PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu is very thrilled about the upcoming WSOP - “been thinking about the WSOP for quite some time now” were his own words yesterday.
-Photo courtesy of PokerStars.com / Neil Stoddart
He is also very thrilled with the first event, saying that the high buy-in amount of $10k makes him take it more seriously.
I [...]
South faced Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies in the no-limit Hold’em and pot-limit Hold’em tables. With the biggest $240k pot in Texas going to Sahamies. South then crushed the PLO tables building up stacks worth $800k.
Online poker dead for the next two months?
Poker world´s climax starts tonight - when the WSOP begin. One and half month in Las Vegas with all kind of poker tournaments with bracelets and loads of money on-the-line. Is online poker dead during that period? Many famous players are fighting for bracelets and of course when [...]
Huge crazy session for durrrr at Full Tilt Poker! Handhistories include a pot worth of $314k and few other big pots wherr durrrr beats his opponents.
The official reasons for the question “why is the WSOP Main Event final table delayed for 4 months?”. Good or bad? But definitely something new!
Ilari Sahamies and Hac Dang playing with deep stacks, when they were both sitting with over $200k we hoped to see some really big pots. Report of the heads-up and screenshots including a $204k pot.
I think all of you poker, gambling and $-lovers out there know what makes this month one of the best. The sunshine providing us with a high temperature, sitting with a beer in the shadow reading todays newspaper? Of course not dumbass!
IT’S WSOP TIME!!
“Dear god, please provide us with big names from the pokerindustry having [...]
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The 5 Advantages you have to improve to make it as an investment in yourself.
Hey…. I’m guessing you’ve read all the poker books and studied all the strategies those books provided, but, they all seem to say the same thing and I’m still losing.
I even watch all [...]
Lots of re-raising, players hitting sets with Kings and Aces, very nice calls on the river. Present always provides lots of action when he is playing. Report of the big hands with screenshots.
The winner of the 2nd LAPT tourney, taking place in San José was settled a few days ago - I decided to go thru the tournament a bit.
398 players had paid the $2,500 buy in giving a total prize pool of close to Million bucks. One of them was our lucky winner, who entered the [...]
Tom Dwan starts by loosing 300k to Ilari Sahamies, but then bounces back and wins a pot worth of $428k! Markus Golser loses half a million - see the hands and screenshots.
Ilari Sahamies hasn’t been tilting too much lately and he has spotted wearing nice suits instead of his normal hip-hop clothes. Has he changed his playing style? Seems to be working, check out the pics.
In my early twenties I spent time living in California. I worked their part-time for a general contractor. Many of the clients were exceptionally wealthy, some were even movie stars, and the homes, Wow!
Many were made of all glass, most overlooked the cliffs and the Pacific Ocean what a view! I often looked at those [...]
Aces vs. Aces vs. Kings vs. Queens? What about seeing two hands making quads also in the same pot - check out this very wicked hand!
I have been writing earlier about Jonas ”Nebuchad” Danielssons big goal for the first 5-6 months this year. The story leaking out to media was that he should win $1,000,000 each and every month making a total profit of $5-6.000.000.
The big deal was that he would bet those money, ALL OF THOSE MONEY onto one [...]
Full Tilt Pokers own pro David Singer won the $25k Heads-Up Championship tournament on sunday and earned $560k. Singer beat Emil “whitelime” Patel in final Heads-Up. Emil earned $320.000 for his runner-up finish.
The final hand: http://www.pokerhand.org/?2664416
Singer beat 6 players on his way to win the championship: Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, Brandon Adams, Shawn “Buck99″ Buchanan, “mastrblastr”, [...]
So here we have it - the new site! New layout, new writers, more stuff for you to enjoy!
We are adding more and more material daily and would also like to hear you opinion! Drop us a comment or e-mail to highstakesnews@gmail.com
Be sure to check out great writings from David Pullaro, Kristofer, OmaHacking and from [...]
