With the World Series taking up the time of most high stakes pros there hasn’t been that much action at the nose bleeds this week. The $500/1,000 action has been particularly dry. However the newly added $300/600 and $200/400 pot-limit Omaha tables with antes on Full Tilt Poker has been steadily increasing. Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro [...]

durrrr made a brief appearance for the $40K World Series of Poker Event, but busted early after showing up nearly an hour after play began. He and Antonius were on the Challenge tables for a few hours yesterday. During much of that time, durrrr also played Phil Ivey, who busted from the $40K just an [...]

With the World Series starting this week the high stakes action is certainly going to slow down a little. However, last week on the felt it was pretty crazy with Dwan and Sahamies continuing their 3k/9k PLO sessions. During several more sessions at the $500/1,000 tables on Full Tilt, Dwan and Sahamies agreed to raise [...]

Last Sunday afternoon, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Phil Ivey, and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies played three-handed $500-$1,000 HA. Sahamies was the big winner in that session, building his stack to over $500,000. Dwan then decided he’d play both Ivey and Sahamies concurrently on separate heads-up PLO tables. Though Dwan was able to take about $238,000 off Ivey [...]

The durrrr challenge saw some action at the tables with a small session on 20th that logged 693 hands and Patrik Antonius extended his lead to $424,631 Here’s a few hands  from that session. The first pot to break the 100k mark didn’t come long after the session started. Dwan opened to $1,200, Antonius 3bet [...]

Following the conclusion of FTOPS XII on Sunday, here is a round-up of all the events big winners. Event #1 – NL Hold ‘em 6-max Players: 4,445 Buy-In: $200 + $16 Guarantee: $1,000,000 Prize Pool: $1,255,000 1 URBEHIND $191,020.00 2 The Quietwinner $117,000.00 3 ChasingIdiot $81,200.00 4 flopjunkie19 $60,000.00 5 PXFACTOR $44,000.00 6 Tomsk400 $30,000.00 [...]

The 12th FTOPS ended this weekend with the conclusion of the Main Event. The Main Event was a $500+35 NLHE tournament. There was a $2,500,000 guarantee and 4581 entrants. The chip count on the final table was as follows: Pocketownage420 – 6,355,367 azzabentonaces – 5,587,683 -NinG- – 4,796,044 nickeltwenty –3,860,832 oiltrader – 3,823,366 iDubDeuce – [...]

Patrik and Durrrr put in a short session on the 13th that lasted around 60minutes. Over that short period they logged 310 hands and durrrr was able to book a much-needed win to compensate for some of the big losses he suffered in the May 4th session. Patrik now holds the lead with $391,704 profit, [...]

The action was fast and furious last week in High Stakes online poker. Gus Hansen’s upswing came to an abrupt end and Tom “durrrr” Dwan was able to recoup some of that $2 million loss from last week. Also coming back from the dead was Luke “_FullFlush1_” Schwartz. With their latest software update, Full Tilt [...]

Last week’s episode saw the end of a four-week series of shows where the poker playing, for the most part, left a lot to be desired in the eyes of most aficionados. Particularly after the great first 5 episodes and some of the great hands that were played. This week brought a new cast to [...]