Posted by Gerry Poltorak on May 01, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With the void created by the loss of the nosebleed regulars from the US like Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Daniel Cates, Scott Palmer, the Dang Brothers, and on and on, a number of European high-stakes players have decided to fill the void at the nosebleed tables on FullRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 12, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 unlikelyRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 24, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 64Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 23, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The first of three Day 1 flights was played on Sunday at the Crown Casino for the 2011 Aussie Millions Main Event, and some of the biggest stars in the poker world were sitting at the poker tables. In all 238 players registered for Day 1a of theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 15, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 outRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 19, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The Godfather of Poker, Doyle Brunson, has been turning into the Godfather of Social Media lately, evidenced by a series of polls regarding poker players. Brunson tweeted a few poll questions to his followers asking their thoughts on the following three questions: Which poker player would you likeRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Jun 04, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

High stakes action has started to dry up online due to the large professional poker players all flocking to the World Series of Poker is Las Vegas. The Majority of the top players were involved in the 50k Players Championship which is one of the highest stakes WSOPRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 07, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Full Tilt Poker pro Patrik Antonius has been one of the most consistent winners in the high-stakes online poker games over the past few years, but 2010 couldn’t have gotten off to a worse start for the Finnish poker phenom. Through early April Antonius was down roughly $4Read Full Article

Posted by PokerFelts on Apr 30, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There has been a lot of talk about the ‘Durrrr Challenge’, a high stakes real money cash game played between Full Tilt Poker professional Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan and any other professional poker player that wants to lock horns with the young starlet over 60,000 poker hands. Currently theRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Mar 25, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Back in January 2009 online poker superstar Tom “durrrr” Dwan issued an open challenge to the poker community offering them 3:1 odds that he would beat anyone, except his close friend Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, over 50,000 hands of heads-up poker. The rules stated that the stakes had toRead Full Article