The full roster for the upcoming NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship was released today, and now that the entire 64 player field is known I thought I would take a look at some of the favorites amongst the field. First, here is a look at the complete 64 player field: The majority of entrants are poker players, including Phil Galfond, Sorel Mizzi, Patrik Antonius,Read Full Article

What started as a $51,000 win over Daniel Cates in the PokerStars Superstar Showdown series has been the catalyst for Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom’s best run at the online poker tables since he first burst onto the US poker scene in late 2009 at the Full Tilt Poker nosebleed tables. When he first signed with PokerStars in late 2010 the young pro went on aRead Full Article

Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and Daniel ‘jungleman12’ Cates got together for a two and half hour session in their ongoing 50,000 hand challenge match that saw the two online poker phenoms battle it out for 1,407 hands. In the end there was little drama as Tom Dwan ended up with a small victory, booking a profit of $18,000. However, with roughly 12,500 of the 50,000Read Full Article

In a recent interview with SpecPoker.com Daniel Cates, better known as ‘jungleman12’ online, revealed his frustration with the snail’s pace that his heads-up match with Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan is proceeding at. During the phone interview (which you can listen to at specpoker.com) Cates had this to say regarding the challenge match: “I thought it would go a lot faster. I heard from Tom thatRead Full Article

You may recall that when Isildur1 burst onto the high-stakes online poker scene in late 2009, one of his early victims was the then virtually unknown –and like Isildur1 anonymous– jungleman12. Isildur1 promptly relieved jungleman12 of a sizable amount of his bankroll during their high-stakes heads-up confrontations. Fast-forward to late 2010, and not only do we have identities for their online screen-names –with jungleman12Read Full Article

The ever vigilant highstakesdb.com not only brings us the most comprehensive results from the nosebleed tables, but they also occasionally pick up a scoop from the table talk between the big name pros, and this is precisely what occurred at the $100/$200 No Limit Holdem at Full Tilt Poker last week. The discussion took place between Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and the anonymous player whoRead Full Article