Sat, 01/29/2011 – 00:02 – PokerPages Staff

Online poker player ‘Ilvdnfl’ was the big winner on PokerStars in mid week after taking down $173,000 in various high stakes cash games.

‘Ilvdnfl’, who is rumored to nosebleed regular Di Dang, benefitted from several lucrative $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha sessions against ‘MauriceSch’ and ‘Also11′ on the world’s biggest online poker site on Wednesday.

Those figures pushed his profits for the week past the $350,000 mark. The PLO specialist is now on an upswing of $741,000 for the calendar year.

Cash games on rival sites have been quiet this week as the likes of Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius are competing in the Aussie Millions in Melbourne.

David Benefield posted the best figures on Full Tilt Poker. Benefield won $91,000 in lengthy PLO exchanges. Van Marcus (+$45,000) also prospered.

Dang, who plays under the ‘Urindanger’ alias on Full Tilt, failed to generate any heat despite his alleged successes at PokerStars. He ended the evening with losses of $106,000.

However, Dang has been one of the front runners during the early stages of 2011 and if the rumors are to be believed, is now on an upswing of around $1.5 million for both of his online accounts.

There were several big losers on PokerStars as ‘MauriceSch’ (-$104,000) and ‘Sauce123′ (-$104,000) dropped six figure sums. ‘Also11′ (-$77,000) and ‘Looney Gerbil’ (-$73,000) rounded out the top four.

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.