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Isildur1 Loses over 3 Million Dollars at Full Tilt Poker
Posted on November 4, 2011
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Full Tilt Poker has been smoking over the past few weeks as the top online poker pros are tearing up the high stakes tables. One poker pro in particular, the mystery pro Isildur1, has been on a losing streak and it has only gotten worse. Recently the mystery poker player lost over 3 million dollars to Cardrunner pro Brian Hastings.
Isildur1 had lost quite a bit over the past few weeks but last week the mystery pro had earned his loses back, well over $3.1 million. so just when it was looking good, things started to go bad; very bad. This past Tuesday Isildur1 started playing at the Jungleman12 at the $100/$200 NLHE and took him for $471,000.
After winning a good size amount, Isildur1 moved on to face Brian Townsend at the $500/$1,000 tables at Full Tilt Poker. The two would play for over four hours before Townsend would end up with over $3 million. the two would complete over 2,500 hands of poker. The largest pot of the night was up over $700,000.
Isildur1 looked good as he competed with Townsend on several of the Pot Limit Omaha tables at Full Tilt, after he earned almost one million from Townsend. But after that it was all downhill. Townsend went on a Roll and ended up taking $4.2 million, with four pots worth $500,000 and several over $400,000. End the end Townsend would end up earning over $3 million from Isildur1 before taking off.
In chat conversations Isildur1 stated several times that indicated how badly the night was going. He commented: “this is not happening” and “take my last $$ I don’t want it”. It was a rough night and most likely really hurt the bankroll of the mystery player, but he is sure to be back for more in the coming days. It will be interesting to see if he can earn back what he has lost.
Criticisms on Duke’s Dream Poker League
Posted on February 1, 2011
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Annie Duke and Jeffrey Pollack plans to head a new poker league that hopes to bring in all professional poker stars in one tournament. It’s aimed at reliving World Poker Tour’s Professional Poker Tour which turned upset due to the UIGEA. The core ideas of this new league are geared at continuous tournaments, glorification of poker celebrities and organization of the poker world. These prove to be great concepts but once you step into the league’s minor details. Things get pretty awkward.
Duke and Pollack has successfully stirred the media with its press release after their announcement, I found some unsettled issues on its background. As for me, I see three factors that can affect the success or detriment of their dream league or any poker league, for that matter. These are funding, TV and media partnerships, and the outpour of player cooperation.
In the press release, Duke pointed out that the still-to-be-named league will be funded by a private organization, Federation Sports and Gaming, Inc. Unlike other poker leagues and clubs, this one will seem to depend on an external financial backup. It’s a huge sum that has to be shelled out for a league that is yet to be tested. As of date, no FullTiltPoker.net download TV deal has been signed or contracts that are set. But Pollack said in an interview that this one is already on its way. The TV ad to be launched will have a tag “wait and see” that seems to lure avid poker players. Although TV deals can come handy, the most volatile factor is player cooperation. According to news, the league will have to start with invitational games. Players, around 200, will be pre-selected depending on a mathematical computation that will weigh every poker player’s latest standing. The rankings will depend on the player’s most recent successes, earnings, and titles excluding online poker tournament winnings. The possibility of one hundred percent player cooperation remains a big challenge for Duke and Pollack. In fact, WSOP Circuit had to offer a million dollar freeroll to invite the best poker players in. However, this promo did not receive the dream one hundred percent support of all professional poker players.
The league of Duke and Pollack is still faced with several minor issues that can compound into a big problem. As of now, PokerStars and Full Tilt haven’t announced yet their support for the league. These two online poker magnates are crucial in the success of such a league. The leagues tournament format does not allow player with bucks to play the tables. This will certainly affect the league’s return of investment. Usually, poker tournaments receive most of their financial backup through the entry fees. By cutting off this crucial factor, the league is faced at a short lived existence. However, I presume that the league hasn’t closed the possibility of having this game format. As what is apparent with the present poker league, maintain the enthusiasm of poker players is a tough challenge. This is especially true when you have to invite players for a tour out of Vegas. Even Doyle Brunson thinks that maintaining the action is a difficult task.
All these issues are yet to be addressed and as long the league is still in its conception, we can just hope for the best.
