Phil Ivey’s bets aregetting bigger and bigger as last year he made a million dollar bet on Super Bowl.

“One story circulating among gambling insiders is that Walters collaborated in some way with poker pro Phil Ivey to place a $2 million money-line bet on Indianapolis at a Strip sports book.

MGM Mirage sports book director Jay Rood did not get into specifics but said, “We took a seven-figure bet on the Colts money line.”

Source: Las Vegas Journal

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Phil Ivey has made a two million dollar Super Bowl bet?

Daniel thinks that their team made few very bad mistakes and Phil Hellmuth was the worst.

There’s always criticism about Phil Hellmuth and his playstyle, and now it’s Daniel’s time to mock him:

“This format doesn’t exactly allow him to show off his talents. Hellmuth just butchered several hands. Back to back KJ plays were just really bad for this structure. Limping with KJ to “trap snap call” when you are the short stack just isn’t good poker at all.”

“The next KJ was just shocking. Our team couldn’t believe that he folded away 6000 in the big blind with KJ. Online players understand those situations and know that it’s just impossible for it to be correct to fold against the button’s raising range. We saw the amateur re-raise with K-10 out of position earlier in the match, so there is no reason to think he couldn’t have K-10 again. Besides, even if he turns A-9 face up, based on our chip stack, the correct play would still have been to call,” Negreanu adds.

“Guys like Bill Chen, Chris Ferguson, and Andy Bloch would simply never make a mistake in those situations. It’s all math. Nothing more, nothing less,” Daniel makes the fast analyze in the end.

Source: FullContactPoker

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Daniel Negreanu mocks Phil Hellmuth’s play at the Caesar’s Cup

Ace high flush loses to king high flush

According to the nickname “Demonic”, who started a topic on 2+2 forums, the hand was played at the $0.02/$0.04 NL Hold’em table on Cake. Players went all-in pre-flop showing AQ and KK. The board ran 4c 4h 8h 6h 9h, with four hearts the AQ player should have won with his ace high flush. There was some glitch in the system and the pot was won by the K high flush player.

Hero (UTG): $6.78
MP: $2.35
CO: $1.13
BTN: $2.71
SB: $1.81
BB: $3.94

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero is UTG with 2s Ts
2 folds, MP calls $0.04, BTN calls $0.04, 1 fold, BB raises to $0.28, MP calls $0.24, BTN raises to $2.71, BB raises to $3.92, 1 fold

Flop: ($5.72) 4c 4h 8h

Turn: ($5.72) 6h

River: ($5.72) 9h

Final Pot: $5.72
BTN shows Ah Qs
BB shows Kd Kh
BB wins $5.36
(Rake: $0.36)

The thread was just started on 2+2 when the well respected Cake Poker Cardroom Managed Lee Jones hopped in:

“Hi folks -
Unfortunately, at the moment, this appears to be real. What’s bizarre is how it happened this one time out of the tens of millions of hands we’ve dealt. Needless to say, our software people have dropped everything else to track this down. I’ll update you as soon as we understand what happened.
Best regards,
Lee Jones”

You can follow the thread here. The conversation is really wild at the moment.

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Wrong hand won on Cake Poker

The robber walked in and demanded money from an employee while waving a gun.

The robber seemed to be a “casino rookie” as he was only wearing a baseball cap and nothing else. He didn’t mind the surveillance cameras at all and was just walking around “casually”. The man fled the scene in an old modelled Cadillac.

“We’re reviewing surveillance videos from multiple cameras, hoping there’s a clear image of him in one of them,” said Gary Bitner, a Spokesman for the Seminole Casino.

There has been quite many casino robberies within short period of time in the USA. Are the casinos so easy to hit or why they seem to be a target so often?

Source: CasinoGamblingWeb

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Yet another Casino robbery in the USA

Townsend & Antonius - The glamour boys

The session got an abrupt end as Patrik’s internet connection was really bad:

Brian Townsend: I won’t bet if you get DCed
Patrik Antonius: sry cant play with this connecion
Brian Townsend: no worries another time
Brian Townsend: gg
Patrik Antonius: i appreciate about being a gentleman
Patrik Antonius: gg

Townsend’s bleak start for the year doesn’t seem to end. He must have lost over a million by now.

Highstakesdb is trying to fix their system after the Full Tilt Poker update crashed it, so let’s hope we get some updates soon:

“As you may see we have not released any results/hands in the last 36 hours due to an update that Full Tilt Poker has made. We will add both hands and results from this period as soon as possible.

