BankrollMob News - Poker / Casino / Betting

PokerStars and Full Tilt to present repayment plan this month

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:45:01 GMT

According to a report from iGaming Post, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) have reached an agreement on paying back Full Tilt Poker players and the official repayment plan might be presented already at the end of this month. Once the announcement has been made and the U.S. Department of Justice has approved it, both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars should be able to apply for licenses within the U.S., when and if online poker is regulated in the future. Poker[...]

High Stakes: Phil Galfond Tells His Story

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:48:23 GMT

Phil Galfond,27, has won millions of dollars both online and live and he has also won a World Series of Poker bracelet and appeared on multiple seasons of GSN's High Stakes Poker. Yesterday, Galfond wrote about how he started playing poker in a blog entry titled "My Poker (+other) Story. It's very interesting reading (over 5000 words). In fact, it's a must read for all poker lovers out there... The Beginning I started playing online poker for fun when I was a freshman in at University of Wis[...]

2012 SCOOP: High-Stakes Phenomenon "MaiseE" wins Event 24 for $107,422

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:22:47 GMT

The Swedish High Roller "MaiseE, who is rumored to be ex PokerStars Pro William Thorson, dominated the final table of Event 24-High $1,050 Pot Limit Omaha and took home $107,422 after defeating Milana Jones heads-up. MaiseE had to survive a field of 282 players to take home his biggest ever online tournament cash. There were many big names who participated in the tournament. For example: Kevin "ImaLuckSac" MacPhee almost made it to the final table but eventually finished in 13th place for $8,[...]

PokerStars Brings Zoom to Android

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:03:53 GMT

Today PokerStars released an Android version of Zoom Poker, a fast action ring game format that give players more hands in less time! For now this version of Zoom only works on Android-powered devices, but probably it won't take long until Zoom will be available for iPhone and iPad as well. Also, the official version of Zoom is now available in the poker client - almost 2 months after the beta version saw the daylight for the first time (more than 300 million hands have been played during this [...]

2012 SCOOP: Shaun Deeb wins his second event

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:12:53 GMT

The 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker at PokerStars is now halfway through and 7 action filled days and lots of events are in the books. Last week, we wrote about Viktor "Isildur1" Blom's two wins and Daniel Negreanu's second place finish. During the weekend Shaun Deeb joined Viktor Blom as the only multi-event winners when he took down Event #19-High ($2,000 Triple Stud) for $44,200 while Jason Mercier and Phil Galfond each earned six figures in Event #18-High ($1,000 PLO Omaha 6-Max wit[...]

Monks Caught in High-Stakes Cash Game Scandal

Sun, 13 May 2012 17:30:34 GMT

Reuters, an international news agancy, reports that a group of 6 Buddhist monks have resigned after a video filmed secretly showed them playing high-stakes poker, drinking and smoking at a memorial event for dead Zen master. Seongho, a senior monk, said that about $875,000 was on the table during the cash game that lasted for about 13 hours. Gambling is forbidden in South Korea expect at licensed casino and racecourses. Some of the monks involved were believed to be abbots. Apart from that,[...]

Tom Dwan Wins Huge Pot in Macau!

Fri, 11 May 2012 12:20:48 GMT

There are some insane cash games going on in Macau in China at the moment, with some of the best players in the world! According to a poker news site that follows the action in Macau on daily basis, Tom "durrrr" Dwan took home a pot of almost $4 million dollars during the ongoing Macau Big Game. The blinds on some tables where "durrrr" has been playing have been as much as $30,000 / $60,000 Hong Kong Dollars, but the enormous pot was played on a table with $10,000 / $20,000 HKD blinds. Accord[...]

High Stakes: "Sauce123" won $401k last week!

Fri, 11 May 2012 05:50:27 GMT

After compiling last week's online cash games, it is clear that the American pro Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky was the biggest winner with a $401,718 profit. A player called "Phisherman36" also did very well last week. With a $388k profit the anonymous player secured the second place on the list of last week's biggest winners. Someone that didn't do so well last week was, once again, Ilari "Ilari FIN" Sahamies. The Finnish pro's 2012 has been one hell of a roller coaster ride that never seems to stop[...]

Doyle Brunsons's Tribute to Amarillo Slim

Thu, 10 May 2012 12:43:15 GMT

In Doyle Brunson's latest blog "You Only Live once. If you work it right, once is enough" the 78-year-old poker legend writes about his good old friend Amarillo Slim, who passed away last month at the age of 83. Brunson writes, for example, about the phone call he made to Amarillo Slim when he was in a hospice and when the two of them traveled the US looking for poker games to take part in. Below is the full version of Doyle's blog "You Only Live once. If you work it right, once is enough". A[...]

2012 SCOOP #6-High: "ElkY" and "KidPoker" made it to the final table!

Thu, 10 May 2012 06:41:56 GMT

In ended up being a very exciting final table in the Spring Championship of Online Poker #6-High ($1,050 NL Draw) event as both Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier were on it. Both of them did extremely well on the final. ElkY, however, was sent packing in 3rd place for $11,530,00, which left Daniel Negreanu playing heads-up against Argentian pro Roberto "Maestro Shao" Greco. Negreanu, who has reached several final tables both online and live this year but failed to win,[...]

