Online Poker

Here you will find stories about online poker. From the online poker rooms themselves to the business of online poker, and the culture that surrounds the game. Poker players who are mostly known for their online play are also featured here.

• The Online Railbird Report: Dwan Loses Over a Million, Isildur1 Keeps Taking Shots

  November 07, 2009,

  It was a rollicking week at the virtual tables, as the high-stakes action continued to be driven by Swedish mystery man “Isildur1”, who kept challenging top online players to multitable heads-up matches. While Isildur1 was busy playing the...

   

• The Sunday Briefing: Sam “siola” Iola Takes Home Largest of Eight Six-Figure Scores

  November 02, 2009,

  Sure to be a memorable month, November kicked off with an online poker bang. A few hours after the New York Yankees locked up Game 4 of the World Series, Sam “siola” Iola locked up the biggest payday of the Sunday Majors, collecting...

   

• The Online Railbird Report: Enter Isildur1, Sahamies Wins $1 Million in One Night

  October 30, 2009,

  A new screen name at the high-stakes tables is always a cause for celebration among the regular crowd, and this week Sweden’s “Isildur1” stepped up to the plate, challenging the likes of Cole South, Brian Hastings, Haseeb Qureshi and Patrik...

   

• The "durrrr" Challenge: Four Sessions + 2,000 Hands = an $81,000 Win for Tom Dwan

  October 28, 2009,

  After a 20-day gap between sessions, Patrik Antonius and Tom "durrrr" Dwan finally found time to continue their (neverending) challenge match, sitting at four tables of heads-up $200/$400 pot-limit Omaha on Full Tilt Poker at just after 4...

   

• Online Poker Spotlight: Michael Tureniec

  October 27, 2009,

  Michael Tureniec is a Full Tilt pro born and raised in Sweden who has taken the poker world by storm amassing over $1.2 million in career tournament earnings. We caught up with Michael to discuss his chip lead in the Partouche Poker Tour, what he...

   

• The Sunday Briefing: "grifo173" and "Kirbynator" Secure Sunday's Biggest Scores

  October 26, 2009,

  The final Sunday in October proved to be an exciting one on the virtual felt. Deals were failed to be reached by the final competitors in the PokerStars Sunday Million and Full Tilt $750,000 Guarantee, resulting in huge scores to those emerging on...

   

• The Online Railbird Report: Antonius Dominates the 7-Game Action

  October 23, 2009,

  It was a light week in nosebleed-stakes action, as most of the action continued to center around the $2,000/4,000 7-Game tables on Full Tilt Poker. Everyone’s favorite Finnish ex-model Patrik Antonius came out on top, adding $346,000 to the till...

   

• The Sunday Briefing: Vivek Rajkumar Victorious

  October 19, 2009,

  It was another exciting Sunday as hundreds of thousands of dollars were on the line in events all across the virtual felt. Vivek Rajkumar claimed the Full Tilt $1 Million Guarantee and, after a two-way chop with "krasark", went away with...

   

• Bodog Poker Open IV

  October 17, 2009,

  The Bodog Poker Open IV begins November 1 and runs through November 8. Two tournament series will run at the same time: a Contender Series with buy-ins as low as $5, and the Championship Series with buy-ins ranging from $100 to $470 for the...

   

• The Online Railbird Report: The 7-Game Renaissance

  October 16, 2009,

  This week, the high-stakes action on Full Tilt Poker moved away from the regular crowd’s usual haunt at the $500/1,000 pot-limit Omaha tables and onto the $2,000/4,000 7-Game tables. Perhaps in an attempt to exploit some players’ weaknesses at...

   

• Online Poker Spotlight: Ryan Welch

  October 15, 2009,

  Ryan Welch is a 26-year-old professional poker player who lives in Nashville. He left his job as a sales executive to play poker full time. His biggest win was in October 2008 when he won the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for close to $100,000...

   

• The Sunday Briefing: "Sumai" Banks a Sunday Million Win and $225,000

  October 12, 2009,

  It was another exciting Sunday as hundreds of thousands of dollars were on the line in events all across the virtual felt. Over at PokerStars, “sumai” took down the Sunday Million and collected a whopping $225,000 for the win. Meanwhile at Full...

   

• The "durrrr" Challenge: The First 25,000 Hands

  October 08, 2009,

  231 days after it began, the "durrrr" Challenge quietly reached its halfway point on Wednesday, as Patrik Antonius and Tom "durrrr" Dwan played the 25,000th hand in their four-table $200/400 pot-limit Omaha challenge match. Dwan was able to build...

   

• The Online Railbird Report: The Return of "martonas," the Fall of Benyamine

  October 06, 2009,

  After a quiet spell, the high-stakes online cash games roared back into action this week. All the regulars made appearances -- including Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, and Tom “durrrr” Dwan-- as game catalyst...

   

• The Sunday Briefing: PokerStars Sunday Million Sees Three Six-Figure Winners

  October 05, 2009,

  Another Sunday on the virtual felt is in the books as the major online poker sites ran their standard Sunday tournaments. Despite a smaller field than usual in the PokerStars Sunday Million, three players emerged with six-figure pay days. The...

   

• The "durrrr" Challenge: Dwan retakes lead with $275,000 Win

  October 02, 2009,

  Schedules and time zones at last aligned for Tom "durrrr" Dwan and Patrik Antonius, who resumed their 50,000 hand challenge early Thursday morning after a 25-day break. Though it was a relatively brief session,clocking in at 74 minutes and 400...

   

• The Sunday Briefing: Final Table Deal Sees Four Six-Figure Winners in The Sunday Million

  September 28, 2009,

  Although the World Championship of Online Poker is over, this doesn't mean you can't make big money online. In all, six six-figure paydays took place across the spectrum of online poker sites. Walking away the big winner in the PokerStars Sunday...

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: The Top 10 WCOOP Moments of 2009

  September 26, 2009,

  Since its inception in 2002, PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker (or “WCOOP” as it’s widely known) has grown into one of the poker world’s marquee events. Much like the World Series of Poker, the WCOOP draws not only top live...

   

• The Online Railbird Report: Hansen and Sahamies Weather Huge Losses

  September 25, 2009,

  The high-stakes online cash games were all but deserted this week as tournaments dominated everyone's time, from guys like Phil Ivey, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, and Patrik Antonius, who were in London for the World Series of Poker-Europe to online pros like...

   

• Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko Wins the PokerStars WCOOP Main Event

  September 22, 2009,

  The 2009 World Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars came to a close on Monday as Day 2 of the main event came to a conclusion with Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko taking the world's most prestigious online title. The $5,200...

   

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