When Daniel ‘jungleman12’ Cates battled against an unknown online poker player using the screen-name ‘Lindqvro’ at the $25/$50 tables on Full Tilt Poker speculation immediately began to swirl regarding the identity of the player –after all, it’s not every day that a brand new player suddenly jumps into a $5,000 buy-in game against one of poker’s best players! The only thing the poker communityRead 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

Patrik Antonius took on two of the game’s young poker superstars in Scott ‘URnotINdanger2’ Palmer and Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cates at the Full Tilt Poker nosebleed tables recently, and the young guns got the better of the Full Tilt Poker pro. The first player to take a bite out of the shark that is Patrik Antonius was PokerNews Strategy instructor and high-stakes poker pro ScottRead 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

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

It looks like the second Durrrr Challenge could be completed before the first one, which started a year and a half ago! Unlike the snail’s pace we saw in the Antonius vs. Dwan challenge match, the second installment of the Durrrr Challenge between Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12” Cates has seen almost 7,000 hands played over the first weekend! So far –much like their previousRead Full Article

A few days ago Poker News Boy reported an online conversation between Jungleman12 and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, where durrrr asked the unknown online poker phenom if he was interested in taking part in the Durrrr Challenge, and although the back and forth hinted towards this match going down the online poker world was left wondering if the match would take place. Well, the waitRead 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