Poker news tagged with 'rob yong'

Full House loses to Straight Flush, Twice, for $400,000 total pot

The partypoker LIVE series in the Bahamas is now in full swing. A plethora of high-stakes buy-in tournaments run round the clock from November 15 to 24, including the $250,000 Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas. With such extravagant tournaments, there's a high chance some outrageous stakes will appear somewhere.

Read more » Check Out this Worst Bad Beat ever to Happen in Live Poker, Pot Worth $400,000

As part of their FairPlay campaign, partypoker has decided to make more changes, and on the first week of October, they are going back to basics with the introduction of antes to cash games as an option for their valued players who are searching for more action-packed games.

Read more » Ante Cash Games, Anonymous Tables return as Part of partypoker's FairPlay Campaign

partypoker made some changes to its poker software on June 17, 2019, aiming to make partypoker a fair, honest and safe place to play at.

Rob Yong, Dusk Till Dawn owner and partypoker LIVE founder, has enumerated and explained further on some points about the changes.

Read more » Rob Yong on Recent Changes for Fair Play at partypoker

partypoker LIVE has announced a new concept that will now allow players a new method on how to get in to live tour events.

The latest "experiment" will have partypoker hosting Online Day 1 and Day 2 in a sole flight, online. Meanwhile, the Live Day 1 and Day 2 shall be scheduled at the host venue as always. Every player who manages to survive from either method will be in-the-money already on Day 3 at the live event!

Read more » Players can now Opt to Play Day 1 and Day 2 of partypoker LIVE Events Online

For many poker players, challenges and prop bets make their life even more exciting when they sometime want to get away from the humdrum of constant grinding they do at the poker tables.

This particular challenge involves Phil Hellmuth (left) aka the Poker Brat and Rob Yong (right), the Dusk Till Dawn Casino owner.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth Challenged by Rob Yong to Five $100,000 Heads up NLHE Matches

Most poker players who get to win an insane amount of money after a grueling couple of days work at a high-stakes poker tournament usually tend to call it a day, right? But this one thought he's not had enough yet, and guess what he did? He bet ALL his winnings in just one roulette spin!

Read more » Poker pro wins tournament for £42,000 & bets everything on 1 roulette spin!

Good news partypoker fans! partypoker is bringing back their highly popular televised high-stakes cash game, The Big Game, and this time with a new feature, the €50/€100 PLO edition, streamed live on February 10 to 12 at Rozvadov, Czech Republic.

Read more » The Big Game is Back with New Addition at partypoker MILLIONS Germany

Viktor ‘Isildur1' Blom's reputation may have limped a little in the past few days at PokerStars, but on November 29 Wednesday, his poker prowess was definitely on fire, burning other poker pros' strategies and skills down to the ground as he walked away clutching the top prize of $340,000 from the invitation-only high-stakes $200/$400 PLO cash game at Sam Trickett's High Roller Room.

Read more » partypoker invitational PLO Cash Game won by Viktor Blom for $340,000