Full Tilt Poker Weekend Tournament Results
Posted on October 30, 2009
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Poker players have been logging on in massive numbers at Full Tilt poker for the past few weeks to enjoy the large guaranteed tournaments. This past weekend so many players registered for the tournaments that over $200,000 total was added to the prize pools for the $750k guarantee and The Sunday Brawl.
The Sunday Brawl seems to be getting most of the action as of late. This event is a knockout tournament which has a buy-in of $240 plus 16. $40 of the buy-in goes toward the knockouts so if you knock a player out you get a reward. 2,448 players registered for this tournament which increased the regular $350,000 guaranteed prize pool to $489,600. That is an increase of $139,600!
Play was tough during the tournament and when online players titanfr59 and Cheryl45 got down to heads up play they would decided to cut a deal. The deal left both players earning nice prize and the eventual win would go to titanfr59.
Final Results:
titanfr59 – $90,481
Cheryl45 – $74,000 *2-way deal
pocketrockets11 – $47,981
Jsbryan – $36,230
drunk mashimaro – $25,459
this is punny – $16,646
fahmie – $11,261
_The_Ghost_XX – $7,834
KJulius10 – $5,875
the $750k guaranteed tournament had a good turnout as well with 4,126 players competing. This tournament has a buy-in of $200 plus 16 so the prize pool was increased by $75,200, not as large as The Sunday Brawl increase but still impressive. 585 spots would be paid in this tournament with first place earning over $145,000.
There would be no deal struck during this tournament so Kirbynator and ForEngland, the last two standing, would have to fight to earn a good prize. Kirbynator earned the chip lead and finally made a move when both were all in. ForEngland didn’t have the cards and would go out in second place, leaving Kirbynator to take home the $145,722 first place prize.
Final Results:
Kirbynator – $145,722
ForEngland – $88,214
cmiller916 – $57,764
Scary_Tiger – $45,386
BADNEW3 – $34,081
stanman420 – $25,251
jordankickz – $18,980
asaffer – $14,854
xx BabyGrand xx – $11,058
WCOOP High Roller Event Won by Sumpas
Posted on September 7, 2009
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The High Roller event of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker has ended and it was online player Sumpras who came out victorious. 299 players paid the $10,300 buy-in and upped the $2 million guarantee to $2,990,000. Only thirty six players would cash out in this event with first place earning just over $611,000 and a champions bracelet.
Several Team PokerStars players participated in the event including Vanessa Rousso, Joe Hachem, Peter Eastgate and Barry Greenstein, among many others. Although PokerStars was represented very well, only two members were able to finish in the money. Anton Allemann who finished in 10th place and John Duthie who made the final table.
The final table would begin with nine players and online player Sowerss would have the chip lead. During final table play Vanessa Rousso, the host, as well as Joe Hachem and Vicky Coren, popped in to chat up the players as they competed.
Exiting in ninth place would be DDBeast followed closely by John Duthie in eighth. Festivuss, KevBoyStar, Belabacsi and SCTrojans would follow, leaving BeLOWaBOVe, Sowerss and Sumpas to compete in three way play.
Sumpas would make a move on BeLOWaBOVe where both would end up all in. Sumpas rivered a straight on the hand and BeLOWaBOVe was out in third place. heads up play would then begin between Sumpas and Sowerss, with Sumpas in a strong lead.
Though Sowerss was down by almost 2 million chips he would fight hard and heads up play would last almost one hour. In the final hand the flop would show K-4-4 with Sowerss eventually moving all in. Sumpas called and showed his K-10 while Sowerss showed J-10. The turn was a 7 and the river a 3 which left Sowerss out in second and Sumpras to claim the victory.
Final Results:
1. Sumpas $611,455
2. Sowerss $448,500
3. BeL0WaB0Ve $337,870
4. SCTrojans $254,150
5. Belabacsi $173,420
6. KevBoyStar $134,550
7. Festivuss $104,650
8. John Duthie $74,750
9. DDBeast $56,810
FTOPS XIII Event #2 and #3 Results
Posted on August 10, 2009
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The Full Tilt Poker Online Poker Series kicked off with a bang last week and by the second day of the series it was clear to see that poker players were ready to compete. The second day of the series was the first on the schedule to offer two events and both events saw good turnouts to increase the guaranteed prize pools.
Event #2 was a No Limit Hold’em 4x Shootout 6 max event with a $300 plus $22 buy-in. 1,193 players registered to compete in the event which raised the prize pool from $250,000 guaranteed to $357,900, that is over $100,000 in cash increase!
