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Isildur1 almost back at all time high at Full Tilt Poker

Isildur1 will soon be back at his old account balance at Full Tilt Poker if he continues to play the way he’s been doing the last couple of days. Over the last two days he has been winning $2.2 million at the high stakes tables at FullTilt.

With these wins Isildur1 will soon be back at his old all time high balance of $5.46 million. Right now  Isildur1 has made a $.44 million profit since he started playing at FullTilt Poker and that’s after having lost two big pots of $775.000 and $639.000. These post were lost against Team FullTilt member Patrik Antonius.

Just a couple of moments ago Isildur1 was logged in and playing Tom “durrrr” Dwan at the $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha tables for almost an hour.

If you are interested in watching Isildur1 in action all you have to do is to download the FullTilt software and create an account using the Full Tilt Poker referral code PRULESNET for a free $600 bonus.

BWIN not taking over 888.com

An official announcement has been released following a rumour that BWIN was going to take over 888.com. Austrian-based, BWIN have specifically stated that there are no acquisition talks going on at the moment. BWIN are doing very well for themselves this year with a 75 percent increase in profits over the third quarter and a record in business at 75% year-on-year (YoY) increase in third-quarter EBITDA to €16.8m, from €9.6m compared to last year.

Norbert Teufelberger, co-chief executive at BWIN commented; “We have contacts with everybody [in the industry] and common goals in that we want to operate in regulated markets. So yes, we talk to many operators and consolidation is always an option, but in this instance there has been no call to raise funds from existing shareholders with a view to acquiring 888.”

A similar announcement was made by Gigi Levy; chief executive at 888.com who dismissed the acquisition rumour saying; “We have known Bwin for a long time but there is no truth in these rumours.”

New Member of The Brunson Team

It has been announced that Dani “Ansky” Stern will be the newest member at Doyle’s Room. Stern has proved to be a reliable winner when faced at the online poker tables and will now be the fifth member of The Brunson team. This team will grow to be a team of 10 elite poker professionals and thanks to Stern, they are already half-way there.

The 22-year-old star of popular poker television series and leading high-stakes online poker player is excited at joining this team and is poker legend Doyle Brunson. The latter commented; “I’ve seen Ansky play on TV, I’ve seen him play online, and I’ve seen him talk poker like someone who’s been playing for decades. Dani “Anksy” Stern is the future of this game and I’m proud to have him on my team.”

Stern has gained popularity with the G4 television series, 2 Months, 2 Million, a show that featured the poker pro and another three other online poker players trying to win $2 million playing online poker over a 2-month period whilst living the good life and poker pro lifestyle.

Dani Stern has been a consistent and strong well-respected poker player with real knowledge of the game. He has made a name for himself by playing and winning online, several cash games as well as live tournaments, making almost a $1 million in tournament winnings alone. Stern participated at the 2009 WSOP and won nearly $550,000 when finished in the second event of the series.

The other Brunson Team members at the moment are Alec Torelli, Amit Makhija, Zachary Clark and Chris Moorman, the latest online winning player from the UK. We look forward to know who the next 5 poker pros will be to join this team. Legend, Doyle Brunson makes it a point to select and choose the poker players himself to make sure that he gets the crème de la crème onboard.

These 10 members will be representing his DoylesRoom; the latest addition to the Cake Poker Network offering the best in poker promotions and fantastic games Texas Hold‘em and more. These games are open to players from North America and world-wide who are all in for the high stakes online.

Full Tilt Poker Closing in on PokerStars

PokerStars are promoting themselves as the biggest poker site in the world and there is no doubt they are the biggest. The second largest online poker site is Full Tilt Poker, the gap between these two sites is pretty big at the moment but lately Full Tilt have started to get closer in terms of traffic on their site.

According to the poker traffic site PokerScout.com PokerStars currently have 27.600 cash game players online on average while Full Tilt Poker has 16.400.But on Monday this week the numbers for PokerStars were 26.695 while Full Tilt had 21.180 cash game players online. That’s a difference of about 5.000 players.

