Archive | High Stakes Poker Reports

Blom’s Superstar Showdown Returns With Rui Cao

Viktor Blom

While there are certainly recent events that have been increasingly important to both players and fans alike (cough, cough, World Series of Poker), those looking for a break from all the Las Vegas hoopla and headlines were certainly tuned in to the intense online battle between Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom and Rui “PepperoniF” Cao. Fortunately enough  Read more »

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier Wins Poker’s Super Trifecta

Bertrand Grospellier (Event #21, $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Championship, courtesy of WSOP.com)

While those immersed in the world of online poker refer to him as “ElkY”, Bertrand Grospellier has, over a wildly successful live poker career, established himself as much more than an online virtuoso. Although he’s well-known for being the record holder for the most online Sit-N-Gos played simultaneously, Grospellier has now also earned the title  Read more »

Rui Cao Strikes First In May

Rui Cao

The 24-year-old player, who resides in beautiful Paris, France, now has something else gorgeous to admire — his Full Tilt Poker account.Rui Cao seems to be the man making the most of his opportunities this year, and garnered almost $300K from his play so far in early May.Finishing his April stint at the high-stakes tables  Read more »

Antonius Earns Every Bit Of His Resurgence As One Of The Best In The Game

Patrik Antonius

Although there have been bigger wins, few have come at more opportune times than Patrik Antonius‘. Arguably now the face Team Full Tilt, Antonius has proved once again to the world that he’s still amongst the best in his field by adding over $1.7 million in his online account in just seven days.You would assume  Read more »

Sahamies Having Quite the Roller Coaster Ride

Ilari Sahamies

Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies hasn’t quite been able figure out the recipe for consistent success at the online tables. To say Sahamies has had an up-and-down week would be an understatement.The poker professional and celebrity who hails from Finland has thus far posted sessions of +$137K, and -$275K since the start of the last week in  Read more »

Ziigmund Struggles Yet Again, -$275K

Ilari Sahamies

In what seems to be a jinx, the Finnish poker pro Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies dug himself into yet another big hole for the year with a -$275,000 loss over on Full Tilt Poker.Starting to gain traction with a few successful online sessions, Ziigmund has been struggling to return to form since the biggest downswing of  Read more »

Antonius On Fire Near The Close of April, Wins $560K In Weekend Play

Patrik Antonius 2

The Finnish player Patrik Antonius has had little difficulty in dismantling his opponents at the high-stakes Pot-Limit Omaha tables. In just under 400 hands, Antonius ended his April 24th evening up a substantial $560,000.Taking on the opposition of No Pasaran, Andreas “skjervoy” Torbergsen, LokoIsBack and FinnishNightmre, the $300/$600 PLO tables were very profitable bringing Antonius  Read more »

Jens “Ingenious89″ Kyllonen Posts An Unbelievable $861K Victory

Jens Kyllonen

Following one of the biggest wins of his online career, Jens “Ingenious89″ Kyllonen continues to dominate his online opponents by destroying them to the tune of $861K in late April.Although many players (including high-stakes pros) believed the games would soon dry up in the wake of “Black Friday,” instead the high-stakes action has been more  Read more »

Diminished Player Volume Doesn’t Hurt Antonius, Patrik Wins $361K

Patrik Antonius

Despite Full Tilt Poker no longer serving players in the U.S. demographic, one of the biggest faces for the company, Patrik Antonius, is still raking in large sums of money. In a late April surge, Antonius managed to capture over $360,000 from his adversaries in an enlightening post-Black Friday Pot-Limit Omaha session.Although Black Friday was  Read more »

Cates Dominates in $192K Victory

Daniel Cates 2

NOTE: If you are a US player, you might want to play against the poker pros at Carbon Poker now!Dan “jungleman12″ Cates often spends most of his time sitting and waiting for opponents to play him at a variety of stakes at heads-up No-Limit Hold’em. While both he and most of his competitors are aware  Read more »