Since it is Thanksgiving, it is only fitting that we here at BLUFF update you on something we are certainly thankful for—the endless stream of high profile, high stakes heads-up matches between the elusive “Isildur1” and the best and brightest names in the online poker world. So, before you carve up that turkey, take [...]
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It may be just a drop in the bucket to make up for the $3.3 million he dropped to Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey Saturday night, but the mystery Swede won nearly $650,000 Sunday off none other than Tom “durrrr” Dwan Sunday. The two opened up some $500/$1,000 No Limit Hold’em tables at around [...]
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The FTOPS may be over and done with for 2009, but Full Tilt offered up an early Thanksgiving treat for railbirds and its high stakes grinders alike in the form of the 2nd installment of the $25,000 Heads-Up Pot Limit Omaha Championship. Last year’s event came down to Team Full Tilt’s Patrik Antonius and [...]
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Those who were wondering when Isildur1’s seemingly unstoppable rush came to an end might want to bookmark Saturday, November 21st. Granted, Isildur1 has booked losses before, most notably a more than $2 million losing session to Patrik Antonius, but he always found ways to bounce back, whether it be with sessions against Tom “durrrr” [...]
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The matches aren’t even over yet, but Isildur1’s latest battles with Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey have already become big news. It has been a rough day for the mystery Swede at the tables and Antonius just made it even worse after winning the biggest online cash game pot in history, this time worth [...]
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Last night the ongoing saga of “Isildur1″ continued, but ended a little differently than the other chapters we’ve documented so far. Not only was the mystery Swede on the losing end of a monster session against Patrik Antonius, he also dropped the biggest pot in the history of online poker, worth almost $900,000.
That monster hand [...]
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While Tom “durrrr” Dwan was busy filming the new season of “High Stakes Poker,” resident mystery Swede “Isildur1” continued in his quest to take over the high stakes online poker world by logging sessions with Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, Brian Townsend, Phil Ivey, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, David Benyamine and Patrik Antonius over the past two days.
While [...]
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Two-time WSOP bracelet winner Hans Lund dead at 59
Hans “Tuna” Lund, a fixture at the [...]
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Negreanu vs. Antonius – on the links
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Fans of the durrrr Challenge rejoiced last night as Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius took to the felt for several hours of action, playing on and off throughout the evening. Action got started at around 4PM ET and continued sporadically until almost 1AM. Over the course of the lengthy session the two logged just [...]
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Laak-n-Load
Bluff contributor Phil “Unabomber” Laak is the champion of the PartyPoker World Open V, taking [...]
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Pot Limit Omaha and HA better watch out, there is a new game in town on the Full Tilt Poker nosebleed cash tables. Ever since the 7-Game rotation was introduced on the site this summer, the combination of limit and no limit action is gaining popularity amongst the high stakes online cash game players.
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It only took eight months, but Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius have finally reached the halfway point of their infamous durrrr Challenge. Tuesday night’s session was a doozy, with 1,063 hands logged over the course of three hours or so. For the second session in a row, durrrr got the best of Antonius, racking [...]
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Durrrr Challenge sessions have gotten to be as rare as a unicorn sighting and as fleeting as a lunar eclipse and their latest showdown was no exception. After nearly a month without a Challenge play hand logged the duo took to the tables for a quickie session that lasted less than an hour.
In that span [...]
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Patrik Antonius vs. Mark Vos?
This month’s issue of the UK’s Inside Poker magazine has features [...]
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The roster for the newest episodes of Poker After Dark on NBC.
For the next four weeks poker fans will get to tune in to Poker After Dark for brand new episodes. The action kicks off Monday night with the first of 12 episodes featuring a cash game with Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Eli Elezra, Patrik Antonius, [...]
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