High-Stakes Report: Kostritsyn Gives Antonius 8-Game Beatdown
Kostritsyn lined his pockets with almost $400k of Antonius' money - the first time Antonius has suffered that big of a loss in a very long time. Mikael Thuritz, Ben Tollerene and Cort Kibler-Melby...
View ArticleVolpe Closes In On Grand Slam, Viking8844 Leads WCOOP Main
Just 271 players remain from a 2,142-player field with the bubble ready to pop at 270 players. With a buy-in of $5,200 the $10m guarantee was topped with a $10,710,000 prize pool and a substantial...
View ArticleFedor Holz Claims WCOOP Main Event for $1.3m, Isildur1 9th
Outlasting a final table that included Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, Faraz "TheToilet 0" Jaka, Elior "CrazyElior" Sion, Todd "MaltLiquor40" Sisley and Dylan "Pokerl)evil" Hortin, Holz claimed $1.3m for the...
View ArticleReal-Money Blackjack, Lottery Spin & Gos Debut on PokerStars
Long a "poker only" destination before the handover of the company to gaming giant Amaya, the first real-money casino games on the PokerStars client were officially rolled out in Spain this week. For...
View ArticleSeptember High-Stakes: Gus Drops $1m, Kibler-Melby Runs Wild
The first was action-packed to the limit with hundreds of thousands of dollars moving across the tables every day. Then most of the regs apparently focused on the WCOOP. But there were still plenty of...
View ArticleOpen New Account at WSOP.com NJ, Get a Shot at Free Vegas Trip
Open from October 1-31, 2014, the Las Vegas Trip Giveaway Promotion is only open to partcipants making their first-ever deposit to WSOP.com NJ. All new players who create an account and make a deposit...
View ArticleHigh-Stakes Report: Heinecker and Alaei Make Dominant Returns
High-stakes regulars have had reason to be a little distracted from the nosebleed online tables lately. Still the action carried on without them with major battles last week between SanIker and Niklas...
View ArticleHand of the Week: Isildur1 Drops $121k Surprise on Mikael Thuritz
Since Gus Hansen vanished from the high-stakes online scene a couple of weeks ago it’s Isildur1 who’s been mainly responsible for the high-stakes action online. Blom was involved in all of the Top 10...
View ArticleHigh-Stakes Report: Just Another $600k Isildur1 Roller Coaster Ride
That, of course, didn’t bother Viktor Blom. Playing virtually all the time the Swede first went on a $600k winning streak before losing almost all of it again before the end of the week. German player...
View ArticlePKR Poker Unveils "Quicker, Slicker" PKR 3.0 Software
In the works for quite a long time, PKR players received a message last night to update their client to version 3.0 with the promise of quicker play, a simpler interface and even better looking...
View ArticleHand of the Week: Main Event Villain Curtis Rystadt Doesn't See It Coming
Also as usual, it's somebody who drives the other players at his table nuts. Curtis Rystadt comes from Portland, Oregon, and for some reason he decided to pick on pro Kyle Keranen over the course of...
View ArticleHigh-Stakes Report: Blom Takes Care of Action, SanIker Pays
Even though he showed up briefly last week for the EPT London main event (where he lives) he wasted no time after he busted getting back home and going online. He still didn't put much of a profit...
View ArticleHigh-Stakes Report: Gus and Viktor Void Clears Out the Nosebleeds
Actually, it pretty much shifted it altogether from Full Tilt to the lower limits on PokerStars. Still, the one player who stood for action as always was? Viktor Blom. Unfortunately for him it was...
View ArticleHand of the Week: So Long Isildur1 and Thanks for the $1.3m Pot
For over five years he's been perhaps the most infamous player at the online nosebleeds. Nobody has played more hands, nobody has played bigger pots, nobody has had larger swings and nobody has as...
View ArticleKagome Kagome Returns to High-Stakes Scene with $500k Win
This week there were big pots shipped between Julius KagomeKagome Fletcher and Alexandre alexonmoon Luneau. The German managed to get the upper hand and added $522k to his bankroll. In addition...
View ArticleHigh-Stakes Report: Alexander Kostritsyn Can't Stop, Won't Stop
With WSOP APAC, EPT London and the WCOOP all cutting into the action the numbers were smaller than they were in September. The most profitable player – by a mile – was Alexander Kostritsyn, playing as...
View ArticleHand of the Week: Fortune Swings Its Scales in Favor of Phil Ivey
As the poker world dreaded the "end" of online high-stakes poker after Viktor Blom and Gus Hansen left Full Tilt, Ivey has made sure there's still plenty of action to talk about. The man known as...
View ArticleHigh-Stakes Report: "TheCortster" Reaches $3 Million Mark
Luneau proved to be the biggest “investor” last week and nobody profited more from that than Cort Kibler-Melby. With almost $700k winnings last week the German-American player is now up to almost $3m...
View ArticleWeekly High Stakes: Ivey Goes God-Mode, Kostritsyn Falls
No one has been more active in the high-stakes games than Ivey over the last week and no one has won as much. Ivey is leading a group of four Germans in the weekly profits table. At the other end of...
View ArticlePokerStars World Cup of Poker Returns, Goes All Online
The event will also take place entirely in heads-up No-Limit Hold’em, which should make for some exciting matches between countries. Also new this year is the switch to play money, which means anyone...
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