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8 Year Old Boy From India Wins $500,000 Playing Online Poker

March 17th, 2010

Aashish Nanak

Aashish Nanak

The story of Aashish Nanak, an 8 year old boy from India, has been all over the news during the past couple of days. Apparently, Nanak managed to win $500,000 playing online poker on an account setup under his uncle’s name.

As unbelievable as this may sound, the story states that Nanak is an 8 year old computer wizard who was running his own website at the age of four and has been playing online poker since he is six.

Controversy arose as the poker room in which he was playing has refused to pay him his winnings as they found out he is underage. The family lawyers plan to take the case to a New Delhi court so that Nanak can get the money.

This story has become really famous but now people are suspicious on the veracity of it. Apparently, the only resource to the story is a blog post on tumblr.com and the author does not use any sources to verify the story.

In my opinion, this seems very unlikely to be true but we will keep you updated as the story develops.

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Durrrr’s Challenge Update: Durrrr Holds On To The Lead

March 17th, 2010

Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan

Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan

On Monday morning two of the biggest titans of poker, Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and Patrik Antonius met for one more session of the durrrr Challenge. This session lasted 342 hands, which is a short amount, but was still enough to increase durrrr’s vast lead.

Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan came out victorious in this session and managed to take his lead up to $1.76 million. The challenge is now at almost exactly 2/3 of the required 50,000 hands. The players have played a total of 33,242 hands. The players are playing 4 simultaneous tables of 200/400 PLO.

Patrik Antonius has been running bad lately, as prior to this encounter durrrr managed to win slightly over $1 million in the last matches. Some speculate that durrrr has already won the challenge as Patrik Antonius would need to win more than 26bb/100h if he wants to turn the tables in the remaining hands. However, this challenge has had so many swings that we cannot state that it will remain this way.

In case you forgot (and you are allowed to because this has taken so long already) if durrrr wins after 50k hands he gets $500,000, but if he loses, he has to pay Patrik Antonius $1.5 million.

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Pokerstars LAPT Viña Del Mar Cancelled

March 15th, 2010

Latin America Poker Tour

Latin America Poker Tour

Due to the recent devastating earthquake that struck Chile, the PokerStars staff has announced that the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Viña del Mar has been cancelled. The earthquake struck 175 miles south of Viña del Mar and almost 300 people died.

The largest online poker room in the world, PokerStars , recognizes that all of the country’s resources are focused in the rescue efforts and that the LAPT is the last thing to be concerned about right now.

The EPT Viña del Mar was scheduled in two weeks time in Viña del Mar, Chile from March 19th to 23rd. This is one of the most popular destinations of the tour as it takes place in the beautiful resort ‘Enjoy Viña del Mar’ in the amazing Chilean paradise.

The poker site also said that all the players who bought into the event or won a package to go there will be compensated; all concerns should be emailed to lapt@pokerstars.com.

We send our condolences to all of those in Chile who were affected by this natural disaster. We will bring more information soon on how you can help the relief efforts from wherever you are in the world.

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Annie Duke Takes Down NBC National Heads Up Championship

March 12th, 2010

Annie Duke

Annie Duke

The NBC National Heads Up Championship has come to an end and it was professional poker player Annie Duke who made history by becoming the first woman to win this competition in the history of poker.

Annie Duke played against recognized poker pro Erik Seidel in the final heads-up. She bested Seidel and went home with $500,000 and the title.

The NBC National Heads Up Championship invites only the biggest names in poker to play several rounds of heads-up No Limit Holdem matches until one player emerges victorious from the whole field.

Apart from this title, Annie Duke has an impressive number of accomplishments in her poker resume. She is currently the best female poker player, she holds 1 WSOP bracelet, she has made it to 15 final tables at the WSOP and has cashed 37 times at various events there too.

She currently represents widely known poker room Ultimate Bet and she is a great ambassador of humanitarian work and charity poker tournaments.

Even though the NBC National Heads Up Championship is not considered one of the most skill-based events in the poker world, it is a great chance to see the best poker players in the world come together in exciting matches.

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WPT LA Poker Classic Final Table Set

March 11th, 2010

WPT LA Poker Classic

WPT LA Poker Classic

After four days of intense play the World Poker Tour (WPT) LA Poker Classic finally narrowed to the final set of players. These six players will be taking part at the 6-handed final table. The players who made it to the final table this time are relatively unknown but they have proved to be pretty skillful, so the final stage of the tournament should be an interesting show.

