Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Feb 18, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Isildur1, the mystery man who turned online poker on its head in late 2009 was back at it last night, mixing it up on the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker. According to Cardplayer.com, Isildur1 was quickly found himself in the hole $90k, against Isaac “ILovetheWNBA” Haxton.Read Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Feb 17, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

PokerNews.com is reporting 9 confirmed players for the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. The highly popular tournament pits 64 of the top poker talents and personalities in poker in a series of heads-up elimination matches. NBC has confirmed 6 players: Included in the field are NHUPC mainstaysRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Feb 16, 2010 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

PokerRankings.org‘s number 1 poker room, Full Tilt Poker has been very busy overhauling their software, setting up new promotions, and even adding the innovative Rush Poker; changes that initially increased the site’s traffic to around 20,000 real money players in January, according to pokerscout.com. However, the online pokerRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Feb 16, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With a slew of high-profile poker players, and new innovative promotions, Victory Poker is showing the online poker world how to successfully launch a new online poker room. Just a few weeks into operation Victory Poker is reporting some 1,500 visitors per day, according to Poker News Daily.Read Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Feb 12, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Full Tilt Poker kicked off the 15th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) with a $216 No Limit Holdem tournament. The tournament saw a total of 5,646 players hit the virtual tables, crushing last year’s opening event by nearly 1,000 players, and falling just shy of the 5,712Read Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Feb 12, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

A week ago on another site, I wrote a column pointing out five poker players to watch in 2010, and one of those players was 2006 WSOP runner-up Paul Wasicka. And finally one of my predictions has come true! Wasicka was able to capture the WSOP Circuit seriesRead Full Article

Posted by PokerFelts on Feb 10, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The poker community is alive with rumors again today with the latest story been revealed as Full Tilt Poker have resigned Juan Carlos Mortensen to their sponsored professional player roster. Although the move seems to have been completed out of the media spotlight, there is evidence that theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 09, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

I suppose this could be considered the ultimate bad beat. Having the pot awarded to the second best hand is a scenario that only occurs in a poker player’s nightmares, but this is precisely what happened on the Cake Poker network this past week. The hand in questionRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 09, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Poker player Jason Ho has come under fire recently on several fronts; accused of everything from misrepresenting his winnings to scamming people in a phony investment scheme. Rumors started to swirl on the StoxPoker forums where many players were complaining about Ho –an instructor on the site—and questioningRead Full Article

Posted by PokerFelts on Feb 09, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Poker has become one of the most played card games in the world and has seen a high number of celebrities taking to both the live and the virtual tables in their bid for excitement and profit. The latest to have fallen for the love of the gameRead Full Article