Between an impressing field of contesters of the best poker professionals of the world, Chris Ferguson managed to win the NBC Nationals Heads-Up Championship of 2008!

After finishing in the second place the last 2 years, he finally succeeded to win this great tournament.

The complete final results:

Chris Ferguson

1 Chris Ferguson $500,000
2 Andy Bloch $250,000
3 Huck Seed $125,000
. Phil Ivey $125,000
5 Gus Hansen $75,000
. Jonathan Little $75,000
. Orel Hershiser $75,000
. David Benyamine $75,000
9 Mike Matusow $25,000
. Phil Laak $25,000
. Greg Raymer $25,000
. J.C. Tran $25,000
. Doyle Brunson $25,000
. Scott Fischman $25,000
. Freddy Deeb $25,000
. Michael Mizrachi $25,000

In the best of three final Chris Ferguson was able to defeat Andy Bloch. After Andy winning the first match, Chris was able to win the second and third match with showing the best of his HU game. The second match won by Chris by calling going all-in with QcQd against a short Andy Bloch showing Kc3d.

Eventually the third match was not as exiting as the first two, finally finished by a coinflip (yes a real coinflip) made by Andy. Calling with a pair of Tens, with Ferguson showing JJ. With no help on the turn and river, it was Chris Ferguson winning the NBC National Heads-Up Championship of 2008.

Andy Bloch

This hand should win the Bad Beat Jackpot for sure! Did you ever lost with pocket A’s and 2 Aces on the board?

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As most online poker players probably noticed the last days, many poker sites had connection problems (either very slow or no connection at all). Rumors are going around that they suffered from a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Attack.

This attack is used by computer hackers to bring websites down and are placed by computers all around the world, sending billions of so called ping packages to one server. If this server does not have a good protection against these attacks, it can cause downtime. As happened to Full Tilt Poker, Party Casino, Titan Poker, Virgin Games, CD Poker and Europa Casino. Also some big Russian Poker sites were attacked like PokerListing.

This finnaly shows the reason of the embarrassing outage of Full Tilt Poker during the FTOPS Main Event, when almost every player lost his connection.

These connection losses are not very good for Full Tilt’s reputation, since a lot of players are wondering if their losses will be refunded. What do you expect from Full Tilt?

Can you imagine loosing billions on online poker and casino games?

The US Government can! A study of accountantsfirm Price Waterhouse Coopers, in name of the UC-Group, gives an insight of the income losses for the US Government for the upcomming 10 years! If they regulate online poker and casino , they will earn a little of 16 billion (16,000,000,000!!!!).

In this calculation sportsbetting is not even included, it’s all about casino games and poker!

Individual taxes would generate 56% of the total amount. The amount could rise up to 42 billion if other sport betting was included and all states where gambling is prohibited..

Am i the only one wondering how long Online Poker will be forbidden in the USA?

Again a funny movie about famous poker players impressing other pro’s :)! View how Daniel Negreanu takes the mick out of Phill Hellmuth or “You know i don’t play bad baby” Scotty Nguyen.. Live Poker is not to be compared with online poker, the quality of these pro’s to impress are huge!

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Finally a new Strategy Article was added to our website. The Article contains all information you need about Heads Up Poker Strategy.

Credits go to Mila of Pokerroomsonline.nl

Hear hear, finally a update!

I must say, this feels very weird, since it is like 6 months ago since the last update. But we’ve been pretty busy, with playing poker and playing some more poker :)..

Presenting the following updates to our poker results (yes we really win some money sometimes!!)

5th place in the 5+rebuy at Mansion ($140)

57th place in the 50+4 freezeout at Mansion ($97)

4th place in the 11+1 (180 man) sit ‘n go at PokerStars ($158)

We are running hot
Presenting the following updates to our website:

We’ve extended the Satellites part of our website. More to come there..

We finally wrote a review for PokerStars, it was about time!

I must give some credits to Steve Larson! Looking for a real edge? Rakeback is all the edge you need!

Since today we started promoting Mansion Poker. Since Mansion Poker is a growing poker room with a lot of interesting tournaments, we want to bring this client more to your attention.

Below are two small screenshots of the looks and feel of Mansion Poker.

Download Mansion Poker directly here. Or read more about Mansion Poker here.

While browsing youtube i found this great movie created by limpfold.com. This hand is played by Christy Gazes and Chad Brown in the NBC heads-up championships.

Danish Champion ‘Soren Kongsgaard‘ has faced every online poker player nightmare. Loosing your internet connection while playing heads-up in the $1 million guaranteed on Full Tilt.

Kongsgaard was playing the $500 buy-in tournament from Barcelona, where he lives most of the year. After loosing connection he tried everything to get connection again, but he could not help getting blinded away by the lucky winner BluffMagCV.

Kongsgaar tells: “I wasn’t able to get my connection back, and since I only had around 50 times the big blind and the antes were high, it didn’t take long before I had lost my chips.”

Eventhough it was a real nightmare he really stayed quite down-to-earth about what happened to him: “That’s just the way it is, there is nothing you can do about it.”.

The $1 million guaranteed final results were as following:

1. BluffMagCV — $197,984
2. Kongsgaard — $121,588
3. tmfd001 — $79,624
4. RGAR18 — $63,484
5. colenel decker — $48,420
6. DutchVinny — $34,647.20
7. JaeMills — $25,286
8. imgrinding — $19,906
9. Gettin Daize — $15,064

At the end, BluffMagCV earned $200k and Songsgaard just less then $125k. Even with this dissapointment Songsgaard should be satisfied about this year, he is on a real winning flow. One of the youngsters getting to the top in Europe.

He won the Scandinavian Open in Copenhagen, placed 3rd in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo and won the Danish Champion in september. All the best of luck to Soren Kongsgaard, with your career and with finding a better internet provider in Barcelona.

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