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Trueteller Reigns Supreme in High-Stakes Games on FTP
It was a run that you don’t see very often.Unidentified German player “Trueteller” dominated four straight days of action on Full Tilt Poker. It didn’t only make him the biggest winner of the week -...
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Gus Hansen Loses $280k Monster Pot to Viktor Blom
It’s been an exciting week at the high stakes tables as Chinese player samrostan and Gus Hansen made sure there were a lot of huge pots.Coming back from the WSOP, the Great Dane took on his Swedish...
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High-Stakes Report: Cates Joins $10m Club, Hansen Sinks Deeper
Instead of another long, lazy week of summer what we got last week was the most action-packed run of the high-stakes online poker year so far. Every day hundreds of thousands of dollars moved across...
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Denoking Trips Up Isaac Haxton in Massive High-Stakes Pot
The return of Gus Hansen, Alex Kostritsyn and Isaac Haxton made for some fascinating battles in the high-stakes games on Full Tilt Poker this week.While each player had some compelling sessions we’re...
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Cort Kibler-Melby Goes on Shocking $1.7m Upswing in High Stakes
German-American poker player Cort Kibler-Melby just made more money playing on Full Tilt in seven days than most people will make in a lifetime.Kibler-Melby, who plays as thecortster, went on an...
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Fedor Holz Claims WCOOP Main Event for $1.3m, Isildur1 9th
Three astounding weeks of online poker culminated last night in a WCOOP Main Event finale that lived up to all expectations - especially for winner Fedor "CrownUpGuy" Holz.Outlasting a final table...
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Hand of the Week: Isildur1 Drops $121k Surprise on Mikael Thuritz
What would we do without Viktor Blom? 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....
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Hand of the Week: So Long Isildur1 and Thanks for the $1.3m Pot
Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has changed the face of online poker forever. For over five years he's been perhaps the most infamous player at the online nosebleeds. Nobody has played more hands, nobody has...
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High-Stakes Report: Ivey Rises Like a Phoenix, Wins Everywhere
Has Phil Ivey proven to be the best player, live or online, yet again this week? Action was abuzz at the nosebleed limits last week headed by accounts Atha Cliath and Eire Abu. Good weeks were also in...
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Hand of the Week: Fedor Holz Teaches a Master Class
At this point it feels like Fedor Holz has pretty much won everything he’s played this year.The Vienna-based German recently won the WCOOP main event as CrownUpGuy, he has five cashes and a win at EPT...
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November High-Stakes Report: SanIker Crushes, Luneau Craters
After a lull in October the action was back on big time at the online high-stakes tables in November and it created big winners and big losers.German player “SanIker” managed to turn a profit of over...
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High-Stakes Report: Ivey Lands Elusive 1-2 Punch; Still Not Enough
As the year winds to a close even the action on the online high-stakes poker tables has become a little more placid. That didn’t keep Phil Ivey from banking a big profit last week, though. Ivey even...
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High-Stakes Report: Trueteller Lives Up to Genius Reputation
The year is still young, but the nosebleed limits are already buzzing. The first "man of the year" so far? Mysterious Russian poker genius “Trueteller." On the losing side over the last week of...
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Somerville: "Twitch Is the Platform That Poker Needs to Live"
Televised poker shows have always been trying to get more viewers and Jason Somerville thinks he has the answer.“It’s hard to make poker content fit in hour-long blocks that are meant for an older...
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High-Stakes Report: Return of RugDoctor; Williams Battles Blom?
It’s only the second week of the year but the high-stakes tables are already buzzing again. A vast number of players are competing for big pots and some new faces are among them. “EireAbu” has had the...
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Hand of the Week: Tom Dwan, Profit Maximization Artist
Today we're going to dig into one of the finest cash-game hands ever. It was played in the year 2008 and it involves the work of two of the leading players at the time. With his ultra-aggressive,...
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Hand of the Week: Sahamies Hits the Nuts, Blows Up the Pot
One of the players in the ostensible "Champions League" of online poker for a long time is Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies. Sometimes the eccentric Finn will disappear for a couple of months but eventually...
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High-Stakes Report: Blom Falls Off The Rails; Down $1m in 2015
Less than a month into the new year, we're starting to see where things are going. Alexander Kostritsyn is still in a class of his own. Viktor Blom keeps losing massive amounts of money (and nobody...
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Hand of the Week: The Curious Case of Tom Dwan and the Magic Six
Was 2009 the most glorious year in history for high-stakes online poker?Based on the volume of action and the astronomical blinds that were standard at time, it certainly has a very good case. Two of...
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Online High-Stakes Poker: Russia Dominates January
The Russians are coming.The first month of 2015 is complete and two Russian players - Trueteller and Alexander Kostritsyn - are the players beat after 30 days of action-packed online play. Ilari...
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