Poker news tagged with 'full tilt poker'

Two months after being back to federal custody, Isai Scheinberg, the founder of PokerStars, pled guilty in a New York federal court on March 25 Wednesday to running an illegal online poker site.

Black Friday, in the poker world, refers to the events of April 15, 2011 when the U.S. Department of Justice issued an indictment against the three biggest online poker sites in the country: Absolute Poker, Full Tilt Poker, and PokerStars.

The last of those to face federal justice was 73-year-old Israeli-Canadian Isai Scheinberg.

Read more » Founder of PokerStars Isai Scheinberg Pleads Guilty to Black Friday Charge

David Tuchman, who specializes in sports commentating for football and poker, recalls the awesome moments he witnessed as he commentated on a remarkable hand between Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan.

It was in the Full Tilt Poker Million Dollar Cash Game around nine years ago that there were only three men, namely Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius battling it out at a poker table as midnight drew near.

Read more » Throwback: Phil Ivey vs Tom Dwan on Million-Dollar Pot

In 2012, former Full Tilt Poker owner Howard Lederer revealed to PokerNews that former Full Tilt Poker Pro Erick Lindgren owed the company $2 million dollars. Lederer said that Lindgren received a double-credited $2 million loan in April 2011 by mistake, but the two-time WPT and WSOP champion never gave the extra $2 million received. 

Read more » Erick Lindgren In Trouble Over $2.5 Million Debt

As a part of the promotion HEADS UP SHOWDOWN, Full Tilt Poker pros Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and Gus Hansen were supposed to play against each other on Sunday, September 14. Many had looked forward to the battle ever since Full Tilt Poker announced the challenge last month, but, unfortunately, many were left disappointed as Gus Hansen never showed up.

Read more » Gus Hansen Didn't Show Up For Heads-Up Showdown Against Viktor Blom

Gus Hansen has surpassed $20 million in all-time career losses after yet another disastrous week at Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed tables. Hansen has lost approximately $920k this month alone, bringing his losses this year to $5.5 million!

Read more » Gus Hansen Reaches $20m Milestone

Everyone's favourite Swede Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has had a massive upswing in the last couple of weeks. According to online-tracking site highstakesdb, over a $1 from his winnings come from heads-up matches (between January 14-17) against PokstflopAction. Blom is the biggest winner online this year with a total profit of $2,154,113 (48,517 hands)!

In 2013, he was up over 5 million dollars during 3 incredible winning streaks. It will be interesting to see if he can beat that "record" this year - without losing most of it (he "only" bagged up a $542k profit in 2013 after a massive downswing that started in October).

The Swedish Full Tilt Poker Professional Viktor "Isildur1" Blom is on an incredible winning streak at the moment! After a pretty bad start to the new year, suffering approximately $600k in losses during the first 2 weeks, Blom has turned things around and is now up an incredible $1.7 million (43,879 hands)!

Read more » High Stakes: Good start to 2014 for Isildur1

In connection with Blom 100, a recent promotion at Full Tilt Poker where 100 lucky players got to play heads-up against Viktor "Isildur1" Blom (Blom ended up winning 62 mathes [38 players received $1,000 each]), the Swedish Full Tilt Pro answered questions from Full Tilt's followers on Twitter. One of the most interesting questions was what NLH and PLO players online he considered to be the best right now. Find out what he answered to that question and many other questions below:

@FunkDrDoobz75: what's blom's current bank roll at & what does he spend all his money on besides poker?
Viktor Blom: Nice dinners and going out with my friends.

@shipit13: would you flip a coin for 1 million dollars if I gave you 2/1?
VB: Maybe I'd consider it for a gamble. :)

@pretty7king: Does Viktor Blom use any poker software?
VB: No software. Tried it once but didn't like it.

Read more » Blom Answers Questions From Fans

Viktor "isildur1" Blom has been on a terrible downswing in the past few days at Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed tables. The fact is that the young Swede has lost over 1.5 million dollars over the past five days and he's now ranked 8th with a $1.5 million profit on the list of 2013's biggest winners online.