From time to time we see new people rising to the highest limits - some of them getting beaten badly some of them starting to be the hot new names of the game. Who even knew Niki Jedlicka before he entered Full Tilts biggest games and won $2.000.000 in a very short period?
Here is one [...]
My first 15 minutes of online poker was at a $0.15/$0.30 table. I ended up winning 30 bucks in 20 minutes and I was like “man, is it really this easy?”.
The answer is NO, it’s not always that easy. This is what makes it so damn exciting to play poker.
You are starting to get into [...]
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies had a horrible April - he lost about one million playing at Full Tilt Pokers big games. This month has been totally different for him. Now he is already up for over a million, and he just keeps crushing his opponents. Only David Benyamine has managed to win more money this month [...]
Our article this week is called “A Break in Play” - but first let me read your mind.
“Who is this Guy”? You’re saying, so let me tell you! I’m a player just like you.
My Ghost writing name, David Pullaro, a freelance writer who specializes in Texas Hold’em articles, for newspapers, magazines, newsletters, web content and [...]
-Photo courtesy of Pokerstars.com / Neil Stoddart
Daniel Negreanu has been active at PokerStars, playing tournaments and the big cash games. This week we saw some nice sessions at the Texas no-limit tables with the blinds $200/400.
Negreanu ended up winning about $70.000 on Fridays session where he faces player like Matt “ADZ124″ Marafioti and purplEUROS who [...]
Hi to all of you great highstakesnews.com readers and welcome to my new blog!
To get things started a few things about myself. I am a “wannabe” poker pro from Finland and have played since July 2005.
First I just played freerolls but after I turned 18, I deposited some money and started to play for fun. [...]
Benyamine vs. Ivey
Phil Ivey and David Benyamine faced each other again on a $2000/$4000 HORSE -game. Last sunday David Benyamine beat Ivey for a nice amount. Next time they played everything turned around. Ivey was controlling especially the hi/lo -games and he manage to win nearly $280k. Later they played another session and then it [...]
Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius vs. Doyle Brunson has been the hot topic lately. They will have a huge heads-up challenge in poker as well in golf. But Patrik has also many other bets coming this summer!
One that has been talked for ages is finally taking place - the tennis-bet with Gus Hansen. The match will be [...]
Danish tournament player “Halfrek” won 2 Full Tilt Pokers FTOPS -events last week. On monday, he won the $1k buy-in tournamant and yesterday he won the 2-day event with buy-in of $2,5k. So in less than a week, “Halfrek” won $849k from FTOPS tournaments.
Almost 900 players registered in the $2,5k buy-in tournament, which meant that [...]
David Benyamine and Phil Ivey face each other at the $2000/$4000 HORSE-game during sunday evening. David Benyamine was red hot and he dominate that swingy match pretty nicely.
One of the biggest pots of the night, Benyamine and Ivey were playing Stud Hi/Lo. When 5th street arrived, table cards were:
Ivey 3s4h3h
Benyamine Jc4d8h
Pot was $8,6k and [...]
Good times, nice action, big win, big losses - that’s what Full Tilt Pokers big games have been lately. Saturday was again packed with action for example in the $200/$400 Omaha tables as well as no limit Hold’emin $500/$1000 CAP-tables.
Phil Ivey ended up winning the most - he made a profit of $240.000. The screenname [...]
Over 50 players have registered in Full Tilt Pokers $25K heads up -challenge. Tournament buy-in is huge $25k, and there will not be any fees. Allready over 50 players (if you include satellite seats) have registered in the tournament that is called $25.000 Heads-up World Championship.
This is the largest buy-in for a heads-up tournament ever [...]
Patrik Antonius had quite many challengers wanting to play him yesterday at B2B-networks big tables. Patrik who goes at B2B by screenname “-ANTONIUS-” started nicely winning huge pots like this one:
Patrik goes all-in in the river and gets called - the pot was worth €68.265,50 which equals $106.000. But after a while the tables turned [...]
