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PokerStars Turbo Takedown Sundays

Every self respecting poker player should have Sundays reserved for poker at PokerStars.com. It’s not only the Sunday Million that attracts players from all over the world but also the Sunday Warm-Up and the new addition called PokerStars Turbo Takedown. The PokerStars Turbo Takedown tournaments have been dormant for a couple of months but starting last week they will host these tournaments on the last Sunday of every month.

The Turbo Takedown tournament at PokerStars is reserved for the loyal customers which is made obvious by the 3000 FPP buy in. The price pool is $1 million and an Audi TT RS Coupe (hence the name Turbo Takedown).

If you don’t have the 3000 FPP’s required to buy in to this tournament there are a lot of satellites with low FPP buy ins running constantly at PokerStars. The cool thing about this tournament is that 5000 players get a share of the $1 million price pool which means you will have a decent chance to get in the money.

For those of you who have yet to create a PokerStars account we would recommend using the PokerStars marketing code PSP11903 when creating your account for a free $600 poker bonus.

Patrik Antonius Losing BIG at Full Tilt Poker

2009 has been a great year for Patrik Antonius but the last week must have been one of the worst in his career. Since Wednesday last week he is down $3.7 million.

Antonius is one of the few players who is winning against Isildur1 lately but against the other high stakes players on the network he has not been as fortunate.

Between the 26th and 29th of November he has been losing $3.7 million at FullTilt. Most of this money have been lost to Ziigmund and Isildur1.

Even though this is a huge loss for him he is still up $5.8 million for the year.

Is Viktor Blom Isildur1 at Full Tilt Poker?

Online poker player Isildur1 have created a huge interest for the high stakes games at Full Tilt Poker. The pots that are currently being played are bigger than ever and this Swedish phenomenon has been winning and losing pots of over $1 million. But even a month after he made his entrance at Full Tilt it is still not 100% clear who is hiding behind this nickname at Full Tilt even though there has been a lot of speculation lately.

One of the names that have come up a lot lately when the identity of Isildur1 is being discussed is Viktor Blom and now Tony G. have gone public in his blog and stated that Isildur1 is in fact Viktor Blom from Sweden.

This is what Tony G. wrote in his blog:

I don’t want to talk too much about Isildur1 but I can reveal to all it is Viktor and he crushed them on the iPoker network for some time.  I actually played a few hands with him today and quite many on iPoker where my site TonyG Poker runs.  I honestly respect this guy 100%.  He has proved that he is the best player in the game right now; this is based on many, many hands on iPoker and Full Tilt Poker.

Tony G failed to mention how he can be sure that Isildur1 is in fact Viktor Blom so here at Online Poker News we still have our doubts.

Do you think Tony G is right or is someone else hiding behind the Isildur1 alias? Feel free to leave a comment with your guess.

Ziigmund in verbal fight with Isildur1 at Full Tilt Poker

We guess it’s not a big secret that Ziigmund and Isuldur1 are not the best of friends. But lately the verbal fights between these two high stakes players have been getting to the point where they would censored on main stream poker news sites, fortunately for you, we are not one of those sites.

A couple of days ago when these two players clashed once more at the Full Tilt Poker high stakes tables Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies ended up winning $1.5 million from Isildur1 over just 600 hands and after that he simply left the table without warning. A couple of days later they were playing against each other again and started trash talking in the table chat. Isildur1 thinks Ziigmund is a limping hit and runner while Ziigmund is sure that Isildur1 will not last the duration of 2009 at FullTilt the way he is playing.

Here are the most interesting parts of the chat:

Isildur1: who s the little scared fa g starts lipimg every hand cos hes up
Isildur1: fckn clown
Ziigmund: how long u have been around here
Ziigmund: u r losing after this year if u continue f ag
Isildur1: well see, u keep hit n run me and limping
Ziigmund: haha
Ziigmund: nono

It remains to be seen if Isildur1 can prove Ziigmund wrong and still have funds in his account on the 1st of January 2010.

Maltese Police authorities take over from the LGA and look into inactive poker rooms online

It has been reported that the Maltese police are currently investigating into various non-operational online poker rooms. These rooms are namely; BetOnBet, Eurolinx and Linx Casino. The 3 companies had shut down their operation in Malta after the mother company Linx Media Company had been liquidated.

Meanwhile, the regular players have made their complaints and negative comments about this whole situation. Many made losses when these operations shut down and the Lotteries and Gaming Authority Malta was contacted to investigate into this.

As highlighted in their website, the investigations of the LGA so far have been leading to many irregularities that were discovered such as; “Eurolinks Ltd is not and has never been a licensed operator with the LGA. The LGA also notifies that the sportsbooks of Alpine Malta Ltd (BetOnBet and Eurolinx) are not and were never licensed by the LGA. “

LGA stated that the Alpine Malta Ltd possessed a Class 1/4 and Class 3/4 licences for BetOnBet, but these licences were suspended a while ago. The investigations have now been moved from the LGA to the higher police authorities who will continue looking into this.

Ivey and Antonius Crushing Isildur1 at Full Tilt Poker

Isildur1 took a hard beating from Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius on the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker. During one single session the anonymous Swede lost over $3 million which means that his big profit from before is almost completely gone.

Patrik Antonius was the one that took the biggest slice of the Isildur1 pie and made a total profit of over $2 million during the session. Phil Ivey was also pretty successful and managed to make a $1 million profit during this same session.

On the Swedish poker forums and on TwoPlusTwo there is a lot of speculation about Isildur1. Many seem to think that this is the beginning of the end for the Swedish high stakes player. He is currently being compared to another Swede who made a short appearance at the high stakes tables a couple of months ago, Maratonas.

Isildur1’s total profit since he started playing at FullTilt is now down at only $750.000 so it seems he needs to find his way back on a new hot streak or he will be broke within the next couple of days.

One thing that is being brought up a lot in the different online poker forums is that Isildur1 should avoid playing these high stakes poker pro’s at the same time and he should probably try to focus on playing No Limit Texas Hold’em instead of Pot Limit Omaha.

Our guess is that Isildur1 will be completely broke within the next couple of days. If he is still around at FullTilt Poker during December we would be very surprised.

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.

New Carbon Poker Rakeback Deal

When playing online poker it’s always a good idea to look if the poker room where you are planning to sign up is offering a rakeback deal or just a regular poker bonus. Right now you can get the highest possible Carbon Poker rakeback deal via CarbonPokerRakeback.net as they are offering 30% rakeback and a $600 sign up bonus for players who create their account through their site. This 30% rakeback deal is the highest percentage allowed on the entire Merge Gaming Network so you won’t be finding any better percentages anywhere else.

Daily rakeback payments at Carbon Poker

The best thing about this rakeback deal at Carbon Poker is that all payments are taken care of by the poker room and the rakeback payments are made daily. This means that you don’t have to sit around and wait for the end of the month to come so that you can get your rakeback payment from a third party affilite. At Carbon Poker this is all taken care of in-house.

$600 poker bonus and 30% rakeback

There is nothing better than combining both a sign up bonus and a sweet rakeback deal and at Carbon Poker they are offering just that. The $600 bonus will be credited to your account in increments of $5 for every 250 player points that you generate at the real money tables. The bonus amount cleared is going to be deducted from your gross rake before calculating your daily rakeback.

US Players Accepted

After the UIGEA was passed it’s really hard for poker players from the US to find a poker room where they can make deposits and play online poker. At Carbon Poker they are still accepting players coming from the US and they offer all the most popular deposit options for US based customers.

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