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A few days ago Greg Raymer, the 2004 WSOP Main Event winner, wrote on his twitter that he's no longer representing PokerStars and that he has no further comments. PokerStars hasn't announced anything yet either, but it's clear that Greg Raymer is no longer part of their team as he has been removed from the website.

So, what's the reason Greg Raymer is leaving PokerStars after so many years? Well, there are quite a few rumors, but most likely is that the conditions for the PokerStars pros aren't as good as before and that's the reason he left. We will probably get the answer very soon.

Today it's time for another stop on the World Poker Tour. This time it's Venice turn to be the host and hand out cash prizes of millions euros. The most interesting events at 2011 WPT Venice will of course be the Main Event with a €3000+€300 buy-in and the High Roller event with €10,000 buy-in.

We will keep you up to date on both these events, from begin to end. Let's hope for many participants (hopefully some big names), huge prize pools and lots of exciting hands!

Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has been running extremely good at PokerStars in the past few days. He has especially been doing well in heads-up matches (No Limit Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha) against Phil Galfond and Ashton Griffin.

In total Isildur1 has won $660,000 since Sunday and he's also one of PokerStars most successful players this year. Let's hope that his winning streak continues and that we soon get to watch some more thrilling battles at PokerStars nosebleed tables!

2010's biggest winner online, Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates, had a rough week at PokerStars and Full Tilt's poker tables last week. At Full Tilt Poker he lost $443,00 (only Also11 lost more -$450k) and at PokerStars about $50,000 in thrilling heads-up match (SuperStar Showdown) against Viktor "Isildur1" Blom.

The Danish poker pro Gus Hansen, who was one of 2010's biggest losers online, ended up being last week's biggest winner online. Gus managed to win not less than $650k in just about 1200 hands. It will be interesting to see if he can keep up the good game this week as well.

Read more » A rough week for Jungleman12

Welcome to the first BankrollMob leaderboard at Full Tilt Poker, running in February 2011.

Everybody can join the leaderboard. All it takes is a free Mob account and an account with Full Tilt Poker.

How to participate

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.

If you do not have a Full Tilt Poker account yet, click here to find 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.

Now that you have an account both places - or if you have had that the whole time - you now need to register your Full Tilt Poker Player ID for the leaderboard. Click here to visit the leaderboards page (there's also a link to the leaderboards from within your personal Mob account page).Read more » Register for our $2,000 Full Tilt Poker leaderboard in February - $11,200 in freerolls

After 2 weeks of grinding in the Crown Casino poker room, the 2011 Aussie Millions Main Event finally got a winner. David Gorr from Australia survived a field of 721 players and beat pros such as Patrik Antonius and Chris Moorman on the final table. For the win he received nothing less than $2,000,000 (AUD), the far biggest win in his long poker career. James Keys took the second place and received a bit more than a million australian dollars.

Here are the final table results
1. David Gorr (Full Tilt Poker Sponsored player) - 2,000,000 AUD
2. James Keys - 1,035,000 AUD
3. Jeff Rossiter (Full Tilt Poker Sponsored player) - 700,00 AUD
4. Michael Ryan - 450,000 AUD
5. Randy Dorfman - 325,000 AUD
6. Samad Razavi - 225,00 AUD
7. Chris Moorman - 175,00 AUD
8. Patrik Antonius (Full Tilt Pro) - 130,000 AUD

The 2011 Aussie Millions Main Event is down to a final table after 6 days of play. In the lead is Randy Dorfman with almost 3.9 million chips. Yes, Dorfman, who lead the field after Day 2, has regained the lead and he's definitely the big favorite to take down the tournament if he continues playing as good as during Day 4. Someone that will get a lot of attention on the final table is the Finnish Full Tilt Pro Patrik Antonius. Antonius will bring 1.3 million chips to the final table and he's definitely the one of the 8 finalists who has the most experience to play televised final tables where lots of money is up for grabs.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a really interesting final table ahead of us. All the finalists are guaranteed at least 130k AUD each and the winner will get stunning 2,000,000 AUD.

Our $250 Titan Poker leaderboard has now ended. Thanks to everybody who participated!!

In the table below, you can see the top 10 players who qualified for pay-out. Even though we did announce "top 9 players paid" in earlier updates, it's actually top 10 who will receive payments. Sorry about the confusion.

Titan Poker will pay the winners within the next week or so.

