For anyone watching the high-stakes tables at PokerStars this past weekend it may have seemed like they were watching the Full Tilt Poker tables in late 2009 when Viktor “Isildur1” Blom first made his appearance at the nosebleed poker tables. Although his weekend clash was with another Full Tilt Poker legend, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, the match itself took place on PokerStars, where Blom is a Team PokerStars Pro, and Sahamies Read More ...
On September 2nd, 2011, Kristy Gazes, Phyllis Caro, and Margie Heinz will join 10 other women as Women in Poker Hall of Fame members. The three inductees were chosen from a short-list that was announced in early July that also included Ku Nan “Nani” Dollison and JJ Liu, and with the votes now in, the 2011 class of the Women in Poker Hall of Fame is now decided. Gazes is Read More ...
On Tuesday, Phil Ivey dropped a bombshell on the poker world when he announced that he is sitting out the 2011 WSOP due to Full Tilt not returning player funds. Furthermore, Ivey filed a suit in Clark County District Count on Wednesday against Tiltware, LLC. Ivey claimed via his statement on his website and Facebook that he did this to facilitate payments back to players. However, after looking over the Read More ...
After a horrible 2010 online poker campaign, at one point causing him to quit poker towards the end of the year and leave Full Tilt Poker in the process –which was probably a good thing considering what has happened post-Black Friday—Ilari Sahamies has finally gotten back into the groove, and is once again back to his winning ways thanks to a massive $1 million heater this past week at PokerStars. Read More ...
I guess when you run good, you just run good! Via his Twitter account Huck Seed informed the world just how good he runs by posting a picture of a $670,665.60 Royal Flush payout on a Video Poker machine! Attached with the picture was the following text: “Internet poker is down in the US, but I’m still pressing buttons!” Of course once the creators of the animated poker series The Read More ...
Last Year’s rumors of an underage poker prodigy tearing up the online poker tables proved to be true as upon turning 18, Jose “Girah” Macedo showed up on 2+2 to confirm he is the man behind the rumors. Now Macedo finds himself as the newest member of Team Lock Poker having signed a LockPro ELITE Team contract –the same contract you can win in the Bluff Pro Challenge. Lock Poker Read More ...
Woman Poker Player Magazine announced the winners of their first-ever Maven Awards on Monday, designed to celebrate the advancement of women in poker. The Maven Awards honor women in poker as well as the entities in the poker world that recognize, contribute to, and encourage women to participate in the poker world. Nearly 12,000 votes were counted in 13 different categories, and amongst the big winners was Vanessa Rousso, who Read More ...
It’s safe to say that Phil Galfond made the right decision by moving to Canada in order to continue his online poker career, and if he continues on the torrid pace he has been on during August he may just have enough money set aside to buy a Canadian version of his infamous NYC Condo Slide! Since moving to Canada, Galfond has been cleaning up on the PokerStars high-stakes tables, Read More ...
If the 18-34 population of Vancouver, British Columbia seems to be growing at an accelerated rate you may want to look into the number of young online poker pros who have been making their way to locale in order to continue to ply their trade. The latest online poker legend to take a hard look at moving to the Vancouver area is Cardrunners coach and online legend Brian “Stinger” Hastings, Read More ...
Victor Chandler have signed up Roy ‘The Boy’ Brindley to join their poker team, but he has also been made Team Captain. Brindley will tour the world with the rest of the pros. He will not have long to wait for his first outing as captain, The European Masters of Poker (EMOP) gets underway in less than two weeks time in Portugal, at the Casino Estoril. As well as playing Read More ...