Even though 5.000 players are a lot this still shows that FullTilt Poker are closing in on the giant PokerStars.com. If these numbers keep up Full Tilt might be able to become the largest poker site one of these days. If poker becomes regulated and legalized in the US a lot of things can change over night just like we saw when the UIGEA was introduced back in 2006. Before the UIGEA was introduced PartyPoker had a 50% market share in USA. And once poker becomes legal in the States again they will surely want to start competing with PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker again.

UltimateBet becomes UB.com

For as long as UltimateBet has been in business they have always been referred to as UB. This is why UltimateBet.com is now being re-branded to UB.com with a completely new logo. The people at UltimateBet have also taken the opportunity to pimp up their poker software a bit for this re-launch of their brand.

“The launch of UB.com represent a turning point for our company. We have collected a big group of professionals that are passionate about poker to build or new UB brand. Our goal is to create products and services that poker players really want, said Paul Leggert.

” I have been involved with UltimateBet for 10 years now and I have never been more proud to represent the company. I look forward to the day when we are the biggest poker site on this planet, said Phil Hellmuth.

Here at Online Poker News we have our doubts that UB.com will ever become the biggest poker sites on this planet. Even though they are changing their name people will never forget about the superuser scandal that took place there and at Absolute Poker.

When trying to visit the new UB.com website we are currently being redirected to the old address at UltimateBet.com but they are probably going to start using the UB.com address in the coming weeks.

Isildur1 Back on a Winning Streak

The story about Isildur1 continues. After a couple of huge wins at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker Isildur1 hit a cold streak and lost $3.3 million within a 24 hour period. At his peak Isildur1 had made a $5.46 million profit at FulltTilt but after being crushed by players like Patrik Antonius he was now “only” $2.2 Million in the green.

But almost as quickly as the money was lost they started coming back to him again in the latest sessions. The day after the $3.3 million losing session he was back at FullTilt playing against Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies from which he won around $1 million and ended the day with a $1.3 million profit.

After dropping a couple of hundred grand Isuldur1 have now made a profit of $3.3 million at FullTilt this year. Patrik Antonius is the biggest winner of the year with a $5 million profit and Ziigmund is $3 million in the green even though he dropped a million against Isildur1.

Antonius Takes the Biggest Online Pot Ever from Full Tilt High-Stakes Mystery Player

Last week the online poker community perked up when a new name was introduced in the otherwise elite and tight-knit online high-stakes poker “club” at Full Tilt Poker. Sweden’s “Isildur1” is otherwise an unknown newcomer to hit the high-stakes tables at Full Tilt, taking more than $3 million from Tom “durrrr” Dwan in one week. Dwan, who is the newest Full Tilt Poker Pro, has taken heed and invited “Isildur1” to join him at a high-stakes poker match in Mayfair, London at the Les Ambassadeurs Club for next week’s Million Dollar Challenge.

Dwan says of the mystery player, “We have had some tough games over the last few days and the action just keeps on coming. I hope he can make it to London for the challenge so we can play some high stakes live games as well.”

Fast forward one week later and “Isildur1” appears again at Full Tilt’s $500/$1000 heads-up deep PL Omaha tables; this time the mystery player is up against Patrik Antonius, another powerful player of high-stakes online poker. But “Isildur1” was no match for Antonius, as in the wee hours of the morning the biggest pot to ever go down in the history of online poker was taken by Antonius. A massive $878,958.50 pot was scooped out from under “Isildur1,” which could technically be considered part of the money he took from Dwan over the past week.

So the saga continues, as the big shots of online poker swap millions of dollars back and forth day in and day out. It’s usually Antonius, Dwan, Phil Ivey, and a handful of others, but now there’s a new player in the ring, and he (or she) is sparking the attention of the online poker community.

