12 May 2009
Gavin Smith Takes Down FTOPS Event 7
Not since Erick Lindgren won the FTOPS event that he himself hosted has one of Full Tilt poker’s Red Pros enjoyed success in the tournaments. However, Gavin Smith turned out as another exception that proves the rule by taking down the $109 NLHE rebuy.
28 April 2009
High-Stakes Cash: Hansen big winner of the week
Seven figures this way, seven figures that way. It’s all chump change to these guys as more money traded hands at Full Tilt than in an average day on Wall Street last week.
A week-end on PokerStars
Yesterday was the last Sunday of the month. You should know what that means at PokerStars – not only is the Sunday Million (well, one-point-five-million) running with a seven-figure prize pool but the Sunday Warm-Up, $200k, Battle of the Planets Triple Shootout and Turbo Takedown are all running at once. Sick action!
10 April 2009
Antonius leads Dwan after monster session
Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius logged in some major hours in the million dollar challenge, playing from 2.40AM ET until the early hours of Wednesday morning. Over the course of a near eight-hour session the two played 2,043 hands.
Andy McLEOD cements his online superstar status
James Obst, better known by his online handle of Andy McLEOD, has to be considered one of the very best tournament players in the world. Not only does he have multiple Sunday Million final tables under his belt, but his recent SCoOP win adds to a glowing resume.
01 April 2009
Dwan and Antonius fight on in the durrrr challenge
Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius are now up to over 7,000 hands played of the 50,000 hand challenge with games resuming far more frequently than last month.
In February and early March many railbirds wondered if the challenge was cancelled – however, both players obviously have busy schedules and have to squeeze in the hands when they can.
RoxmorE rocks more than 7,650 others
The Sunday Million at PokerStars resumed normal service after two weeks of delayed starts owing to Daylight Savings. The last Sunday of the month saw 7,651 players contribute to a $1,530,200 prize pool.
20 March 2009
Durrrr leads the action on Full Tilt again
Firstly, the more astute of our readers will note that this week’s online poker updates is being uploaded on a Friday. This is a schedule change that will be permanent for very complex and scientific reasons. OK, that might have been a lie.
Iceman1278 Cometh, Saweth, Conquereth the Sunday Million
We know over here in Europe that our American friends are a little slow. Apparently PokerStars know this too, which is why they had this week’s Sunday Million tournament also shifted in time an hour, just in case the yanks had taken a week or more to adjust to a minute shift in their sleeping patterns.
11 March 2009
Durrrr takes Ziigmund for $1m
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Tom “durrrr” Dwan played an epic session of heads-up Pot-Limit Omaha last week, which ended very badly for our cover star. After the session Dwan wound up over one million in the black, with Ziigmund reeling from another seven-figure loss.