Category: Poker

World Series of Poker Europe returns to Channel 4 and SeeSaw TV

Coverage of the Betfair-sponsored World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) 2009 began on Tuesday March 16 on Channel 4. While Week One featured the likes of Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson; many will be keen for the first sighting of our own Annette Obrestad in the Poker PROductions created show. The 2007 WSOPE champ will make her appearance on Tuesday March 23 at midnight including an interview where she explains how she has improved since landing the title and collecting a bracelet at the age of just 19. See here for the latest news of Annette including her latest plans, her progress in recent tournaments and her rare but always readable blog entries. If you miss any of the episodes, ‘the wonder that is catch-up TV’ has stepped into the breach and we have found a great link to See Saw TV for UK viewers – WSOPE on catch up TV.

Mar 18, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Obrestad does Orel to set up Hellmuth clash

Betfair Pro Annette Obrestad is through to the last 32 of the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship and will face Phil Hellmuth after beating the former baseball player Orel Hershiser in the opening round of the popular tournament. The 64 payers were cut to 32 as former champions, popular poker faces and online qualifiers went head-to head playing No Limit Hold ‘Em

Mar 06, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Isildur1 wins $1.1m in 30 hour session

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.

Feb 18, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Annette confirmed for NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship

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.

Feb 17, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Hellmuth loses $200k on High Stakes Poker

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.

Feb 15, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

The Betfair Poker Interview – ChelseaM aka Mark Segal

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

Feb 10, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

The Betfair Poker Interview – Paul Foltyn

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.

Feb 10, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

America Awaits Annette

“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.

Feb 05, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Tyron Krost wins 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event

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.

Feb 01, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Betfair pros reach final table of Aussie Millions Main Event

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.

Jan 29, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Page 1 of 1112 3 4 5 »10...Last »

Ian the odds watcher: Re: The Timeform Grand National Guide: ‘The Aintree Factor’ :: Mon Mome is the most likely horse to clock up a second win. But...
Aintree Expert: Re: The Timeform Grand National Guide: ‘The Aintree Factor’ :: To win the Aintree Grand National you need a little bit of everything, good...
Irish Grand National fan: Re: Ante-Post Racing: The Irish Grand National :: The Irish Grand National is a great race and one that’s sadly overlooked in...
Grand National fan: Re: Grand National 2010: Twiston-Davies prepares massive raiding party :: I don’t think anyone in racing would begrudge Nigel a...