Brian Hastings and Brian Townsend aka sbrugby post wins

Category : Brian Townsend, High Stakes Poker, Horse, Poker News, poker

The big Full Tilt Poker high limit mixed games went off again on Tuesday. The first of the two big tables going off saw David Oppenheim take on Brian Townsend screen name ’sbrugby.’ The first hand we saw saw Oppenheim lay a Stud hand down on the river to Townsend’s $3000 bet. The next hand saw [...]

Matt Glantz leads 2010 WSOP 10k H.O.R.S.E. Championship

Category : Horse, Poker News, WSOP, World series of Poker, poker, tournament results

Matt Glantz leads Event #43 2010 WSOP 10k H.O.R.S.E. Championship Matt Glantz leads impressive final table in the 10k H.o.r.s.e.. Marco Johnson have over a million in live tourny winnings but mostly in Holdem limit and NL. Eugene Katchalov has close to 4 million in tourny winnings and is adept at all forms of [...]

Phil Ivey wins Eighth bracelet!

Category : Horse, Phil Ivey, Poker News, WSOP, World series of Poker, poker, tournament results

Phil Ivey wins his eighth bracelet! Phil rose to the top in a field of 478 players in the Event #37: H.O.R.S.E. of the 2010 WSOP. The final table would include Chad Brown, Bill Chen, John Juanda, and also Jeffrey Lisandro. Phil Ivey would get heads up with Bell Chen in [...]

Who is Vladimir Schmelev?

Category : Gossip, High Stakes Poker, Horse, Poker News, WSOP, poker, tournament results

Photo from http://taopoker.blogspot.com/ Vladimir Schmelev is a former chess prodigy from St. Petersburg Russia. Vladimir built up his huge poker bankroll in the Golden Ring Club in Moscow which is the biggest game in Moscow or perhaps that side of the globe. Right now, Vladimir is attempting to take down the 50k Player’s Championship and [...]

My picks for 2010 World Series of Poker

Category : Horse, Online Poker, Pot Limit Omaha, Texas Holdem Poker, poker, poker blog, tournament results

We posted our picks for women to look out for in the 2010 WSOP and one of our writers picks for the 50k 8 game. Now it’s time for the Pokerbloggs.com editor’s picks for the whole 2010 World Series of Poker. I’m going to break the picks up into different events, [...]

2010 WSOP 8 Game $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship

Category : 2- 7 draw lowball, High Stakes Poker, Horse, Omaha Hi, WSOP, poker

In 2006, the World Series of Poker instituted a $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event to meet the demands of professionals for a higher buy-in event. The winner of the event and of subsequent events became known as the “True World Champion of Poker.” After the 2009 WSOP, the decision was made to change the format [...]

Tom Dwan and Isildur1 take heavy losses

Category : Durrrr, High Stakes Poker, Horse, Omaha Hi, Online Poker, Tom Dwan, Viktor Blom, poker

The last five days of action on Full Tilt Poker have seen some massive swings, especially for the two biggest names in online poker. Both Tom Dwan screen name durrrr and the Swedish assassin Viktor Blom screen name Isildur1 have been gambling it up on Full Tilt and both have posted some impressive stats, [...]

Top 20 Greatest Cash Game Players of all time

Category : 2- 7 draw lowball, Chip Reese, High Stakes Poker, Horse, Omaha Hi, Online Poker, Phil Ivey, Pot Limit Omaha, Texas Holdem Poker, barrg1, poker, poker blog

Doyle Brunson Photo 1 Doyle Brunson aka texdolly Doyle Brunson is the number one cash game player in the world. He has built an empire from his winning in the “Big Game” in Las Vegas. He resides as the “God Father” of poker and is one of the most respected cash game players of all time. [...]