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March was a disaster month for the Swedish PokerStars Pro Viktor "Isildur1" Blom. According to a tracking site of poker results, Blom lost 977,786 dollars and ended up as the second biggest loser online (only Scott "URnotINdanger2" Palmer lost more - $990,207). Viktor Blom has lost about $470,000 this year and, according to many, he needs to start winning soon before he runs out of cash.

Read more » High Stakes: March - a disaster month for Isildur1

Yesterday the first game of two was played between the American high stakes regular Scott "urnotindangr" Palmer and PokerStars own Viktor "Isildur1" Blom. It was a swingy 2,500-hand game that saw multiple two-outers, aces cracked, and a $59,000 pot. Blom picked up most of the big pots, however, Palmer picked up many mid-sized pots and gave Blom a very tough match. When 2,500 hands had been played, and after the official chip count was announced, it was Scott "urnotindangr" Palmer who had won with a $5,425 profit.

Read more » SuperStar Showdown: "urnotindangr" wins the first round!

The Main Event of World Poker Tour in Bratislava, Slovakia found its winner yesterday. It ended up being Roberto Romanello, from Wales, who took home the first prize of €140,685 after winning over Mayu Roca in heads-up. Romanello has been around in the live tournament scene for quite some time and he has some really nice results. For example, he made it to the final table of EPT Copenhagen and also won EPT Prague last year.

Read more » WPT: Romanello won in Bratislava

We continue with yet another round of Full Tilt Poker leaderboard in April.

Just like earlier months, the leaderboard prizes will be $2,000. Top 30 wins a share of $1,000 and top 200 wins entry to a $1,000 freeroll early next month.

The actual daily freerolls will have a total value of $9,000 during April We have freerolls around the clock with various prize pools, check out the freerolls page for all the details.

How to participate

1) If you do not have a BankrollMob account yet, click here to register a free Mob account so you can participate in our Full Tilt Poker leaderboards.

2) If you do not have a Full Tilt Poker account yet, check out our exclusive Full Tilt Poker offers. There's a $50 (5,000 MobPoints) gift offer and 27% rakeback deal available. You do not have to make a deposit to participate in the leaderboard, but by signing up to any of the our two Full Tilt Poker offers you will be able to get a great deal if you decide to deposit later on.Read more » Leaderboard in April at Full Tilt Poker: $9,000 in freerolls + $2,000 in leaderboard prizes

WSOP Circuit West Regional Championship at Harrah's Rindon, California, attracted a field of 92 players (most of them were Americans). The final table included some players with nice results in the past - just to mention two, Steve Brecher (over $2 in tournament winnings) and Dwyte Pilgrim (around $1,7 million).

Read more » WSOPC West Regional Championship: Ali Eslami is the winner ($282,242)

Some really sad news hit the poker world this morning: Phil Ivey has decided to end his poker career! According to Full Tilt Poker, a press release with more information and a personal "goodbye message" from Phil Ivey will be sent out in a few hours. The reason why he has decided to stop playing poker so early in his career comes as a big shock to most people, but not to one of his closest friends....

Read more » Phil Ivey quits poker

The Englishman Luke Schwartz is well-known troublemaker in the poker world. For example, he has been banned from several casinos due to misbehavior and stealing. However, there hasn't been much talk about him lately and it almost seemed like his character had changed for the better for a while. Well, that was until a few days ago when he once again got himself into trouble after personal attacks on Daniel "jungleman12" Cates.

Read more » Luke "__FullFlush1__" Schwartz's attack on "jungleman12"

In case you missed it: PokerStars recently announced that they were going to celebrate milestone hand 60,000,000,000 with some fantastic cash prizes for the players who were dealt into the hand. More than 200,000 people were playing on PokerStars when the 60 billionth hand was dealt on a FLH $5/$10 table. The 6 lucky players on that table were just a minute or two away from winning some nice cash.

Read more » Video: Pogo650' wins $102k with Q3o in PokerStars 60 billionth hand

On Sunday it's once again time for PokerStars SuperStar Shodown, a heads-up challenge where anyone with enough money can play against Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, and the opponent this time will be the American high stakes player Scott "urnotindangr" Palmer.

