It was just the beginning. Just three years later Bilokur prefers to play the biggest High Roller events in the world - one of which, the $25k High Roller at the PCA in 2012, he won for over $1. @pokerlistings.com

Those in the know, though, see the name Pantling on their table draw - either Andrew or his brother Wes - and see a very, very tough out. Both have long lists of big results both online and live with Andrew, among several impressive scores, finishing runner-up to Phil Laak at the 2010 WSOPE. @pokerlistings.com

Victor Sbrissa was celebrating victory in the Latin American Poker Tour Main Event in Brazil a week ago, winning over $250,000 to dwarf all of his previous tournament results. @bluff.com

What a start to 2013 it has been for Team PokerStars Pro Marcel Luske. The longtime poker pro has been MIA since the early days of the poker boom when he was a focus of the television cameras thanks to his impeccable attire, penchant to break into song.. @pokernewsboy.com

Have you reached your potential in poker? Are you getting the results you deserve? Nick Wealthall knows how frustrating poker can be, especially if you fail to move up as quickly as you’d like. @highstakesdb.com

The 2013 Card Player Poker Tour Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, Nevada concluded Tuesday with the main event. Here are the results. Main Event $1,080 NLHE, 190 entries 1. @cardplayer.com

Online gaming giant bwin.party reported its 2012 fiscal year financial results Friday, showing disappointing results virtually across the board. Overall revenue came in at €801. @pokernewsdaily.com

Bwin.Party CEO Norbert Teufelberger set out the company’s strategy in presenting results for 2012: less marketing spend on .COM, more focus on regulated markets, and a drive for “more on value and less on volume. @pokernews.com

A look at the results from the Sunday Majors that ran this weekend on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. @pokernews.com

This week’s What’s Your Play? highlights an important point about how to integrate an opponent’s physical tells into your decision-making process. @cardplayer.com

First off Anderson outlasted over 700 players to get to the final table of the elite PokerStars Sunday 500. Unfortunately for Anderson he ran out of steam just after making the final table and ended up finishing in eighth place for a relatively modest $8,169. @pokerlistings.com

The 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic got going this weekend in bittersweet fashion. While it is always a good time, the opening of the Main Event had a somber tone, as players remembered former Los Angeles Lakers owner and avid poker player, Jerry Buss, who passed away last week after a lengthy.. @pokernewsdaily.com

Getting his start playing home games in Oklahoma, Jordan Morgan made a swift and successful entry into the poker realm. With impressive live and online results, including more than $1.. @cardplayer.com

Card Player columnist and blogger Dusty Schmidt posted a blog on Feb 19. The contents of the blog, a discussion of “his brain on poker” and the results of a.. @cardplayer.com

A look at the results from the Sunday Majors that ran this weekend on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. @pokernews.com

Julius, who famously finished second at the 2012 PCA main event for $1.5 million, locked up the biggest prize in the Million yesterday thanks to a three-way deal but officially posted a runner-up finish to Estonian player parmupill. @pokerlistings.com

After an 18 month hiatus from the online poker tables following Black Friday the return of Tom "durrrr" Dwan to Full Tilt last year did not produce the kind of results we'd come to expect from one of the online games most successful players as he quickly dropped seven figures in rel.. @highstakesdb.com

Monday was Day 1B of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event and, as expected, the registration numbers topped those of Day 1A. 475 players turned out for the second starting flight, more than one and half times the number that paid the €5,000 + €300 entry on Sunday. @pokernewsdaily.com

A look at the results from the Sunday Majors that ran this weekend on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. @pokernews.com

Last week you all had the opportunity to vote for your favourite players of 2012 in our first HighstakesDB Awards. Both members and guests could contribute to each poll, which highlighted the most skilled and the most interesting poker players of last year. @highstakesdb.com

Nate Silver doesn't think federal online poker legislation is a sure thing. This past November Nate Silver became a media darling after correctly predicting the results of the U. @bluff.com

A look at the results from the Sunday Majors that ran this weekend on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. @pokernews.com

A look at the week's top poker news stories including Mike Matusow's victory in the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, the new poker players signed by Phil Ivey, and more. @pokernews.com

