It was announced a while ago that the next official challenger to Tom Dwan screen name durrrr in the Tom Dwan Million Dollar Challenge would be Dan Cates screen name JungleMan12. After a bit of speculation and hype by poker sites all over the world, the official start to the 2nd installment of the [...]
Category : Challenges, Durrrr, High Stakes Poker, Online Poker, Poker News, Poker Pros, Texas Holdem Poker, Tom Dwan, poker
Category : Challenges, Durrrr, Online Poker, Poker News, Texas Holdem Poker, Tom Dwan, poker
Months ago, Tom Dwan screen name durrrr issued a massive challenge to anyone online willing to play him heads up at $200/$400 either Pot Limit Omaha or No Limit Hold’Em if they agreed to play on four tables or more. 50,000 hands had to be played and Dwan would put up $1.5 million against an [...]
Perica Bukara came out victorious in the $25,000 High Roller Freeze-Out event at the 2010 Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic and walked away with a cool $373,207 in prize money at just past 5:30 a.m. in Cyprus (10:30 p.m. EST).
David Benyamine led the Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic High Roller event at [...]
Category : Poker News, Poker Pros, WSOP, WSOP Final Table, World series of Poker, poker, tournament results
Filippo Candio is an Italian born professional poker player, Candio is 26 years old and part of November nine in the 2010 World Series of Poker Championship in Las Vegas. Candio got his start in live tournament action because it’s the only way legally in his country. Filippo Candio is actually considered a villain [...]
Category : Poker News, Texas Holdem Poker, WSOP, WSOP Final Table, World series of Poker, poker, tournament results
Featured November Nine Player Cuong Soi Nguyen
Cuong “Soi” Nguyen is an amateur poker player and the oldest of the November 9 finalist at the 2010 World Series of Poker. The 37 year old native of Santa Ana California has managed to take a seat nobody expected. Nguyen is medical supplies distributor, and has friends [...]
Category : Gossip, Poker Legal Issues, Poker News, poker
Hong Kong Poker Raid
Hong Kong – Authorities in Hong Kong have busted 8 people for illegal gambling, taking part in an underground Texas Hold “em poker game. The action was taking place in the southern Chinese financial center in Hong Kong.
New Zealand national Michael Tan Boon Suan and 7 other finacial industry professionals were [...]
Matthew Casterella Photo
Matthew Casterella, 29, of White Plains attempted to commit suicide by jumping off of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Mathew has over $1.7 million in live poker winnings from 2005. Mathew had an incredible 2007 with 6 big finishes on the World Poker Tour. It seems that since them he has [...]
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 [...]
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2010 November Nine
1 Jonathan Duhamel 65,975,000 Boucherville QC Canada
2 John Dolan 46,250,000 Bonita Springs FL United States
3 Joseph Cheong 23,525,000 La Mirada CA United States
4 John Racener 19,050,000 Port Richey FL United States
5 Matthew Jarvis 16,700,000 Surrey BC Canada
6 Filippo Candio 16,400,000 Cagliari-Italy
7 Michael [...]
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The 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event kicked off on Monday with the first of four Day 1 starts. Greg Raymer was on hand to give the customary “shuffle up and deal” command and play was underway.
Unfortunately for Raymer, his Main Event run would be the shortest of his poker [...]