// Administrator”

Source: PokerTableRatings

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Brian Townsend lost $200k to Antonius

South and Sahamies played $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha and according to PokerTableRatings, South won 1,1 million dollars in the last 24 hours! Sahamies managed to lose over $790.000 to Cole South.

Sahamies started the session just fine and was up about a million, but eventually South managed to take the lead.

Cole South: pfa heads up please
PostflopAction: ok
Cole South: i know u are frustrated but i am stuck like a mill an
d we have been playin for 4 hours
PostflopAction: just for u Cole
Cole South: ty much appreciated

The biggest pot of the session:

We don’t know the exact sums as Highstakesdb has been down for few days now. Their problems begun when Full Tilt Poker updated their software. Let’s hope HSDB will get the problem fixed ASAP, as there’s plenty of action going on.

Isildur1 vs KOSTYA_Spb

Isildur1 and KOSTYA_Spb were having a fierce heads up match where they played seven $25/$50 NL Hold’em tables.

We really hope the net sensation can get his grinding gear on and we can find Isildur1 back on the high stakes tables!

agyness (Observer): hope u run it back up
Isildur1: ty
Isildur1: im drunk now but will try play good
Isildur1: thnx
TheyCallMeHorse (Observer): isildur r u planning on playing hasting again in the future?
Isildur1: yeah sure
…
K0STYA_Spb: u have money why not?
Isildur1: we can go the hole way up to 051k son

Seems like Isildur1 has the bankroll for $500/$1k tables already.

Source: PokerTableRatings

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Cole South wins 1,1 million dollars from PLO! Isildur1 makes a comeback!

Lately Sam Chauhan has been quite familiar face in the poker scene as he has helped Antonio Esfandiari, Josh Arieh and Gavin Smith somewhat succesfully. All three have managed to earn six-figure cashes after the “mindset” coaching.

Let’s just hope he doesn’t tame Hellmuth totally. It’s really fun to watch the famous “Hellmuth blowouts”. “Poker Brat” nickname is there for a reason, you know.

Source: PokerNews

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Phil Hellmuth fears of tilting - hires a “mindset coach”

The 6th season of HSP was filmed and played in November 2009 in Las Vegas, at the Golden Nugget Casino. Gabe Kaplan will get a new co-host, Kara Scott for this season.

Kara Scott

There’s going to be some big pots this season as the minimum buy-in was 200.000 dollars. GSN will show a special 8-hour-long episode before the season premieres which is called “I Love Poker”. This special episode will show all the best moments from the previous seasons.

High Stakes Poker Season 6 players:

Patrik Antonius
David Benyamine
Doyle Brunson
Tom Dwan
Eli Elezra
Antonio Esfandiari
Barry Greenstein
Phil Hellmuth
Andreas Hoivold
Phil Ivey
Mike Matusow
Daniel Negreanu
Dennis Phillips
Lex Veldhuis

Source: TheFutonCritic

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High Stakes Poker starts next Sunday!

Lacey wll join CPT and will feature in their new online video network  - Canadian Poker Player Television. “I truly love Canadians and am so happy to be a part of the Canadian Poker Tour”, Jones told to Pokerlistings.

Female participation in the CPT has been decreasing over the last few years and the tour owner HeadsUp Entertainment is hoping that their new hostess will bring the women back to the circuit. “Here is a girl that loves hockey, loves Canadian beer and is an amazing poker player to top it off,” the CPT President Kelly Kellner said.

Originally Lacey was hired to by a poker company to do modeling work, but soon after she joined the poker community, she has shown that she’s more than a poker hottie. She has made cash on WSOP and Borgata Poker Open.

Jones will be the cover girl on an upcoming issue of Canadian Poker  Player Magazine and her first event will be the Winter Freezeout that is held at Cash Casino in Calgary fromFebruary 24-28.

Source: Pokerlistings

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Poker hottie Lacey Jones joins Canadian Poker Tour

Hansen left the tables after losing a little bit over $350.000 in $300/$600 tables. We can see the same pattern as in 2009 emerging - Hansen wins a lot in Mixed games and loses everything in PLO… and we thought Gus learned something from last year.

The pots weren’t that big though, as the biggest pot was about $150k:

Source: Highstakesdb

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Gus Hansen loses a bit over $350k in early Tuesday