Titan Poker Part Ways With its last 2 Pro Team players

Wed, 9 May 2012 12:09:57 GMT

A few days ago the Brittish poker pro Sam Trickett announced on Twitter that he and Titan Poker had parted ways: "Me an Titan have decided to part ways. I have enjoyed representing them and they was a absolute pleasure to work with. Thanks again Titan..." According to Trickett's ex team-mate Marvin Rettenmaier's Twitter, Titan Poker is parting ways with all its Pro Team players. This means that Titan Poker no longer has any pro players. However, nothing has been announced on Titan Poker's webs[...]

Viktor "Isildur1" Blom wins his second SCOOP Event!

Wed, 9 May 2012 08:27:47 GMT

After winning Event #2-Medium for $247,200 on Monday night, it didn't even take 24 hours until Viktor "Isildur1" Blom striked again and won his second Spring Championship of Online Poker event! The win came in Event #3-High NLH 6-max rebuy Action Hour - after defeating a player called "Ruxandescu" from Romania heads-up. The win gave Blom $160,000 and his second SCOOP title. In total, Blom has now won $407,200 in the 2012 SCOOP! The money will most probably come handy for the young Swede who [...]

Daniel Negreanu's Weekly Rant

Tue, 8 May 2012 09:08:37 GMT

In the latest edition of the weekly rant (was recorded May 2nd but released 2 days ago due to "techinical issues"), Daniel Negreanu talks about his recent success at EPT Monte Carlo, Amarilo Slim - who passed away on April 29th, a video with Howard Lederer discussing business ethics, and a lot more. Click here too check out the video blog!

"Isildur1" wins a SCOOP Event!

Tue, 8 May 2012 07:42:47 GMT

PokerStars 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker started 2 days ago and already 10 of the 40 events are in the books. However, the most notable win so far has to be Viktor "Isildur1" Blom's win of of Event #2-Medium last night - $215 NLH (1 million guaranteed)! No deal was made among the finalists so Blom received amazing $247,200 - his biggest online tournament cash ever! We might hear more about Viktor Blom already in a few hours time as he is among one of the 46 remaining players in Ev[...]

PokerStars 2012 SCOOP: $30 million guaranteed across 40 events!

Mon, 7 May 2012 13:01:26 GMT

The 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker kicked off yesterday and will run until May 20th, with $30,000,000 guaranteed across 40 events! Each tournament has a low, medium and high buy-in, which makes it the ultimate tournament series for every type of player. The main event will be played on the very last day and not less than $5,000,000 is guaranteed by PokerStars! Click here to see the 2012 SCOOP schedule (events and satellites).

Negreanu lost the first Limit Hold'em Challenge

Mon, 7 May 2012 08:23:37 GMT

Following the very successful and popular SuperStar Showdown with Viktor Blom, the very first Limit Hold'em Challenge with Daniel Negreanu was played yesterday on PokerStars. KidPoker's first opponent was the German Limit-specialist "rUaBot". The game featured two tables with the stakes $200/$400 Limit Hold'em and both players had $75,000 each to gamble with. The match was very even at first, but then "rUaBot" seemed unstoppable as he was winning hand after hand. However, the match still last[...]

Global Poker Index: "ElkY" Reclaims Top Spot

Fri, 4 May 2012 09:53:40 GMT

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is back in first place on Global Poker Index thanks to his third-place finish in the €100,000 Super High Roller that was played during EPT Monte-Carlo. Jason Mercier, who had the lead last week, has now dropped to second place. This is the first time since December last year that ElkY is back in the lead on GPI's list. However, it extremely tight among the top players, so we might see a change already next week. What is Global Poker Index?The Global Poker [...]

High Stakes: April's Biggest Winners and Losers

Fri, 4 May 2012 08:50:31 GMT

It's time to take a look at the online high stakes scene's past month as there have been many interesting games running on PokerStars in the past few weeks. By far the biggest winner in April month was Ben "Ben86" Tollerene who got away with a fantastic $1,300,553 profit - more than double what the runner-up won (EireAbu - $634,825). Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky won $556,492 and secured the third place on April's list of winners. Just like the top 2 winners it ended up being a big gap between the f[...]

WSOP Expands to Australia in Partnership with Crown Melbourne

Thu, 3 May 2012 06:31:59 GMT

Yesterday World Series of Poker announced on its website that a new partnership has been made with Crown Melbourne, Australia's leading integrated entrainment resort where Aussie Millions is played, to bring the WSOP series to the region. World Series of Poker Asia -Pacific (WSOP APAC) will take place April 4-15, 2013, at Crown Melbourne and feature 5 WSOP gold bracelet events. "Our goal is to establish the worldwide grand slam of poker and use our platform to elevate the game through a seri[...]

EPT Monaco High Roller: Igor Kurganov defeated Daniel Negreanu heads-up

Wed, 2 May 2012 08:31:51 GMT

Yesterday we wrote about Justin Bonomo and what a fantastic chance he had to take down his second EPT Monaco High Roller event as he carried a massive lead to the final table. But unfortunately nothing seemed to work for Bonomo on the final table and he fell short in bid for a second High Roller title after getting knocked out in 4th place by Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu played extremely well on the final table and after several hours of thrilling final table action he ended up playing heads-up [...]