Considered one of the best online players, Cole South has earned a good reputation and he started the year on the right track, earning more than $3 million in the first two months of the year. But he has been facing a bad downswing that has taken his earnings as low as $800K for the year.

Jason Mercier has added another important win to his already successful career and his live tournament winnings exceed $5 million. This time around he took down the NAPT Mohegan Sun High Roller event for $450K.

After loosing more than $3.5 million, Patrik might have been able to control the terrible downswing, he is recuperating some of the lost money at a slow pace. Will he end the year in the green numbers?

After an incredible performance by Vanessa Selbst, she managed to dominate the 700+ field of players to take home the $750K first place prize.

Isildur1 will not be playing at The Big Game IV, despite the fact that Tony G was going to stake him and pay for all his accommodations.

Only 443 players survived day one at the NAPT Mohegan Sun, the chip leader into day two will be David Williams with nearly eight times the starting stack.

The Party Poker event called Big Game IV is an anticipated event that will have many poker pros like Tony G, Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt and apparently Isildur1 will also join the tournament.

The North American Poker Tour has stopped at the Mohegan Sun and a total of 716 players have taken on the challenge to win the tournament, the prize pool at stake exceeds $3.2 million.

Durrrr had a tough year in ‘09 but 2010 has started with new energy and things have gone his way. In the past two days he has earned nearly $1.2 million at Full Tilt Poker.

A selected group of players will be representing eight different countries for the World Team Poker Event. Team USA will have Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, Howard Lederer, Erik Seidel, Allen Cunningham, Chris Ferguson, Jennifer Harman and Mike Matusow.