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Isildur1 Wins and Loses Big as a Fresh PokerStars Pro

The crazy genious, Isildur1 (aka grolongo, aka Viktor Blom?) started out his PokerStars carreer being totally himself. He won $287,500 in a 14-hour  session yesterday, but today he almost lost all of it to Phil Galfond.

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Isildur1 played against 75 players including Scott 'urnotindangr' Palmer, Ashton 'theASHMAN103' Griffin and Brian '$tinger88' Hastings during his SuperStar Showdown.

Five Diamond Classic: Esfandiari’s Second WPT Title

Antonio Esfandiari won the $10,300 Main Event of the World Poker Tour Five Diamond Classic. Beating Andrew Robl heads-up, Esfandiari earned $870,000 together with his second WPT title.

Antonio Esfandiari

The unusually strong 6-handed final table presented Vanessa Rousso, Andrew ‘good2cu’ Robl, Antonio Esfandiari, John Racener, Ted Lawson and Kirk ‘Captain Kirk’ Morrison. See stacks below.

Durrrr Challenge 2: Jungleman Wins, Durrrr Experiments

Durrrr and jungleman12 resumed their Challenge. The short session was won by Jungleman, who added $110,000 to his profit, making it $755,000 in total.

Jungleman12 vs Durrrr
Daniel 'jungleman12' Cates vs. Tom 'durrrr' Dwan

The shorter sessions of Durrrr Challenge 2 of late slightly favoured Tom ’durrrr’ Dwan, although not enough to get him significantly closer to jungleman. Even this slight compensation is now neutralised, as in 45 minutes and 346 hands, he lost $110,037 to Daniel Cates.

Isildur1 Joins Team PokerStars Pro

Isildur1 has really signed up with a major poker room as rumors predicted, but not just any site, but the largest, PokerStars. The man's identity remains unknown.

isildur joins pokerstars

The mysterious online player emerging from nothing, owned the high stakes cash game tables for a few years and had many great moments, being ultra-aggressive and fearless, he generated pots way above $1 million. Now he has signed with PokerStars, and seems to be very happy about it:

"I chose to join PokerStars because it's the biggest site and it will be an exciting challenge," Isildur1
says. "It means a great deal to be playing in a team alongside players such as Daniel Negreanu, Dario Minieri and Johnny Lodden."

Duhamel Goes for Canadian Athlete of the Year 2010

Poker is not really considered a sport nowadays, but rather a "dangerous" and "harmful" gambling game. This seems to change now, as this year's WSOP Main Event winner Jonathan Duhamel has been nominated for the 2010 Canadian Athlete of the Year. In the first round he competes with Olympic champion ice dance couple Tesse Virtue/Scott Moir for the top 8.

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Durrrr & Urindanger Back to Macau - Nosebleed Cash Games Continued

The cash game crazyness that was big news last month seems to continue. I as wrote a few weeks ago, Ivey, Dwan, Juanda and Chau Giang went to Macau to play with some Chinese businessmen at very high stakes. They turned a huge profit, and Durrrr stated he might move to Macau soon. Well, if not yet moving there, the young pro and his colleague, Di 'Urindanger' Dang were spotted in Macau at the StarWorld Casino, playing againts regulars at high stakes cash game tables.

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 After having to go back to the US because of some other business they had, Durrrr and Urindanger decided to go back for some more action, and of course, cash. 2+2 forum members are in Macau, a user named asianpokerfacts is watching over the game, and posted on 2+2 that Dwan and Dang are at the StarWorld and are winning.

Cristiano Ronaldo Playing Against Antonius and Jungleman12?

The number one primadonna of Real Madrid soccer team, Cristiano Ronaldo appears to be playing poker on Full Tilt Poker against Daniel 'jungleman12' Cates and Patrik Antonius. Cates posted "playing on full tilt vs Cristiano Ronaldo" on his Twitter account last sunday. Ronaldo (playing under 'CR7sete' nick) and the young online pro were playing $1/2 PLO heads-up last Saturday. The final results are not known unfortunately, but as it could be predicted, jungleman12 won, as he tweeted: "I'm winning lol, fortunately not playing football :)"

A little later the Golden Ball winner Portuguese played against Patrik Antonius, fellow underwear model as well, at a $25/50 NLHE table last Sunday. Here's the chat history:

CR7sete: Training soon...
pleshots (Observer): Why is antonious sitting here?
Giantcuttlefish (Observer): just logged in, what happened? looks like Patrik moved down in levels
CR7sete: Didnt move down in levels...we are friends...
Patrik Antonius: wp champ
CR7sete: Thanks...
Patrik Antonius: footbol and poker good
Patrik Antonius: tennis is so so...
Patrik Antonius: ciao
CR7sete: I go the car now...
CR7sete: Good game...play tomorow
CR7sete: o text my mobile....

Patrik Antonius: ok
Patrik Antonius: ciao
CR7sete: adeus

Tony G Missed the Bracelet, Buys Rousso's Lambo Instead?

