Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 05, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The World Series of Poker takes place in the middle of the dessert during the summer months, so it comes as no surprise that cooler heads don’t often prevail when arguments arise, and the most recent controversy is a perfect example of this. Poker pro Jon Aguiar wasRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 09, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

After a very long hiatus (the last Superstar Showdown took place in June 2011) the Superstar Showdown is coming back to PokerStars, and it will be a rematch of the very first Superstar Showdown that saw Isaac Haxton defeat Viktor “Isildur1” Blom in the 2,500 hand heads-up battle.Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 20, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Depending on how you keep score, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom is either 8-1 or 8-3 in the PokerStars Superstar Showdown matches he has played. The discrepancy comes from two matches being spread across two weeks of play –some people count them as individual battles, while others (myself included) viewRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 25, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
daniel negreanu

It seems Daniel’s ire over players wearing sunglasses has taken a backseat to his latest target UB –or more precisely the Cereus Poker Network of UB and Absolute Poker. Negreanu wrote a fairly pointed blog post about the site and their history of troubles; most notably the super-userRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 27, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Just when you thought Daniel Negreanu couldn’t possibly run into any more bad-beats/coolers/poor decisions, the PokerStars pro took two massive hits on this week’s episode of High Stakes Poker on GSN to send his Poker ROI for the show deeper into the negative. The first hit saw NegreanuRead Full Article