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Ziigmund wins a $321.982,50 pot!

High Stakes News

Ilari Sahamies (Ziigmund) is having a nice run at the big games at Full Tilt Poker. He managed to win the 6th largest online pot ever from Phil Ivey - playing heads-up at Ivey Thunderdome.

On the hand Ziigmund raised preflop with As 5 d 2 s 2d hand and Ivey called with Ad Kh 9d [...]


High Stakes News

Brandon Adams told about the games that have been recently running at Bellagios Bobby’s Room. The game has been pot-limit Omaha with blinds as huge as $2000/4000! The cap has been set for $200.000/hand (the amount that one player can lose in one hand).
The game started with Partik Antonius and Sammy Farha. Later David Benyamine [...]


Guguguy / IDreamOfJenna back in business

High Stakes News

The crazy player from Finland is back in the big games - and managed to win 34k in Microgaming network and 70k at Full Tilt Poker.

He managed to win a sick pot worth 98k calling $20.000 pre-flop with 579J rainbow-hand. Here are his comments after the hand:
IDreamOfJenna: never missed 57j9
IDreamOfJenna: never
IDreamOfJenna: lifetime upswing with it
Hopefully [...]


Poker Rumors

KObyTAPOUT has been seen playing only at the biggest pot-limit Omaha tables, but now he has been seen playing also at the no-limit Texas tables.
First he played against Urindanger - losing $280.000. When Urindanger left OMGClayAiken (Phil Galfond) challenged KObyTAPOUT and lost $100.000. Next one was Aeron73 - losing $20.000.
There was some controversy who was [...]


Chip Reese passed away :(

WSOP

Poker Legend David “Chip” Reese died during the night between monday and tuesday while sleeping. 56-years old Reese went to hospital on monday night but was sent home where he died during the night - no reason known yet.
Chip Reese is known to be the player that won most money during the big cash games [...]


High Stakes News

Huge action at Iveys big heads-up tables! Patrik Antonius (FinddaGrind) challenged Ivey in $2000/4000 limit HORSE and in $500/1000 pot-limit Omaha. Looking good:

It didn’t took too long for Ivey to take over $500.000 from Antonius - here are a few of the hands:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1768074
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1768076
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1768078


High Stakes News

Red Kings Poker offers a new type of Ongame deal that beats most traditional deals by a large margin.

When playing on Red Kings, you receive an infinite string of great bonuses (up to 1000$, 7x playthrough requirement, 30 days to complete).
After you have opened one bonus, simply ask for a new one. No need to [...]


High Stakes News

Brutal action at Full Tilt Pokers big texas game as OneUponAStar won first over $60.000 then pushing all-in with Queens only to run into trex313s Aces - the flop brought both a set trex winning the $166k pot.
The hand that finished the action - money went in on the flop:


SuckMyD wins $220.000

High Stakes News

We saw some nice action at Betfairs $250/500 NL Texas tables. The biggest winner was SuckMyD from Sweden - winning $220.000. Biggest loser was sinceroo - losing $200.000. The biggest pot of the evening was over 180k where SuckMyD went all-in on the flop with a flushdraw and hitting it.
LarsLuzak (Sami Kelopuro) and kuna were [...]


Who is kuna?

High Stakes News

The nickname “kuna” can be found at Betfairs biggest cashgames, both in Omaha and Holdem - but who is behing this nickname? A new player from Finland or some older familiar player?
He is known from his aggressive style and usually winning - couple of days ago he took $100.000 from Erik1234 totalling his winning up [...]


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