
High Stakes games, friday night and hot poker action. It’s a common (trick or) treat for the railers to watch some of the pros stumble upon each other playing for millions of dollars. Sometimes the action can get out of hands. Like yesterday, when Dwan managed to swing a lot.
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Quite an odd observation. Phil Ivey has been banned from flipping on Full Tilt. We really can’t understand why Full Tilt have chosen to limit Ivey’s flipping passion. One would think it’s up to the players to flip or not. Well, there are stranger things than that.
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- Author: News
- Filed under: Gossip
- Date: Oct 30,2009

Rock’n Roll, women, money and poker. Vince Neil will be hosting a charity poker event which is played alongside with the conclusion of the WSOP Main Event. Expect to see famous people from music, movies, television and poker. Must be a railbird heaven.
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- Author: News
- Filed under: Rumors
- Date: Oct 30,2009

Creating a show from the scratch needs huge work. Now think about creating a show within 24 hours from filming using the footage of 40 cameras and without even knowing the actual plot. Now that’s one heroic task that the ESPN crew needs to do.
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Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies. People love to hate him for sure. He is still one the best cash game players in the world… when he is sober. His results are just staggering when he can focus on his A-game. And when he’s drunk, well, there’s some fireworks going on.
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It’s really strange that High Stakes Poker haven’t had any British Players before. UK has really great high stakes players, but not until the sixth season they were able to sign one up. Let’s hope Andrew Feldman will bring the action!
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After a bit longer pause Antonius and Dwan continued their heads up challenge. This time they met on four $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha tables and the battle was pretty even. They played only 470 hands, so they have almost half of the hands still left to play.
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Some top pros played a nice session yesterday on Full Tilt Poker. Patrik Antonius was the dominant figure yet again. There doesn’t seem to be much competition for him these days. Let’s see how the games go.
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Ilari Sahamies and David Benyamine battled on Full Tilt Poker’s 7-game. They played over 900 hands and eventually Sahamies was able the crush the Frenchman. Sahamies won over $400k from Benyamine.
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- Author: News
- Filed under: Gossip
- Date: Oct 27,2009

Tournaments are rough. Players get agitated, staff gets agitated, but this time some drunken spectator got agitated. This drunken spectator hit the Tournament Manager’s head with a microphone during the Irish Winter Festival.
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Jennifer Tilly is back! She has been concentrating on her movie career lately, but now she’s back to poker. HighStakesNews is very glad about her comeback as she brings nice assets to the tables. Welcome back, Jen!
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There has been quite a fuss concerning the new host of High Stakes Poker. It still seems a bit unclear who will replace AJ Benza. One thing is for sure, it’s going to be woman. HSP will announce the new hostess within couple of weeks.
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