According to highstakesdb, "Sanlker" and Ike "luvtheWNBA" Haxton are two players who have enjoyed Blom's adversity. Sanlker, who's identity is unknown, defeated Blom in an 8-hour-long session on Saturday for $239.3k and Haxton took Blom for $287k in a two-hour session on Sunday. The latter consisted of several coin-flips (most won by Haxton) and some terrible bad beats for Blom.

Viktor "Isildur1" Blom is doing extremely well at the moment. According to highstakesdb, the young Swede has won $1,5 million in the past three days against SallyWoo, Kyle "PKR16" Ray, OMGClayAiker, Isaak Haxton, and other regulars at Full Tilt's nosebleed tables! The biggest chunk of the profit comes from SallWoo, who lost $716k to Blom in a few sessions of $500/$1000 CAP PLO yesterday.

The winnings will come in handy for Blom who had lost over 2 million dollars in just one week before his incredible winning streak started. He's now up $3,095,932 (289,208) this year - about 200k less than the biggest winner online, "cottonseed1".

source: highstakesdb

A big congratulations to Alan Gold of Scotland, the champion of the Full Tilt Poker UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Galway Main Event! Gold, who qualified for the event through a satellite at Full Tilt Poker, brought the largest stack to the final table, which was played yesterday, and it only took about four hours of play until he was the last man standing. It was one of the fastest final tables in UKIPT history.

Final table results:

1 Alan Gold €187,494*
2 Paul Febers €149,906*
3 Daragh Davey €80,400
4 Dimitri Pembroke €62,000
5 Damian Porebski €45,300
6 Benjamin Spragg €30,210
7 Christy Morkan €22,310
8 Jonathan Slater €16,500

*reflects a heads-up deal.

A total of 36 players entered the Full Tilt Poker UK & Ireland Poker Tour Galaway €2,200 High Roller event on Wednesday. After two days of play, Sergio Aido, who won the WPT National Series Barcelona in October for $115,240 and the UKIPT London £700 NLH event in March for $217,530, was the last man standing and received €24,450 in prize money and the prestigious Full Tilt Poker High Roller trophy.

High Roller results:
1 Sergio Aido €24,450
2 Kyle Maguire €17,460
3 Dermot Blain €11,870
4 Chris Day €6,980
5 Jan Przysucha €4,890
6 Niall Farrell €4,190

According to highstakesdb, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was up a six figure amount yesterday before he took on Alex "IreadYrSoul" Millar at Full Tilt Poker's $400/$800 NLH tables. The two played two tables for just about 45 minutes (approx. 200 hands) and Blom ended up losing $425k to Millar.

Read more » "IreadYrSoul" Wins $425k Against Viktor Blom

Just about three years ago, Tom "durrrr" Dwan and Daniel "jungleman12" Cates agreed to play 50,000 hands as a part of a heads-up challenge at Full Tilt Poker. The rules were that Dwan would get $500,000 from Cates if he won the challenge, and Cates would get $1,500,000 from Dwan if he won. Now, as you probably already know, the two pros have only played about 19,000 hands and it seems like a lifetime ago when they played last.

Now the good news... according to a forum post by Daniel Cates, the challenge is set to resume in August. Cates wrote that he and Dwan have agreed to play a minimum of 4,000 hands in August and a minimum of 8,000 hands the followings months until the challenge is completed.

Cates is currently holding the lead with a $1,251,059 profit after 19,335 played hands. Besides that, he's been running very good at Full Tilt Poker as of late, so you can't blame him for wanting to complete the challenge and, most probably, get $1.5 million from Tom Dwan.

After a couple of not-so-successful sessions in the past 1,5 week or so, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was back on track yesterday and booked a massive profit at Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed tables. He started the day by taking $150k from Isaac Haxton at the $500/$1000 CAP NLHE tables, then he won about $500,000 (in about 4 hours) playing Triple Draw and FLO8 against Kyle "KPR16" Ray, Phil "Polarazing" Ivey, Gus Hansen and Patrik Antonius.

Read more » High Stakes: "Isildur1" Wins $1.4m!

After a few days break from poker, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was back at Full Tilt Poker's tables on Tuesday. Blom, who had won over $2 million dollars in the first one and a half week of July and was the biggest winner of 2013, must have been full of confidence and energy when he took on Bttech86, Doug "WCGRider" Polk, Alex "IreadYrSoul" Millar and other regulars at the nosebleed tables.

