Sat, 02/12/2011 – 02:47 – PokerPages Staff

Team PokerStars sponsored pro Daniel Negreanu was one of the surprise winners on the virtual felt after a lucrative high stakes cash game session.

‘Kid Poker’ posted an upswing of $46,000 on the world’s biggest online poker site, suggesting he may become one of the nosebleed regulars in the near future.

Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond has dominated the online poker headlines recently and it was no different on Wednesday evening after another eventful session on the virtual felt.

Galfond is not known for his huge swings in profits but the Wisconsin native has followed one of the worst downswings in his career with several huge wins in the last two weeks.

It proved to be an evening to forget for the 25 year-old who dropped $230,000 against Jared ‘Harrington25′ Bleznick in $500/$1,000 Cap Pot Limit Omaha Heads-Up exchanges.

Galfond fared no better against 2010 World Series of Poker Europe bracelet winner Gus Hansen. The ‘Great Dane’ raked in $36,000 from another heads up battle.

Those figures have pushed Galfond into the red by over $500,000 for the calendar year.

Bleznick was the biggest winner after taking down $248,000 from various high stakes cash games. Andreas ‘skjervoy’ Torbergsen  also prospered.

‘Omiphalotus’ (-$203,000) recorded the biggest deficit. Galfond, ‘tuff_shark’ (-$75,000), Dan ‘jungleman12′ Cates (-$101,000) and Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies (-$44,000) rounded out the top five.

Wed, 01/26/2011 – 17:09 – PokerPages Staff

The World Blogger Championship of Online Poker is returning with $58,000 worth of Spring Championship of Online Poker on offer as prizes. Free to enter WBCOOP preliminary tournaments run from January 24 to 29.  There is a fantastic range of prizes for online poker players on offer for the top 200 finishers in each of the preliminaries.  The top prize is two $215 SCOOP tickets, plus two Sunday Million tickets as well as a WBCOOP Main Event ticket.

The WBCOOP preliminary tournaments go live on the afternoon of Monday 24 January at 14:00 ET with a Pot Limit Omaha.  On the Tuesday at 19:00 ET there is a No Limit Hold’em.  On Wednesday there is a Pot Limit Hi/Lo at 22:00 ET, followed by another No Hold’em on Thursday at 14:00 ET.  Friday sees an 8-Game Mix at 17:00 ET.  And the WBCOOP preliminary tournaments end at 19:00 ET on Saturday January 29 with a No Limit Hold’em.  The WBCOOP Main Event takes place on January 30th with SCOOP tickets as prizes.

Meanwhile European Poker Tour Satellites continue for EPT Copenhagen and EPT Deauville.  January 21 sees EPT Copenhagen Satellites run throughout the morning.  Starting at 09:25 ET there is a 5 Turbo to 20 Satellite.  These also take place at 09:45 and 09:55 ET.  At 09:59 ET, and an hour later at 10:59 there are 7.50 round 1 satellites.  And at 12:30 there is an EPT Copenhagen 27 + R Rd 1.  And at 12:30 on January 21 there is an EPT Deauville -5 + R Turbo Satellite.