HighStakes: Ziigmund wins $740k in no-time
Tags: full tilt poker, high stakes, Ilari Ziigmund Sahamies.
Posted on Friday, September 10, 2010 by "T". 
Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies games at the high stakes tables has been like a roller coaster lately. Some days he wins big and others he lose big. Some people think that his new date, Miss Finland, could be one of the reasons for this when others think that he's just running cold at the moment. However, between 8-9 September Ziigmund had a great run and won $740,000 in just about 1,000 hands. It will be interesting to see whether or not Ziigmund can keep it up and start playing more stable and avoid the big swings.
IPPA Championship: The most expensive tournament ever
Tags: gus hansen, IPPA Championship, patrik antonius, phil ivey, tom dwan.
Posted on Friday, September 10, 2010 by "T". 
The International Poker Players Association (IPPA) will represent a championship event later this year with the biggest buy-in the world has ever seen. The buy-in for the IPPA Championship is nothing less that $250,000 and it will take place in Monte Carlo on Nov 29 - Dec 2 and there are 48 seats available. Two of these seats are reserved for sponsors and another 2 for the lucky poker players who qualifies through satellites in Monte Carlo and Los Angeles.
13 of the poker world's biggest names have already signed up for the tournament - Johnny Chan, Freddie Deeb, Tony G, Huck Seed, Robert Mizrachi, Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Allen Cunningham, Patrik Antonius, Allen Cunningham, Bruno Fitoussi, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi and Tom Dwan. The total prize pool will be 12 million dollars and and the winner will get 5 million dollars. Ladies and gents, this will be the most interesting and thrilling poker tournament ever!
2010 WCOOP: 62 Events and $50,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools!
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Posted on Thursday, September 09, 2010 by "T".
In case you missed it, PokerStars 2010 World Championship of Online Poker is running at the moment. $50,000,000 is up for grabs in 62 events and so far 10 of these events have found their winner. You can qualify for all the remaining events for as little as $1 - satellites are up running 24/7!
If you don't have an account at PokerStars already, then we can offer you a 100% up to $600 deposit bonus, but of course we think that everyone should take part in the 2010 WCOOP. It would be an honor for us if one of our members cashed in one of the events. Good Luck!
WPT: Justin "BoostedJ" Smith wins the High Roller event
Tags: Freddy Deeb, high roller, Justin BoostedJ Smith, london, Tony G, wpt.
Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2010 by "T". 
The WPT High Roller event in London attracted a very small field of players this time. Only 18 players were willing to pay the buy-in of £15,000, among them were notables such as Tony G, Luke Schwartz and Freddy Deeb. It ended up being Freddy Deeb, Tony G and Justin "BoostedJ" Smith who made it to the money. First player to leave the tournament was Freddy Deeb, which left Tony G and "Justin Smith playing heads up, a heads up match which Justin Smith took home after some time. For the win he received nothing less than £141,000.
Full Tilt's MiniFTOPS XVII begins today! $6 million is up for grabs!
Tags: full tilt online poker series, MiniFTOPS XVII, rush poker.
Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2010 by "T". 
MiniFTOPS XVII kicks off today at 21:00 ET with a $20 NLH $200k guaranteed event and will then continue with new events every single day until the $70 NLH $1 million guaranteed event on September 19. MiniFTOPS XVII includes 34 events and there is $6 million in guaranteed prize pools. 6 of these 34 events are Rush Poker tournaments, including Event #33, a $20+$2 NLH Rush Rebuy with $350,000 guaranteed. What makes MiniFTOPS so great is that the buy-in is 1/10 of big brother FTOPS but still so much money is up for grabs. Event though the buy-in for all 34 events are quite low, Full Tilt will still run daily satellites for as little as $2 to all the tournaments!
We offer all new players at Full Tilt Poker a 100% deposit bonus up to $600 or 27% rakeback.
2010 WCOOP: 62 Events and $50,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools!
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Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 by "T". PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker is back! So far #6 events (final table results below) have been played, but there is a long way to go as the 2010 WCOOP includes 62 events and $50,000,000 is up for grabs. You can qualify for all the remaining events for as little as $1 - satellites are up running 24/7!
In case you don't have an account at PokerStars already, we can offer you a 100% up to $600 deposit bonus, but of course we think that everyone should take part in the 2010 WCOOP. It would be an honor for us if one of our members cashed in one of the events. Good Luck!
Online legend Shaun Deeb wins Full Tilt's biggest Sunday tournament ($132k)
Tags: $750, ftops, full tilt poker, online, shaun deeb, sunday tournament.
Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 by "T". 
Not less than 3,397 players paid $200+$16 and entered the $750,00 Guarantee tournament at Full Tilt Poker last Sunday. After many, many hours of play the tournament was down to a final table, a final table which included no one else than online legend Shaun Deeb who has an FTOPS title and several major scores in his resume already.
Deeb played fantastic poker before the final table and it was easy to see that many of his final table opponents avoided to play against him. After a couple of hours he also stood as the champion with $132,787 to add to his Full Tilt bankroll.
HighStakes: Brian Hastings starts September in the best possible way
Tags: Brian Hastings, full tilt poker, high stakes, Ilari Ziigmund Sahamies, Patrik Antonius.
Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 by "T". 
Brian Hastings has got the best possible start on the new month, and he has managed to earn $788,000 already. Most of the money he has won has come from Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies and Patrik Antonius. Brian Hastings all years winnings are now close to 5,000,000 millions, and most of the winnings came last December in epic heads-up battles against the mystery swede Isiludur1.
Other players that has had a good start on the new month are Cole South (+$328k), Di "Urindanger" Dang (+$317) and Daniel "jungleman12" Cates (+$201k). Players that haven't been doing so well are Ziigmund (-$643k), Patrik Antonius (-$325k), Phil Ivey (-$253k).
Miss Finland - Ziigmund's new date
Tags: Ilari ziigmund Sahamies, miss finland, Viivi Pumpanen.
Posted on Monday, September 06, 2010 by "T". 
Ilari "ziigmund" Sahamies is not only known for being one of the world's best poker players but also for being a real charmer who's dating lots of beautiful women. He dated, for example, the finnish model Hanna-Leena Turpeinen a while ago. But things are moving fast in Ziigmund's life and now he has someone else "on the hook". According to the finnish magazine Seiska, Ilari "ziigmund" Sahamies and Viivi Pumpanen, 22, were seen together in Ziigmund's Mercedes in central Helsinki not long ago.
When a journalist of the magazine asked Ziigmund if he's dating Miss Finland at the moment, he didn't deny it at the same time as he asked the journalist, with a slightly worried tone in his voice, if he had any pictures of them together.
EPT Vilamoura: Daniel Negreanu wins Fairways and Felts Challenge
Tags: Daniel Negreanu, EPT Vilamoura, Fairways and Felt.
Posted on Monday, September 06, 2010 by "T". 
14 players paid the buy-in of €1,100 and entered the Fairways and Felts Challenge the other day. These 14 players were divided into teams on the Pinhal Golf Course and received poker chips accordingly to how well they did. After a hard day on the golf course all of them sat down at the poker table with the chips they had accumulated.
After 5 hours of poker Daniel Negreanu stood as the champion after defeating Pieter de Korver (also a PokerStars Pro) in heads up. For the win Daniel received the first place prize of 8,000 Euro. Not a lot of money for someone like Daniel Negreanu, but I'm still sure that he was really happy with the win since the Fairways and Felts Challenge was one of the main reason he came to play EPT Vilamoura.
