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by on March 11, 2010 TweetThis
Until Megan Fox denies that she's isildur1, we'll keep posting pics.
Too bad we didn’t stick around to watch. OMGClayAiken apparently put on a clinic, winning over $1.6M from isildur1.
In all, despite his huge wins over Cole South and Brian Hastings, isildur1 lost over $1.5M on Wednesday, which included a $900k drop to Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan.
Read more about it here.
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by on January 4, 2010 TweetThis
The secret to Patrik Antonius' winning online poker ways...
Not surprisingly, two of the most consistent online winners over the years had the biggest 2009: Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey.
Poker-King has a breakdown of the biggest winners and losers on Full Tilt for 2009. Antonius banked almost $9M, while Ivey cleared over $6M.
As for losers? While Tom “durrrr” Dwan had the worst month ever in November, he rebounded in December enough to only be the second most losing player (down $4.34M). Top reverse honors for most money lost goes to Gus Hansen, who ended the year down $5.57M.
Isildur1 finished fifth, down $2.2M.
View the full list here.
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by on December 16, 2009 TweetThis
Brad Yukon Booth (above) just cross-checked the hell out of Rich Bitar.
As Booth explains it, Full Tilt had him on salary where he was “promised a certain amount [of cash] a month, rakeback” and more. This agreement was based on a handshake deal with Bitar, who handles Tilt player sponsorships. But with Booth in his “igloo” up north (awesomely his words, not ours) and out of sight, Tilt just stopped paying him his monthly deal. Since nothing was papered, he doesn’t have much recourse.
This is why you need agents, btw.
Booth made it clear he’s got nothing against the Iveys, Lederers, and Blochs of the Tilt world, as he doubts they know anything about his bum deal. But he did say he thinks Bitar is an “idiot.”
Listen to the whole Hardcore Poker Show interview here.
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by on December 9, 2009 TweetThis
Isildur1 (artist rendition above) probably wants to light himself on fire after his session with Brian Hastings.
But this Isildur1 character and the nosebleed action going on at Full Tilt right now is fascinating.
After busting off $5M of Tom durrrr Dwan’s bankroll, Isuldur1 went bust himself. Then Isuldur1 built his stack back up, then yesterday lost $4.2M in one session to Brian Hastings, who we didn’t even know played mega-high stakes, and should pretty much cash out and move to some island without Internet access riiiiiight…now.
Just sick. Now Hastings is the big winner overall against Isildur, with Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, and Brian Townsend all up over a milli.
Read all about the latest bloodbath here.
UPDATE: Phil Gordon discusses isildur1 with Patrik Antonius here.
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by on December 3, 2009 TweetThis
Our now go-to UIGEA girl, Metzker Viktoria, brings you today's legislative update...
Some good, meaty pro-legalization and regulation arguments and studies being put forth.
Follow live blogging from the hearings here.
UPDATE: Now with video.
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by on November 28, 2009 TweetThis
Will the days of unregulated online poker in the U.S. soon be behind us?
From a statement:
Agencies Extend Compliance Date for Final Rule to Implement Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act
The Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced the release of a joint final rule to extend the compliance date for their joint regulation implementing certain provisions of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act by six months to June 1, 2010.
As Pokerati noted, the timing is interesting, in that the statement was released on one of the slowest news days of the year. Kinda like when Ub released their super-user names on Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 5pm.
We’ve been speaking with many lobbyists and others “in the know” on what was going to happen come December 1st, and the overwhelming opinion was that a last minute delay was going to be pushed through. These same people mostly agreed that a poker-only “exemption” may now be pushed through/attached to the Port Securities Bill, specifically with a focus on “age restrictions” and setting limits to curb “abusive” gambling behaviors.
All in all, good news on Thanksgiving weekend.
More of the insanely attractive Metzker Viktoria here.
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