The newcomer yossarian_2_ has been the topic of discussion lately. He has been playing against anyone willing to play - not very common for newcomers. He has faced players like OMGClayAiken (Phil Galfond) and BoostedJ (Justin Smith).
Galfond has been also quite interested in the player behind yossarian_2_ screenname after losing $75.000:
OMGClayAiken: oh ok.. can i [...]
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- Filed under: Erik Sagstrom, Erik123, Erik1234, EskiMoes7, High Stakes News, LarsLuzak, LrsLzk, Poker, Sami Kelopuro, dingdongboy, kuna, sinceroo
- Date: Mar 28,2008
Sami Kelopuro (LarsLuzak/LrsLzk) has been recently playing more under the screenname EskiMoes7 at Betfair. The games have been as high as $250/500 Texas No-limit. And Erik Sagström has been quite active also.
Yesterday we saw players like sinceroo, kuna, dingdongboy and Erik “Erik1234″ Sagström playing at the big table. The winner of that session was Erik1234 [...]
Ok here is the video finally (showed some pics earlier). Enjoy!
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Games at PokerStars have been running very hot lately - from the small games and cheap tournament all the way up to $200/400 no-limit hold’em games and huge buy-in tournaments. PokerStars has taken the place as the number 1. pokersite by a large margin to other sites.
This Sunday Hevad “RaiNKhAN” Khan took the first place [...]
Brian Hastings has been running extremely hot this month at Full Tilt Pokers big Omaha games. First he started the month by winning $544.000 under his screenname LucLongley. Then he joined team Full Tilt and started to play under his own name.
The cards have been very good to him because now he has also won [...]
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- Filed under: -ANTONIUS-, FinddaGrind, High Stakes News, Ilari Sahamies, Jani Vilmunen, KObyTAPOUT, LarsLuzak, LrsLzk, Patrik Antonius, Poker, Sami Kelopuro, Ziigmund
- Date: Mar 21,2008
Finnish pro-players decided to have a team poker challenge. Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius challenged Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro and Jani “KObyTAPOUT” Vilmunen for a huge heads-up match.
Antonius would face Kelopuro in NL Texas Hold’em.
And Sahamies would face Vilmunen in pot-limit Omaha challenge.
If they would tie there would be a third match to decide [...]
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- Filed under: Brian Townsend, David Benyamine, Fast_Freddie, FinddaGrind, High Stakes News, High Stakes Results, I_Knockout_U, Ilari Sahamies, Ingrid_Swede, Johnny Lodden, Luigi66369, Mohamad Kowssarie, Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, Poker, TerrorOfSweden, TheOcean0, TheTerrorist, Ziigmund, bad_ip, sbrugby, seda1
- Date: Mar 19,2008
Here is the unofficial list of the biggest pots won online. The winners written first and underlined. On the first place is still the hand from summer 2006 when the games ran extremely hot at Prima. Both players had huge swings building up enormous stacks. Kowssarie (also known as TheTerrorist and TerrorOfSweden) was holding AJ [...]
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- Filed under: -ANTONIUS-, Ecs-Tasy, EskiMoes7, EzC1mono1, FinddaGrind, High Stakes News, Ilari Sahamies, LarsLuzak, LrsLzk, Patrik Antonius, Poker, Sami Kelopuro, Ziigmund
- Date: Mar 18,2008
The high stakes tables at B2B network have been pretty empty for a long time. Recently we have witnessed nice action again - the game is even bigger than at Full Tilt Poker. The blinds have been as high as €150/300 and €200/400 (in dollars: $237/474 and $315/630)!
Patrik Antonius plays under the name -ANTONIUS- at [...]
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- Filed under: Brian Hastings, Cole South, David Benyamine, Eric Liu, Erica Schoenberg, Gus Hansen, High Stakes News, Ilari Sahamies, Poker, Ziigmund
- Date: Mar 17,2008
David Benyamine surely has showed some excellent skills during the last days - and also what running hot really means. In the last two days alone he has won over $600.000 - totalling his winnings from this month already up to $1.100.000. Making him the biggest winner at Full Tilt Poker this month.
David and his [...]
Patrik Antonius (FinddaGrind) told recently that Doyle Brunson said that “he would do almost anything for a change to play Patrik Antonius heads-up” - implicating that Patrik would be a fish in his eyes.
Doyle Brunson said that he had never said that - he only has mentioned that some of the new internet-kids would be [...]
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- Filed under: $tinger88, Brian Hastings, David Benyamine, FinddaGrind, High Stakes News, Ilari Sahamies, LucLongley, Manechka, Patrik Antonius, Poker, Urindanger, Ziigmund, di dang, guaranteed376, x13full
- Date: Mar 13,2008
Yesterday was yet another day with lots of action and huge pots. Di “Urindanger” Dang played a marathon session against a new player “x13full” - beating him finally. David Benyamine was back with a vengeance - building a stack alomost worth $400.000! Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies was having a huge rollercoaster again - building huge stacks [...]
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- Filed under: Brian Hastings, Gus Hansen, High Stakes News, Ilari Sahamies, Jani Vilmunen, KObyTAPOUT, LucLongley, Poker, Ziigmund, di dang, trex313
- Date: Mar 12,2008
Brian “LucLongley” Hastings has been running very hot in pot-limit Omaha this month. Monday night was again very busy at Full Tilt Pokers big tables - Hastings booking again winnings worth $95.000 totaling his winnings from this month already up to $640.000! Hastings plays also under the nickname $tinger88 at PokerStars big games.
Hastings has recently [...]
Patrik Antonius and Matt Hawrilenko have played numerous times at Full Tilt Pokers $1000/2000 Limit Hold’em tables. During their last match Patrik aka. “FinddaGrind” suggested to Matt aka. Hoss_TBF” that they should arrange a live heads-up match.
Only the stakes would be a bit higher - if Patrik gets his way. They could be $3000/6000, $4000/8000 [...]
Sami Kelopuro aka. LarsLuzak / LrsLzk decided to try out some other poker site than Full Tilt or MicroGaming-site. He remebered having some money at Ladbrokes and went on to challenge Jonas Danielsson aka. Nebuchad - one of the biggest winners at Ladbrokes.
LarsLuzak found $9.000 at his account and Nebuchad sitting at the $25/$50 ja [...]
Marc Karam aka. _myst_ used to play a lot at MicroGaming (Ex-Prima network), but where has he been? He has been quite busy with live poker and non-poker related things - like moving into a new house and getting married! Earning also over $2,6 million in live tournaments.
His aggressive style online used to build also [...]
1. Phil Ivey wins WPT
Phil Ivey has made the World Poker Tour final table numerous times - but last week he managed to squeeze out his first win! On top of the title he also earned a nice $1,596,100. He had won already 5 WSOP bracelets, but never a WPT title. Ivey is the [...]
Young and famous internet player Annette Obrestad (Annette_15) has made a nice conversion also to live tournament circuit. But she still keeps on playing lots of tournaments especially at PokerStars. This time she won the PokerStars Sunday Hundred Grand with 20.000 players!
The tournament has only a buy-in of 11$ and the first prize was $20.000 [...]
