May 3, 2010
Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius appeared intent on finishing off the 50 000 hand Dwan Challenge going into the weekend, engaging for the third consecutive day on the high stakes Full Tilt tables and playing for six hours. The confrontation saw 1 601 hands played, according to MarketPulse stats, and Dwan emerged the session winner […]
May 3, 2010
Tobias Reinkemeier, a poker pro from Cuxhaven, Germany who lives in Malta, is the winner of the European Poker Tour Euro 25 000 buy-in High Roller event, which wound up after three intense days of action in Monte Carlo over the weekend. The prize of Euros 965 000 is far and away Reinkemeier’s biggest yet, […]
May 3, 2010
The one-time teenaged online and tournament poker prodigy Annette Obrestad – now 21 years old – has signed up with Full Tilt Poker, the firm has announced. Best known by her online poker handle “Annette_15”, this youthful player is described as “a living legend of online poker” by the internet poker company. Starting from scratch, […]
May 3, 2010
Intertops Poker is the latest company to transfer its online poker operations to the Cake Poker Network. The company, which has been in business since 2003, formerly used the Microgaming Poker Network for its internet poker activities, and last autumn changed its casino software provider from MGS to Real Time Gaming. Intertops spokesmen said that […]
May 1, 2010
The 2010 Pokerstars European Poker Tour Grand Final is in the books after almost a week of tough action in Monte Carlo that featured major names in the game. The event attracted 848 entries, creating a Euros 8 480 000 prize pool in the tour’s sixth season. This year the respect and the massive Euro […]
May 1, 2010
Online pokerheads will be keenly anticipating the start of the latest edition of Pokerstars’ Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) this Sunday. The three-tiered tournament series features low, medium, and high-dollar buy-in tournaments and an overall prize pool of $ 45 million this year. This is the second edition of the popular tournament, which debuted […]
April 30, 2010
Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius appear to be making up for lost time on the 50 000 hand, million dollar Challenge, and met for another session this week – the second after a six week hiatus. Antonius prevailed again, this time taking Dwan down for $340 437 in a five hour session in which 1 […]
April 30, 2010
RaiseandFold.com, an online poker room on the Everleaf network, claims its motivation for introducing a generous new 40 percent rakeback plan for its players is to encourage them to play more in a difficult economic climate. Announcing the rakeback, which will apply to all players, the poker room said it would provide players with an […]
April 30, 2010
In what it described as a landmark announcement for poker around the world, the International Mind sport Association has officially recognised the game of poker as a mind sport and a game of skill, on a par with chess and bridge. “I am delighted to welcome the International Federation of Poker into membership of IMSA. […]
April 29, 2010
The Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan fifty thousand hand, million dollar Challenge was awakened from its six week slumber this week as Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius mixed it up on the $100/$200 PLO tables at Full Tilt in an eight-and-a-half hour session. Over 2 677 hands, Antonius was the winner, taking $60 696 off Dwan in […]