Poker Articles

February 2007 - Posts

• Q&A With sbrugby/aba20

  
  

  Brian Townsend, known in the online poker world as sbrugby and aba20, is the newest instructor for CardRunners.com , which continues to be one of the premier providers of online poker training videos. Brian is one of the best known high stakes cash players... Read More... Posted Feb 13 2007, 02:03 AM by Adam with No Comments

• He's Had a Bad Day: Tuff_Fish on the PocketFives.com Podcast

  
  

  He’s just spewing chips. He’ll check raise you out of your seat. He has no clue what to do with a pair of tens. Losing two buy-ins? No problem. God Bless America. He’s really tired of people calling him. It’s not that he’s not playing good, he’s just... Read More... Posted Feb 12 2007, 10:29 PM by Dan with No Comments

• Gilbertology Takes Down FTOPS Event #1

  
  

  The first event of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series kicked off on Friday, February 9, and it took all of a few hours for the first PocketFiver to capture a win. Josh “ gilbertology ” Pollock, who plays on Full Tilt under the name “ jpo123 ,” took down... Read More... Posted Feb 12 2007, 12:52 PM by Dan with No Comments

• Down With the Sickness: PokerJoe9

  
  

  Joe Elpayaa is a typical young man. Typical, that is, if you ignore the fact that he has won more money playing online poker than the “average Joe” makes in ten years. On January 29th, I was writing up a report of aaronbeen’s success on UB, and as usual... Read More... Posted Feb 09 2007, 09:50 PM by Lenny with No Comments

• FTOPS Features $3.4 Million in Guarantees

  
  

  The first Full Tilt Poker Online Poker Series had $1 million in guaranteed prize money. The second FTOPS had a cool $2.5 million guaranteed – not a bad incentive for anyone playing in one of the nine events that it included. This year, Full Tilt has outdone... Read More... Posted Feb 08 2007, 04:28 PM by Dan with No Comments

• Rankings Update: Huge Jumps in Top 30

  
  

  Mr. Menlo had an especially huge boost in the PocketFives.com Online Tournament Player Rankings this week, due to the inclusion of the previous week's Sunday Million, which he won for over $200k. It didn't hurt that he also won a $100 rebuy recently... Read More... Posted Feb 08 2007, 03:43 AM by Adam with No Comments

• Wolfman79 Wins Borgata Poker Open Event #13

  
  

  The Borgata Winter Poker Open just concluded from the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. One PocketFiver, Laurence “ Wolfman79 ” Wolf, walked away victorious in Event #13, a $500 No Limit Hold’em event, for $63,275. 430 poker hopefuls entered this... Read More... Posted Feb 06 2007, 12:29 PM by Dan with No Comments

• RandALLin Wins Five Major UB Tourneys

  
  

  Over the past few weeks, one PocketFiver has been racking up results. He won four major tournaments on UltimateBet in January, and then capped that off with another victory last week. His name: Randal Flowers, known in the online poker scene as RandALLin... Read More... Posted Feb 06 2007, 11:09 AM by Dan with No Comments

• Up to the Challenge : dmmikkel Triple Crown

  
  

  I have to admit, I was not familiar with the name dmmikkel before he posted about his Triple Crown win. Apparently this guy has absolutely been killing it for a long time now, but he is much better known in the Sit and Go world than that of Multitable... Read More... Posted Feb 01 2007, 10:40 PM by Lenny with No Comments

• Annette_15 Breaks Through to Number 1

  
  

  She's been number 1 in the PLB for a while now, but this week, Annette_15 has finally reached her goal of being the number 1 ranked tournament player on the net. Her results have consistently been nothing short of spectacular, including in the past week... Read More... Posted Feb 01 2007, 12:28 AM by Adam with No Comments