Double action for online poker pro

November 5, 2013

Last week reported on the extraordinary versatility of Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, who was quite happily multi-tabling online via his laptop whilst seated at a fiercely contested table and engaged in a serious live tournament. This week Scott Clements was doing the same thing, winning $100,000 in his multi-table online clashes whilst simultaneously playing in the […]

Three down on World Series of Poker final table

November 5, 2013

Monday evening at the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio in Las Vegas was a buzzy, noisy affair as the railbirds gathered to support  their favourites in the final table of the 2013 World Series of Poker. Finalist Ryan Riess appeared to be especially well-supported, with a fair number of people sporting “Riess the […]

Amateur wins Isle of Man Poker tournament

November 5, 2013

The inaugural Pokerstars UKIPT tournament on the Isle of Man, headquarters for the online poker company, has been won by middle-aged Corby bricklayer Duncan McLellan, who over 5 days showed a star studded field of 378 that included Daniel Negreanu, David Williams, Vanessa Rousso and Jason Mercier how it’s done. McLellan qualified in a Pokerstars […]

Norwegians to demonstrate that poker is a skill game

November 5, 2013

In an effort to graphically illustrate that poker is a game where skill really counts more than luck, a Norwegian professional player has issued a $170,000 (NKR 1 million) challenge to a heads up game, and a local politician has accepted. In a challenge that smacks of a publicity initiative, professional player and PLO specialist […]

WSOP Final table kicks off today

November 4, 2013

16 weeks on from the 2013 World Series of Poker, the nine final table players who survived return to the felt in Las Vegas today to battle it out for the winner’s millions and the prestige of taking home a WSOP main event winner’s bracelet. 5 Americans, a Canadian, an Israeli, a Dutchman, and a […]

Great life for poker supergrass Tzvetkoff

November 1, 2013

Daniel Tzvetkoff, the thirty-year-old Australian poker payment processing wunderkind who is widely thought to be the US federal informant that did so much to bring about Black Friday, is reportedly enjoying the good life in Asia and Australia. Following his arrest whilst attending a Las Vegas conference three years ago (see previous reports), Tzvetkoff reportedly […]

Gus Hansen takes another beating

November 1, 2013

Online high stakes player Gus Hansen returned to a devastating cooler this week which puts him on track for one of the worst years in online poker for a professional….down around $10 million over the past year. Late last month Hansen scored a couple of big wins which raised hopes that he was coming out […]

WSOP 2013 climax this week

November 1, 2013

In just a few days – November 4 and 5 – poker fans around the world will be watching the live televised climax of this year’s World Series of Poker….the final table at which nine survivors from an original field of 6,352 face off with millions of dollars in prizes up for grabs. The main […]

New online poker site headed for Equity Network

November 1, 2013

The operator of Full Flush Poker.com, the next real-money online poker site to launch on the Equity Poker Network, plans to commence real money operations on ring games, buy-in tournaments, and sit n go’s on November 8. Full Flush has been in free-play beta testing mode and has reportedly attracted a sizeable player base through […]

Charania wins Bwin World Poker Tour Grand Prix

November 1, 2013

Mohsin Charania showed professional skill and calm discipline Wednesday in staging a spectacular comeback in a heads up he had started at a 7 to 1 chip disadvantage, and making the feat all the more impressive, it was against a very credible opponent who had dominated play over the previous two days. Most observers gave […]