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 »

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 »

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 »

Last night on PokerStars the highly anticipated “Superstar Showdown” which featured the newly signed PokerStars pro and internet phenom Isildur1, took place around 7:05 p.m. EST. The challenge was set to display 2,500 hands between Isildur1 and a willing opponent, which in this case, was Issac Haxton. The game of choice must be either Pot-Limit  Read more »

Full Tilt Poker saw its $1 million grand prize stay in-house, as Gus Hansen outclassed a stacked final table to take down Poker Million IX.The Danish pro started play this weekend, which was televised live in Europe on Sky Sports, sharing the felt with fellow Full Tilt pros Patrik Antonius, Howard Lederer and Barny Boatman,  Read more »

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 »

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 »