01 December 2010
Tom Dwan loses $740k to cadillac1944 in huge PLO match
Now that the high stakes regulars are no longer in Macau rolling around on beds of money with beautiful Asian women, the action at Full Tilt Poker can resume – and resume it did with an uncapped $500/$1,000 PLO game that hasn’t been seen for a while.
30 November 2010
Wasaberga wins PokerStars Sunday Million and $211,000
Much like the Main Event of the World Series of Poker, it’s rare to get too much star power at the final table of the PokerStars Sunday Million. Of course, every PokerStars Pro put up the $216 entry fee to join the 8,653 players in the event but we rarely see a huge run.
29 November 2010
David Benefield loses $842,000 in 48 hour period
David Benefield sat down at the poker tables on Saturday and shortly came to regret that decision. He proceeded to lose $386,000 playing the biggest PLO game going versus Patrik Antonius who can add that to his million dollars from IhateJuice before dropping almost a quarter-million dollars in the CAP PLO game.
25 November 2010
Patrik Antonius crushing ‘IhateJuice’ at heads-up limit
IhateJuice evidently also hates money – time and time again he has returned to play Patrik Antonius at $2,000/$4,000 Limit Hold ‘em and lost six-figures against the Finn, proving that IhateGameSelection might be a more apt name for the unknown high stakes player.
24 November 2010
Marcello Marigliano gets on the luck express, wins $240,000
Where have you heard the name Marcello Marigliano? Good question – he was one of three competitors in the live Durrrr Challenge earlier in the year and the only one to beat Tom Dwan out of $500,000 in Pot-Limit Omaha.
23 November 2010
Gus Hansen has a quarter-million dollar weekend at Full Tilt
Gus Hansen is still charging back towards the goal of positive integers on his 2010 high stakes poker score sheet with a $281,000 win at Full Tilt Poker over the weekend bringing The Great Dane within $1.4m of even for 2010 after a low point of -$3.7m.
JHoWn wins Full Tilt FTOPS XVIII Main Event for $400,000
FTOPS eighteen concluded yesterday with the $600 buy-in Main Event attracting a 5,023 strong field to break the $3,000,000 guarantee and secure a first place prize of almost half a million dollars. In the end it was unknown player JHoWn who took it down after a three-way deal.
22 November 2010
RICOFELIZ takes down Sunday Million at PokerStars
The Sunday Million drew 8,575 players last night which meant the prize pool busted the $1.5m guarantee and drew a total prize pool of $1,715,000 with 1,240 paid at least $300 for their efforts.
19 November 2010
Ziigmund: “done with poker, sickest downswing ever”
The horrid month that Ilari Sahamies aka Ziigmund had at the tables in October has sadly for him spilled over into November. This time last year Isildur1 was at the tables on Full Tilt Poker and Ziigmund won millions from him; this year Ilari is down $1.8m with losses of $3m since the beginning of October wiping out his 2010 profit.
17 November 2010
November Niner Soi Nguyen hosts FTOPS Event 18 and wins!
FTOPS XVIII is still continuing and has reached about the halfway point at Full Tilt Poker. Event #18 was the $216 NL Rush Super Turbo that saw 1,841 players turn out to compete in a tournament that lasted only a couple of hours. As you know, FTOPS events are hosted by Full Tilt Red Pros.