Amongst the notables who bounced out just before the final table bubble were Carlos ‘El Matador’ Mortensen, Annie Duke and Steve Sung. They hit the rail in 9th, 19th and 8th, respectively.

The final table will be broadcasted on TV as play wraps up tomorrow March 4th at 4pm PT.  Now in the lead is Andras Koroknai with almost 5,000,000 chips. Koroknai is followed by Raymond Dolan who has 3,300,000 chips. The winner will take home $1.79 million with the 6th place finisher getting $246,000.

This is the final table set-up:

  • Andras Koroknai 4,995,000
  • Raymond Dolan 3,300,000
  • Tri Huynh 2,565,000
  • Gevork Kasabyan 2,000,000
  • Jean-Claude Moussa 1,360,000
  • Michael Kamran 680,000

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EPT Berlin Robbery Under Control

March 10th, 2010

EPT Berlin Robbery

EPT Berlin Robbery

The German police have got back to us with their perspective on the events that occurred at the European Poker Tour (EPT) last week. “The EPT Berlin robbers broke all records in stupidity”, the German police stated.

Predictions are that the thieves will be caught soon as they seem to be an amateur gang and were not careful enough in their procedures. Even though the gang came into the Grand Hyatt wearing masks like decent crooks, they made a horrific error and stopped at a nearby McDonald’s for some food before the crime was committed.

The security cameras at McDonald’s caught the thieves’ faces in full view and it is just a matter of time to identify them now. The German security officers have handled the situation admirably well and hopefully the crime will be resolved soon.

On a different note, in one of the videos taken during the robbery you can see an unarmed security guard throwing objects at the robbers and wrestling with one of them in the ground, but he eventually gave up after being threatened with a machete.

"I acted purely on instinct," said the security guard. "But when his accomplice came at me with a machete I had to let go of him. Naturally it irritates me but I had to protect my own life in the situation."

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Pokerstars European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin Robbed

March 9th, 2010

EPT Berlin Robbery

EPT Berlin Robbery

In recent shocking news the poker world was told about the robbery that took place at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin. The robber occurred when only 24 players were left battling for a seat in the final table, and suddenly six men wearing masks and carrying machetes and guns broke into the Grand Hyatt in Berlin.

The robbers managed to steal boxes of money that had been collected at the reception of the event. It has been estimated that they took around €800,000 of the prize money. At the moment of the crime players panicked and stopped caring about their chip stacks and ran towards the exit of the building.

PokerStars expects to restart all events at 4pm local time today. The main event prize money has now been locked away but reports say that all the money from the high roller event was out on the casino floor and is now gone.

The robbers were not identified as everything happened quickly but there is a police investigation taking place and a small video has been posted on YouTube where you can see some of the crime taking place. Click here to watch it.

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Betclic Signs NBA Star Tony Parker

March 8th, 2010

French poker site BetClic recently announced that they have signed Tony Parker to be in their stable of rep poker players. Tony Parker is a recognized National Basketball Association (NBA) player and he will be representing the website around the world.

Tony Parker Teams Withe BetClic

Tony Parker Teams Withe BetClic

Tony Parker has been an NBA Champion three times in his career and he won the NBA Finals MVP in 2007.  He has been playing for the San Antonio Spurs team since 2001. "A great adventure begins," Parker said. "BetClic is a leading company with big ambitions and I am very happy to contribute to its development in the sport during the coming years."

Parker is a professional basketball player but he is often seen at charity poker tournaments. "He is a great ambassador for the brand. Tony represents the strong values of excellence and ethics in sports that we share. This new partnership reflects our commitment to continue our development in the sport by adding great champions to our team," said Nicolas Beraud, creator of BetClic.

BetClic is a very popular poker site in France and is looking for more international exposure.  They also recently signed poker pro Isabelle Mercier to help achieve their goals. BetClic was created in 2005 and has grown to be a very popular site in Europe.

BetClic is also the new owner of both poker brands Expekt and Everest Poker. With the addition of these high profile poker players the site should gain a lot more exposure and popularity in the near future.

