For the past couple of weeks the mystery Swede only known as “Isildur1″ has been dipping his toes back into online poker’s waters. Playing relatively small stakes of $25/$50 and $50/$100 initially but at the start of this week he made his return to the nosebleed stakes and managed to clean up after a marathon session.
The sixth season of the NBC Nation Heads-Up Championship will take place at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas between March 4-7 and Annette Obrestad will be one of the 64 stars taking part.
Season 6 of the popular GSN show High Stakes Poker aired on Valentines Day but there was no love for Phil Hellmuth, who lost his $200,000 buy-in within a matter of minutes to be the first player to bust out this season. Six of the eight players bought in for $200,000 but Phil Ivey and Tom “durrrr” Dwan sat down with half a million dollars each, meaning there was $2,200,000 at the table, a true high-stakes encounter. Hellmuth lost a couple of pots early on and found himself $50,000 down after battling with 2009 November Niner Phil Ivey.
ChelseaM a long time regular on the Betfair Poker tables recently won Event 17 for a cool AUD 70,000 at the Aussie Millions. We caught up with him to find out how it felt and what he plans to do next. Mark, we all know you from Betfair Poker but can you tell us a bit about yourself
Paul Foltyn is one of the best tournament players on the planet, currently ranked third in the UK and 19th in the world for online tournament play, and he has kindly taken some time from his busy schedule to answer some questions from our readers. You’re known as a variety of names online from LEADBOOTS to Paolo and Pab, with most people refering to you as Pab.
“Is it going to be the ‘year of Annette’ at this year’s World Series of Poker?” That was a question posed by host Scott Huff on last week’s episode of The Poker Beat , recently singled out as winner of the 2009 Bluff Magazine Readers Choice Award for Best Poker Podcast.
Tyron Krost, the 23-year old Sydney-based poker player, is the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event Champion after besting a tough final table that included two Betfair pros, Sorel Mizzi and Annette Obrestad. Krost, who’s previous largest tournament win was $35,383 when he finished 249th from 6,844 entrants in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, started the final table second in chips but managed to claim the chip lead and once he did he never looked back.
The Main Event of the 2010 Aussie Millions has been paused until Saturday after the 18 remaining players were whittled down to the final table of eight. Sorel Mizzi is the overnight chip leader and his Betfair teammate, Annette Obrestad also has a healthy stack of chips at her disposal. It took almost an hour for the first player to be eliminated and that dubious honour went to Pierre Aoukar.
Betfair pros Annette Obrestad and Sorel Mizzi are in with a real chance of glory in the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event as they currently sit second and third in chips respectively with just 18 players remaining.
