Brian Hastings completely annihilated “Isildur1” earlier tonight on Full Tilt Poker, earning himself over $4 million dollars in the process.
Hastings is up $4,206,960 in the past 24 hours (over 2,867 tracked hands), while “Isildur1″ is down $3,484,630 (over 5,383 tracked hands). Read the rest of this entry »
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Today marks the beginning of the live version of the Tom “durrrr” Dwan Million Dollar Challenge, which is unfolding in London. The festivities will see Dwan battle Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Sammy “Any Two” George, and Marcelo “luckexpress” Marigliano.
The match’s format is simplistic. Dwan will take on each opponent across 500 hands of No Limit Hold’em or Pot Limit Omaha. The series has a buy-in of $500,000 and neither player is permitted to leave the table until they are broke or the requisite number of hands has been played. The price of poker is $500/$1,000.
Eddie Hearn, who is organizing the gala on behalf of Matchroom Sport, commented in a press release distributed on Monday, “The stage is set for Tom to make history in London this week. The opponents are ready. Tom Dwan is the biggest draw in poker and to have a TV show in his name at such a young age shows the commercial power of the man. Poker is changing and we are delighted to be at its cutting edge.” Read the rest of this entry »
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There have been some pretty epic heads-up, high stakes battles on Full Tilt Poker in the past.
Phil Ivey vs Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies. Tom “durrrr” Dwan vs “martonas”. The list goes on and on.
However, Sunday night’s battle between “isildur1″ and Tom “durrrr” Dwan outshined any of the previous battles by a mile.
Huge pots. Several million dollar swings. Incredibly aggressive play.
In total, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and “isildur1″ battled it out on Full Tilt Poker yesterday for nearly twelve hours. They mostly played No Limit Hold’em, but also decided to add a few hands of PLO right at the end of the session. Read the rest of this entry »
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The elite group of 13 poker pros that comprise Team Full Tilt Poker has a new member joining its ranks. The online poker room just announced that its 14th member of the team will be 23-year old high-stakes online poker pro Tom “durrrr” Dwan.
Full Tilt Poker recently added Dwan to its roster, but Dwan has been a noticeable presence on the site for quite some time prior to the new sponsorship deal. Full Tilt has been hosting Dwan’s “Durrrr Challenge” cash game tables since the epic bet first came to light in February and the youngster is a mainstay on all of the highest stakes cash game tables on the site as well. Read the rest of this entry »
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Patrik Antonius and Tom “durrrr” Dwan completed some more hands in the “durrrr Challenge” on Tuesday, moving the nine-month battle a bit closer to completion.
Dwan was able to book a small win on Tuesday, meaning that he is now up around $780k in the challenge.
“durrrr” started out strong on Tuesday, thanks in large part to a sizable $300k pot that was shipped his way. Antonius managed to battle back a bit after that, but Dwan still walked away the winner from Tuesday’s battle. Read the rest of this entry »
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2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine member Phil Ivey graces the cover of the November 2nd issue of ESPN: The Magazine. The expose, entitled “4 Days, 3 Nights, $1 Million,” chronicles Ivey’s jet-setting exploits at the craps tables in casinos around the world.
Chad Millman followed Ivey from Foxwoods to Austria, with his article explaining Ivey’s stature in the industry: “Phil Ivey is a poker pro, but to call him that limits the scope of his game. It’s like saying Jay-Z is just a rapper. Ivey is an all-around player, a man with the need and nerve to wager obscene amounts on poker, pro and college sports, craps, or his own golf game.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Tom “durrrr” Dwan has continued his rollercoaster of a year in October, banking an estimated $1.32 million dollars over 6,263 tracked hands.
Dwan has been all over the place in 2009. He got off to a horrendous start in 2009, dropping millions of dollars to start the year. “durrrr” then battled back to breakeven status, only to drop millions of dollars once again.
With his October upswing, Dwan has battled back once again, and currently sits with a profit of $215k on Full Tilt Poker for the year. Given how much he was down earlier in the year, I’m sure that Dwan isn’t too disappointed with a profit of over $200k. Read the rest of this entry »
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The World Poker Tour (WPT) kicked into action once again on Wednesday with the first five rounds of play in the 2009 Festa al Lago Championship Event, a $15,000 buy-in tournament at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
The Festa al Lago, the fourth stop on the Season 8 schedule for the WPT, was in danger of being one of the lowest attended events since the inception of the tour. During much of Festa al Lago schedule at the Bellagio, tournaments were significantly smaller than in past years due to the continuing strains of the economy on the bankrolls of some of the biggest players in the game. For example, Full Tilt Poker’s head man Howard Lederer was able to capture the $5,000 Festa al Lago HORSE Championship, but the field only contained 19 players and paid the top three. Thus, there was a great deal of concern when the cards hit the air at Noon local time on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Things are going pretty well for Phil Ivey right now.
Not only did Ivey win two World Series of Poker bracelets this past summer (and millions of dollars in prop bets), but he also has a chance at taking down the World Series of Poker main event in less than a month.
In addition to his recent success in “live” poker tournaments, Phil Ivey has also enjoyed a nice run on Full Tilt Poker, banking over $1.5 million dollars in just the past week.
Over a total of 2,770 tracked hands in October, Phil Ivey has managed to bank an impressive $1,511,920 in total profits. That works out to an average profit of about $545 per hand. Read the rest of this entry »
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With his profit on Wednesday night, Dwan has moved back into the lead in the challenge, and is currently up around $235k over 23,597 hands.
The “durrrr challenge”, which started back in early 2009, is now nearly half over, with 23,597 of the required 50,000 hands having now been completed.
The challenge has been moving along at a snail’s pace, despite the fact that both players have stated a desire to finish the challenge as quickly as possible. With the World Series of Poker and World Series of Poker Europe events now out of the way, hopefully Dwan and Antonius will have more time to complete the challenge. Read the rest of this entry »
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