Until early Tuesday morning, the largest online poker pot was from a hand involving Dwan and Di “Urindanger” Dang back in October of last year. The record stood for a little more than a year, but knowing Dwan, he will likely want to take that title back, as at times these guys seem to just be in it to outdo each other. For them, it’s about more than the money.

It will be interesting to hear about the live matchup between Dwan and “Isildur1,” as the mystery unfolds and more is learned about this stranger among us.

Good Weekend for Isildur1: $1.8 Million Profit

Last weekend was a pretty decent one for Swedish online poker player Isildur1. After completing sessions against players like Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, Brian Townsend and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies he ended up making a $1.8 million profit over the weekend.

The player who took the biggest hit at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker was Patrik Antonius who saw his bankroll decrease by $1.560.209. Tom “Durrrr” Dwan is having a huge downswing lately and he is still running bad against Isildur1 and recorded a loss of $800.000 last weekend.

In total during the last week Isildur1 logged a healthy profit of $5.723.944 after having played a total of 218 sessions. Since he started playing at Full Tilt Poker his total profit is now $5.04 million which makes him the second biggest winner at FullTilt over the whole year.

Tom “durrrr” Dwan joins Team FullTilt

Poker star, Tom Dwan is the latest addition to the Full Tilt Team according to the latter’s announcement this week. Team Full Tilt is very happy and proud of having Dwan onboard.

So many successful poker professionals have joined this network such as Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, Erik Seidel, Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow, Gus Hansen, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Allen Cunningham, Phil Gordon, Erick Lindgren and Patrik Antonius; adding up to an overwhelming 37 World Series of Poker bracelets through this group.

Poker star and Full Tilt team member Howard Lederer commented; “Team Full Tilt doesn’t take adding a team member lightly. But, Tom Dwan has proven, through skill and dynamic play that he will be a force to be reckoned with for many years to come. We are proud to count Tom as one of our own.”

Dwan will be playing the Full Tilt Poker virtual tables, blogging about his experience as a member of Team Full Tilt and passing on his poker knowledge to the Full Tilt Poker Academy. This is a way for the Full Tilt casual players to learn from the world’s best pros for free. At just 23 years old, Dwan is set to be the Team Full Tilt’s youngest member.

He appears online with the online nickname “durrrr” and is one of the best out there, having proven his skills time and time again. Many successful wins, live poker tournaments and events have helped him carve his name in poker history.

In fact, Dwan has won three World Series of Poker cashes and one World Poker Tour final table and made over $1.1 million when playing live tournaments. He has appeared on many poker related TV shows such as Poker After Dark, High Stakes Poker and Full Tilt Poker’s Million Dollar Cash Game. Just to name a few of his wins, he won more than $1.1 million at the Full Tilt Poker’s Million Dollar Cash Game.

Everest Poker Celebrates their WSOP Victory

Antoine Saout was one of the 2009 November Nine players. He is also the first player to represent Everest Poker to ever make it to the final table of the WSOP Main Event which gives the online poker room reason to celebrate.

Saout did not manage to make it all the way to victory at the final table but just to be one of the final nine players of the WSOP main event is a great achievement. For the online poker site Everest Poker it was an even greater success as Saout qualified via their satellites and was wearing their clothing at the final table which is the best kind of advertising you can get in the poker world.

At the final table Saout knocked out Jeff Schulman and manged to finish better than the poker star Phil Ivey.

At Everest Poker they are starting to celebrate this as from today with a series of freerolls in the honor of Antoine Saout.

This is what Everest Poker had to say in their weekly newsletter:

Starting the on the 12th of November we are going to celebrate Antoine Saout’s achievment in the 2009 WWSOP during a whole week. Antoine’s win is also a win for you, win extra money by playing in our $1000 “Congratulations Antoine” freerolls every day at 19:00 GMT.

For those of you who did not get a chance to make it to the World Series of Poker this year we suggest that you check out this 2010 WSOP schedule and start planning for next year. The Cake Poker Network are soon going to start their WSOP satellites for next year so make sure to have your account ready.

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