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Alex Kamberis Signs With Doyle’s Room

March 4th, 2010

Alex Kamberis Joins Doyles Room Team

Alex Kamberis Joins Doyles Room Team

Poker legend Doyle Brunson’s poker site Doyle’s Room recently confirmed that they have added Alex Kamberis to their prestigious team of professional poker players - The Brunson 10. The rumour had been going around but it is now a fact that Kamberis will be representing Doyle’s Room around the world.

“I’m really excited that Alex has decided to come on board. He’s a real class act, just a real nice kid, and he’s the type of player that makes us all look forward to the next generation of poker players,” said Doyle Brunson.

Alex Kamberis is only 23 years old but it has been enough time to accumulate a lot of achievements in his poker career. His record is almost as impressive as that of players who have been playing poker for decades, in 2009 only he cashed in 50 online poker tournaments for almost $580,000. In 2008 he made $1.5 million playing online, becoming one of the most financially successful online poker players.

It was also in 2008 when Kamberis won the Player of the Year title by Card Player. During the same year Kamberis played at the Doyle Brunson’s Wednesday Bounty Tournament and it was there where he caught Brunson’s eye. There is no doubt that he is the perfect addition to Doyle Brunson’s team of elite poker players.

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NBC National Heads Up Championship Guest List

March 3rd, 2010

NBC National Heads Up Championship

NBC National Heads Up Championship

The NBC National Heads Up Championship is an annual event that features most of the top poker players in the industry. Some celebrities are also invited to take part of the game and the organizers have released the list of guests for this year.

This year we will be seeing a lot of familiar faces but also some celebrities and two first-timers; Kara Scott and Annette Obrestad. The NBC Heads Up Championship will take place at Caesars Palace from March 4th to 7th and it will then be televised.

The top names of poker have commented that this event is not highly regarded by them because the fast structure can make it feel like a crapshoot, however, it is extremely entertaining to watch on TV. This time we will have 57 guests and 7 online qualifiers.

This is the full list of guests for the 2010 NBC Heads Up Championship:

  • Patrik Antonius
  • Eric Baldwin
  • Andy Bloch
  • Doyle Brunson
  • Joe Cada
  • Johnny Chan
  • Don Cheadle
  • Allen Cunningham
  • Pieter de Korver
  • Annie Duke
  • Tom Dwan
  • Peter Eastgate
  • Eli Elezra
  • Antonio Esfandiari
  • Sam Farha
  • Chris Ferguson
  • Ted Forrest
  • Jamie Gold
  • Phil Gordon
  • Barry Greenstein
  • Bertrand Grospellier
  • Joe Hachem
  • Gus Hansen
  • Jennifer Harman
  • Phil Hellmuth
  • Orel Hershiser
  • Jesper Hougaard
  • Phil Ivey
  • John Juanda
  • Gabe Kaplan
  • John Paul Kelly
  • Phil Laak
  • Howard Lederer
  • Erick Lindgren
  • Mike Matusow
  • Jason Mercier
  • Dario Minieri
  • Chris Moneymaker
  • Darvin Moon
  • Greg Mueller
  • Daniel Negreanu
  • Scotty Nguyen
  • Annette Obrestad
  • Brock Parker
  • Dennis Phillips
  • Greg Raymer
  • Vanessa Rousso
  • Kara Scott
  • Huck Seed
  • Erik Seidel
  • Mike Sexton
  • Gavin Smith
  • Jennifer Tilly
  • Paul Wasicka
  • David Williams
  • Leo Wolpert
  • Jerry Yang

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Ashton Griffin Takes Down NAPT’s Closure Event

March 3rd, 2010

Ashton Griffin NAPT Winner

Ashton Griffin NAPT Winner

The PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) wrapped up with the $25,000 High Rollers Shootout event. Ashton ‘ThASHMAN103′ Griffin took the event down and banked $490,000 for it.

The word is that on the day of the final table, Griffin came to play without having slept. The young online poker pro played the day before and won his opening table, hence he made it to the final table to the event. Griffin then went on to play poker online for the rest of the night and came back to play without having slept. He admitted to have taken naps between breaks but I am still impressed by his ability to take down a tournament in that condition.

Griffin faced professional poker pro Hoyt Corkins in heads up play and came out victorious. The format of the Shootout was that the winners of each table took home $75,000 and moved on to the final stage. Then players received a $5,000 bounty for each knockout plus $100,000 going to the player with the most bounties. Griffin got $460,000 for the win and $30,000 for 6 knockouts. However, it was Scott ‘mastrblstr’ Seiver who took the $100,000 prize for knocking out 8 opponents.

