December 30, 2009
Speculation was rife on the popular twoplustwo poker forum this week after an online poker player claimed that $60 000 worth of cash and tournament seats he won in the iPoker network’s two billionth poker hand celebrations remains unpaid. Using the handle ‘Derrickki’, the player said he had been ten-tabling heads up No Limit Hold’em […]
December 29, 2009
The Internet’s second largest online poker site, Full Tilt Poker.com successfully overcame the techies’ worst nightmare on Sunday – a server failure whilst tournaments on the busy site were going full blast. The crash came during one of Full Tilt’s heaviest traffic timeframes, when thousands of players around the planet were in action on its […]
December 28, 2009
The Pokerstars.com attempt to break the world record for most players online and in action together (see previous reports) has been successful. Pokerstars first established the record in December 2008 when 35 000 players took to the tables simultaneously, proving the stability and strength of its software platform. Then, only six months later, it almost […]
December 24, 2009
Retrospective analyses of the twelve months just passed are common as a year draws to a close, and our pick of the many offerings so far published goes to Poker News Daily, which cannily chose to interview Dan Stewart, manager of the independent online poker information and stats site PokerScout. In an interesting interview Stewart makes […]
December 23, 2009
Tom Dwan’s million dollar, 50 000 hand Challenge crept another 1 957 hands closer to completion this week as he and Patrik Antonius got together online for a 7 hour session that saw Dwan extend his lead overall to almost a million dollars. The session, which kicked off in the early hours of Tuesday morning, […]
December 23, 2009
The respected poker publication Poker News achieved a major industry publishing coup this week, tracking down and interviewing the mysterious Swedish high stakes online poker player Isildur1 on the controversy created by Brian Townsend’s analysis of his playing style. The question on everyone’s lips, ‘who is Isildur1’? remained unanswered however as the editor in chief […]
December 23, 2009
The famous German city of Berlin joins the schedule of stops in the Pokerstars European Poker Tour for the first time next year, and it’s likely to be the biggest professional poker tourney ever held in the country. March 2nd to 7th 2010 is the date for the Berlin bash, a spokesman said this week: […]
December 23, 2009
The Portland Mercury blog carries an interesting video interview with a local online poker player with a heart of gold this week – he uses a significant chunk of his online winnings to prepay six months of rent for currently homeless families. Dusty ‘Leatherass’ Schmidt (28) is a well known high stakes grinder (and a […]
December 23, 2009
Online poker and land tournament provider PokerStars has announced the composition of its first Team PokerStars Online – an offshoot of Team PokerStars Pro – after two months of searching for online playing talent. After sifting through 2 000 applications, PokerStars settled on the 23 inaugural members of Team PokerStars Online in a group drawn […]
December 22, 2009
Party Gaming’s World Poker Tour is returning to France for one of its premier annual European tour stops, the WPT Grand Prix de Paris. After a four year absence following legal hassles in the past (see previous reports), this major tournament will again be hosted at the prestigious Aviation Club de France between May 8 […]