http://www.highstakesnews.com Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:21:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Brian Townsend confesses he has been using dual screennames on both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. His second screennames have been "Makersmark666" and "Stellarnebula" on respective sites. Brian: for crying out loud, whatta h*ll were you thinking of?! Townsend says he hasn't logged on his "aba20" account at all, since he opened ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2008/08/27/brian-sbrugby-townsend-kicked-out-of-team-full-tilt/ Overall I must say I'm a pretty solid player, winner in the long run. Still there are those days when you question yourself - "why you even play the game?". Yesterday I said that I love poker. WHAT? DID I SAY THAT? Poker is all about minimizing your losses and maximize your ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2008/08/27/poker-can-be-so-cruel-but-please-don%e2%80%99t-make-any-excuses/ Player names: Previously has used the screennames ”FinddaGrind”, "CryMeARiver8" and "Luigi66369" on Full Tilt Poker, now plays under his own name. On the Microgaming Network Patrik is known as ”I Knockout U” and as "-ANTONIUS" on the b2b Network. Patrik Antonius, a Finn from the city of Vantaa (located in ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2008/08/26/featured-player-patrik-antonius/ Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott launches his bounty tournaments! Chat with the Devilfish in his new weekly bounty tournament with €250 bounty and €250 added at DevilfishPoker.com Each week starting from Thursday Aug. 28 at 8 p.m. BST poker legend Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott gives poker players a chance to chat and play with him ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2008/08/26/have-fun-chat-and-knock-out-devilfish-win-e250/ Why don’t they add an award night to the EPT tour? I have actually had that question running around in my head some while back. Too bad I didn’t put it on paper as this year’s season 5 will kick off with just that. EPT Awards, which will be something like ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2008/08/25/whos-the-best-ept-player-cast-your-vote/ The World Poker Tour "Legends of Poker" is currently running at the Bicycle Casino. The two starting days gathered a group of 373 players who all put up the $10.000 entry fee. Now they are fighting to grab their share of the $3,5 million prizepool - the winner will receive a ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2008/08/25/wpt-phil-ivey-decides-to-play-without-looking-his-cards/ David Benyamine is arguably one of the best poker players in the world - he plays the biggest games and has huge swings. Now he lost some at the biggest No-limit Holdem games and won some at the biggest Limit Holdem games at Full Tilt Poker! No-limit Texas Hold'em: David Benyamine, a ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2008/08/25/david-benyamine-kicks-and-gets-his-ass-kicke/ Full Tilt Poker will arrange a very interesting No-Limit Hold'em tournament on September 7th. It will be called "One on One with Antonius" and a direct buy-in will cost 10.00 FullTilt points. Or you can easily qualify through satellites. The winner of the tournament will gain $5.000 for travel expenses, since ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2008/08/24/win-a-trip-to-london-and-quality-time-with-patrik-antonius/ ICallSoWhat back in business, pockets $110k in Pot Limit Omaha Lately we have seen ICallSoWhat playing more the Full Tilt Pokers $25/50 Pot limit Omaha games but this week he has made few visits back to the high stakes tables. It has been a well awaited return - now he ran ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2008/08/24/icallsowhat-and-urindanger-victorious/ On Friday we saw some very nice action at the Full Tilt Pokers $500/$1000 No-Limit Hold’em table “RailHeaven”. Phil Galfond (aka. OMGClayAiken) won $240.000 for his session in the table. -Galfond with a nice stack The table was filled with big guns such as Steve "SteveSung" Sung, David Benyamine, Di “Urindanger” Dang ... http://www.highstakesnews.com/2008/08/23/phil-omgclayaiken-dominates-railheaven-table-wins-a-327k-pot/