One of the top online poker training sites, Cardrunners, was able to make a major upgrade to their coaching team with their recent signing of Mickey ‘mement_mori’ Petersen. After absolving the StoxPoker brand and absorbing their content library, Cardrunners has gone through a major transformation, both to their site which has been totally revamped and updated with a new look, and to their coaching team.

Gone from the roster are Nick ‘StoxTrader’ Grudzien, Cole ‘cts’ South, and Brian ‘sbrugby’ Townsend — all for different reasons– and in their place we find names like the above mentioned ‘mement_mori’, ‘Jungleman12’, and ‘JimmyLegs’. Although Cardrunners members will still have complete access to all of the site’s past instructors’ archived contributions.

In the new, highly competitive, online poker training market, Cardrunners is no longer relying on their brand to sell memberships. The addition of new instructors –some of the freshest and biggest names in online poker—along with a new approach that is making Cardrunners a more all-around poker training site’s on the Internet. All of this, combined with the experience and massive content library the site possesses has once again propelled Cardrunners toward the top of the poker training market.

Mickey Petersen is a Danish poker pro, who first learned the game through poker forums and yes, the Cardrunners poker training site! He joins a growing list of former Cardrunners members who have built their skills through the poker training they received from the site, and gone on to become instructors. Petersen is a tournament specialist who has a number of big online scores in his short career:

• 1st place –FTOPS XVII Event #27 Limit Holdem Rush Poker for $37,344
• 1st place –FTOPS XVI Event #22 for $86,700
• 2nd place (after chop) – SCOOP $2,000 NLHE tournament for $169,300
• 5th place – SCOOP $1,000 NLHE with Rebuys for $72,200

Mement_mori is currently ranked #1 in Bluff Magazine’s Online Player of the Year Race; ranked 5th by PocketFives; and 7th on Card Player Magazine’s Online Player of the year leader-board. With over $1 million in career earnings, Petersen is already one of the most successful online poker tournament players in history.

Petersen has also started venturing to the major live poker tournaments, and made his first big score by finishing 4th in a preliminary event at the EPT San Remo tournament series, worth $97,000 earlier this year. In an interview on the Cardrunners website, Petersen details his plans to participate in the upcoming season of the European Poker Tour (EPT).

Cardrunners members will see multi-tables tournaments the focus of ‘mement_mori’s’ video contributions, and his first offering tackles the very difficult $100 rebuy tournament on Full Tilt Poker. The video begins at the final table, with ‘mement_mori’ nursing a short-stack,in 8th place out of 9 players. Obviously this will be a highly informative video, and rebuy videos have been eagerly anticipated by Cardrunners’ members.