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Tom Dwan Loses $900K in one session

Tom “durrrr” Dwan is one of the players who are playing at the highest stakes available on the internet. So far he has been very successful doing this but on Thursday he ended up in the red after a very bad session.

Just a couple of days ago Tom Dwan was winning most of the sessions against Patrik Antonius and he almost managed to get back to even in the “Durrrr Challenge“. But outside the challenge it has been hard times for Dwan at the tables. Last Thursday he had a very bad session and ended up losing $900.000 for the day after having played just 1071 hands.

At the same time the Swedish high stakes player DIN_FRU a very strange session where he played only 3 hands and lost $500.

Gus Hansen who has been running bad since forever continued to lose money and he finished the day $178.000 in the red after only 125 hands played.

A player who was more fortunate on the other hand was Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies who managed to win $443.000. It might have been the day of the Finnish players as we can also report that Patrik Antonius ended up with a healthy profit.

If you want to watch these players battle it out on the highest stakes in online poker every day then we suggest you create an account at Full Tilt Poker using the FullTilt referral code TILTEDBONUS which will give you access to watch all of these games for free.

Most downloaded songs revealed – Lady GaGa – Poker Face!

It is now official that Lady GaGa’s “Poker Face” is the all-time most downloaded song.

According to the Official UK Charts Company; this high has been recorded, since the download chart was founded and recognized five years ago. Poker Face is listed as the most downloaded track with a record 779,000 sales.

Another highpoint for Lady GaGa is holding also third place with her first UK single “Just Dance” with another record of 700,000 downloads. Lady GaGa commented on this great outcome; “I am honoured to be the songwriter and performer behind the number one and number three all-time most downloaded songs in history in the UK.”

“Sex On Fire” and “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon are standing at 2nd and 4th position and number 5 is La Roux’s “In For The Kill“.

Play against Daniel Negreanu for a Million Dollars

Here is the chance for all of you who have been looking for a chance to play heads up against Daniel Negreanu for big money. In a new TV program there will be a chance for one lucky player to take on Daniel Negreanu heads up for a $1 million pay day, without risking any of your own money.

A while back Online Poker News were one of the first to reveal the new TV show “Face the Ace“ that is hosted by Full Tilt Poker and now we can also reveal a new similar TV show but with online poker giant PokerStars.com as the host.

In the TV show “PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge” one player will have the opportunity play heads up against Daniel Negreanu for a $1 million first prize, just like in Face the Ace.

The road to the heads up match against Negranu is very long though.

First you will have to finish in the top 10 in one of the freerolls that are run at PokerStars every day. If you are one of the top 10 finishers you will get to send in a presentational video to FOX and PokerStars. From all of these videos PokerStars will pick out a couple of players who will get to play against other PokerStars professionals and celebrities heads up. If you succeed in those heads up matches your chances of playing against Daniel Negreanu for the million dollar.

As you can see the process of actually reaching the heads up match against Daniel Negranu is very long but should you manage to reach all the way it will be worth all the struggling.

If you do not yet have an account at PokerStars we suggest that you head over and create your account now to participate in these freerolls that are currently running. Use the PokerStars marketing code PSP11903 for a 100% bonus up to $600 when you make your first deposit.

Bodog Poker now open to Canadian Players

Bodog.com, already well known with everyone for their massive and stable online casino already operating for fifteen years in the Asian, American and United Kingdom market, is now opening up to the Canadians too.

They are in fact launching a Canadian portal very soon, finally offering all of their services to these residents too as of September 3rd. Gambling is finally becoming more accepted through the nation of Canada and players are definitely welcoming this new Bodog addition as their new source of entertainment.

It is planned that the Bodog’s Canadian site will appear the same as the other Bodog sites but with the difference that it will be open to Canadian residents only. Bodog will be offering the usual services of the online sports book, a poker room and a casino.

This expansion into the North reaching Canada comes at the same time as Bodog’s 15th anniversary. This means that the Canadian gamblers will benefit from an amazing 15% match bonus when they sign up, without any limit. In addition to this, there will also be the poker room subjected 110% match bonus, which will be distributed as you play.

Gus Hansen moves down in levels

Gus Hansen have lost huge amounts playing online poker this year. Now it looks like he is moving down in levels to try to get his bankroll back to his former glory.

Gus, who is a Full Tilt Poker pro is playing at the highest level you can find on the internet and he is used to the huge swings that comes with it. But now it seems as if the Dane needs a bit more money to feel comfortable playing against players like Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey at the really high stakes tables. Or it could just be that his bankroll is no longer big enough to justify playing at the higher stakes.

