NOTE: US players can play against poker professionals at the top US poker room now, Play at Carbon Poker Now!While big online action has been occurring frequently over the early stages of the month, one of of the biggest names in the world of online poker has been relatively absent from all of it. Until  Read more »

Play at Carbon Poker if you are a US player (worldwide players accepted too).Despite falling in consecutive Superstar Showdown challenges, Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom managed to redeem himself by taking out a familiar opponent in Scott “urnotindangr” Palmer. Although this contest was primarily a rematch from the previous week’s battle, the action was never stale during  Read more »

Although “The Great Dane” Gus Hansen has been nearly unstoppable thus far in 2011, he’s encountered a major downswing as of late. The player who finished 2010 near the top of the leaderboard in the wrong category, has recently shown glimpses of his former self by donating nearly $1 million of his profits in 2011  Read more »

In one of the few contests that many people from the start considered to be very evenly matched, the results fell in line with the predictions for the latest Superstar Showdown. Early this month on PokerStars, Scott “urnotindangr” Palmer was the newest contestant to take on the infamous Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom, and fared better than  Read more »

Despite a previous cut-in-half challenge between the two Team PokerStars pros, both Daniel Negreanu and Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom decided to reunite for a second installment of the Superstar Showdown.This time around, Daniel Negreanu managed to outlast his fellow comrad, and eventually booked a significant $26,500 victory over his opponent.The rules were very simple; play Blom  Read more »

Although many have probably seen the alias of “refaelamit” playing in some of the biggest games available online over on PokerStars, very few probably have an actual perspective on who’s really behind that screen name. Rafi Amit, who seldom goes by Refael, is an incredibly intellectual and talented poker player who regularly plays in some  Read more »

Kagome Kagome, formerly known as IHateJuice, played yet another Limit Hold’em session against rival Patrik Antonius, this time finishing in the black for $289K. The pair of players were involved in a session which included 667 hands, and over 2 hours of play.As customary, the battle took place amongst two tables with both opponents pitting  Read more »

Despite PokerStars revamping its current software with the latest innovation of “home games” and several other unique creations, the more traditional high-stakes poker action still showed devotion to Full Tilt Poker. In a brief heads-up contest, Gus Hansen held his own against fellow Full Tilt pro and Cardrunners instructor David Benefield, and took his business  Read more »

Over on Full Tilt Poker, Patrik Antonius was busy as usual playing an intense heads-up session of $3000/$6000 Fixed-Limit Hold’em. His opponent in this session was Kagome Kagome, and although the name may look slightly new, it’s actually none other than his regular rival IHateJuice. Despite playing under a different alias, the results were very  Read more »

Although there were several big stories concerning the top professionals in the game in 2010, the hidden gem was definitely Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates.  The online superstar not only finished 2010 with the biggest earnings for online play, but he’s also gained a tremendous amount of notoriety for taking on the world’s best players in the  Read more »