Part of the excitement surrounding Party Poker’s upcoming Big Game IV was the anticipated appearance of the long-unknown, notoriously secretive Isildur1, the otherwise anonymous Swedish online poker sensation who has taken sizable chunks out of the bankrolls of several of the game’s biggest players – including Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan, and Phil Ivey. But alas, […]
Party Poker has extended an invitation to online poker sensation and headline grabber of the past several months Isildur1 to enter their very private and exclusive Big Game IV. Will he accept? That is the question on everyone’s lips. A little background on why this is such a big deal, in case you need catching up. […]
Congratulations to Ashton Griffin for taking home the 2010 PokerStars NAPT High-Roller tournament. The tournament finished early on Friday, February 26. The final table lasted a whopping 12 hours. What was different about this event? Well, it was certainly a unique format. The tournament began on Tuesday with seven tables of seven poker players. The […]
The Party Poker Premier League IV came to a conclusion this week with David Benyamine coming away as the winner. Benyamine knocked off Luke Schwartz head to head for the title, and garnered $400,000. The reviews for the finale were great for the poker leaders. Schwartz came into the battle with a huge lead, but […]
Party Poker spent the first month of this new year signing up two new players to its Team Party Poker roster. Those players, in order of being signed, are Kara Scott and Tony G. Kara Scott is not only a fine poker player, having won the Sports Stars Challenge III in 2008, but she is also […]
The 2010 World Series of Poker schedule is now out and as always it includes mostly the familiar with a bit of change thrown in. As with this past 2009 WSOP, the 2010 series will be comprised of 57 events (and remember, that’s just the ones for gold bracelets). As always, the series will culminate […]
With the conclusions of EPT San Remo on April 23rd and the EPT Grand Final in Monaco on May 3rd, the European Poker Tour’s fifth season has ended. Season five was a great success with each of the 13 events drawing huge fields and big prize pools. All-in-all season five of the European Poker Tour […]
Poker in Sint Maarten Waking Up $2000 Freeroll Ace On The River Catching Up The Last Night On my last poker night in St. Maarten I went to Casino Royal as planned, after deciding earlier that tourneys where starting way too early and I would have to miss my seafood linguine at Pineapple Pete’s. So […]
Poker in Sint Maarten Waking Up $2000 Freeroll Ace On The River Catching Up The Last Night Well, after loosing $200 in a hand where I was an 83% favorite (see the previous Poker in St. Maarten recap), I have been in action twice again at Casino Royale, just across from where we’re staying. The […]
Poker in Sint Maarten Waking Up $2000 Freeroll Ace On The River Catching Up The Last Night This morning when I was doing my daily workout in the hotel’s gym, I was rethinking yesterday’s poker night. First of all, I didn’t make it to the R&A tournament at the Atlantis World Casino, since we went […]