In a brief interview with CardPlayer, Gus Hansen dissed fellow high stakes pro Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies regarding his recent play. In a case of what have you done lately, Hansen, who is 2011′s biggest winner in the high stakes games, stated that Sahamies needs a reality check. Choosing to strike while he has been doing [...]
Things haven’t went so well for Ilari “Zigmund” Sahamies over the past year at Full Tilt poker since he’s lost over $4 million playing high stakes poker. This being the case, Sahamies has taken quite a bit of time off of the game. However Zigmund was back and better than ever on April 10th when he [...]
This year’s biggest poker hand Gus Hansen won nearly $332.000 dollars in a single Omaha hand. Yesterday featured plenty of action at Full Tilt’s biggest Pot-Limit Omaha tables, and once again Gus Hansen played one of the leading roles. The Dane has through the past six years according to various tracking sites has been the [...]
Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom has been on a $260k upswing, fueled by a high stakes online regimen that sees him playing over 6,000 hands a night. There’s sure to be some bumps in the road with this sort of volume, and Blom hit a major one just last night when his ongoing winning streak was crushed [...]
In early 2009, Tom “durrrr” Dwan officially issued his “challenge” to the poker world (well, everyone in the poker world except for Phil Galfond). In an effort to generate some action, Dwan offered some extremely enticing odds to his would-be opponents. If Dwan won the “challenge”, then his opponent would need to pay out $500,000. [...]
Tips for Playing Omaha PL Cash Games Many players who first start playing poker get started in the “Cadillac of Poker,” otherwise known as Texas Hold‘em. But players for various reasons will start to look elsewhere for different games to try. Sometimes this is due to them beating the stakes they are at, maybe they [...]