The event was hosted by Scott Fischman but it was Red Full Tilt Pro David Pham who finished the highest out of the Full Tilt Pros. Pham finished in 32nd place earning $1,610.55. first place went to online player jive32 after he defeated CooLJohN22222 in heads up play.
Final Results:
1. jive32 – $62,632.50
2. CooLJohN22222 – $39,369.00
3. POCKET FIVE – $26,198.28
4. Jsbryan – $17,895.00
5. Mutha Flushaa – $12,526.50
6. Gracie8585 – $8,589.60
Event #3 of the Full Tilt Poker Online Poker Series XIII was a $200 plus $16 Omaha/8 event hosted by Scott Clements. This event saw 1,086 players competing which increased the $200,000 guaranteed prize pool to $217,200. Not a large increase but still a good increase.
This tournament saw the final five players decide to divide the remaining prize money. So some players earned a larger payday but finished lower than other players. Second place went to Acesoverxxx who earned just over $21,000 while third place went to HelloCity who earned just over $32,000. It was HelloCity who earned the largest payday despite the third place finish.
Final Results:
1. UgA7211 – $29,630.73
2. Acesoverxxx – $21,224.28
3. HelloCity – $32,238.44
4. gr24 – $24,295.57
5. LAJG – $26,840.58
6. TheComeUp – $9,774.00
7. arobinson11 – $6,516.00
8. thechemist83 - $4,887.00
9. knickadam55 – $3,475.20
Online Player PAhrRK wins Full Tilt $1.5 Million Guarantee
Posted on July 20, 2009
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The FIVE promotion came to an end this past weekend as Full Tilt upped the ante for their largest Sunday guaranteed tournament. The online poker room offered a $1.5 million guarantee this past weekend and 3,315 players registered to compete in the tournament.
The top prize was just over $295,000 so everyone was hoping to hold on and get to heads up play. When final table play began the chips totals were pretty close so it was anybody’s game. The two players who were out front in chips were sweepybreedy and HellaStacks who both had 3million+ and 2 million + respectively.
DiGTaLDeMoN was the first player eliminated when he went up against PAhrRK’s who held Pocket Queens to his Jacks. Ags104 was out next when he was called by HellaStacks who held a dominating A-K. The next few to go would be uRuGwa1, TheMasterJ33, Philbort and sweepybreedy leaving the last three players to duke it out before heads up play would begin.
HellaStacks was not looking good after he lost most of his chips to PAhrRK in one hand when both turned a flush and PAhrRK’s was better. HellaStacks would go out when he went up against PAhrRK again and his A-9 was no match for PAhrRK’s K-Q.
PAhrRK then began heads up play with blarkin but it would not last long. It ended when PAhrRK went all in with K-10 and was called by blarkin with A-9. The board ran K-3-4-10-9 and PAhrRK’s King gave him the win.
Final Results:
1. PAhrRK – $296,775.38
2. blarkin – $180,667.50
3. HellaStacks – $117,682.50
4. sweepybreedy – $91,991.25
5. philbort – $68,786.25
6. TheMasterJ33 – $50,885.25
7. uRuGwa1 – $38,122.40
8. ags104 – $29,835
9. DiGiTaLDeMoN – $22,210.50
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Absolute Poker $100K Guaranteed Tournament Results
Posted on July 13, 2009
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Weekend tournaments are looked forward to by many online players who try every week to earn a large prize at many popular online poker rooms. Many times the guaranteed tournaments see large increases in the prize pools and sometimes the tournaments see such a low turnout that the poker rooms have to add money just to reach the guarantee. This past weekend, only a few tournaments saw increases while most only reached the guarantee.
Absolute Poker’s $100k guaranteed tournament this past Sunday was one of the only tournaments online that saw an increase in the prize pool. Online poker rooms were not overly busy this weekend so it is surprising that Absolute saw a slight increase.
Two hundred and nineteen players registered for the tournament and after paying the $500 plus 30 buy-in players created a prize pool of $109,500. Twenty seven spots would be paid with first place earning $28,470.
Final table play would begin a good bit after play began with each player hoping to be the final player standing. When it came down to three way play, online players T8110, GASSITT and BINRICH were very busy holding their own to make it to heads up play. T8110 would not be able to hold on and would go out in third leaving the two players left to compete in heads up play.
