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The heated action took place at tables Ivey Thunderdome and Ivey Deathmatch. Phil Ivey played pot-limit Omaha against Tom “durrr” Dwan and both pot-limit Omaha and no-limit Texas against Hac “trex313″ Dang.

We saw some huge pots and Ivey was on fire - ending up winning $544.000! The biggest loser was Tom Dwan - making huge [...]


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Gus Hansen was the hottest topic during the WPT Championships $25.000 buy-in event. He was leading the tournament and entering the final table as the favourite to win the whole thing. The beginning of heads-up play looked even more promising as Gus had a 6:1 chiplead over David Chiu. Then things started to go wrong.
The [...]


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Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies has been famous for making huge coinflips after some heated sessions. This time there were different players flipping for big amounts.
Sami “LrsLzk” Kelopuro was waiting opponents at Primas NL $100/200 tables when Terken89 sat down. But Terken89 didn’t want to play - but wanted to do some coinflips for $10.000 each.
Terken89 had [...]


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Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro has been having a rough ride lately - he says that his game has been very good but the results have been really bad. Here are a few examples why:
Hand 1 - $250/500 No-Limit Texas Hold’em
NL $250/$500 Texas Hold’em
Table Stockholm 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : [...]


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David Benyamine has been having a huge rollercoaster lately - on tuesday he won over $260.000 and yesterday he was going downhill and fast! Losing $447.000 during the day. The biggest winner was screenname pekay - taking home $185.000.

From pekay to David Benyamine:

pekay: i love u
pekay: but i dont want to bust u
Pekay has been [...]


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Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis is very familiar name from both Full Tilt Pokers and PokerStars big cashgames. He has managed to build very nice stacks at Full Tilt:

He is also playing huge cashgames and tournaments at PokerStars. Last big tournament he entered was the $5.200 freezeout where he earned $50.000 for the win.
PokerStars has established itself [...]


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Yesterday was the day for Phil Galfond aka. OMGClayAiken - he ended up winning $418.000 during the day. Galfond was having nice stacks at two different tables:

Other big winners were “ICallSoWhat” $233.000 and Brian Rast aka. “tsarrast” $100.000. The biggest loser again was Ilari Sahamies aka. Ziigmund - losing over $300.000. Other big losers [...]


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Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies has been having some rough times at Full Tilt Pokers big tables. Last month he lost $750.000 and this month he has lost over $300.000. On monday we saw him losing again and finally making a short rebuy: Dealer: Ziigmund adds $7,895.50.

Ziigmund broke at Full Tilt?

Ziigmund shows Ace King high
applsgirl shows two [...]


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Many high stakes pros are very happy to see the ultra-rich Guy Laliberte back at Full Tilt Poker. Laliberte is known for example owning Cirque du Soleil and plays under then screenname “noataima”.

Yesterday he was back on the tables and lost $226.000 - another big loser was Ilari Sahamies “Ziigmund” (-$213.000) who has been having [...]


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Yes you read it correctly! You can now get the best ever first deposit bonus to Red Kings Poker (Ongame-network) thru HighStakesNews.com. Here are the bonus details:
- Up to $10.000!
- 1000% match!
- 8x playthrough requirement!
- 90 days to complete!
-Bonus released in four parts!
What exactly does it mean that the bonus is 1000%? Deposit $40 and [...]


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Professional poker player Jennifer Leigh made an appereance in the latest issue of Playboy. The story is called: “Strip Poker - Jennifer “Jennicide” Leigh is the hottest player at the table.
Jennicide has become incredibly popular in many internet forums for her looks and playing both live and online. She has also told that she [...]


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