According to the numbers that were thrown around on Andrew Robl’s Twitter last night, the big cash-games have once again sprung-up around the APT Macau tournament, and they could be even bigger than ever this year. According to a post on his Twitter account, the young poker star, Robl is in Macau and after starting out on a hot-streak he ran into a bitRead Full Article

Likely caused by the unrelenting swarms of former Full Tilt Poker trying to get their funds returned –and likely just as many people whose only interest is in pestering Dwan—Tom ‘durrrr” Dwan decided to take to his Twitter account to address his guarantee to return all of the money he received from Full Tilt Poker to US players should the site not make goodRead Full Article

For the first time in the history of the show –or in the history of any cash-game poker show for that matter—this week’s episodes of Poker After Dark on NBC will be fought out over a PLO table. Probably to pull in the casual viewer who is unlikely to know the specifics of PLO play, PAD will be doubling the buy-in and stakes forRead Full Article

File this one under unconfirmed, and because of the tax implications my guess is that we will never know the real numbers involved whether they were larger or smaller, but the latest rumors coming out of the Macau high-stakes poker action is that Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan scooped a 3-way all-in pot with AK vs. TT and JJ worth a mind-boggling $11 million USD! TheRead 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

It can happen fast at the nosebleed tables on Full Tilt Poker as Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan knows only too well, as he’s been on both sides of the coin in the past. Yesterday saw the Full Tilt Poker sponsored pro get absolutely crushed at the online poker tables losing over $1 million total according to highstakesdb.com. After his massive downswing in late 2009, durrrrRead 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

In the past month or so there have been a number of new screen-names taking their shot at the best poker players in the world, playing at the nosebleed table on Full Tilt Poker. Seats in the highest stakes games are usually reserved for players with well-known monikers like ‘durrrr’, ‘Ziigmund’, ‘OMGClayAiken’, and the Red Pros who use their real names like Phil Ivey,Read Full Article

Great news for Tom Dwan fans.  The 22 year old Full Tilt Poker Pro, who had been suffering a torrid time at the cash tables in recent weeks, is now up $1,500,000 after a few sessions of $500/$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha against Power Poker frontman Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies. On Sunday night, Dwan hit the nosebleed $500/$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha Full Tilt Poker tables hopingRead Full Article

Isildur1 has been absent from the high stakes since his roller-coaster ride at the end of 2009 and early 2010: Over the course of 2010 Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cates has usurped the mantle of the most talked about young online phenom. So, when two of the most talked about online poker players over the past year wind-up squaring off against one another you can beRead Full Article