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Week 3 Summary – miRACLE wins!
Week three of the Full Tilt Poker Rush Challenge has ended and the penultimate participant of the grand final has been decided. Joining the prestigious company of Emil "HeatoN" Christensen and Steven Leunens, founder of Tek9, will be another Call of Duty figurehead and another Swede, Johan "miRACLE" Gärtner.
In fact with his +$61.90 made over 512 hands, miRACLE has been the most profitable of our participants thus far. Don’t forget to stay tuned in to the Full Tilt Poker Rush Challenge website for the participants of the fourth and final qualifying week starting Monday.
Continue below for a full summary of this week’s results and to see how well Richard Lewis, Anders Carstensen and Ben Woodward faired.
Week Three Is Here!
Week three is here, by the end of which we will have just one spot left in the Grand Final to be won. If you missed the excitement of week two, head over to the week two summary right now to read about how each player did, see charts of their progress, and find out about their most exciting hands.
This third week is sure to be another great contest, with top talent from the Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4 scenes, one of the world's biggest esports managers, not to mention the weekly Heaven Media representative (playing to win a prize fund for an esports tournament of his choice!)
Make sure you check out who's playing this week, and learn a little bit about them, on the week three participants page, and stay tuned for updates through the week on how they're getting on.
And don't forget: all our players have their eye set on the goal of a $1,000 cash prize, as well as keeping any winnings they manage to make during their time in the competition, so make sure you cheer on your hero - they're sure to need your support!
Read more about the challenge in this introduction, and discover Rush Poker, the world's fastest game, exclusively available at Full Tilt Poker - everything you need to know is right here.
Week 2 Summary - Steven Leunens Wins!
Two of the four spots to the Grand Final week have now been filled, with the week two contest being won by Steven Leunens, founder of the TEK9 community and the first of the four Heaven Media community representatives to take home the first place.
The contest was extremely close this week, with less than nine bucks seperating the top two players, despite seeing Mikko Taskinen, the Enemy Territory star, go all the way up to $725, before crashing out and losing all his money.
Read on for each player's Hand Of The Week, their total winnings/losses (spoiler: they all ended down this week!), and graphs of their process throughout the week.
On Monday, week three will be kicking off with another four esports names taking part, so be sure to check back then, and remember to cheer on your favourite participant!
Week 2 Update
With just a couple of days still to go in the second week of the Rush Poker Challenge, two of this week's representatives from the world of competitive gaming have already found out what losing feels like.
Over eleven thousand hands have already been played - and an amazingly impressive 90% of them were from just one of the four players. Read on for a detailed breakdown of each player's journey so far this week.
Week Two Is Here!
Week one came and went, seeing Emil Christensen (otherwise known by his alias HeatoN), one of the world's most legendary professional gamers, earn his spot in the finals. If you missed all that excitement, you'll want to check out the week one summary right now.
The second of the four qualification weeks is sure to be another cracker, with top talent from the Team Fortress 2 and Enemy Territory scenes, one of the world's biggest esports managers, not to mention the weekly Heaven Media representative (playing to win a prize fund for an esports tournament of his choice!)
Make sure you check out who's playing this week, and learn a little bit about them, on the week two participants page, and stay tuned for updates through the week on how they're getting on.
And don't forget: all our players have their eye set on the goal of a $1,000 cash prize, as well as keeping any winnings they manage to make during their time in the competition, so make sure you cheer on your hero - they're sure to need your support!
Read more about the challenge in this introduction, and discover Rush Poker, the world's fastest game, exclusively available at Full Tilt Poker - everything you need to know is right here.
Week 1 Summary - HeatoN Wins!
And that's a wrap! Four top gamers took part of week one of the Rush Poker Challenge and we have a clear winner. Emil "HeatoN" Christensen won $52.19 over 6379 hands of Rush Poker and has earned free entry into the Rush Poker Challenge Final.
Week 1 Update
The first week or the Rush Poker Challenge is firmly under way, with four top class eSports personalities battling it out.
With a combined 12,393 hands between them, some have spent more hours at the tables than others. See below for a detailed breakdown of the players journeys at the tables.
Welcome!
Welcome to the Rush Poker Challenge, brought to you by Full Tilt Poker and Heaven Media.
Over the next six weeks, sixteen of the biggest names in European esports will battle it out on the poker tables, all hoping to be crowned the Rush Poker Champion!
With well known faces from the top teams, commentators and journalists taking part, all with their eye on the prize, the Rush Poker Challenge will be fiercely contested, so your favourite contestants will need all the support you can give them.
Over the first four weeks, kicking off Monday January 31st, four gamers will go head to head. They will each receive $100 with which to play Rush Poker, and all will be aiming to make the most profit of that week's four players.
The fifth and final week will see the winners of the four previous weeks go head to head, competiting for the ultimate prize: a $1,000 cheque and the title of Rush Poker Champion.
Whatever your game, whatever your community, you're sure to find someone to support, so head over to the participants page now to read all about our first four players (Stuart 'TosspoT' Saw, Emil 'HeatoN' Christensen, Juha 'aNgeldusT' Kurppa and Stevy 'stevy' Verheyen), and check back each week for the new player announcements, as well as blogs, interviews and feature articles.
