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 [...]

Antonius running great in latest session of the Durrrr challenge

April 14, 2009

The pace has really picked up in this challenge with a total of 11,949 hands being played between the two of them now.
Things began around 8:30pm EST with both players buying in for $80,000 on each of the 4 tables being played.
This would turn out to be Antonius’s session. In the first big pot of [...]

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 [...]

Are Party Poker heading back to the U.S.?

April 8, 2009

After months of intense negotiations between Party Gaming the parent company of Party Poker and the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO), Party Gaming has managed to pen a Non-Prosecution Agreement. The majority of the charges were centred on Party Pokers activity in the U.S. Gaming Market prior to George W Bush signing the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet [...]

“Durrrr” Challenge 11th session

April 7, 2009

Sunday afternoon saw the 11th Session of the heads up $200/400 pot limit Omaha match between Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius. It wasn’t the longest session in the world with a total of 154 hands being played in 24 minutes. Dwan had the best of it coming out on top to the tune of [...]

27134 players in Event 1 of Pokerstars SCOOP

April 4, 2009

The first tournament of the PokerStars Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP) has now finished and a staggering 27134 players made up the field - possibly setting the record for the most players in an online poker tournament.  The MTT, a $5.50 rebuy No Limit Hold’em event, began with over 4500 six seat tables, 220 [...]

‘Zee Justin’ Bonomo reprieve puts him back on the Pokerstars Roster

April 3, 2009

Some of you may remember way back in 2006 there was a particularly high profile incident involving well respected poker pro Zee Justin Bonomo multi accounting on Pokerstars.
He was banned specifically for logging into his 6 accounts and entering the same multi-table tournament with more than one of them. His money was seized and distributed [...]

$30million Pokerstars Scoop Challenge up and running

April 3, 2009

Finally the Pokerstars scoop (spring championship of Online Poker) began yesterday with a guaranteed prize pool of $30m. There are 22 events running from the 2-12th April 2009 with each of these events being split into 3 different buy in levels; Low, Medium and Hi.
This makes a total of 66 tournaments [...]

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