Tony G is destroyed. He couldn't make it, the WSOP bracelet won't be the collar of his beloved dog Zasko. Or at least not now. He stated in his PartyPoker blog he did not buy Peter Eastgate's 2008 WSOP bracelet. He was participating in the bid, but "there were anti doggie bling dark forces out there".

tony g and zasko

He doesn't know however, who could have bought it, only that Chilipoker's Alex Dreyfus did also bid for the bracelet. He suggest some poker room like PokerStars or Full Tilt might have bought it, as it was rumored.

Although, not all hope is lost for the Lithuanian Dracula-descendant and his trusty German Shepherd Zasko: Vanessa Rousso, poker babe put her Lamborghini Gallardo up for sale on eBay. Tony says he's willing to buy the car, but only if Miss Rousso is included in the package, and will drive Zasko wherever he may go. He's not really crazy about the bright yellow colour though.

Sebastian Homann Takes down WPT Marrakech

Sebastian Homann beat a field of 222 in the World Poker Tour Marrakech Main Event, earning €244,000 as first prize.

The players registered for the €5,000 Main Event of WPT Marrakech include renowned names like Nicolas Levi, Antoine Saout, Surinder Sunar, Dominik Nitsche, Thomas Bichon, Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier and Davidi Kitai. Still, the relatively unknown German Sebastian Homann managed to win the tourney.

The final table setup was as follows:

WPT Marrakech Final Table Stacks

Patrik Antonius Doesn't Dig 2-7 Triple Draw

Patrik Antonius doesn't know that Aces are always high in 2-7 Triple Draw. It cost him $19,000 to learn that yesterday at Full Tilt Poker's tables, when he got himself into a pretty embarassing situation: losing a pot to David Oppenheim in 2-7 Triple Draw, he couldn't understand why he lost. It turns out, the man is not fully aware of the game's exact rules.

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David Oppenheim and Patrik Antonius

David Oppenheim won the pot with an A-5-4-3-2 hand (Antonius held 2-2-5-4-3) and Antonius was puzzled to see himself losing with a better(?) hand:
 
Patrik Antonius: ??????????????????
Patrik Antonius: Oppey
Patrik Antonius: did you see what happened?
David Oppenheim: yeah
David Oppenheim: no
David Oppenheim: lol
Patrik Antonius: you won with the straight
David Oppenheim: you think i had a straight
David Oppenheim: hahahhahahhahahahhaha
Patrik Antonius: wow
David Oppenheim: you are a very bad player
Patrik Antonius: this is how good i am
David Oppenheim: you should play smaller limits
David Oppenheim: too high for you if you think thats a straight

CEREUS Network Makes Poker Accounts Safe with Security Token

The CEREUS Network has introduced an important security measure, that makes no one else except for us has the right to access our account.

The CEREUS Network, containing poker rooms like UB, has made a brand new Security Token available for its players. The Security Token is a hardware tool, which helps our account remain intact by generating one-time unique codes. This is how it works: the Token generates a code every pre-defined short period of time, which needs to be entered when logging in to the poker room, along with our password.

Security Token

This means that stealing the password is not satisfactory for hackers if they try to break into our account. As long as we have the Token in our hands, our bankroll is safe.

EPT Barcelona: Lundmark Is the Winner!

Swedish Kent Lundmark took down the PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona main event.

EPT7 Barcelona Final Table
EPT7 Barcelona Final Table

The chipleader was Giuseppe Pantaleo at the 8-handed final table of the EPT Barcelona €5,300 Main Event but the favourite was WSOP champion Konstantin Puchkov.

Machete Attack at EPT Barcelona?

Yesterday, twoplustwo forum members were busy discussing mysterious events that have happened at the Barcelona stop of the EPT. Four poker players were said to have been robbed and attacked in a nightclub in Barcelona.

Carter Phillips
Carter Phillips

Peter Eastgate's WSOP Bracelet Sold for $147,500 - Tony G or Not?

Remember the auction of Peter Eastgate, who put his 2008 WSOP Main Event bracelet on eBay, and not needing the money specifically, offered the profits for charity? Well, the auction has ended, the highest bid was $147,500. This identity of the buyer is yet unknown.

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The starting price was $16,000, which soon reached and passed $100,000. The auction ended today. During the 10 days, a total of 42 bidders placed 116 bids, out of which an unknown person offered the highest price: $147,500. It's still not sure whether it was Tony G, who was very positive about him buying the bracelet for his German Shepherd Zasko, or somebody else.

New European WPT Events Introduced

World Poker Tour announced the dates of two new, televised events for WPT Season IX. PartyPoker presents the stops in Venice and Vienna, taking place 3rd through 8th February and 25th through 29th March 2011, respectively. Also, the first WPT National Series event is confirmed to take place in Paris.

WPT

The PartyPoker WPT Venice Main Event (buy-in: €3,000+€300) starts on 3rd February 2011 at the Casino de Venezia and lasts until 8th February. Globally broadcast, a €10,000 High Rollers event is added, played from 7th to 9th February at the same venue.

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