Simon Young introduces Swedish player deahansson, who is $54,223.63 richer after bagging the latest PartyPoker $300K Guaranteed Sunday tournament.
Full name: Andreas Hansson
Age: 23
Where do you live?: Jonkoping, Sweden
Do you work, or do you play poker full-time?: I work as a security guard full time, but I try to play as much poker as I can when I´m free.
How long have you been...
By Ozzie Yildiz
I couldn’t help but feel a little excited when I heard that PartyPoker.com was running qualifiers for the inaugural PokerNews Cup. The tournament venue was the fabulous Crown Casino, Melbourne, my old employer. It had been 15 months since I left them to start my career at PartyPoker.com, so it would be an emotional homecoming.
Ozzie Yildiz: Aussie who soon found it...
by Simon Young
Congratulations to player deahansson for scooping $54,223.63 in yesterday’s $300K Guaranteed Sunday on PartyPoker.
We had 1,545 players showing up for the bumper weekly tournament and deahansson outlasted the whole lot to pocket the first prize, which was taken from a tasty $309,000 prize pool.
The final table and final payouts were:
deahansson, $54,223.63
tranmerd,...
In the second of his two reports from behind the scenes at PartyPoker.com’s Late Night Poker tournament, Warren Lush finds big poker names and a little monkey business.
(For Warren’s first report, with some Devilfish mischief, see here)
The brilliant Late Night Poker tournament filmed in Cardiff, Wales, featured a strong line-up of top players and PartyPoker qualifiers who were...
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by Nick Cantwell
Hi and I’d like to welcome you to my weekly post on the PartyPoker Blog. This is either going to expose my poker superstar status to the world, or end in unmitigated, shame-faced poker disaster. But before I explain why, allow me to introduce myself.
I’m Nick Cantwell, and in poker circles I am known as The Cloud, which also happens to be my PartyPoker screen name....
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Warren Lush files the first of two reports from sunny Cardiff
I am just back from a week in Cardiff, Wales, where next year’s Late Night Poker was being filmed. Suffice to say the tournament is expected to be broadcast in January, so I will not be revealing any results. But having a lot of the world’s top poker pros in one place for seven days is bound not to pass without incident....
by Simon Young
The PartyPoker Blog has been quiet lately. A sleeping giant, if you like. Now something is stirring – the best online poker blog is coming back to life.
That’s right, from next month (November, 2007) the official PartyPoker Blog will relaunch with a new look and new features. We’ll have great writers with fresh ideas who want to entertain you about what’s...