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Category: Poker Players

WPT Legends Of Poker Winner: Andy Frankenberger

By James Washington | Aug 27, 2010

The 2010 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker tournament came to an end at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California, with former Wall Street trader Andy Frankenberger being declared the winner. The $5,000 buy-in event attracted 462 players to the L.A. Bicycle Casino. The entire tournament took 5 tough days and the final t...

Online Qualifier Wins Poker Stars EPT Tallinn

By James Washington | Aug 16, 2010

Kevin Santi was the winner of the recent European Poker Tour event held in Tallinn, Estonia, better known as the EPT Tallinn. What makes this such a particularly outstanding accomplishment is that Santi, of Norway, had just days prior won his seat in the tournament through a $530 PokerStars satellite. On Day 4 of the event,...

Matusow New Florida State Poker Champion

By James Washington | Aug 11, 2010

Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, member of Team Full Tilt Poker, has just won the 2010 Florida State Poker Championship, landing himself a first prize of just over $100,000 ($103K to be precise) for his efforts. Forty-two year-old Matusow happened to be in the area for a different event, a DeepStacks U. poker seminar h...

Poker Stars Satellite Winner Wins LAPT Brazil

By James Washington | Aug 10, 2010

A player who won his seat in the LAPT Florianopolis event in Brazil through an online poker satellite tournament at Poker Stars has gone on to win the event. Nineteen year-old Matthias Habernig of Kalgenfurt, Austria, who happened to be on vacation traveling South America when he went to Costa do Santinho resort in Floriano...

New Bachelor Themed Week Of Poker After Dark

By James Washington | Aug 9, 2010

All this week, the NBC Poker TV show Poker After Dark will be featuring six of poker’s top bachelors in a week long stint called “Lonesome Shark”. Joining the 2009 WSOP and 2009 WSOPE November Nine final tablist UK pro James Akenhead in his Poker After Dark debut appearance, the other unmarried men facing ...

Durrrr Challenge Update: Tom Dwan $2 Mil Ahead on Antonius; Newest Challenger Jungleman12

By James Washington | Aug 5, 2010

The news on Tom Dwan’s infamous Durrrr Challenge to the professional (and non-pro high-stakes) poker playing community is that Dwan himself, poser of the original challenge, is no poker poser himself, proving it by placing himself $2 million ahead, with only 10,000 hands left to go on the challenge. Tom Dwan’s d...

Team Full Tilt Poker Signs New Red Pro In James “Flushy” Dempsey

By James Washington | Jul 26, 2010

There’s a new member of Team Full Tilt and it’s James “Flushy” Dempsey, the 27-year-old from the United Kingdom who made a striking impression on everyone at this year’s World Series of Poker when he cashed a total of $511,867, including a runner-up finish in the $10,000 Omaha Hi/Lo event and t...

PokerStars Update: Eastgate Retires, Williams & Selbst Rise

By James Washington | Jul 12, 2010

In a recent turn of shocking news, 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event champion and Team Poker Stars poker pro Peter Eastgate has announced that he is retiring form professional poker. Eastgate’s announcement does not come from any string of bad luck on the felt, because on the contrary, since winning $9 million in ...

Team Poker Stars Gains David Williams

By James Washington | Jun 30, 2010

Team Poker Stars has a new member and it’s a familiar face at that. It’s David Williams, 2010 World Poker Tour Champion, joining fellow poker stars Daniel Negreanu (host of FOX TV’s Poker Stars Million Dollar Challenge), Barry Greenstein (the poker philanthropist who donates all his winnings to charity), a...

Poker Stars Team Member Wins Poker Stars Baltic Festival

By James Washington | Jun 23, 2010

The second annual Poker Stars Baltic Festival was won this year by none other than a member of Team PokerStars itself, that being William Thorson. Thorson outlasted a playing field of over 200 players in the €1,400 PokerStars Baltic Festival Main Event for first ever No Limit Hold’em title in a major land-based tour...