These were the final results of the event:

  1. Ashton Griffin
  2. Hoyt Corkins
  3. Joe Cassidy
  4. Scott Seiver
  5. Faraz Jaka
  6. Brett Richey
  7. Peter Eastgate

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Poker Players Want AJ Benza Back On High Stakes Poker

March 2nd, 2010

Come Back AJ Benza

Come Back AJ Benza

The sixth season of one of the most popular poker TV shows, High Stakes Poker, is airing and we are seeing a great group of players on our TV screens. However it still seems like some of the poker players in the audience are not entirely satisfied with the how the show is carrying on now that co-commentator AJ Benza is out of the picture.

As we reported earlier, Kara Scott stepped in to co-host the show with Gabe Kaplan. Her role this season is fairly different from the one that AJ Benza used to play and the audience does not seem to have a problem with her being in the show (in fact, most of them love her being there), but they wish they had AJ Benza there again.

The audience of High Stakes Poker stated they feel as if the producers were trying to fix something that was not broken by taking Benza out of the show and have come together to create an online petition to bring AJ Benza back, and they have posted it on the 2+2 Forum.

At the time producers announced that Benza would not continue to be on the show, Benza himself was disappointed. The signatures are coming really fast and the petition is one of the hottest topics on the forum at the moment. Will it work?

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Pokerstars EPT Copenhagen Wraps Up

March 1st, 2010

EPT Copenhagen - Pokerstars

EPT Copenhagen - PokerStars

The PokerStars EPT Copenhagen finally came to an end with an intense 4-hour heads-up battle between Swedish Anton Wigg and Italian Francesco De Vivo. After a few ups and downs, Wigg managed to dominate the table and his efforts were rewarded with a €500,000 check.

"It feels wonderful. I was here to win," Wigg said. Then commenting on De Vivo, he said: "I think he played really, really well but he was a little bit passive in the heads up."

When the decisive hand came Wigg was ahead in chips and De Vivo did not catch any of his outs. The money went in with Wigg holding AJ and De Vivo had KT, the board ran Q Q 9 2 8 and we had a winner.

Wigg is a professional poker player from Sweden and he has been on the scene for three years now, even though he is only 22 years old.

These are the final table results of the EPT Copenhagen:

  2. Anton Wigg, Sweden, 3,675,000 DKK
  3. Francesco De Vivo, Italy,  2,275,000 DKK
  4. Morten Klein, Norway, 1,400,000 DKK
  5. Yorane Kerignard, France, 1,050,000 DKK
  6. Richard Loth, Denmark, 715,000 DKK
  7. Roberto Romanello, UK, 570,000 DKK
  8. Morten Guldhammer, Denmark, 425,000 DKK
  9. Jesper Petersen, Denmark, 282,800 DKK
  10. Magnus Borg Hansen, Denmark, 215,000 DKK

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Harrah’s Entertainment Buys Planet Hollywood

February 26th, 2010

Planet Hollywood

Planet Hollywood

The Las Vegas Review Journal broke the news last week that the Nevada Gaming Control Board approved Harrah’s Entertainment purchase of Planet Hollywood. "The existing Planet Hollywood was headed for some type of restructuring, perhaps a bankruptcy," Chairman Dennis Neilander said.

Harrah’s Entertainment is the company behind the World Series of Poker (WSOP) brand and there had been rumors going around that the WSOP would change venues from the Rio to Planet Hollywood. The acquisition of Planet Hollywood by Harrah’s is almost a confirmation that the World Series will be running there in 2011.

When Harrah’s closes up the deal with Planet Hollywood it will be the owner of nine prestigious casinos located on the Las Vegas Strip, or in locations very close to it. Those casinos are the Rio, Bally’s, Paris Las Vegas, Caesars Palace, Harrah’s Las Vegas, Imperial Palace, Bill’s, Flamingo and Planet Hollywood.

The acquisition deal is estimated to be $70 million going to the current owners of Planet Hollywood and Harrah’s will take over their debt, and the deal should be closed no later than February 19th. Harrah’s also informed us that most Planet Hollywood employees would be moving to Harrah’s but that there will be a 5% cut in jobs to avoid having two people doing the same thing.

