Top 10 Biggest Online Pots of 2011
Since the events of Black Friday, PokerStars has slowly emerged as the new home for high stakes players while games on Euro sites like 888poker, iPoker and PartyPoker continue to grow. Regardless of the many changes to the industry there were still some massive hands that were played and we’ve compiled a list of the biggest hands on PokerStars recorded by our online poker stats section below.
Ilari Sahamies Eyes $2.5 Million in 2011
The Helsinki-native is showing no signs of slowing down as we approach the end of the year and added over $100k to his already immense bankroll on the site. Sahamies fired off 935 hands $50/$100 6-Max Pot-Limit Omaha last night and snagged some huge pots from VietRussian, Ville Wahlbeck and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom. By the time Sahamies finally called it quits for the evening he had won a total of $131k, which boosts his overall profit to $2.497 million
Epic Adds Three Open Events to December Lineup
Along with the already scheduled $1,500 Pro-Am, which offers nine $20k seats for the main event, that makes for four events at the Palms over the week of Dec. 10-17 now open to all players
Tournament Tracker: WSOPC Biloxi, Dutch Masters, WPT in FL & More
Gimbel is faring well at Florida events While Pius Heinz and the other November Niners took to the felt for the WSOP Main Event final table, other players around the world found other events to get their poker fix. Tournament series are currently running around the world in Los Angeles, Loutraki, Atlantic City, Florida, and
Breaking Down the AGCC Determination Report
Earlier in the day the Alderney Gambling Control Commission officially revoked FTP’s license, which turned the poker world on its head. Despite a Hail Mary attempt by Full Tilt Poker to acquire an investor, the AGCC decided that it simply couldn’t wait any longer to reach a verdict on the company.
WCOOP Day 9: Bracelets for z_balata, Big_Nemo and MiPwnYa
We’re nearing the halfway point in the 2011 WCOOP on PokerStars and action shows zero sign of slowing down.
WCOOP Day 8: $4.9 Million in Prizes This Weekend
Since we signed off on Friday five more WCOOP champions have been crowned, including Anders Berg who came away with his third WCOOP title. We’ve got the details on those, and two other tournaments playing down to a winner today. WCOOP-19 – $109 NL Hold’em Event 19 was the most affordable tournament of this year’s WCOOP.
Epic Poker League Teams Up with Getty Images
Getty is the world’s leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage and multi-media products and will photographing all the action from the EPL’s first season of live, televised events. This is the first time that Getty has worked at a live poker event, and since Epic has referred to the partnership as “exclusive” it may be Getty’s only foray into the poker world in the foreseeable future. “Many leading sports leagues are in partnership with Getty Images and now Epic Poker is part of its best-in-class portfolio,” said Katherine Kowal, vice president of programming and league operations for Federated Sports + Gaming
Betfair LIVE! Set For Dublin, Spain, London and Prague
First stop is in Dublin, Ireland, from September 22-25 at the Fitzwilliam Casino & Card Room. Next stop after Dublin is the Gran Casino in Costa Brava, Spain from November 11-13
Epic Poker League to Air on CBS, Velocity
All told, 20 hours of Epic Poker League programming will air with 7 hours scheduled for weekends on CBS and 13 hours on Velocity, a new network aimed at high-income males to be launched by Discovery. Velocity will also re-air the CBS episodes