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Cal42688 Retakes Online MTT Money List Lead

July 26, 2013 at 10:47 AM |

Calvin ’cal42688’ Anderson involuntarily gave up his leading position in the online multi-table tournament money list for three weeks. Following his WSOP performance in Las Vegas, however, he has now retaken his rightful place.

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Isildur1 Won Over $5 Million in 2013, $2 Million in July

July 9, 2013 at 4:14 PM |

Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom is on an insane heater this July, he already won $2 million at the nosebleed online cash games in July, which puts him on the first spot on the biggest winner of the year leaderboard with over $5 million profit.

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Zynga Reveals Real Money Poker App for Facebook

July 11, 2013 at 1:03 PM |

The Facebook version of the ZyngaPlusPoker client, already available for play in the United Kingdom, has been revealed at the World Gaming Executive Summit conference in Barcelona.

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Isildur1 and Sauce123 Clash Again - High Stakes June

June 28, 2013 at 7:04 PM |

The epic clash at the $300/$600 PLO tables between Viktor Blom (Isildur1) and Ben Sulsky (Sauce123) gained much attention this Thursday.

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Summer Ends, Online Poker Traffic Increases

September 4, 2013 at 7:35 PM |

In the past week, most online poker rooms have shown a 3-5% increase in traffic, in comparison with the previous weeks.

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888poker's Spiderman Ad Pulled in Great Britain Due to Indecency

July 14, 2013 at 5:34 PM |

The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned the Spiderman themed advertisements displayed on 888poker's website as they can reach children, who are not of permitted age to gamble.

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WCGRider Up $227,000 After First Session of HU Challenge

September 16, 2013 at 6:14 PM |

On 15 September, the 15,000 hands $100/$200 NLHE heads-up challenge between Douglas ‘WCGRider’ Polk and Ben ‘Sauce’ Sulsky kicked off. After a first session of 2,460 hands, ‘WCGRider’ is in the lead with $227,000 in profits.

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Durrrr Challenge 2 – It’s On!

August 27, 2010 at 6:48 PM |

To the pleasure of many, durrrr and jungleman12 have started their 50k hand battle, and the first round ended with durrrr leading by almost $130k.

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Introducing the Wireless Poker Controller

November 1, 2010 at 6:14 PM |

PokerControlsTM has recently introduced their latest gadget to make life simpler for every player who feel that the keyboard and the mouse are either insufficient for their gaming style or simply out of fashion.

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Tom Broadbent After Chinese Collusion Gang

September 14, 2010 at 4:24 PM |

As it was popular in the news recently a group of China-based players colluded by "going easy" against each other at PokerStars tables.Tom Broadbent was not happy with his refund, $16,90, he claims PokerStars owes him much more. He decided to travel to Beijing to report the incident personally to the local police.

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FTP Application for Android?

October 22, 2010 at 7:47 PM |

A growing number of poker applications reach the mobile phone market, for instance SwitchPoker’s latest development for the iPad/iPhone. Now it is Full Tilt Poker that plans a release for the Android.

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Full Tilt Top 10 Winners/Losers of 2010 So Far

October 18, 2010 at 6:06 PM |

Full Tilt Poker's high stakes tables are a place for spectators to hang around every night because there just might be some fireworks between pros like Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Gus Hansen. 2010 was a very profitable year for some players, but not not all. The top 10s of the biggest winners and losers are really interesting to look at.

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Durrrr Challenge 2 - Short Session

October 4, 2010 at 6:33 PM |

Durrrr and jungleman12 have continued their epic clash called the Durrrr Challenge 2, with a 1 hour session which brought about a near draw between the two pros. Durrrr only earned $1,429 by the end of the day.

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Amazing Poker Weekend

August 30, 2010 at 7:08 PM |

The online high stakes grinders were pretty occupied this weekend, even though the durrrr challange 2 did not continue, it still was one of the most exciting poker weekends this year. Huge amounts of money were exchanged at online tables, Gus Hansen lost $1,1 million in nearly 24 hours.

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50 Billionth PokerStars Hand Dealt

September 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM |

PokerStars have finally dealt its 50 Billionth Hand. The great event happened yesterday morning at the $0,02/$0,05 Micro-Stakes NLHE cash game table called Ornamenta (fast). The hand was won by the German 'tbvle' earning $56,140 plus a $5,200 WCOOP Main Event buy-in.