Congratulations!Read more » Titan Poker leaderboard results

After about 10 hours of play, the Aussie Millions Main Event field was down to 18 players. These 18 players will now get a few hours of sleep before it's time for them to return to the Crown Casino poker room to play Day 4 of the tournament. Chip leader is Chris Moorman with 1,643,000, in 6th place is Sorel Mizzi with 965k and close behind him Patrik Antonius with 958,000. All the remaining players are guaranteed at least 72,000 AUD each, but of course everyone will aim for the top prize of 2 million AUD. 

Everyone has been talking about the the super high roller event with a massive buy-in of $250,000 at this year's Aussie Millions. First it was meant to be a heads-up event, then an 8-game mixed event, and finally the tournament crew decided that it was going to be a single table no-limit hold'em tournament. Not less than 20 players signed up for the tournament and created a prize pool of stunning $5 million dollars. The field included poker gods such as Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, John Juanda, Daniel "jungleman12" Cates and Annette Obrestad.

Read more » Erik Seidel wins the Aussie Millions $250k Super High Roller Event ($2.5M)

265 players returned to the tables today to play Day 2 of the Aussie Millions Main Event. At the end of the day, 76 players still had chips left and they are now through to Day 3. Chip leader is Randy Dorfman with 581,000 chips. Tobias Reinkemeier (3rd place - 533k), Sorel Mizzi (5th place - 489k) and Patrik Antonius (428k) are 3 of the biggest names that Dorfman will have to lookout for during day 3.

Read more » Aussie Millions Main Event - Day 2 is over: Patrik Antonius in 9th place

Day 1b of the Aussie Millions Main Event is now in the books. In total 209 players have now made it to day 2. Only 3 Full Tilt Pros survived the day, Scott Montgomery (49,2k) - Chris Ferguson (45,4k) - Roland de Wolfe (26,1k), and will return to play Day 2 of the Main Event tomorrow. Two notable Day 1b survivors in the top of the field were Gavin Griffin (10th place - 101,700 chips) and the chess prodigy Jeff Sarwer (5th place - 120,500). However, the one who accumulated the most chips during the day was Jeff Rossiter - 154,900 chips.

The third and last starting day of the Main Event is running at the moment. We will return with an update as soon as the day has come to an end.

After some live rock music, some confetti and Joe Hachem saying the classic words "shuffle up and deal", the 2011 Aussie Millions Main Event kicked off yesterday at the Crown Poker Room in Melbourne, Australia. The Day 1a field consisted of 209 players and many of them were big names in poker. After 5 levels of poker, 209 players had become 117 and the tournament crew called it a day. In the lead was Erick Lindgren with 186k, on third place Patrik Antonius with 176,500, and close behind him Carter Phillps with 162,500 chips.

Day 1b is being played at the moment. In the top of the field are notables such as Jeffrey Lisandro in 6th place with 65k and Gavin Griffin in 8th place with 63k. We will return with an update as soon as Day 1b comes to and end.

It ended up being the American poker pro David Oppenheim, who entered the final table as chip leader, who took home the first prize of 250,00 AUD in the $25,000 Shootout Invitational tournament after an easy heads-up win against James Bord. Here are the final table results.

1: David Oppenheim - $250,000

2: James Bord - $150,000

3: Howard Lederer - $80,000
4: Barny Boatman - $50,000

5: Patrik Antonius - $40,000 

6: Eli Elezra - $30,000

The final table is being played at the moment. The 6 finalists who are battling for the first prize of 250,000 AUD are Howard Lederer, David Oppenheim, James Bord, Barny Boatman, Patrik Antonius and Eli Elezra. Howard Lederer is in the lead with 175,000, closely followed by Oppenheim (160k) and James Bord (135,000). 

Boatman and Antonius are far behind in chips but might still have a chance if they double up soon. Eli Elezra only has 15,000 chips left and he will for sure be the one who's sent packing next since the blinds of 1000/2000 +100 ante are eating up his stack.

A lot of people were surprised when they read in Doyle Brunson's latest blog that he's considering to hit the road and move from Las Vegas to California. What surprised people even more was that the reason Doyle is considering to move is because of poker. Yes, Doyle thinks that there aren't enough high-limit games to suit him.

