25 November 2009
Ben Grundy shows off $7.8m graph
We all know Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius are two huge online winners with eight figures to their name in online profit, but it’s easy to forget that there are other ballas capable of the same things. Enter Ben “the Milkybar Kid” Grundy.
RIP Mrs Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu’s latest poker blog is a sad affair as he describes how his mother passed away at around 3.30am on November 23 after a 10-month struggle with illness that the Canadian poker pro described as “10 months of the most brutal torture”.
Register for this weekend’s UK Low Stakes Poker Tour Event
The latest leg of the UK Low Stakes Poker Tour takes place at Harlow Hounds Stadium in Essex this Saturday and there is still time to register. Buy in for the event is £25 plus a £5 membership fee to join the club.
Erica Schoenberg invites all to OFC Wolf Mountain charity tournament
Saturday, December 5, marks the day that Full Tilt Poker will play host to the Online Forum Challenge Wolf Mountain Sanctuary charity tournament at 8pm GMT. The tournament is an $11 entry that will raise money for Wolf Mountain Sanctuary, a non-profit animal organisation, in association with Online Forum Challenge.
24 November 2009
Vincent Diver wins PKR Live III
PKR Live III Main Event took place over the weekend at London’s Loose Cannon with $5 satellite qualifier Vincent ‘vd12345’ Diver scooping the $33,500 1st prize.
Blonde Poker set for iPoker axe... due to winning players
The future of online poker room Blonde Poker is in the air due to an extraordinary decision from hosts, iPoker. The iPoker network has given the skin three-months to leave the network due to them having an excess of winning players.
Jason Mercier appearing on High Stakes Poker
Recently we reported that Andrew “good2cu” Robl was the latest addition to the eagerly-anticipated latest season of GSN’s High Stakes Poker to be aired in February 2010.
Steven Begleiter appears on Bloomberg
Steven Begleiter recently appeared on American TV news show Bloomberg to talk about the World Series of Poker and his final table finish in early November. Despite the event being incorrectly labelled by the host as a “$10,000,000 buy-in tournament” the show went swimmingly.
Stuart Ward is the APAT European Champion
Stuart Ward has been crowned the European Amateur poker champion after winning the APAT European Championships in Luton. Ward outlasted a field of 195 players from 12 countries to win the title and with it a first prize of £3,500 and a seat in a GUKPT Main Event.
Brandon Cantu to be tasered by Clonie Gowen
The TASER charity poker tournament for injured police officers, reported by Bluff Europe earlier in the year, was the site of a fairly ridiculous prop bet according to Phil Hellmuth’s blog.