After some time BINRICH would gain the chip lead and make a move. GASSITT would call and it would be all over as the cards fell for BINRICH and the win would be his. GASSITT earned $16,973 for second place while BINRICH took home the almost $30,000 first place prize.
Final Results at Absolute Poker:
BINRICH – $28,470
GASSITT – $16,973
T8110 – $12,045
7D3LUX7 – $8,760
BENNYBLYFOT – $7,172
ANABOOOLA – $6,023
OMGWHEREAMI – $4,928
MTTJNS – $3,833
_NYYANKEES_ – $2,734
Full Tilt Poker Weekend Tournament Results
Posted on July 7, 2009
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Players look forward to Sunday at Full Tilt so they can try their best to win the first place prize of one of several Full Tilt guaranteed tournaments. Full Tilt Poker’s Sunday Brawl and $750K guaranteed tournaments both saw really good turnouts which increased both tournaments prize pools.
The Sunday Brawl at Full Tilt Poker has a buy-in of $240 plus 16 and with 1,961 players competing the tournament increased the prize pool by $42,200. The prize pool is guaranteed for $350K and it was increased to $392,200 which paid out to 189 spots.
Online player’s zackdd and Tannina80 were the two left standing to compete in heads up play. play would go back and forth until Tannina80 took the chip lead and decided to make a move. It was the right choice and his cards held up to knock zackdd out in second place.
Final Results:
Tannina80 – $80,793
zackdd – $53,339
Dutchalicious – $39,612
wobblymr – $30,984
xBIG_BUGx – $23,140
Agreus – $16,080
shipitobv – $9,805
Marinersheep – $6,667
carlaomaringa – $4,706
3,811 players registered for the Full Tilt Poker $750K guaranteed which created an increased prize pool of $762,200. The buy-in for this event was $200 plus 16 and 522 spots were paid. First place was worth $134,948 so everyone was fighting for the first place prize.
When it came down to heads up play it would be either Jiacstrap or jonrubs2 who would take home the top prize. After just a short time, Jiacstrap would go all in against jonrubs2 and the cards would not hold up so jonrubs2 would earn the first place win.
Final Results:
jonrubs2 – $134,948
Jiacstrap – $81,555
fahmie – $53,354
DCVasya1945 – $42,073
debeuker – $31,555
The9deuce – $23,400
eddinho87 – $17,531
Black9ines – $13,720
CarlosLucero – $10,213
Full Tilt $750K Guaranteed Results
Posted on June 30, 2009
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UltimateBet $200K Guaranteed Results
Posted on June 15, 2009
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Online poker players were back to the grind this weekend as the large guaranteed tournaments resumed at the online poker rooms. UltimateBet was one of the big poker rooms offering a large guaranteed tournament and many players logged on to compete.
The $200k guaranteed tournament saw one thousand and twelve players posting the $200 plus $15 buy-in to compete in the tournament. Ninety nine places would be paid so everyone was trying to get in the top spots.
This time around the number of players increased the prize pool just a bit, $2,400, so players finishing in the money would just a bit more, which is always good. Nine players made the final table but it would be KUSH99, BADGEPRO and NOTAJGREEN who would compete in three handed play, working their way to the first place finish.
The first one to go for a big win was KUSH99 who would go all in trying to gain some extra chips and make heads up play. But it was not to be and KUSH99 would go out in third. This left BADGEPRO and NOTAJGREEN to compete in heads up play.
Heads up play would not last very long once NOTAJGREEN gained the chip lead. On the final hand NOTAJGREEN and BADGEJPRO would both go all in but it would be NOTAJGREEN’s cards that would hold up and gain the online poker pro the win.
UltimateBet offers the $200k guaranteed tournament every weekend and players can participate each weekend by paying the buy-in or competing in weekly qualifiers that start as low as $5.50. Players can easily earn a seat the guaranteed event and maybe they will log off with a big first place win like NOTAJGREEN.
Final Results:
NOTAJGREEN – $45,196
BADGERPRO – $27,020
KUSH99 – $18,317
RYANGHALL – $13,055
ZINGASAURUS – $11,031
MEMENT_MORI – $9,007
JMURJEFF – $6,983
SCOTTIE2HOT – $4,959
NEVERB1UFF67 – $3,441
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