Here at Bluff Europe we’re insistent that Patrik Antonius is the biggest online winner of all time; our research indicates over $16m won on known screen names plus millions more at sites such as Prima and iPoker.
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09 4th, 2010
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09 4th, 2010
If the 2010 run of Poker in the Park has taught us anything, it’s that beautiful women in very few clothes and poker is just a dandy combination. It turns out that police in Covina, California, were not so enthusiastic about the idea and shut down a bikini bar game at The Well.
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09 2nd, 2010
Antonius, who is looking to rebound from an awful August that saw him lose over $800k on the online tables, played 413 hands of $2,000/$4,000 Limit Hold’em against deprimiert.
There was some luck involved, however. In one of the key hands Antonius managed to river trip sixes with A-6 in the hole to scoop a $56,000 pot.
With the win, Antonius is now the biggest winner in the very early stages of September. There’s a good chance we’ll see that position change frequently as the month continues.
As for deprimiert, it was the second straight day that he’s accrued massive losses. Yesterday Phil Ivey had his way with deprimiert in the high stakes Limit games and drained him of $327k. Over the last two days deprimiert has lost over $600k.
Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond was the night’s second biggest winner with $213,863 in profit.
Most of Galfond’s winnings came from Dan “jungleman12” Cates in a mixture of $100/$200 No-Limit Hold’em and PLO. Perhaps Galfond should have issued a challenge of his own.
The durrrr Challenge tables were silent for a second straight day. Tom Dwan is perhaps still stinging from the fact he’s down nearly $700k to jungleman12 and trying to develop a new strategy.
Here’s a couple of the biggest pots from the Patrik Antonius/deprimiert session last night. Be sure to check out our for more information.
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08 27th, 2010
On today’s Daily Deal, Poker News Daily visits the Legends of Poker final table, finds himself in hot water once again, and the Main Event Day 2A airs on ESPN. It’s all coming up… RIGHT AFTER OUR COOL INTRO!
Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily. The ‘s Legends of Poker tournament from the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles wrapped up late last night. Part time poker player Andy Frankenberger took the event down for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Frankenberger told me before the event that the money didn’t mean much to him as he’s already done well for himself on Wall Street and that he was gunning for the win. Well, mission accomplished as he beat out pro Kyle Wilson heads up for the victory. The next stop for the is London England for the London Poker Classic.
Recent activity across several of the online poker forums is once again indicating that noted pro Sorel “” Mizzi may have been involved in an attempt to rig multi-table tournaments. In a conversation between Steve “thorladen” Weinstein and Mizzi that popped up over the weekend on TwoPlusTwo and PocketFives, Mizzi proposes to Weinstein the use of remote PC access programs such as GoToMyPC.com to access computers in different locations. These programs allow a person from one location to be able to use another computer – using the accessed computer’s IP address. Named in the potential scandal were Chris Dombrowski, known online as “cdbr3799” and Aditya “Intervention” Agarwal. However, both have responded on PocketFives saying that they had no part in any cheating. Mizzi attempted to shed some light on the subject by posting:
“The conversation in question contains bits and pieces of information from several conversations I’ve had with Thorladen and others over the course of about a year. It was quite a while ago, but if I had to guess I would say the conversations occurred from two-thousand eight to two-thousand nine while I was sponsored by .”
Wherever the truth is in the most recent hubbub regarding Mizzi, his track record in the poker world has been mixed. He has served multiple suspensions for various violations of the terms and conditions of and . However, he’s also piled up three point two million dollars in live tournament earnings since 2006.
On Tuesday night, the World Series of Poker Main Event continued airing on ESPN. This time, Day 2A was highlighted and featured nine former Main Event champions gunning for a repeat performance. Embattled PokerStars pro was seated at the feature table, with cash game specialist at Table Two.
One of the highlights of the night was Antonius cracking pocket aces with five-three after flopping two pair. ESPN poker commentator Norman Chad added, “Patrik and I go to the same health club. He just works out a few more days a week than I do.” You can catch the two-thousand ten World Series of Poker Main Event every Tuesday at Nine P-M Eastern Time on ESPN.
Thanks for joining us as always on The Daily Deal and if you haven’t already be sure to bookmark Poker News Daily and come back every day for the latest poker news. Catch us on twitter at www.twitter.com/pokernewsdaily. I’m Sean Gibson and until tomorrow have some great runs tonight in your tournaments!
