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The mystery has been revealed. The Swede Viktor Blom is the player behind the name Isildur1. This puts an end to the guessing game around his identity, but doesn't come as a real surprise anymore.
Tobias "PokerNoob" Reinkemeier has been nominated in for the "Outstanding tournament performance" category of the European Poker Awards, along with the likes of Liv Boeree and Jake Cody. Other nominees include names like Isildur1 and Patrik Antonius.
PokerStrategist Tobias "PokerNoob" Reinkemeier gave his best at the PCA Super High Roller Event, but couldn't make it past 11th place, as Nick Schulman's pocket Aces stopped him on his way to the final table.
Late registration for the PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller event closed at 16:30 local time. 38 players coughed up the $100,000 buy-in and PokerStrategy.com coach PokerNoob finished Day 1 as the chipleader.
The mysterious Team PokerStars Pro going by the alias Isildur1 has just registered to the PCA Super High Roller event, where the buy-in is $100,000. The tournament is going to start in just a few hours and the current field includes the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier and more.
With over $5.5 million in profit, jungleman12 has earned the most money at the nosebleed stakes in 2010. Following him on the top winners list are skjervoy, durrrr an Phil Ivey. Meanwhile, Brian Townsend has lost the most in 2010, followed by cadillac1944 and two familiar faces, Ziigmund and Gus Hansen.
NBC's Poker After Dark started 2011 with a new season, featuring six of the biggest names in poker. The $100,000 freezout tournament was filmed at the Aria casino and features the likes of Phil Ivey, Phil Galfond and Tom Dwan. Let's have a look at the first two episodes.
Daniel Negreanu and Jason Mercier have decided to spice up their trip round the poker circuit this year with a prop bet relating to tournament success. The PokerStars pros are both accomplished tournament players, Mercier more so of late, so it will be interesting to see who will come out on top.
Tom Dwan and jungleman12 played their longest session to date in the durrrr Challenge. In six hours and over 2,900 hands of play, jungleman12 managed to extend his lead over Dwan to $819k. The two have now played a little over 17k hands into the challenge.
Online poker tracking site Poker Table Ratings has revealed the winners in their "2010 Player of the Year" categories and Black Member Hasufly was chosen as the best nosebleeds Hold'em player. PokerStrategists Samy4ever and Scooop won the mid stakes and micro stakes Hold'em categories respectively.
Isildur1 won his second PokerStars Superstar Showdown against Tony G. After a back and forth battle, it was Tony G who surrendered close to $45k to his opponent. Even though playing on only one or two tables at times, the clash between the two pros offered some exciting hands to the railbirds.
While many poker players and fans alike were busy preparing for the New Year celebration, jungleman12 sat down for another session at the nosebleed stakes to seal 2010 with a bang.
Tony G, infamous for his trash talk and mind games at the poker table, is to take on Isildur1 in the Superstar Showdown this Sunday. Isildur1 is playing well and running hot at the moment but that won't stop the headstrong Tony G from going in all guns blazing and making this one to watch.
Jungleman12 has recently stated that it seems to him durrrr Challenge will have a big hiatus, as "Tom is hard to work with". Tom Dwan spent Christmas with his family in New Jersey and by the looks of it, he won't be entering a durrrr Challenge session until next year.
Today, we're telling you a bit about Gus 'The Great Dane' Hansen: Globetrotter and athlete, 'Sexiest Poker Player' and eccentric contemporary.
Take four young online poker pros, a slick Californian house, an appetite for partying, one irate landlord and a film crew following their every step and what do you get? 'Young Guns', a new poker reality show due to be aired...errr, well, we're not sure exactly when. We've got a leaked clip though.
The bill introduced by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to legalise and regulate online poker is pretty much dead in the water. There were too many problems in the attempt to add the bill to the Tax Relief Act currently being debated in Congress and only a miracle could save it now.
Welshman Roberto Romanello was overcame with emotion after the turn card in the final hand, sealed his first EPT title win. He outlasted 562 players and defeated Emiliano Bono heads-up to take home €640,000.
After years of speculation, the sequel to one of the most popular poker movies of all time, Rounders, has finally been confirmed. The movie is still in the earliest stages of development and is scheduled for release in 2012.
None of the Team Full Tilt members will be making their appearances on the new season of High Stakes Poker. On top of that, Team PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu will not appear in HSP Season 7 either, due to commitments to film a commercial.
