The Biggest Ever Pot in Online Poker History

Posted by Mal | November 26, 2009 | Posted in: Professional Players | Comments (0)

Isildur1 and Patrik Antonius played the biggest ever pot seen in online poker ever recently.

Tom Dwan and Di Dang had the previous record at $723,000 of real cash, but in a session that made the other games look small Isidur1 and Antonius broke the record twice before playing out this monster.

Click play below to watch the hand in action. Basically Patrik has KKA3 and Isildur1 tries to bet him off the hand with a straight draw which fails to fill. Antonius is 55% in the hand and it holds up to win $1.3 million in a single hand. The hand is amazing to watch and frightening too! Isildur1 had inflicted a bad beat on Phil Ivey earlier in a pot worth $800,000. We all hate variance but that has to hurt even Phil Ivey!

Click here to be taken to poker table ratings for the full hand replay.

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Are Online Sites Crooked?

Posted by Mal | November 26, 2009 | Posted in: Guest Articles | Comments (2)

By Carl “The Dean” Sampson at poker loco

I think I must have answered or replied to this question more times than I can care to remember but I got an e-mail from a guy called Robert today who asked me a series of questions of which this was one of them. Actually Rob please forgive me if I don’t answer them all straight away but time is of the essence at the moment. Of course we have all seen cheating scandals associated with online poker. These have been the players themselves who have been breaking the rules and not the sites. Now of course the poker sites will not break their neck to divulge such things, why should they……that is just good business practice.

If you owned a large electrical store and one of your range of televisions was faulty then you would just correct the problem. What you wouldn’t do is make a big public statement saying how one of your product range was faulty but there is nothing to worry about as you are correcting the problem.

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Aced Poker Cannot Pay Their Players

Posted by Mal | November 12, 2009 | Posted in: News | Comments (0)

Aced poker have become the latest poker site unable to pay their players.

This is an email taken from the poker article on 911gambling.com

“From: Aced Support To: XXXXXXX@live.com
Subject: RE: RE: (LTK6150744719X)
Sent: Nov 8, 2009 11:58 PM
Reference number: LTK6150744719X Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us. Subject: RE:

Hi HXXXXXn,

As I stated in my last email to you, we do not hold your funds. If we held your funds, they would appear in your poker account balance or in the pending transactions in the poker client. The transaction is approved and processed on our end and the funds have been sent to PIC Club.

The fact is that all outstanding funds have been sent to PIC Club and our business relationship with them is over. I do not know why they are telling you otherwise.

I am sorry if you are having trouble getting your funds back from PIC Club but they are in no way held by Aced or the Merge Gaming Network.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.

Sincerely,
CS Manager James Customer Support Representative”

This is particularly galling. Full Tilt and Pokerstars have had similar problems with up to $50 million dollars and the players still get paid. I hope this is resolved quickly. This is probably the end for Aced Poker and yet another example of why you should play at reputable larger poker rooms only. Remember that the people holding your money do, even for a short time, refrain direct access to it so trusted sites like bwinpoker.com, backed up by a sportsbook that has 20 million customers is surely a safer place to play.

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Durrrr Joins Team Full Tilt

Posted by Mal | November 11, 2009 | Posted in: News | Comments (0)

I have been surprised that Tom Dwan has not been signed as a high level Pro at Full Tilt for some time. This has now happened and below is the video of the press conference held to welcome him to the team.

Tom has since gone on a massive downswing of around $2 million on Full Tilt. There has been speculation that his deal may be worth around $100,000 a month to Dwan, but this pales into insignificance when you think this young man is playing for millions everyday. He will be seen on the live circuit a lot more after this move.

He looked a little embarrassed at the formality of the press conference as did Patrik Antonius. Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson were far more comfortable and they hinted more online stars would join them in the future. Good new for Aaron “AEJones” Jones and Illari “Ziigmund” Sahamies you feel.

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Joseph Cada is 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion

Posted by Mal | November 10, 2009 | Posted in: News | Comments (0)

Joseph Cada has done it! He has beaten Darvin Moon and won the biggest prize of them all!

Congratulations to Stu Ungar look-a-like Joe, who wins $8.5 million for his life changing victory.

Darvin Moon put up a great fight and lost with dignity. Hopefully we will see both players in plenty of tournaments in the future. Joe has signed for Pokerstars, ending his one off affiliation with UB. Another thing I am glad to see.

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Joseph Cada & Darvin Moon Go Heads Up

Posted by Mal | November 8, 2009 | Posted in: News | Comments (0)

All of the fancied names have gone from the November 9 and the two remaining players to battle for the bracelet are Joseph Cada and Darvin Moon.

Here are their chip counts.

Joseph Cada – $135,950,000
Darvin Moon – $58,850,000

Joseph will become the youngest winner ever should he win the event and it looks likely he will do. Both players have done very well getting this far. Darvin put a sick beat on Phil Ivey to eliminate him by catching a Queen on his AQ v AK of Ivey.

The rest of the payouts were as follows,

3. Antoine Saout $3,479,485
4. Eric Buchman $2,502,787
5. Jeff Shulman $1,953,395
6. Steven Begleiter $1,587,133
7. Phil Ivey $1,404,002
8. Kevin Schaffel $1,300,228
9. James Akenhead $1,263,602

Disappointment for the UK hope Akenhead as he managed to catch a miracle Queen to stay alive only to be eliminated in 9th place. Well done to Frenchman Saout who did very well to finish third. The Everest poker fans will be happy who had a stake in him! Good luck to Darvin and Joseph for tomorrows heads up match.

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Deposit Problem Continue

Posted by Mal | November 7, 2009 | Posted in: Mals Blog | Comments (0)

If you have not tried out 5 Card Draw then you should. It has only two betting rounds and there is not much strategy in it. People still manage to play it terribly though. I’ve swelled my $2 bankroll into around $10 on Pokerstars playing this game. The only problem is, especially in the PL and Fixed Limit versions, it is impossible to know the strength of your opponents hands. When they have anything higher than a Ace high flush you pretty much have to call.

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