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An extraordinary game took place last night, Viktor Blom and Daniel Cates played $50/100 heads-up NLHE on PokerStars. Isildur1 tilted a few times, Cates won $102,616 from the Swedish star.

Joining the PokerStars Supernova Elite club is one of the greatest acknowledgements for a poker player. Considerable amount of playtime, physical and mental stamina and, of course, humility towards poker are all necessary to generate the $170,000 in rake required to become an SNE. And there are players who do triple the amount...

Monday night, we saw the Durrrr Challenge continue in an almost 3,000 hand long battle, and Daniel Cates has further increased his lead, now $819,000 ahead of Tom Dwan.

InsidePokerBusiness reports that UK-based bookmaking firm Ladbrokes and online gaming company 888 are in preliminary negotiations about the former purchasing its gambling rival.

The second match of the SuperStar Showdown has ended with Isildur1’s victory, as he managed to beat Tony G with a $44, 820 profit.

According to official PokerStars announcement, Isildur1 plays against Tony G in the second game of the SuperStar Showdown, a series specifically designed to challenge the elusive Swede pro. Play begins at 16:00 ET on Sunday, 2nd January, 2011.

Cake Poker card room manager Lee Jones and tournament director Serge Ravitch announced on Tuesday that they left Cake Network.

Full Tilt Poker, it seems, has a nice scandal to settle for the holidays: they have offered illegitimate ID change for one of their Black Card players for seemingly few reasons if any.

Isildur1 lost his first SuperStar Showdown against Isaac 'philivey2694' Haxton, his first challenger. The Swede lost nearly $42,000.

Tom ’durrrr’ Dwan and Daniel ’jungleman12’ Cates keep up the good work recently; Durrrrr Challenge 2 is alive and well, with a 1,214 hands session played yesterday. Dwan managed to reduce his deficit to $500,000, while Cates swept in the biggest pot in the Challenge so far.

When Isildur1 was signed by PokerStars, the largest poker site in the world already announced a challange for players to take on their newest pro: the Superstar Showdown. We already have the first challanger: Isaac 'philivey2694' Haxton.

PokerTableRatings, one of the world's leading poker databases, announced their yearly vote for for the year's best players on all levels. Everyone can vote for their favourites now at PokerTableRatings.com.

Yesterday the two young poker pros, Tom 'durrrr' Dwan and Daniel 'Jungleman' Cates continued their epic battle called the Durrrr Challenge 2. During the 1,440 hands, Dwan managed to win $172,000.

Durrrr and jungleman12 continued their Challenge with another short session. Jungleman won, adding $110,000 to his profit that now stands at around $755,000 in total.

According to a recent chat between Dani ’Ansky’ Stern and Daniel ’jungleman12’ Cates, posted on 2+2, jungleman believes there is currently a major pause in Durrrr Challenge 2. No action taking place since 16th December, it might turn well into January, 2011 until we can hear from the challenge again.