawksby heads-up for the first prize of £61,500 and the UKIPT title. He already has his eyes on last year’s UKIPT Edinburgh winner Nick Risk, though – he wants another UKIPT to match Risk’s pair.
Dusk Till Dawn Grand Prix IV live Day 1 flights begin
The Dusk Till Dawn Grand Prix IV is underway, with the online component of the 20 scheduled Day 1s completed and dozens of players through to the live Day 2 at the club. Saturday saw the kick off of the live Day 1s with two running each day of the weekend and one each weekday evening until Friday the 19th.
Chino Rheem wins inaugural Epic Poker League for $1,000,000
Former November Niner David “Chino” Rheem has won the first ever Epic Poker League event; he defeated Erik Seidel heads-up to claim the championship ring as well as $1,000,000 in prize money.
12 August 2011
The Epic Poker League lives up to its name [Editorial]
Tonight marks the first final table of the Epic Poker League with just six players remaining in Event #1; a $20,000 6-max NL affair that saw 137 of the best players in the world competing for a first prize of $1,000,000.
Hasan Habib leads Epic Poker League Event #1 final table
The third day of the inaugural Epic Poker League event has concluded with just six players remaining out of 137 competitors. Each of these is now guaranteed $107,980 for their efforts but the first prize of a cool million dollars awaits the victor.
Wu’s your daddy at UKIPT Edinburgh
Of the 242 players that put up £500 to enter the PokerStars UKIPT Edinburgh, just 72 remain standing after Day 1a with Colin Wu way out in front having stacked up 138,500 after having started with just 15,000.
11 August 2011
Sam Trickett leads Epic Poker League Event #1 into the money
Day 2 of the inaugural Epic Poker League event – a $20,000 buy-in 6-max tournament – concluded early this morning with 18 players remaining, all guaranteed a payout of at least $43,190 for outlasting 119 of the world’s best players.