Season 5 of the PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT), which is a highly popular live poker event in Australia and New Zealand, began sometime during late October, 2012. The previous seasons of the poker event managed to draw crowds from the Oceania regions, Asia and other parts of the world.ANZPT 2013So far this  Read more »

Prior to when Black Friday struck on April 15th, 2011, Full Tilt Poker was firmly entrenched atop the high stakes scene. Every night you could count on seeing regulars such as Gus Hansen, Dan “Jungleman12” Cates, Phil Galfond, Viktor “Isildur1’ Blom and Ilari Sahamies on the FTP tables. Unfortunately, Black Friday and Full Tilt losing  Read more »

Sahamies Scores BigWhile Ilari Sahamies is known for his wild month-to-month swings at the high-stakes tables, the Finnish poker professional was able to tone things down a bit and keep himself far in the green for the month of October. With action heating up in anticipation of PokerStars’ re-launch of Full Tilt Poker, several of  Read more »

After months of swirling speculation, finally the truth has been revealed that PokerStars Inc. has decided to buy out the remaining shares of Full Tilt Poker and its affiliates, granting them ownership and full custody over the recently closed online poker brand.After two years of intense scrutiny, Full Tilt Poker will finally be able to  Read more »

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 »