Poker news tagged with 'winning streak'

Some poker players struggle to score one single live tournament title in their career, then there are those who just keep on winning tournament after tournament. Angela Radich Jordison has created several headlines this week after scoring three straight tournament victories at the Spring Poker Round Up at the Worldhorse Resort & Casino in Pendelton.

Read more » Oregon Woman Wins One... Two.... THREE Tournaments in a row!

Team PokerStars Pro Marcel "Flying Dutchman" Luske, 60, who's well known for always wearing a suit and singing at the poker tables, has been running extremly well in the past five months or so. It all started in December 2012 when he bested a field of 130-players at the PokerStars Hold'em Challenge Winter Edition €500 NLH event at the Casino de Namur in Belgium ($15,162).

A month later, he went across the world to take part in the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and managed to win two events: Event #16 $1,000 HORSE for $18,500 and Event #32 $1,000 8 Game for $13,810.

Read more » Team PokerStars Pro Books 5 Wins in 5 Months

For second week in a row the american poker pro Tom Dwan ended up being the biggest winner again. Last week, Tom Dwan won $1.6 million dollars and has now won as much as $5.6 million this year. No one is even close of winning the amounts Tom Dwan wins at the moment. Some people think that Dwan might have a hard time finding opponents to play again soon.

Well, Dwan is a quite loose and aggressive player who it really can pay off to play against (not from own experience) when he's having a bad run. In other words, I don't think it will be an issue for him to find people to play against as many knows is just a matter of time before the winning streak comes to an end.

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