December 30, 2009
The roller coaster that is Tom Dwan in action on the Full Tilt internet nosebleed tables may be entertaining to watch, but it has proved disastrous this year, with the Internet poker pro down over $4.5 million as 2009 draws to a close. Playing for lower stakes recently to build bankroll, Dwan has managed to […]
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
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 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
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 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
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 22, 2009
Hold onto your hats, the largest online poker site in the world, Pokerstars, is gearing up for another world-record breaking fest. The target? To break the site’s previous two and still existing records for “Largest Online Poker Tournament”. Pokerstars established a record in December 2008 when 35 000 players took to the tables simultaneously, proving […]