Phil Ivey’s Monday night at FullTilt online was bad to say the least, with the infamous pro player losing copious amounts in a few monster pots. Ivey lost most of his money in two gigantic pots during a game of Omaha against online the online legend that is the Finnish Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, the pair were playing heads up in a $500/$1000 blinds cash game. The table that the players were playing at was actually Ivey’s own table that he created under the name of “Ivey Thunderdome,” but it seems that playing on home turf served as no advantage to Ivey. Read the rest of this entry »

Doyle Brunson is no stranger to the world of high stakes poker, but has always tended to venture away from the extreme pots running into the high 3 figure regions. This all changed when Brunson ran into a regular of the High Stakes Poker table named Guy Laliberté and sparks flew to say the least. Laliberté has been very active at the High Stakes Poker recently, Read the rest of this entry »

There are currently a large number of professional poker players with huge bankrolls taking seats at the online poker rooms and exchanging six-figure pots between one another on a regular basis. However, where should we be looking if we want to observe some of these high stakes games? This article will help to face you in the right direction to find some big poker names as well as some equally big pots. Read the rest of this entry »

David Benyamine has been a regular at the highest stakes tables on Full Tilt and other big name rooms over the last few years. He has managed to play against the top pros at the highest level on a regular basis, and has continually had great winning sessions that earned him literally millions in winnings. However, over the last year things haven’t been going so well for him, as he encounters one losing session after another. Read the rest of this entry »

The ever popular Sunday million tournament hosted by PokerStars saw another big turnout, with over 3,000 players signing up and taking their seats to try and get a piece of the $1,510,500 prize pool. The top 486 finishers would receive a portion of the total prize pool, with the first place finisher taking away a cool quarter of a million. After many hours of play, the lucky winner named ‘Zutzman’ was crowned the Sunday million champion for the week. Read the rest of this entry »

Two high stakes online players had a great session the other day, with big pots being won by both players. Ziigmund and Gus Hansen have been playing against each other quite frequently over the past few months, and it appears that a bit of a rivalry has started to develop between the two. There were 3 or 4 big hands in this particular $200/$400 NL Omaha session, with Hansen winning the biggest pots making him up $167K by the end of the 3-hour long session. Read the rest of this entry »

The action heated up on the $300/$600 No Limit Texas Holdem tables on Full Tilt the other night, as the high stakes regular Brian Townsend known as ‘sbrugby’ matched up against famous poker pro Phil Ivey. The pair battled it out for over 600 hands in the space of 4 hours, exchanging huge six-figure pots along the way. Both players chipped at each other’s stacks throughout the night, but Ivey came out on top, lifting $411K from Townsend’s bankroll. Read the rest of this entry »

We have all won a few big pots in our time; those special 3 way-all in moments where we treble our stack to give that great warm feeling of success. Sometimes, we might even dabble in the odd cash game that is above where we would normally play and get lucky, which also gives us a great feeling of satisfaction. Now imagine sitting down at the table and picking up a $465,451 pot, do you think that might feel quite good? Read the rest of this entry »

Once again the always insane poker pros jumped into the $300-$600 Heads-Up No-Limit game on Full Tilt last night.  This time, the rival featured poker sensation Phil Ivey and know and respected online pro, Sbrugby a.k.a Brian Townsend.  As always the match was filled with lots of crazy plays and coin flips for thousands, but one hand in particular really stood out as the pot reached the $250,000 area on a turn all-in call by Ivey, here is what went down: Read the rest of this entry »

The No-Limit action really heated up last night on Full Tilt with 4-5 players all in on the $500-$1000 No-Limit game incuding the likes of Phil Ivey and David Benyamine, both repsected poker pros. This is the highest limit offering on Full Tilt and also features a $30,000 CAP, meaning the players cannot each bet more than $30K per hand, which actually limits this game somewhat. The big winner of the table was David Benyamine who amassed a chip count of $305,856.95 (Yes this is real money people). Because of the CAP there was tons of all ins and as always, the rail was alive with observers and hecklers. One particularly odd player named Im2Fast would keep coming to the table and professing how good he was to all the players, but would never actually sit in and play…..can you say scared. Anyways all in all it was a great game to watch and finally broke near 5am this morning. Below are a few select screenshots from the action: Read the rest of this entry »