February 18, 2010
The still unidentified Swedish high stakes online poker player with the ninja avatar, Isildur1, continued his winning run Tuesday, again appearing on the Full Tilt nosebleed tables to take on the Internet’s best pros. It must have been a particularly satisfying session for the Swedish player, because among his victims this time was Brian Hastings, […]
February 18, 2010
Online poker giant Party Poker.com has announced a new online poker championship event with a top prize of $250 000 scheduled for launch in March this (2010) year. The inaugural Online Cash Game Championships (OCGC) will be divided into seven levels. At each level, players will need to play 400 hands in a day with […]
February 17, 2010
After several desultory appearances since the beginning of this (February) month (see previous reports) the high risk, exciting player Isildur1 was back to winning large amounts this week on the Full Tilt high stakes online poker tables. Despite taking a few knocks earlier in the month after grinding up his bankroll and then unsuccessfully going […]
February 16, 2010
Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius confronted one another again in a short but sharp clash of 79 hands lasting 16 minutes over the weekend, bringing total hands completed in the 50 000 hand Challenge to 32 874, or 66 percent of the total. It is believed to have been the shortest session yet in the […]
February 13, 2010
The fifteenth edition of the Full Tilt Online Series of Poker (FTOPS) started Wednesday night with the first event sending a clear signal that online poker has lost none of its popularity. Event 1 – a $216 buy-in NLHE tournament with a guaranteed $1 million prize pool pulled in a crowd of 5 646 players […]
February 13, 2010
Forbes magazine has followed its article on Pokerstars earlier this week with a wider look at online poker, particularly in the United States. Although the article, which can be read in its entirety at: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0301/gambling-bluffing-government-internet-web-online-poker.html, contains little that is not already known, there are some interesting snippets of information such as: * Estimated Full Tilt […]
February 13, 2010
Followers of the high stakes poker action on the virtual nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker report the return of phenom Isildur1 – the player who risked millions in super-aggressive play that swung from win to lose and back to win….only to end up overall in the red for the Swedish mystery player (see previous […]
February 13, 2010
The litigation launched by Clonie Gowen against Full Tilt Poker and a range of other defendants (see previous reports) appears to have run its course with a third adverse judgement for the poker pro. According to court documents surfacing this week a motion to dismiss by the defendants Kolyma Corporation, A.V.V., Pocket Kings Consulting, Ltd., […]
February 11, 2010
The latest weekly statistics from the independent online poker statistical aggregator Pokerscout.com show that Pokerstars still dominates the sector with a daily average of 32 600 cash games players, pursued at some distance by its old rival Full Tilt Poker with comparative player numbers of 16 600. Other major players in the sector lag far […]
February 11, 2010
Californian Sen. Roderick Wright’s informal Senate Government Organization Committee enquiry into the intrastate legalisation of online poker continued Tuesday with a trenchant observation by the Senator as further testimony was heard: “At this time of day, I’m going to guess 30 000 to 40 000 people are playing in California,” he said. “It’s not as […]