Read more » PokerStars: 'urnotindangr' up next in SuperStar Showdown

Dmitry Gromov and Maxim Kolosov, both from Russia, survived a 555-player field and ended up playing heads-up on the final table. The match only lasted 5 hands before both players pushed their stacks into the centre of the table (pre-flop) - Gromov with A10 and Kolosov with 88. Gromov flopped a 10 and the turn and river cards were to no help for Kolosov. For the win Dmitry Gromov received the first place prize of €447,840 and a seat in the WPT final. The runner-up, Maxim Kolosov, got €241,180.

Read more » Dmitry Gromov won WPT Vienna (€447,840)

After Sunday's loss against Daniel Negreanu it didn't take long before Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was back on the nosebleed tables as he took on the Finnish poker pro Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies in three $25/$50 PLO matches. It only took Isildur1 745 hands to win $106,882 from Ziigmund. It was a well-needed win for the Swede who has lost some serious cash this year.

Read more » High Stakes: Isildur1 wins $106,772 from Ziigmund

PokerStars recently announced that the Sunday 1/4 Million tournament was changing name to Sunday Storm and the guarantee had been boosted to $1 million ($11 buy-in). However, no one was expecting that it would be such a huge sucess. An amazing 113,770-player field joined the tournament and created a $1,137,700 prize pool that paid 14,634 places.

Read more » PokerStars Sunday Storm attracted a massive player field

Last night it was time for the second match between Daniel Negreanu and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom as a part of PokerStars SuperStar Showdown. Blom won the first match quite easy and many thought that Negreanu, who complained on his twitter during the game that he was unlucky, wouldn't have a chance in the second match either.

Read more » SuperStar Showdown: Negreanu got his revenge last night!

Vladimir Geshkenbein, from Russia, is the new EPT Snowfest champion! After beating Kevin Vandersmissen, who started the final table in a huge lead, heads-up he received the first place prize of €390,000 and a seat in the Champion of Champion event.

The 2011 EPT Snowfest in Hinterglemm, Austria, has now come to an end. It has been a great tournament with lots of action from start to finish. The European Poker Tour will now take a break for 1 week before returning in Berlin.

Read more » EPT Snowfest: Vladimir Geshkenbein takes down the tournament for €390,000

PokerStars announced a few days ago that Eugene Katchalov has joined its team. Eugene Katchalov is a 30-year-old american with routs in Ukraine. He has won over $6 million dollars in different live tournaments in the past few years, and thanks to his fantastic results he has made a name for himself in the poker world and got a legendary status in his native Ukraine.

Katchalov is best known for his results in the WSOP, a WPT event win and the 2011 PCA $100,000 high roller win. However, he is also a well-known face online under the alias "MyRabbiFoo". He's a specialist in mixed games and, for example, he has a WCOOP title. From now on, he will be playing as "E.Katchalov" at PokerStars tables.

Today, the final table of the EPT Snowfest Main Event in Hinterglemm, Austria, will be played. All the finalists are guaranteed at least €35,000 each, but of course everyone will do everything in their power to lay hands on the first prize of €390,000.

Chip leader is the Belgian Kevin Vandersrmissen with 4,512,000 chips. It will be interesting to see whether or not anyone can stop him with so many chips. Well, of course anything is possible on a final table and especially when so much money is up for grabs. Now, let's hope for a very thrilling final table!

Read more » EPT Snowfest - final table: Kevin Vandersmissen in a big lead!

On Sunday it's once again time for Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and Daniel Negreanu to sit down with $150,000 each at four $50/$100 No Limit Holdem tables and play 2,500 hands (or until someone has lost his entire bankroll). What can we expect from this match? Daniel Negreanu, who lost the previous match in just 1439 hands and wrote on twitter that he was extremely unlucky, is very hungry for revenge and probably better prepared this time.

