Archive | November, 2010

Durrrr Challenge is Back, Dwan Cuts Into Cates’ Lead by $13K

Daniel Cates [photo courtesy of the Washingtonian]

While Tom Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates have been increasingly busy with other endeavors, this past Friday the two online poker prodigies put aside a significant amount of time to play each other in their 50,000-hand challenge. The pair managed to put in 2,123 hands of play, in multiple sessions, with Dwan ending up ahead  Read more »

Benefield Loses a Staggering $664K

David Benefield

Patrik Antonius hasn’t had many complaints when it’s come to his participation in the high stakes games on Full Tilt Poker as of late. The Finnish-born poker professional has had one of the hottest November’s in recent memory, with over $1 million in profit for the month. Over a quarter of that figure came from  Read more »

Urindanger Has a Big Thanksgiving Day at the Tables, $514K

Zi and Hac Dang

Zi “Urindanger” Dang, although being absent at the nosebleed stakes for a lot of 2010, spent most of his Thanksgiving Day being thankful for poker. The older Dang brother raked in over $514K at the tables, with most of his half-million coming from Team Full Tilt member Gus Hansen.Dang and Hansen played $500/$1000 Cap Pot-Limit  Read more »

Eastgate’s WSOP bracelet goes for $147,500

2008 WSOP bracelet

After a week on the auction block, Peter Eastgate’s gold World Series of Poker bracelet has been sold.Due to ebay’s privacy policy, which allows only anonymous user IDs to be visible in the item listing, and the fact that since the bidding closed Thanksgiving morning the winner hasn’t come forward, the poker world continues to  Read more »

Hellmuth and Ultimate Bet dunzo?

Hellmuth at PokerStars NAPT LA

After more than a decade of donning an Ultimate Bet patch, Phil Hellmuth and the poker site could be parting ways.Speculation is growing that the longest relationship between pro and poker site is coming to an end, as the 11-time WSOP bracelet winner has been playing on camera without any Ultimate Bet logos for the first  Read more »

Nosebleeds Running Again, P.A. Wins $505K

Gus Hansen [courtesy of wsop.com]

Usually when Patrik Antonius puts his mind to something, he succeeds. It was surprising to many to see him dig himself such a deep hole in the Durrrr Challenge, which is still ongoing. However, as of late, Patrik Antonius has set his sights on improving his bottom line by the end of the year, which  Read more »

APT Macau Brings Cash Game Action

Phil Ivey in Macau [photo courtesy of twoplustwo.com]

According to the reports posted on the web site Twoplustwo.com, there has been a slew of professional players taking place in some of the largest cash games in recent history in Macau. Chau Giang, Johnny Chan, John Juanda, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Phil Ivey have all been mentioned to be taking place in the action,  Read more »

Tony G wants Eastgate WSOP bracelet for dog

Tony G from PartyPoker Blog

It didn’t take long for the action to heat up for Peter Eastgate’s World Series of Poker bracelet.Back on Monday, the now-retired Eastgate decided his 2008 Main Event bracelet was “just lying around collecting dust,” and put it up for auction on eBay, with the proceeds going to UNICEF, of course.  By Wednesday, poker bad  Read more »

USA Championship of Online Poker starts Sunday on PokerStars

PokerStars USACOOP

PokerStars is launching a brand new tournament series on Sunday, isolating Americans in the USA Championship of Online Poker (USACOOP).The worlds largest poker site has divided the globe into 13 different regions; Alpine, Benelux, Canada, Nordics, Baltics, UK & Ireland, Russian Open, Central & Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, Iberia, Latin America, Mediterranean and the USA.  Read more »

Plenty of time to claim a seat in HighStakesReport.com freeroll on PokerStars

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There’s still two weeks to earn those PokerStars points and qualify for the first of three private $500 freerolls.Freeroll #1 kicks off on Saturday, Dec. 4, at 3 p.m. ET. All three $500 freerolls will be hosted by PokerStars and are open to qualified HighStakesReport.com players.If you signed up for PokerStars and entered ‘MPONLINE’ as your bonus  Read more »