Big High Stakes Poker Moments Part 1

September 28, 2006

Hello everyone, here’s an article I wrote. Hopefully everyone enjoy reading it.High Stakes Poker Moments:

It’s not allowed for the regular people to head into the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas and follow when the best players in the world competing in the “Bobby’s room”. This room runs the biggest games in the world with limits going up to $4000/$8000. However after internet came into the picture, we, the regular people have had an excellent chance to follow the “high rollers” playing for high stakes. And the best part of it, we can follow it through our own computers, at home. In the past few months we’ve witnessed a lot of cash moving in the biggest tables over the internet. Now it’s time to remind everyone of what has happened.

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We’re going to start our story from the Prima-network HU $200/$400 NL game between Patrik Antonius A.K.A. “I_KnockOut_U” vs. Prahlad Friedman A.K.A. “Zweig” which took place in 11/14/2005. Beforehand Prahlad, the most succesful online player to date, had abused Patrik’s style of play as it will never work against players like himself. When the HU match was set to start, over 680 eyepairs were watching it. Nevertheless it so happened that Patrik basically “won” the match, winning about $275,000 from Prahlad in one night, earned his respect among the other high stakes players.

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Second HU battle that we’re about to look into was played on OnGame-network, the competitors were Daniel Negreanu A.K.A. “TheKidPoker” vs. Patrik Antonius A.K.A. “AllTheWomen”. These guys actually played a few times, Daniel trying to hang on there with intentions to develop his game, as Patrik just tried to win as much money as he could. First couple of sessions Daniel managed to keep it even, but then he openly told how things were going in his blog: “The online poker thing has gone very badly for me recently. Patrick Antonius, one of the very best, has been absolutely crushing me. He is clearly a better player than I am…”. This was when he was down about $150,000. But it was clear to see that Patrik was the better player online, so when he got on the rush, Daniel couldn’t stop him: “When I got back home I played XWA for a short while and took a small win, before losing another $30,000 to AllTheWomen again. He has beaten me for $200K+ straight, and during that rush I have not, at any point, won $30,000 straight!”. That being likely the last game they ever played, Patrik was up about $220,000. During those games Daniel made a challenging comment, saying that he might lose online, but live is a whole different situation. Patrik responded to this by saying that it’s fine to him, he’s actually better when he plays live. But that’s another story then.. ————————————————-

Second part will be here soon, it’s a bit longer.

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2 Responses to “Big High Stakes Poker Moments Part 1”

Teemu on September 29th, 2006 7:44 am

the new layout is really awful. It hurts my eyes to read the text.
nurgl10 on September 29th, 2006 10:55 am

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