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Full Tilt Poker Restrains Sponsored Players from Attending Rivals Poker Events

February 25th, 2010
Full Tilt Restrains Players

Full Tilt Restrains Sponsored Players

The competition between the major online poker rooms seems to be getting fiercer every year.  It was reported by some industry sources that in a recent and fairly controversial move, Full Tilt Poker has told their sponsored professional players to not attend poker tournaments and events that are sponsored by sites considered competition. The territory restrictions are very ambiguous in this statement and nobody from the administrative staff of Full Tilt has confirmed that this “ban” will be enforced.

Their reasoning behind this move is that it is not good for Full Tilt Poker having its players add to the prestige of rival’s tournaments.  News also broke that Howard Lederer has decided to step away from the operational front of Full Tilt Poker and has left Ray Bitar and his team to make all the decisions from now on.

Critics from all poker news sources are already reacting to this. Gary Wise, ESPN poker blogger, wrote the following; “For the last eight years, ‘good for poker’ has been a unifying rally cry. The game and the online industry built upon it, fought for growth and acceptance… are we seeing the increasingly corporate mentality of the industry bring an end to that chapter?” This might be something for all of us to think about.

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Clonie Gowen’s Case Against Full Tilt Poker Dismissed

February 24th, 2010

Clonie Gowen vs Full Tilt - Case Dismissed

Clonie Gowen vs Full Tilt - Case Dismissed

At the beginning of this week Clonie Gowen’s lawsuit against online poker room Full Tilt Poker was dismissed by the United States District Court in Las Vegas. Clonie Gowen filed the lawsuit in 2008 and she was demanding compensation for promoting Full Tilt Poker during past years. According to Gowen, she had been promised a 1% share of the company upon joining it but she claims it never happened and that she was offered $250,000 in compensation instead.

When Gowen filed the case she also included members of Team Full Tilt but that was dismissed by the court earlier. After that she was demanding compensation from Tiltware, the company behind Full Tilt Poker and its directors Ray Bitar and Howard Lederer individually.

District Court Judge Robert C. Jones revised the case and in his decision he determined that Clonie Gowen’s attorneys did not have enough plausible evidence to support the case. In his opinion, they did not have enough evidence to prove that their client had been offered that compensation.

"As a general partner, Plaintiff would also be 1% liable for the losses of Full Tilt Poker… But nowhere in the allegations does Plaintiff allege, consistent with a general partnership, that the agreement made her liable for 1% of Full Tilt Poker’s losses before it became profitable. Therefore, it is not plausible that a partnership, limited or general, was offered," Judge Jones wrote in his decision.

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High Stakes Poker Season 6, Episode 1

February 23rd, 2010

High Stakes Poker Season 6 - Episode 1

High Stakes Poker Season 6 - Episode 1

The most popular poker TV show is finally back with its sixth season airing on GSN. The first episode aired last night and it was full of exciting action as well as a great display of skill by all the players present.

On Sunday GSN ran a marathon of season 5 that brought so many memories to all of us as we were able to appreciate how good it was again. The sixth season promises to have a lot of fast play and interesting interactions between the players.

Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Andreas Hoivold, Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, Tom Dwan, Antonio Esfandiari and Dario Mineri are all on the first table sitting left to right, respectively. Ivey and Dwan decided to bring $500,000 to the table and all the other players brought the required buy-in of $200,000. Some other faces that you should expect to see on the show are Barry Greenstein, Doyle Brunson, Sammy George, Daniel Negreanu, Jevgeny Timoshenko, among others.

Gabe Kaplan is back for the commentaries and he has brought Kara Scott as the new co-host for the show. The first episode is now available online and all of them will be right after the day they air on GSN.

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Pokerstars EPT Copenhagen About To Go Down To Final 8 Players

February 22nd, 2010

EPT Copenhagen - Pokerstars

EPT Copenhagen - PokerStars

The PokerStars EPT Copenhagen is still running and it is now down to only 24 players left. Peter Eastgate is playing in his home country and he is still in the top 24 with 726,000 chips.  This places him in 7th place and he has about half the stack of the chip leader.

The chip leader is another poker pro, Roberto Romanello from the United Kingdom, who has 1,400,000 chips. This match is available on PokerStars .tv and we should see the field play down to 8 finalists.

