Archive for March, 2011
The “durrrr Challenge”: Cates Takes Another $39,797 From Dwan
Thursday, March 31st, 2011Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12” Cates continued the “durrrr Challenge” Tuesday evening, playing a 1,099-hand session. Lately the match has been one-sided and Tuesday’s contest was no different as Cates added to his lead. Although it was a modest $39,797, Dwan appears no closer to solving the mystery that is defeating Cates. Here are [...]
PokerStars Celebrating 60 Billionth Online Poker Hand
Monday, March 21st, 2011It’s hard to believe that PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, is about to deal its 60 billionth hand. Yes, that’s billion with a “b” and PokerStars officials are expecting the milestone pot to occur sometime in the next eight or nine days. The site happily accepts players from the United States. Starting at [...]
The Isildur1 Effect: Has PokerStars’ Signing of Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom Changed the High-Stakes Landscape?
Monday, March 21st, 2011Last December, PokerStars took the monumental step of signing an online poker legend to its team roster. We’re speaking, of course, of the then-unknown “Isildur1,” who was revealed a month later as being the long-suspected Viktor Blom of Sweden. While Isildur1’s identity lacked intrigue, why he signed with PokerStars rather than Full Tilt Poker, the [...]
PokerStars Launch Sunday Storm + Free Ticket Bonus Code
Monday, March 21st, 2011PokerStars have announced yet another tournament that is likely to take the industry by Storm. The PokerStars Sunday 1/4 Million has a new name – the Sunday Storm – and it’s re-launching with a huge one-off $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool on March 27 (From April 3, the regular guaranteed prize pool will be $300,000.) The [...]
Isildur1 To Face Negreanu in True SuperStar Showdown
Thursday, March 10th, 2011Poker’s biggest star will take on its latest phenom in a heads-up match for the ages later this month. Daniel Negreanu will face Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom in a SuperStar Showdown match on PokerStars over two Sundays March 20th and 27th. Both players will bring $150,000 to four tables of $50/$100 No-Limit Hold’em and quit after [...]
2011 PokerStars SCOOP Schedule Released
Thursday, March 10th, 2011On May 8th, the 2011 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, or SCOOP, will commence. This year’s running, the third overall, is monstrous. A total of 38 events will be held over the course of two weeks and, for each, three levels of buy-ins will be available: Low, Mid, and High. In 2010, a total [...]
Antonio Esfandiari Scoops $600,000 Pot on High Stakes Poker
Monday, March 7th, 2011Saturday night’s episode of the GSN cash game series “High Stakes Poker” featured the largest pot by far of Season 7, which is now just two hours old. Last week, two $400,000 pots were played and, this week, Victory Poker pro Antonio Esfandiari scooped one worth $593,000. Former “Saturday Night Live” funny man Norm Macdonald [...]
Erik Seidel wins the 2011 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship!
Monday, March 7th, 2011What can we say about Erik Seidel that hasn’t already been said — in the last two months? Seidel is having a monster 2011. At the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January, Seidel finished 3rd in a $5,000 6-max event ($46,560) and 4th in the $25,000 High Roller event ($295,960). He then shifted locations to Australia, [...]
Friday, March 4th, 2011
NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship: The Bracket is Set The who’s who of the poker industry converged upon PURE nightclub inside Caesars Palace Thursday night for the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship Draw Party. The party was action-packed as the pros and celebrities got a chance to check out their match-ups. If you’re not familiar [...]
Friday, March 4th, 2011
Gregory Brooks Wins 2011 WPT L.A. Poker Classic Call it an upset if you will at the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic. With Full Tilt Poker pro Carlos Mortensen seeking to become the first player to four WPT wins and holding down the chip lead entering the final table, rookie Gregory Brooks [...]