03 June 2010
Isildur1 makes some small leeway, wins over $80,000
After a fairly quiet May the high stakes poker railbird community is praying for at least some action during the WSOP. There’s hope – Isildur1 has returned to the tables with regularity and despite not playing any sort of dizzying stakes there are still six figures flying around.
Tom Dwan loses over $2m in May; jungleman12 is top dog
Evidently the high stakes online pros were preparing for the WSOP because the action in May was fairly quiet. Regardless of that, certain sick individuals still managed to win or lose millions throughout the course of the month.
01 June 2010
Brian Townsend wins $140,000 at Full Tilt Poker
You know you've been reading about the nosebleed cash games at Full Tilt too often when you recognise that $140,000 isn't a vast sum of money. Brian Townsend won't be complaining, though - if anything he'll be happy to have had a rare winning day this year.
28 May 2010
ECoOP still guarantees over $3.5m
Despite the fact that the sixth European Championship of Online Poker on the iPoker network has already played out three events, the remaining prize pool still has a guarantee of a whopping $3,605,000 over ten events – one a day from now until June 6.
27 May 2010
Boku87 completes $5 to $100,000 challenge at PokerStars
Remember last year when Boku87 crashed the Two Plus Two forums? He was undertaking what many thought to be an impossible quest, attempting to turn $10 into $10,000 in a fortnight. He did.
26 May 2010
Cole South loses $250k
The Boomtown Rats famously didn't like Mondays and it's fair to say that Cole South felt the same way on Tuesday morning after dropping the best part of $250k earlier this week.
25 May 2010
Patrik Antonius wins $70,000 in the 7-game at Full Tilt
We can only assume that the reason the high stakes games on Full Tilt have dried up recently is the imminent World Series of Poker and the inevitable cash games in Bobby’s Room – and Ivey’s room too, this year. Remember in 2009 when Tom Dwan blogged about playing $2k/$4k PLO with a million dollar buy-in?
24 May 2010
Quiet weekend sees Urindanger win $150,000
Not much happened in the high stakes games on Full Tilt Poker this weekend, a lull of inactivity that law Di “Urindanger” Dang shoot to the top of the leaderboard after winning $150,000.
21 May 2010
Harrington25 runs like God to win $200,000
It was a fairly quiet day at the high-stakes tables on Full Tilt Poker yesterday with little-heard-of Jared “harrington25” Bleznick playing thecranium heads-up at $200/$400 CAP PLO.
20 May 2010
Cole South and Brian Townsend dominate Full Tilt
It was a good day for CardRunners instructors and former CardRunners instructors as Cole South and Brian Townsend both finished at the top of the table after a fairly quiet day at Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed games.