This is the list of the players with the top 8 chips stacks and the seat draw for the last 3 tables:

  1. Roberto Romanello 1400000
  2. Andrew Teng 1005000
  3. Anton Wigg 949000
  4. Damien Fouquet 934000
  5. Paul Szyszko 761000
  6. Richard Loth 737000
  7. Peter Eastgate 726000
  8. Andrei Vlasenko 641000

Table 1 Seats

  1. Francesco De Vivo (269000)
  2. Nicolo Calia (193000)
  3. Kristijonas Andrulis (157000)
  4. Chris Dombrowski (452000)
  5. Magnus Borg Hansen (300000)
  6. Ricky Fohrenbach (426000)
  7. Andrew Teng (1005000)
  8. Anton Wigg (949000)

Table 2 Seats

  1. Peter Eastgate (726000)
  2. Richard Loth (737000)
  3. Damien Fouquet (934000)
  4. Andrey Vlasenko (641000)
  5. Stig Rossen (529000)
  6. Jesper Petersen (377000)
  7. Yorane Kerignard (243000)
  8. Steven Vollers (127000)

Table 3 Seats

  1. Paul Szyszko (761000)
  2. Roberto Romanello (1400000)
  3. Thomas Pettersson (265000)
  4. Janne Nevalainen (216000)
  5. Henrik Junker (263000)
  6. Morten Klein (621000)
  7. Mads Wissing (303000)
  8. Morten Guldhammer (592000)

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Isildur1 Back On Two Feet at the Virtual High Stakes Tables

February 22nd, 2010

Isildur1 Back at Virtual High Stakes Tables

Isildur1 Back at Virtual High Stakes Tables

This year a new player came into the online poker arena to bleed the money out of the most reputable professional poker players online. Even though his identity has not yet been revealed, Isildur1 keeps making the poker tabloids and he has done it once more as he is back into the high stakes arena.

You may be wondering “was he ever gone?”  Let’s look back a bit in time and recall that week in which Isildur1 lost slightly over $4 million against Brian Hastings, Cole South and Brian Townsend. We thought it would take him awhile to come back to play at the same stakes level but surprisingly it took him less than we expected.

On Tuesday, Isildur1 managed to win back $800K against Brian Hastings and Ilari Sahamies. He took $451K and $162K from the players, respectively. According to the stats on Full Tilt, Isildur1 has played 10,794 hands and won $1.61 million in four days last week.

These are the top 5 results from February 13th to 16th according to highstakesdb.com:

TOP WINNERS

  • Isildur1 +1,614m
  • Gus Hansen +832K
  • PostflopAction (Alexander Kostritsyn) +332K
  • NEKOTYAN +233K
  • Jani Vilmunen +206K

TOP LOSERS

  • Brian Hastings -528K
  • theASHMAN103 (Ashton Griffin) -449K
  • Patrik Antonius -412K
  • ZeeJustin (Justin Bonomo) -322K
  • URnotINdanger2 -270K

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Vitaly Lunkin Awarded With Player of The Year

February 19th, 2010

Vitaly Lunkin Player of the Year

Vitaly Lunkin Player of the Year

On Friday, February 5th the Ninth Annual European Poker Awards took place at the Aviation Club de France. It was professional poker player Vitaly Lunkin who took the highest honor of the evening when he was awarded with ‘Player of the Year’.

Among other top recipients, Patrik Antonius was awarded with the ‘Internet Player of the Year’ trophy and Jeff Lisandro won the Outstanding Tournament Performance of the Year. For Rookie of the Year, the European Poker Awards chose Antoine Saout who made it to both the WSOP and WSOPE final tables last year.

Competition was tough as 2009 was a very competitive year in poker, and we saw a lot of new good players join the global field, while some of the top pros managed to become even better. We surely expect to see the same again this year.

These were the results for the main awards that were given out:

  • Player of the Year: Vitaly Lunkin (Russia)
  • Europe’s Leading Lady: Sandra Naujoks (Germany)
  • Rookie of the Year: Antoine Saout (France)
  • Outstanding Tournament Performance of the Year: Jeff Lisandro (Italy)
  • Internet Player of the Year: Patrik Antonius (Finland)
  • Poker Staff Person of the Year: Edgar Stuchly (Austria)

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