Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and what a difference a few weeks make!

July 6, 2009

The last few weeks have not seen a fantastic amount of action on the online front with all of the biggest movers and shakers in the poker world still in Las Vegas at the Bellagio as well as the WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E tournament scheduled for 5 days. That’s not to say there wasn’t any [...]

Rare Online Session Brings out the best in Ted “profbackwards” Forrest

June 29, 2009

It’s not that often that 5 World Series of Poker bracelet winner Ted Forrest chances his luck in the online poker world arena, but he decided to do just that on Full Tilt Poker this weekend. Forrest is an incredibly good live player due to his uncanny ability to read his opponents [...]

Durrrr continues his cold streak in challenge vs Antonius

May 7, 2009

It was a night young Dwan probably wished he turned on his Xbox rather then playing Antonius the other night in a continuation of their 50,000 hand challenge. They re-took to the $200/400 heads up pot limit tables on Full Tilt and carried on for nearly an hour before Dwans Internet connection issues convinces [...]

Dwan clears his head with a positive session vs. Gus Hansen

May 1, 2009

Yesterday saw a rematch of the Heads Up game last week between Gus Hansen and Tom “Durrrr” Dwan. They sat back at Hansen’s Hangout and Suckout Omaha tables on Full Tilt for a session which saw over 20 $100,000 + pots.
Dwan probably felt it just wasn’t his night the [...]

Hansen takes revenge after last weekends mauling

April 27, 2009

You win some you lose some, but some of us win more then others! After last weekends pounding at the tables it was time for lady luck to touch Gus Hansen’s shoulder and give him a nudge in the right direction. Last weekend, the great Dane was in the red to the tune of $1.2m [...]

Bodog Poker Open III begins 26th April

April 17, 2009

It’s that time of year again and it’s now the turn of Bodog to offer a season of NL Holdem poker tournaments.
This year there will be a total of 26 tournaments spread over 3 skill levels giving a choice of tournaments to those players with smaller bankrolls.
The championship level consists of 10 tournaments with the [...]

Antonius stretches his lead over Dwan in Durrrr Challenge

April 15, 2009

Another day another session with these two really picking up the pace of this challenge in the last week or so.
Antonius finished the session up circa $23,000 after a short session of 135 hands. Antonius has now pushed his lead to $84,544 after 12,144 hands.
Only one 6 figure pot to speak of in this session [...]

PokerRoom.com says goodbye to the world of online poker

April 15, 2009

Yesterday, PokerRoom.com ceased trading 30 days after its parent company announced that it would be shut down.
Bwin, PokerRooms parent company has its own poker website and has sent offers to all of the pokerroom players trying to entice them over to their platform. http://www.pokernews.com/bwin-poker/
When it was created in 1999 it was a pioneer in it’s [...]

Best Rakeback gets even better!

April 15, 2009

RidgeGaming’s rakeback partner Best Rakeback launched a revamped site today with some new rakeback deals and a funky new design. The site lets players compare and contrast the best rakeback deals online.
New offers mean that players with a Best Rakeback account can now get 33% Red Star Rakeback and 30% Fortune Poker Rakeback as [...]

Durrrr/Antonius Challenge steps up the pace

April 9, 2009

It seems finally Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius have decided to take this challenge a little
more seriously after playing a near 7 hour session of $200/$400 Pot limit
Omaha last night.
Who knows what kicked them into gear last night? It could be down to the
poor pace set by the both of them over the last 7 [...]

Next Page »

Log in