Archive | January, 2010

Hansen Scores $55K Win In $500/$1000 O.E. Games

There were a couple of $500/$1000 Omaha8/Stud8 games running during the late night hours on Full Tilt Poker tables Mervin and Shim. Booking the action’s biggest win would be Gus Hansen with over $55K raked in 169 hands played. A couple of other winners in the games were “dvl1028″ ($21K+) and Chau “La Key U”  Read more »

D. Dang Suffers $64K Loss In $100/$200/$30 Pot-Limit Omaha Action

There was some $100/$200 Pot-Limit Omaha action running with a $30 ante during the late night hours on Full Tilt Poker. With hands played on tables Coral Reef, Phelps, and Havenwood, Di “Urindanger” Dang would end up losing over $64K through 155 hands of action. Also booking a loss was J.C. “OnTheRize” Tran with $12K+  Read more »

Dwan Increases Challenge Lead With $199K Pot-Limit Omaha Win Over Antonius

In some early morning poker action, high stakes professionals Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius played another session of their 50,000 hand challenge. They would battle it out over three hours as Dwan manage to rake in 22 of the top 33 pots played. After 892 total hands of action, Dwan had raked almost $199K  Read more »

Sahamies Scores $300K Thunderdome Win Over Ivey

Well-known gamblers Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Phil Ivey got involved in an exiciting ultra high stakes poker battle. They faced off in a $500/$1000 Pot-Limit Omaha match during the evening hours on Full Tilt Poker table Ivey Thunderdome. Sahamies would get off to an early lead as he was up $136K after 20 minutes of  Read more »

Antonius Bests Sahamies With $30K Pot-Limit Omaha Win

High stakes Finnish players Patrik Antonius and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies were involved in a lengthy two-table match of $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha. They played on table Merry Christmas and with a $100 ante on table Bracken. In six hours of action on the ante-less game, Sahamies raked in $180K in winnings. But in the ante game,  Read more »

Antonius Drops $272K In $300/$600/$100 Pot-Limit Omaha Game

There was an evening game of $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha running with a $100 ante over on Full Tilt Poker deep-stack table Bracken. It consisted of mostly three-handed action between Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Phil Ivey, and Patrik Antonius. John “world1969″ Hennigan would sit in and short-stack his way to a $68K+ win in just 28 hands  Read more »

“rezzydezzy1″ Donates $22K In Mixed-Game Action

There was some brief heads-up $1500/$3000 7-Game mixed-action going down between Gus Hansen and John “world1969″ Hennigan during the evening hours on Full Tilt Poker table Brunswick Bay. The player known as “rezzydezzy1″ would sit down and drop his $22K buy-in after playing just one Pot-Limit Omaha hand. Gus Hansen was the winner of that  Read more »

D. Dang Wins $45K In $50/$100/$15 Pot-Limit Omaha Action

There was an evening game of $50/$100 Pot-Limit Omaha with a $15 ante running down on Full Tilt Poker table Nevada Sky. Booking the biggest win in the game would be Di “Urindanger” Dang with over $45K won in 206 hands of action. The next biggest winner was “RandomInfluence” with an $11K+ win during his  Read more »

D. Dang Battles Hansen In $8K Capped Pot-Limit Omaha

High stakes players Di “Urindanger” Dang and Gus Hansen got involved in a two-table match of $100/$200 Pot-Limit Omaha with an $8K cap. They faced off for almost two hours on Full Tilt Poker tables Cora and Linley as Dang went on to win 19 capped pots, compared to the 17 that Hansen won. After  Read more »

Kostritsyn Dominates Sahamies, Takes Down $298K Mixed-Game Win

Alexander “PostflopAction” Kostritsyn and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies were involved in a two-table 7-Game poker mix. They met up on Full Tilt Poker tables Hidden Village and Craig where the limit stakes were $1000/$2000 and the NL/PL blinds were $200/$400. After almost two hours of action, Kostritsyn had racked up over $228K in winnings. Then they  Read more »