Despite starting slow, the new face of swings in online poker Ilari “Ilari_FIN” Sahamies has finally minimized his variance and was on a consistent upswing in the month of November.Sahamies, who heading into August was down an astonishing $900,000, has completely eradicated his first-half tendencies and throughout the next 3 months accumulated $3 million in  Read more »

Despite still remaining as an elite player in the long history of online poker, the high-stakes guru Brian Townsend has recently regathered his reputation and bankroll and has mingled amongst the regular pros in the games on PokerStars winning $100K.It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from Townsend, as his aliases of “sbrugby” on Full Tilt  Read more »

Despite the high-stakes games not being as popular as they once were because of a smaller scope of professionals, the games over on PokerStars are still inhabited by a crafty niche of savvy online experts. Phil Galfond, Ilari Sahamies and Brian Hastings lead this collection of intelligent, young veterans, however over the past week, they’ve  Read more »

Well everyone, the 2011 World Championship of Online Poker is here! Starting this past Sunday, thousands of online players flocked to the tournament tables on the “world’s biggest poker site.” PokerStars serves as the host to the 2011 WCOOP, the biggest event in online tournament poker. You’ll want to jump into the action immediately, as  Read more »

We know the swings of high-stakes online poker can be volatile. However, not even the eccentric Ilari Sahamies could have predicted that the past few weeks would end up this wild.Sahamies, who plays under the screen name “Ilari FIN,” has endured one of the most epic roller coaster rides in recent memory. Side-stepping a few  Read more »

Despite his atrocious results just a weekend ago, Blom’s persistence paid off tremendously as he began to regain confidence and some of the cash he squandered during his latest sessions.Earning the sum of over $135,000, Blom took on the opponents of Niki “RealAndyBeal” Jedlicka, Jeans89, and Rafi “refaelamit” Amit over on PokerStars this past Monday  Read more »

There truly no one hotter than Phil Galfond.Obviously, we’re not referring to the recently-turned Canadian citizen’s attractiveness. While Phil Galfond himself would likely avoid that subject, the heater that the 26-year-old poker pro encountered over the weekend has made his excursion up north extremely rewarding.Galfond, who plays under the alias “MrSweets28″ on PokerStars, spent nearly  Read more »

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 »

PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have had their domain names released, and players from the United States may now go through the necessary steps to issue their withdrawals.Black Friday was in essence the end of online poker for residents of the United States. The sites of Absolute Poker, Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars all had  Read more »

Doors Shut for US Poker PlayersApril 15th, 2011 was the day when the 4 major US poker sites shut their doors for all US players; Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, UB and AbsolutePoker. It is still unclear if they will have to close their doors and services to the rest of the world, or real-money poker  Read more »