The reason behind this speculation is that today when a member of Online Poker News logged on the their FullTilt account to join the rail birds at the high stakes tables he was very surprised to find Gus Hansen playing at the $50/$100 No Limit Hold’em tables instead of his usual $300/$600 limits. It seems as the move down in levels might have been a good move by Gus because while we were watching him play he actually managed to win most of the big hands in which he participated.

Hopefully Gus will manage to turn his bad trend around on these lower limits or else he might be heading the same road as the Swedish player “Maratonas” who after winning over a million at FullTilt in a week managed to lose it all back and more.

So far this year Gus is stuck $2.3 million playing online poker at the FullTilt high stakes tables.

“Durrrr” Wins the Latest Session of the durrrr Challenge

The famous durrrr Challenge is moving forward at a pretty slow pace. The last session was won by Tom “durrrr” Dwan. But if the challenge was to end today the winner would be Patrik Antonius by a very small margin.

The durrrr Challenge is a challenge created by Tom Dwan to the poker world (excluding Phil Galfond) that will last over 50.000 hands. Just a couple of weeks ago this challenge was basically dead as there were very few, if any sessions being played. But lately there has been a lot more action at Full Tilt Poker between Dwan and his first challenger Patrik Antonius.

Earlier in the challenge it was “durrrr” who had a safe and secure lead but after the last couple of sessions the tables have turned and Antonius is now in very small lead. The small lead got even smaller after Dwan won last nights session that lasted for 3 hours with 458 hands being played.

In last nights session durrrr managed to win $26K from Patrik Antonius who is still holding a tiny overall lead as mentioned earlier in this article. But you still have to keep in mind that less than half of the challenge has been played so there are still a lot of hot and cold streaks for both players to go through before the durrrr Poker Challenge is over.

$1000 WSOP Event to Return in 2010

The $1000 buy in event that was introduced during the 2008 WSOP is planned to return at the 2010 WSOP as it was very popular.

There are a lot of changes being planned for the 2010 WSOP. The $40K event will be removed from the schedule due to its poor number of participants this year. Instead the people behind the World Series of Poker seem to be targeting the small time players as they are planning to add a couple of $1000 buy in events that first showed up during the 2008 WSOP.

The $1000 buy in event that was held in 2008 had 6000 available seats and two starting days and sold out very quickly. The WSOP team took notice of this and are planning to schedule a couple of these events in 2010, six of them to be exact. This means that there will be a lot of reasons for the small time players to visit the 2010 WSOP but the question is how popular these events will be amongst the real poker pro’s.

Maratonas making a comeback at FullTilt

At the start of his career at Full Tilt Poker Maratonas was winning huge amounts of money at the $500/$1000 tables. Even though he started out great, winning over $1 million he ended up making a big loss at the noosebleed levels at FullTilt. A while later he was spotted playing lower limits at FullTilt such as $50/$100.

But now it seems like the online poker phenomenon Maratonas is making a comeback at the highest levels at Full Tilt Poker. This morning he was spotted at the $200/$400 PLO tables at FullTilt. After this mornings session it will probably be a while before he is back at the $500/$1000 levels since he lost most of the pots that he was involved in at the $200/$400 level. Amongst the players who won money from the anonymous Swede this morning we could find names like OMGClayAiken and trex313.

It will be interesting to see if Maratonas can ever make it back to the higest levels at Full Tilt Poker.

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UltimateBet Releases Mac Poker Software

Even though most online poker rooms are trying to reach out to as many people as possible there is one group that is always neglected by the poker industry, the Mac owners.

If you wanted to play online poker using a Mac a couple of years ago it was near impossible without using a third party software. But lately more and more poker rooms have started to realise that even Mac owners make for good poker players.

UltimateBet is one of the poker rooms that have started targeting the Mac owners by launching a version of their poker software just for Mac owners. As from today you will be able to download this Mac software from the UltimateBet website. Apperantly there are a lot of players who have been requesting this software and that’s why they finally decided to give in and add this feature.

PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker are two of the market leaders and they launched a Mac version of the poker software several years ago with huge success. Here you can find a full list of Mac Poker sites.

Doyle Brunson Suggest a Hall of Shame

The Poker Hall of Fame is something that all poker players dream of being icluded in. But the poker legend Doyle Brunson have now suggested that a Poker Hall of Shame should be added.

In his blog over at DoylesRoom he suggests that the Poker Hall of Shame should be introduced and include players who abuse the dealers at the tables and their opponents in one way or another.

Doyles nominees for the Poker Hall of Shame are

• Puggy Pearson
• John “Doc” Holliday
• Nick “Shoeshine” Simpson
• “Nigger Nate” Lanette
• Stu Ungar
• Nick Vacchiano

Now we just have to wait and see if this will become reality one day or if it is just Doyle’s way of telling the poker players to be a bit nicer at the tables.

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