Ugo Torre, a Titan Poker player from Italy, is the latest winner of the Fort Knox jackpot. He managed to win six Sit ‘N’ Go tournaments in a row and as a result he pocketed a monstrous $290,000. The progressive jackpot originally started at $50,000 and it grew over time.
After the win, Ugo was asked a series of questions – lets hear what he had to say.
What do you do?
I am a Public Relations Contractor. Read More »
Athanasios Ntalakas wins Monthly Million
Athanasios Ntalakas is on fire!! Our Greek Titan has done it again, this time by winning the Monthly Million. He takes home his $200,000 share of the Million, not so long after his additional $52,500 ECOOP V #1 victory in November ‘09. As he himself put it on his Winners Page quote which appears on the Titan Poker website: “I am still thrilled after my win and I feel 2010 will be a great year for me.” Read More »
Athanasios Ntalakas (aka Thanasis1982) has taken first place at the first event of ECOOP V, winning $52,500. Titan Poker dominated the start of the Fifth European Championship of Online Poker by taking both first and second places. Athanasios hails from Greece and he has been working as a financial consultant for an accounting firm for the past year. He sees poker as something between a hobby and a part-time job, in light of the fact that he does spend a couple of hours a day playing S&G’s.
“I have been playing poker for 2 years now, starting when I was completing my Master of Science degree and one of my best friends introduced me to the game. I loved it from the start, but it took me a while to become a winning player as I had to concentrate on my studies. After I finished my Masters, I started playing regularly turbo S&Gs mainly because I was too lazy to play long hours for a Multi Table Tournament (MTT)” Athanasios told us.
Bo Sehlstedt decided that his day had been long enough, so the last hand was a 3-way pot: no heads-up.
Michael Schuchardt was all-in for the third time in a row, and John van de Bruggen re-raised the all-in.
Bo Sehlstedt, the massive chip leader by far, asked for a chip-count of John’s stack.
The dealer took a few minutes to do so, and announced 362,000 chips. Bo decided to call, provoking a resounding “oooOOOOoooOOOh” from the viewing public. Read More »
Our Spanish Titan, Jose Manuel Gomez Rabenaque, finished 83rd in the world’s most exclusive poker tournament. The experience and the emotional rollercoaster ride did not only leave him with stories to pass on for generations to come, but also a modest $57,991 in cash. The engineer from Cuenca in Spain, gave a remarkable performance in his first Las Vegas WSOP.
Our Titan Blog reporter Samantha managed to catch up with Jose over the phone following his return to his busy life in Spain. “I am very happy to have finished 83rd, but one always has a feeling that you could have done better” Jose began. “I never imagined that I would get so far, knowing that there would be 6,500 other players. On the first day, I started well… I had 30,000 chips, and after only 2 hours, I doubled my stack. Read More »
It is difficult enough for a player to succeed in taking home a prize package from a satellite tournament, which provides the winner with the opportunity of playing poker in an exotic destination. This feat demands a certain degree of skill. There are men who are champions, and then there are Titans. This Titan managed to win both the Irish Winter Festival satellite prize package as well as the APT Macau Satellite prize package, all within a 2 week period.
Olivier Harguindeguy a.k.a. Axeria2 hails from France. Besides for his love for hiking in the mountains, his main hobby is poker. Olivier started to play poker 2 years ago and he has been playing on Titan Poker for 4 months. “I was playing on another poker room, but I was encountering some problems. When I met the Titan Poker staff and other Titan Poker players at the Asian Poker Tour (APT) in Manila, I decided that I need to join them and register at Titan” Olivier told us. Read More »
At this year’s European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP IV), Titan Poker player Vladimir Vorobiev took 2nd place and a massive $180,000 in prize money from the $1,500,000 main event.
Vladimir Vorobiev a.k.a. “VLs85s” has been playing poker for almost 3 years. The Russian studied economics in his local city university and he puts his studies to good use by excelling at his number one hobby – poker. His game play initially started with freerolls and small buy-in tournaments.
The buy-in for the ECOOP IV Main event was significantly high for Vladimir and so he put in a lot of effort and he concentrated on acquiring good notes on all of the players at his table. This would pay off as can be described in Vladimir’s upcoming anecdote.
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