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Isildur1 and Antonius Finish 2010 With Marathon Sessions

Viktor Blom

Last night on Full Tilt Poker, the Finn Patrik Antonius closed his 2010 similar to the way it began, playing against the skillful German limit specialist IHateJuice at the new $3K/$6K Limit Hold’em tables.The pair has been playing constantly for many months, regularly exchanging six-figure earnings on a nightly basis. While the action between the  Read more »

More Durrrr Challenge, More Wins For Durrrr

Ashton Griffin

As play continued on early Wednesday morning, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates decided to put in more hours of their continuing online challenge.While the pair has currently completed nearly one-fourth of the match, they managed to put in another 1,400 hands over two and a half hours, which ended in Dwan cutting into  Read more »

URnotINdanger2 Takes $366K From Antonius

URnotINdanger2

Despite the online poker tables being regularly filled with professional players at nearly every level, almost anyone who takes the game seriously recognizes that much of their earnings as a player doesn’t come from world-class opponents. It makes logical sense, that in order to profit from playing a game you need to play against opponents  Read more »

Cates Battles Antonius in the Mixed HA Game, Wins $325K

cristiano_ronaldo2

Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates has had a very successful year in many respects. The newly-turned 21 year-old spent the latter part of his year traveling across the United States, spending time with both friends and family while enjoying the liberties of his new-found legality. While the month of December is certainly the time of year where  Read more »

CRAZY Day at the Online Felt, Dwan Loses Over a Million

Durrrr 4

In one of the most action filled days of November at the online felt, one of the busiest online players was the increasingly popular Tom “durrrr” Dwan. The famous poker player was busy grinding away over 3500 hands of Pot-Limit Omaha. While Dwan’s lengthy sessions are often filled with tremendous swings and variance, he often  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 »

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 »

Ziigmund Nearly Even, Isildur1′s Losses Continue

Ziigmund

Although most poker pros, fans, and railbirds alike would certainly say that Pot-Limit Omaha has been the latest game of choice amongst the high stakes professionals, some might say that No-Limit Hold’Em has made a considerable return in late 2010.With players such as isildur1, and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates leading the scene, action has been regularly  Read more »