"Las Vegas is becoming more and more a not very desirable place for a poker pro to live. There are simply isn't very many high limit games anywhere. What's with the economy, the world wide tournaments, and the internet poker, the outlook for live cash games are bleak. Poker is on the verge of making a very significant change and in my opinion very bad change.
I'm considering moving to California; at least there are a few mid level games that are played regularly", writes Doyle Brunson in his blog.

The second heat of the Full Tilt Poker $25,000 Shootout Invitational is over. The 2 players who made it through the day were Patrik Antonius and James Bord and they will join David Oppenheim and Barny Boatman on the final table in a few days.

The third heat will start in a couple of hours and it will include the following players; Erick Lindgren, Howard Lederer, Tom Dwan, John Juanda, Andy Bloch, Eli Elezra, Van Marcus and Erik Cajelas. It will be very interesting to see which 2 players will make it to the final table. All 6 finalist are guaranteed at least 30k AUD each, the winner will get 250k AUD and the runner up 150k AUD.

Peter Eastgate, the 2008 WSOP Main Event winner, retired from poker last summer and not long ago he sold his bracelet on eBay - in order to gather money for charity. The bracelet was sold for not less than $147,000 to an anonymous buyer. Ever since the bracelet was sold, there have been many speculations who the buyer might be.

A few days ago, one could read in the Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet that it was Willie Haughey, a Scottish businessman and poker player (won an EPT side event back in 2008), who bought the bracelet for stunning $147,000. However, neither Eastgate or Haughey have confirmed this yet.

There hasn't been much action at the nosebleed tables online in the past few days, however there have been some good games on the $25/$50 PLO tables at Full Tilt. One of the most active players has been the Swedish player Toomten. He won $159,000 from a player called Bttech and then he decided to take on 2010's biggest winner online, jungleman12.

Toomten didn't have a chance against the american and after 1128 hands he gave up - $79k from the $159k was suddenly gone. This shows that table selection is one of the most important things in poker. Well, we can be thankful for a very entertaining heads-up!

It ended up being a very interesting final table (many familiar faces) of the PCA High Roller tournament. 3 of the 8 finalists were PokerStars pros and many thought that Jason Mercier would be the one of them who would survive the longest. However, as we all know now, it didn't end up that way but instead it was Leo Fendandez who battled for the first place prize of over a million dollars against William Molson. But unfortunately he didn't stand a chance against the canadian and ended up in 2nd place. A big congratulations to the winner, William Molson from Canada.

Final table results:
1: William Molson, $1 072 850
2: Leo Fernandez, $554 925
3: Max Lykov, $369 490
4: Erik Seidel, $295 960
5: Govert Metaal, $240 470
6: David Baker, $203 475
7: Matt Marafioti, C$166 480
8: Jason Mercier, $129 480

Titan Poker will host a weekly rake race exclusively for newcomers who has signed up within the last three months. The race will run from Monday to Saturday and starts today, Monday the 17th of January. The top 100 from the leaderbord will get their share of the $500 in cash and bonuses!

The leaderboard ranks the raked hands earned from the Beginners cash tables and will be automatically updated so it will be easy to keep track of your progression. These races are only open to beginners, so take a seat and learn how to play in a relaxed environment with players at your level.

Read more » Titan Poker: Weekly $500 Cash race for new players

2 weeks have now passed on the new year and it looks like it might might be a very good year when it comes to high stakes games online - even though so many big names in the poker world have been busy playing different live tournaments such as PCA etc.

Someone that has been running extremely good so far is Di "Urindanger" Dang. He has been playing lots of hands and it seems like he's waiting for new opponents 24/7 at Full Tilt Poker. Dang has won almost $1.1 million dollars so far and it seems like the poker gods are siding with him in many of the bigger pots. Well, he's a great player and it's not only about luck!

Read more » High Stakes: Urindanger over a million dollars plus after only 2 weeks

PokerStars recently launched their Home Game concept which is believed to be a foolproof success. Players can easily create their own poker club by simply logging on to the software and then click on the Home Game tab in the main lobby. Poker friends from around the globe can join up in a poker club and easily make use of features like leaderbords, player statstics, game schedule & game results. If you create a club, you will become the club manager and be able to create private tables and tournaments, only available for your poker club. Furthermore, you will aslo be inviting players to join your club, perhaps even remove some member for some reason and be able to customize your club lobby. You can recruit members with email, facebook or twitter. Best of all - it's Free!Read more » PokerStars Launch "Home Games"