Read more » Viktor Blom's Not-So-Successful "Comeback" at Full Tilt Poker

Sunday was an action-packed day at Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed tables with Daniel "jungleman12" Cates and "proudlikeagoat" ending up as the biggest winners with a profit of $200k+ each! proudlikeagoat, whose identity is unknown, made all his profits from a morning session at a $400/$800 No Limit Hold'em table. In total, he took down 2 of the 3 $200k+ pots of the day (both from a player called "MalACEsia") and called it a day when he had won $246.8k!

Read more » High Stakes: Dan Cates and "proudlikeagoat" Win $200k Each!

Qualifiers Given Opportunity To Compete For All-Access Pass To Remaining UKIPT Season 4 Main Events

Onchan, Isle of Man – June 26, 2013 – In addition to guaranteeing a massive UKIPT Galway Main Event prize pool of €1,000,000, Full Tilt Poker is giving players the opportunity to win a spot in at least eight further UKIPT Main Events with its Last Longer Sponsorship promotion. The all-access pass includes buy-ins and expenses for every remaining stop on the UKIPT Season 4 tour and is only available to players who win their UKIPT Galway Main Event entry via Full Tilt Poker’s online qualifier tournaments.

The prize package will be won by the player that outlasts all other Full Tilt Poker qualifiers in the UKIPT Galway Main Event and will be awarded in addition to whatever prize money they win in the tournament itself. 

After the Galway stop, the UKIPT Season 4 tour will visit London, the Isle of Man and Nottingham in 2013, with at least five more stops scheduled for 2014, which will be announced in due course.

Read more » Press release: FULL TILT POKER TO GIVE AWAY UKIPT SPONSORSHIP PACKAGE AT GALWAY FESTIVAL

It's been quiet from Viktor "Isildur1" Blom since he took down the SCOOP 2013 Main Event in the end of May. The main reason for that is that he hasn't won nor lost any significant amounts at Full Tilt's nosebleed tables. Well, that was until yesterday when he took on Gus Hansen at the 2-7 Triple Draw and the FLO8 tables. They started the session at the 2-7 Triple Draw tables and "The Great Dane" took the young Swede for about $100k until things took a big turn...

Read more » High Stakes: Blom Wins Half a Million Dollars!

On May 16th we wrote about Gus "The Great Dane" Hansen's incredible $1.57 million win in less than 24 hours. Hansen has been very active at Full Tilt's nosebleed tables since then but not managed to book a nice win until last Monday. He started the day by playing heads-up against Alex "Alexonmoon" Luneau at the $1k/$2k 2-7 Triple Draw Tables. The match lasted for four hours and Hansen dominated from start to finish and added $374k to his bankroll.

Read more » Gus Hansen Books $811,000 Profit

It's nothing new that Gus Hansen, of Denmark, has lost millions of dollars at Full Tilt Poker. Many of his fans hoped and prayed that things would change once the site reopened for business last year and signed him to its The Professionals, but the bitter truth is that he has continued to lose huge amounts month after month.

Read more » Gus Hansen Wins $1.57 Million at Full Tilt!

It has been an action-packed, thrilling and simply amazing weekend at Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed tables, and, as many times before, we can thank Viktor "Isildur1" Blom for that! Blom had won $700k in the early hours of Saturday when he and Ben "Bttech86" Tollerene played some heads up at the $500/$1000 CAP PLO tables! The two pros were later joined by Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

Read more » Viktor Blom Wins $1.5 Million In 24 Hours

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has now hired a Claims Administrator, Garden City Group, and claims that U.S. players soon will be able to make claims. According to one news site, about 1.3 million players are still waiting for their money since Black Friday (April 15, 2011) and the amount owed is about $159,000,000.

PokerStars purchased Full Tilt Poker for more than $730 million in July 2012 - the amount included money for the DOJ to repay U.S. players. Three former Full Tilt Poker managers/owners have settled their civil cases with the government since then: Rafe Furst, Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson. Former CEO Ray Bitar still faces several charges and might spend the rest of his life in prison.

Click here to visit the Full Tilt Poker claims site.