November 21, 2009
The business news publication Bloombergs carried an encouraging article for top poker players this week, reporting on a respected Harvard academic who believes they would make great Wall Street traders. Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioural finance at Harvard University’s Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates for Wall Street trading jobs are the […]
November 20, 2009
The formidable Finnish high stakes online poker pro, Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies has probably had better weeks following two drubbings at the hands of other expert players of the game. Raring to have a go at mystery online poker phenom Isildur1, who has been attracting attention all over the Internet with his big online wins – […]
November 20, 2009
The million member Poker Players Alliance has launched its latest initiative aimed at legalising online poker in the United States, ‘Tweet for Poker’. Using the popular Twitter.com social networking facility, the drive is designed to put poker players in direct contact with their political representatives to urge them to support moves to legalise the Internet […]
November 19, 2009
The first contender in Full Tilt Poker’s Dwan Million Dollar Challenge, Italian Marcello ‘Luckexpress’ Marigliano, has narrowly beaten the American online poker ace in London. Each player bought into the heads up for $250 000, playing at the Les Ambassadeurs club in London in the series of three events organised by Matchroom Sports. The games […]
November 19, 2009
Full Tilt Poker’s highstakes virtual tables are generating an increasing flow of spectator traffic to the website as the epic online confrontations between mystery Swedish player Isildur1 and a series of world class Internet aces continues to see huge amounts of money change hands. In the latest night’s action, Isildur1 took on poker pro Cole […]
November 18, 2009
The Full Tilt online poker tables in the high stakes area were abuzz last night as Isildur1 – the successful mystery player whom many believe to be Swedish player Viktor Blom – appeared for more action and was challenged by Finn Patrik Antonius, undeterred by his substantial earlier losses. In the event it proved to […]
November 18, 2009
In what will be seen by many as a strategy to put some blue water between the UltimateBet of today and the scandal-ridden online poker brand of the past, the online poker website has rebranded to UB.com. The Tokwiro Enterprises subsidiary, which operates with sibling Absolute Poker on the Cereus network, announced the change this […]
November 18, 2009
Online players at the Interwetten poker website were astonished at a statement from the company this week which appeared to accuse its host Ongame network as delivering a sub-standard product. In the statement, Interwetten advises players that it is discontinuing its online poker offering effective November 17th and until further notice. The company blames its […]
November 17, 2009
The Pokerstars Asia Pacific Poker Tour stop in Cebu in the Philippines attracted 317 entrants over the weekend, making it the largest poker competition yet in the country. This year’s event was the third APPT visit to Philippine shores, with previous events taking place in Manila. Dong-bin Han of Korea took the main prize of […]
November 17, 2009
ISILDUR1, the mystery player who has been depleting the bankrolls of some of the world’s best Internet players over the last few weeks (see previous reports) had another successful night on the nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Monday amid growing speculation on his identity. The consensus appears to be that Isildur is respected Swedish pro […]