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Today 3:21 PM

Big PLO & FLO8 Ring Games - no_Ola & durrrr Both Win Big

We've gradually seen an increase in interest in the $500/$1000 CAP PLO games, and yesterday morning saw four full tables of action at the highest PLO stakes online. The biggest winner to eme...

Today 12:08 PM

Amir Babakhani Leads Going Into Day 4 Of WPT Championship Event 2013

Mercier, Negreanu and Cody all still in the hunt for another title

Today 10:10 AM

Mike Linster Leads After Day 2 At WPT Championship Event

$1.1 million up for grabs for the winner

Yesterday 5:46 PM

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Yesterday 11:34 AM

trex313 Beats the $500/$1000 CAP PLO Games for $843k

After an 11 hour session of $500/$1000 CAP PLO last night, it was Hac "trex313" Dang who left as by far the biggest winner, with an impressive $843k haul.

Yesterday 10:48 AM

WPT Championship Underway, Northug Keeps Grinding and more

The final event of the World Poker Tour's eleventh season is now underway, just one week after the European Poker Tour's ninth season reached it's conclusion.

Sunday 11:55 PM

Ben "Bttech86" Tollerene is Saturday's Only Six Figure Winner - Makes $162k at $500/$1000 CAP PLO

Yesterday was a relatively slow day at the nosebleeds, with Ben "Bttech86" Tollerene the o...

Sunday 7:58 PM

OMGClayAiken Strikes Back - Wins $615k at FLO8

After another great day of high stakes action over at Full Tilt, Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond walked away as the day's biggest winner with a $615.5k score, almost eliminating his big PLO loss...

Saturday 5:06 PM

Isildur1 Wins Another Million

After a couple of bad days Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has once again put in a fantastic performance at the tables to end yesterday as a $1m winner.

Friday 12:17 PM

Doyle Brunson might not be playing the 2013 WSOP

Doyle Brunson is thinking about whether he should pass on tournament play at the WSOP this summer, just few weeks before the 44th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) is ready to kick off.

Friday 8:00 AM

Mid Month Recap - Gus Hansen & cottonseed1 Enjoying Million Dollar Mays

As we enter the second half of May, let's take a quick look back at the last two, action packed weeks of highstakes online action.

Thursday 7:37 PM

Ski Legend Petter Northug Seen Multitabling High Stakes PLO

The worlds best cross-country skier takes on the best poker players at PokerStars high stakes tables

Thursday 12:35 PM

SallyWoo Wins $187k as the FLO8 Action Continues

Once again it seems that FLO8 is the nosebleed players game of the moment over at Full Tilt with plenty of $2k/$4k action yesterday. Limit specialist, SallyWoo, ended as the day's biggest wi...

Thursday 11:54 AM

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Thursday 10:04 AM

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Thursday 12:55 AM

Max Altergott Wins EPT Monte Carlo Super High Roller Event 2013

Mercier now on close to $10m lifetime tournament cashes

Wednesday 9:29 PM

A Great Day for The Great Dane - Wins $1.57m After Huge FLO8 Session

Gus "The Great Dane" Hansen has most certainly not had a good time of things since his return to Full Tilt Poker late last year. In fact, things have gone terribly, as he is by far the bigge...

Wednesday 12:22 PM

Kelopuro, Spindler, and Marquez Capture SCOOP Titles

The 2013 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is now well underway and early winners include players like Sami "LrsLzk" Kelopuro, Benny "toweliestar" Spindler and Ana Marqu...

Wednesday 10:29 AM