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It is no secret to anyone who railbirds the high stakes cash games on Full Tilt Poker that Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Phil Ivey have had some monumental cashes on a daily basis.  However, yesterday Ivey took Durrrr for over $670,000 in a single day.  Ivey beat him for $289,000 playing Pot Limit Omaha and another $380,000 playing Mixed HA (Pot Limit Omaha and Pot Limit Hold em.)  Half of the amount won by Ivey occurred in two key hands. [click to continue…]

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News around the message boards are buzzing that Full Tilt pros such as Scott Hishmann and Paul Sexton have been spotted playing in microstakes games on Full Tilt Poker. Fishmann was playing 0.05/0.10 while Sexton was playing 0.10/0.25.  Speculation abounds as to why players of this magnitude would be playing with regular folks.  Have they gone broke or are they living up to a Full Tilt contractual agreement? [click to continue…]

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Among the hottest rumors circulating around the online messages boards is whether or not top online poker player Durrr is in danger of going broke.  Railbirds who follow the online high stakes poker games regularly have been astonished to see that over just a 2 week stretch, Tom Dwan has incurred over $3 million in losses.  This comes on the heels of the issuance of his controversial open invitation to play anyone at the highest stakes for a span of 50,000 hands.  [click to continue…]

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The buzz around twoplustwo.com message boards in centering around the financial status around Todd Brunson, one of the world’s leading poker players as well as the son of living legend Doyle Brunson. [click to continue…]

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Gus Hansen is no stranger to the high stakes cash games on Full Tilt Poker as this is primarily where he makes his money online and where you could say he makes his living. But yesterday, Hansen managed to win his largest online poker pot ever, just under $540,000 in a 3-way hand where all the incredible action occurred before the flop!  The action was hot and heavy on Full Tilt, but Hansen’s hand is the biggest and the one creating the most buzz today. [click to continue…]

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News broke last night that 80-year old poker legend Amarillo Slim was robbed and assaulted in his hometown of Amarillo, Texas.  Allegedly, the former World Series of Poker Champion was attempting to obtain collateral on a debt owed to him.  The debt he was owed was $3,000 and he was merely trying to collect some kind of down payment on the amount.  According to Amarillo Police Lieutenant Jim McKenny, Slim met his assailant at [click to continue…]

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Similar to what Chris “Jesus” Ferguson did when he attempted to create a bankroll from nothing several years ago, Daniel Negreanu is well under way with a personal $10 challenge in which he is seeking to turn his $10 into $100,000 in about 3 years time.  Playing exclusively on PokerStars, the poker pro began with $10 at $0.01-$0.02 and not moving up in limits until I he has 500 big blinds for the next limit bump.  For example, if and when he manages to reach $25, he will be able to move up in stakes to $0.02-$0.05. [click to continue…]

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Everyone knows Phil Ivey is one of, if not, the best poker player in the world.  However, something he did yesterday with fellow high stakes online poker player Ziigmund truly baffles the mind.  The two players agreed to blindly go all in on a hand.  They weren’t exactly playing small stakes either.  They were playing their usual $500-$1000 Pot Limit Omaha game on Full Tilt Poker and the virtual coin flip was worth $383,993. [click to continue…]

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