Tue, 09/13/2011 – 07:23 – PokerPages Staff

Online phenomenon Mickey ‘mement_mori’ Petersen has become the latest player to join Team PokerStars Online. The Dane has established himself as one of the most talented multi-table tournament specialists having won over $4 million on the virtual felt.

Petersen reiterated his desire to extend that dominance to the live arena and spoke of his excitement at representing the world’s largest online poker site, in a statement released on Monday. “I see signing with world’s largest online site as the next logical step in my career and hopefully I’ll be able to build on my resume live as well as online and promote both PokerStars and the game in a positive light.”

Petersen’s best career score in live tournaments came last year when he finished 4th in the PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte Carlo event. Petersen, who earned over $100,000 for that deep run, has taken down $233,516 during his short career.

However, those achievements pale in comparison to his online record where he has won over $500,000 in PokerStars Spring Championship of Online events and finished third in the Sunday Warm-Up. That success led him to becoming a CardRunners coach and the youngster remains one of the most active grinders in the game.

Petersen joins a Team Online roster which includes recent triple PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker bracelet winner, Anders ‘Donald’ Berg, high stakes cash game regular Randy Lew, Shane Schleger, Dale Philip and Andrew Brokos.

Fri, 09/09/2011 – 06:58 – PokerPages Staff

Phil ‘MrSweets28′ Galfond ended a barren run of form by booking a substantial $368,000 profit in high stakes cash games on the world’s largest poker site, PokerStars, on Wednesday.

Galfond had been in a rut for several days prior to his huge win which saw him thrash the red hot Andreas ‘skjervoy’ Torbergsen at the Heads-Up Pot Limit Omaha tables in mid-week.

The 26 year-old also enjoyed lucrative $200 / $400 PLO sessions against Ilari ‘Ilari FIN’ Sahamies, ‘socutiesf’ and Rafi ‘rafaelamit’ Amit and eventually logged off after 2,236 hands with a notable six figure upswing.

Galfond is now well on the road to recovery after a bleeding a significant chunk of his bankroll during the last ten days. The Vancouver, Canada resident is up $483,000 for the calendar year.

Ilari ‘Ilari FIN’ Sahamies also bounced back after several disappointing sessions. The nosebleed regular crushed the $200 / $400 Six-Max games for an impressive $183,000.

While the Finn continues to live up to his ‘King of ‘Swing’ tag he has now taken down $534,000 on the virtual felt during 2011. ‘socutiesf’ (+$110,000) and ‘VietRussian’ (+$149,000) rounded out the top four winners online.

Torbergsen’s woes against Galfond contributed to one of his worst evenings in months as he donated $470,000 in total. However, ‘skjervoy’ remains the biggest winner on PokerStars this year with profits of $1.49 million.

Rafi ‘rafaelamit’ Amit failed to buck a losing trend on Wednesday as he bled another $219,000. Team PokerStars Pro Viktor ‘Isildur1′ Blom, who only played 105 hands, also dropped $80,000.