Durrrr, Jungleman Finally Resume Challenge on FTP
The two celebrated online players finally reconvened on Full Tilt Poker last night. Last month Cates publically criticized Dwan on Twitter for not resuming the challenge earlier.The pair played a...
View ArticleFull Tilt Poker Launches 'New to the Game' Tables for Beginners
What's the difference from the regular tables?Most importantly, play moves much slower than a standard table with more time to think over each decision and understand the action.In-game "tool tips" are...
View ArticleParty Poker Launches Speedy FastForward Poker
This week Party Poker launched FastForward poker, which offers a familiar mechanic that allows players to fold their hand and instantly be transported to a new table with new hand.The rapid-fire nature...
View ArticleIsildur1 Goes on $500k Tear Against Bttech86, Sauce1234
Earlier this month Blom won an astounding $1.7 million from Tollerene in a single day but the U.S.-born pro would later perform an incredible comeback and win it all back.According to highstakesdb.com,...
View ArticleUpcoming 2013 SCOOP to Offer 132 Tournaments, $40m GTD
Starting May 12 and running until May 26, the 2013 PokerStars SCOOP will stick to tradition and offer a low, medium and high buy-in version of every tournament on the schedule.The numbers behind the...
View ArticleBreaking: Ultimate Poker to Deal First Licensed US Poker Hand at 9 am
Limited to within Nevada borders, players can download the UltimatePoker client, make a deposit and play real-money poker against fellow Nevada residents or state visitors."We are proud to be the first...
View ArticlePokerStars SCOOP Hits Next Week, Qualify Now
Starting May 12, PokerStars will offer 44 events with three different buy-in levels each for a total of 132 tournaments.There is truly something for everyone with tons of No-Limit Hold’em events as...
View ArticleDurrrr Challenge Resumes, Bttech86/Isildur1 Rages On
Viktor “Isildur1” Blom and Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene played several long heads-up matches, which shouldn’t really come as a surprise considering how frequently they’ve been playing, but Tom “durrrr”...
View ArticleIsildur1 Goes Berserk, Wins $1 Million on Full Tilt
Blom started the day on the tail end of yet another heads-up $500/$1,000 CAP PLO session against Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene. Once again Blom thrashed Tollerene, this time to the tune of nearly $400k,...
View Article$5m Still Up for Grabs in PokerStars Road to 100 Billion
For over two years now PokerStars has been running the Road to 100 Billion with the first mega milestone awarded when 60 million hands had been played on the site.Well the massive 100 billionth hand is...
View Article$40 Million Gtd PokerStars SCOOP Begins Sunday
The massive 44-event online series begins tomorrow at 11:00 ET with a 6-Max No-Limit Hold’em event.Like every event in SCOOP, the opening event will offer three different buy-in levels at $27, $215 and...
View ArticleMarquez, Volpe, Spindler Book Early SCOOP Wins
Perhaps unsurprisingly last year’s SCOOP player of the year, Shaun Deeb, has already played 12 events and in the top five on the overall leaderboard with 115 points.In fact Deeb nearly won his sixth...
View ArticleSCOOP: Levy, Kelopuro Score, Schleger and Lind Snag Seconds
Levy's victory was significant not only because it was his first win in the Spring Championship of Online Poker, but also because he did most of the work while at the final table of a live tournament...
View ArticleThor Hansen Snags First SCOOP, Close Call for Chidwick
Hansen, who was diagnosed with cancer last year, stormed to victory in the $2,100 Stud event and had to defeat an absolutely stacked final table to do it.He adds this SCOOP bracelet to a growing online...
View ArticleUnstoppable: Isildur1 Wins $1 Million Again on Full Tilt
The relentless Swede fired off another 3,435 hands in the high-stakes games on Full Tilt Poker and burned his opponents for nearly $1 million.The victory comes a little over one week from his last $1...
View Article10 BOM Packages Up for Grabs on LotosPoker
LotosPoker is awarding the first six packages in a series of steps tournaments they are running while the last four will given away in an undetermined format.Each package up for grabs is worth €1,400...
View ArticleSCOOP: Danzer, Buchanan, Berg Claim Titles
Over the last seven days we’ve seen George Danzer, Shawn Buchanan, Anders “Donald” Berg, Steve Gross, Noah Boeken and even up-and-coming Belarusian online crusher Leqenden win titles.There have also...
View ArticleCal42688 Wins Fourth SCOOP, Deeb Falls Short
Anderson, generally regarded as one of the best poker players on the Internet, defeated Nick Abou Risk to win the $215 6-Max Limit Hold'em event.Deeb, meanwhile, settled for a fifth-place finish in the...
View ArticleDwan Among Biggest Winners on FTP in May
Dwan has already rattled off over 20,000 hands in the high-stakes games in May and is still going strong. The aggressive pro went into full beast mode this weekend and picked up $793,616, according to...
View ArticleSCOOP: Bach, Chidwick Score Titles
Bach took down Event 28-H for $51,775 while Chidwick earned $52,320 for topping the Event 27-H field.The big names have been doing just fine at SCOOP this year and yesterday Jordan Morgan, Thor Hansen,...
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