Mike “The Mouth” Matusow capped one of the most impressive tournament performances of his career by beating Phil "Poker Brat" Hellmuth in the final heads-up match to claim the $750,000 first-place prize. @pokerlistings.com

The NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship has returned for it’s eighth running this year. Once again, 64 of poker’s best players and brightest stars have turned out for this no-limit.. @cardplayer.com

With the overindulgences of the holidays firmly in the rearview mirror, online poker regulatory efforts gathered momentum this week, with mixed results. @bluff.com

A look at the results from the Sunday Majors that ran this weekend on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. @pokernews.com

A look at the day's top poker news stories including Phil Ivey's new trip of poker pros, results from the PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker, and more. @pokernews.com

A look at the day's top poker news stories including Patrik Antonius' return to Full Tilt Poker, the opening results from the PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker, and more. @pokernews.com

Today’s Boxscore Baptiste Chavillaz $216,275 – WSOP-C Bicycle Main Event James Henson $31,021 – WSOP-C Choctaw No Limit Hold’em Ross Bybee $168,433 – WSOP-C Choctaw NLHE Re-entry Erin Slaughter $23,660 – WSOP-C Choctaw Tubro Kevin Eyster $27,573 – WSOP-C Choctaw NLHE 6-Handed The first WSOP Circuit event of 2013 wrapped up this week with the.. @pokerati.com

Every day the poker world is inundated with more news, reports, and gossip, than any of us can read. At PokerNewsBoy.com we understand that there are only so many hours in the day, and only so much time you can set aside to follow all of the stories.. @pokernewsboy.com

A look at the day's top poker news stories including Phil Galfond's big wins against Viktor Blom, the latest winners in Full Tilt Poker's MiniFTOPS, and more. @pokernews.com

A look at the results from the Sunday Majors that ran this weekend on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. @pokernews.com

The PokerStars PCA is in full swing, with the $100k Super-High-Roller in the books, the PCA Main Event entering into Day 2, and a number of interesting moments and victories in the preliminary tournaments, which I will detail below. @pokernewsboy.com

A look at the results from the final Sunday Majors of 2012 that ran this weekend on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. @pokernews.com

In less than a week young Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has now won approaching $2.5 million with an incredible run of results playing heads up at Full Tilt's high stakes triple draw and FLO8 tables. @highstakesdb.com

A look at the results from the final Sunday Majors of 2012 that ran this weekend on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. @pokernews.com

A look at the results from the Sunday Majors that ran this weekend on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. @pokernews.com

Top players listed on The Hendon Mob online database contacted by the Spanish tax man. The Spanish tax authorities are using the online Hendon Mob database of live tournament results to check against players’ reported earnings, Spanish news site Poker-Red reports. @pokernews.com

A look at the results from the Sunday Majors that ran this weekend on PokerStars. @pokernews.com

Friday & Saturday were both pretty slow days at the high stakes tables of both PokerStars and Full Tilt with only one six figure winner, even with the results of both days combined. @highstakesdb.com

A look at the results from the Sunday Majors that ran this weekend on PokerStars. @pokernews.com

Day 1a of the PartyPoker World Poker Tour Prague Main Event took place on Monday, and Pasi Heinanen claimed the early chip lead. @pokernews.com

A look at the results from the Sunday Majors that ran this weekend on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. @pokernews.com

The tournament poker world is always a hectic place right before Christmas, and with the PokerStars PCA and the Aussie Millions occurring in January the schedule only gets more intense. @pokernewsboy.com

While Maimone was busy cleaning up on Full Tilt, PokerStars was running the Main Event of another successful MicroMillions. An astounding 60,072 players paid $22 to play the last event of MicroMillions III to create a prizepool of over $1 million. @pokerlistings.com

William Hill’s third quarter results show poker revenue down 24%. William Hill’s poker room is on the iPoker network owned by Playtech which reported a 27% poker decline in its own Q3 results. @pokernews.com

The remaining players are busy fighting it out for the title of BOM champion and the €35,000 first-place prize. Check back later for the full daily rundown and a video interview with the winner, courtesy of event host Kara Scott. @pokerlistings.com

Koon’s victory headlined a day that saw no less than five six-figure scores on PokerStars with both Melanie “Callisto 5” Weisner and Amit “AMAK316” Makhija making big final tables. @pokerlistings.com