Read more » Superstar Showdown - part 2: Daniel Negreanu hungry for revenge

Day 3 of the EPT Snowfest Main Event is now concluded. 24 of 81 players made it through the day and they will return to play day 4 in a few hours. The one who will return with the biggest stack is Giacomo Maisto from Italy. Maisto managed to overtake former leaders such as Vladimir Geshkenbein (889k) and Philp Meulyzer (762k) and now he has 1,548,000 chips.

Team PokerStars pro Alex Kravchenko, from Russia, is the last big name in the felt. However, this doesn't mean that the rest of the tournament will be boring to watch/follow. All the remaining players have been playing extremely well so far, and since they are only hours away from the final table where some serious cash is up for grabs, we can expect them to play even better from now on.

24hPoker is running a quite interesting campaign at the moment in which its players have the chance to become a part of a new 4-person Pro Team. The players in this Pro Team will get to play in different EMOP tournaments in, for example, Bulgaria, Barcelona and Dublin. 24hPoker will take care of all the bills, so you can focus on the tournaments and have some fun.

Read more » 24hPoker looking for pros

Another day of the EPT Snowfest Main Event, which is being played in Hinterglemm, Austria, is now in the books. 268 players returned to play Day 2 of the tournament and chip leader was Vladimir Geshkenbein, from Russia, a former APPT High Roller Winner, followed by Philip Meulyzer, from Belgium, with 188,100 and the Swede Michael Tureniec, EPT Copenhagen champ, with 158,000.

Read more » EPT Snowfest - 81 players left: Luca Pagano in 7th place

There has been lots of talk about José "Girah" Macedo, from Portugal, lately. According to different rumors, José had got special coaching from Dan "Jungleman12" cates, 2010's biggest winner online, and turned a €30 bankroll into $2 million dollars. However, many didn't believe that the story was real until a while ago when José was interviewed by a poker magazine and told the story himself.

Read more » José Mecedo - the man who turned €30 into 2 million dollars

It's high time to take a look at the EPT Snowfest Main Event, which started 2 days ago in Hinterglemm, Austria. Day 1a and 1b have already been played and 268 of 468 players are now waiting for Day 2 to start.

Ever wondered how tough it is to win an EPT Main Event title? Well, for example, 14 former champions were in the Day 1b field - four of them ended up at the same table - Kevin MacPhee, Liv Boeree, Kevin Stani and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (who arrived a few hours late). All but ElkY made it to Day 2 of the tournament.

Read more » EPT Snowfest: Michael Tureniec hungry for another title

The final table of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament included some really big names from the poker world: Mike Matusow & Mike Sexton just to mention 2. However, it was none of the very experienced players who made it all the way to the title but a satellite qualifier.

Read more » Satellite qualifier wins WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star ($1,039,000)

Day 3 of the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament has been concluded. 24 players returned to play Day 3, and after many hours of poker there were only 6 players left. Below are the 6 finalists that will battle for some serious cash at 4PM local time.

Seat 1: Mike Matusow - 2,173,000
Seat 2: Mike Sexton - 363,000

Seat 3: Alan Sternberg - 3,701,000 

Seat 4: Vivek Rajkumar - 1,616,000 

Seat 5: Steven Kelly - 4,169,000 

Seat 6: Casey McCarrel - 430,000

As you can see, the final table includes some fantastic poker players. It will be a very interesting and thrilling fight for the top prize of $1,039,00. Personally, I hope for Mike "The Mouth" Matusow to take down the tournament. He definitely needs the cash and he's also the most entertaining player on the final table! May the flop be with him!

On Monday, Full Tilt announced that they have a new series, Onyx Cup, of high stakes live events on its way. Onyx Cup will be comprised of 6 No Limit Holdem tournaments in USA, Europe and Asia. The buy-in for each event will be between $100,000 and $300,000. The top 3 players in each event will receive points and at the end of the season the player with the most points will receive a luxury sports car - along with the Onyx Cup title.

The first event will take place in Las Vegas May 11-12. All events will be filmed and broadcasted in 20 languages in 40 different countries. Anyone who can afford the buy-in can take part in Onyx Cup. It's also possible to qualify online at Full Tilt Poker (starting on March 15).