Archive | January, 2011

Durrrr Challenge 2 Update: Cates Wins $319K

Tom Dwan

This past Monday, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates put in their first session of the New Year for their ongoing online challenge. Jungleman12 managed to extend his lead substantially in the “Durrrr Challenge”, by taking $319,000 from the Team Full Tilt pro early into Tuesday morning.An extended session which managed to make up  Read more »

Isildur1 finally unmasked as Viktor Blom

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With Day 1A of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event kicking off, you’d think all the media attention wouldn’t be on just one player.But that’s what happened in the Atlantis Luxury Resort & Casino in the Bahamas.  More than a year after the mystery pro took the high stakes cash games by storm, 20-year-old Swedish  Read more »

Prahlad Friedman unveiled as newest member of Team UB

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Ultimate Bet announced a big signing to Team UB this week.Just a week after faces of UB Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke made their splits with the poker site, Prahlad Friedman has been brought in to help anchor the team.Friedman, who can usually be found playing nosebleed cash games online, has both a World Series  Read more »

Isildur1 Wins His Second “Superstar Showdown”, Gains $44K

Tony G

Just a few weeks ago, PokerStars announced their newest signee’s first endeavor for their poker site, which was the Isildur1 “Superstar Showdown”. Similar in capacity to previous online challenges that have been issued in the past, many opponents stepped up to the plate willing to take on the infamous Isildur1 in hopes of building notoriety  Read more »

Poker After Dark kicks off seventh season

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Monday marks the return of everyone’s favorite short-handed, late night card game; Poker After Dark.The new season kicked off on Monday, January 3, in its normal 2:05 a.m. EST (11:05 p.m. PT) time slot on NBC.   Season seven opens with a $100,000 freezeout titled “Big Heat,” pitting Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Erick Lindgren, Huck Seed,  Read more »