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08 25th, 2010
On Tuesday night, the () Main Event continued airing on ESPN. This time, Day 2A was highlighted and featured nine former Main Event champions gunning for a repeat performance. Embattled pro was seated at the feature table.
On a board of 4-9-Q-A, Adam Fisher 3bet all-in with A-J and received a call from Negreanu, who held A-Q for top two pair. Fisher was drawing dead to the river and exited the feature table. Elsewhere in the field, 2009 WSOP Main Event runner-up checked in on reigning champ and ESPN commentator Norman Chad drooled over cash game pro , who was seated at Table 2: “Patrik and I go to the same health club. He just works out a few more days a week than I do.” Interestingly, Antonius has never cashed in the Main Event.
knocked out an opponent with A-K against K-9 to move to nearly double the starting stack of 30,000 and doubled up through after winning a race with K-Q against pocket sevens. Meanwhile, former Main Event champ moved all-in with pocket fives on a flop of A-5-A and doubled up through a player with A-4. ESPN featured the progress of 1986 Under 10 World Youth Chess Champion Jeff Sarwer, who received more coverage than many brand name pros.
Negreanu promptly dropped one-third of his stack after bluffing with 7-6 of diamonds on a board of A-2-Q-8 with two clubs. A third club hit on the river to give Tony Utnage a flush and he scooped the 100,000-chip pot. Others in action on Day 2A that received face time on ESPN included reigning WSOP Europe Main Event champ , Barry’s wife Allyn, and Pasha and .
Michael “” Mizrachi and both survived Day 2A in an impressive feat. Not so fortunate was , who was all-in with pocket fives against A-K. His opponent spiked a king on the turn and ace on the river to send the weight loss prop bet winner to the rail. Also departing was , whose A-J could not draw out on pocket sevens.
During the second one-hour episode, which aired at 10:00pm ET on ESPN, Day 2A resumed with laying it down in a hand against . Then, 2003 WSOP Main Event champ called the clock on an opponent, but didn’t realize that the action was actually on him. Moneymaker eventually called and his opponent insta-mucked. Alaei hit the rails with A-2 against pocket eights when his foe flopped a set.
pros Eric “” Baldwin and Billy “Patrolman35” Kopp continued their Day 2A march and on the Jack Link’s Beef Jerky Wild Card Hand, Negreanu scooped a pot holding just six-high. Negreanu’s nemesis took down a hand with a straight flush against a full house, while fellow female star Heather Sue Mercer won a pot. Mercer, a former college football kicker, sued Duke University for discrimination and was awarded $2 million. However, because of a Supreme Court decision saying that Title IX cases were not subject to punitive damages, she received no money.
Antonius, who is competing against Tom “” Dwan in the ongoing Durrrr Challenge, cracked pocket aces with 5-3. Antonius flopped two pair and ESPN commentator Lon McEachern noted, “Let the wamboozling begin.” Antonius’ chip stack rose to nearly 300,000 as a result, or 10 times the starting stack.
The feature table grew tougher with the addition of bracelet winner and Negreanu’s failed bluffs continued. After check-calling a bet of 3,200 with K-J on a flop of 10-7-9, Negreanu and Charles Hook checked a four on the turn. When a five hit on the river, Negreanu bet 6,800 with air and Hook, holding 9-8 for a pair of nines, made the call. Negreanu’s chip stack was slashed to 29,000.
Next week at 9:00pm ET on ESPN, catch two hours of coverage devoted to Day 2B.
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Andy Frankenberger owns a slight chip lead over the rest of the pack entering the final table of the () Legends of Poker. His stack of 3.02 million represents the lone tally at the table over three million. At stake are a $750,000 grand prize and a seat into the end-of-season WPT Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
The Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles is playing host to the Legends of Poker. Since WPT final tables are played six-handed, the distinction of Bubble Boy went to Steve Reitzfeld, who busted in seventh place for $45,000. Reitzfeld moved all-in on a flop of 5-4-3 holding A-7 for two overcards and a gutshot. Tom Lee looked him up with a wired pair of nines and a running 3-J cemented the six-handed finale.
Online poker player Wade Woelfel hit the rail in eighth place after running pocket tens into the pocket queens of Lee. Following the back-to-back eliminations, Lee vaulted to 2.92 million in chips, good for second place at the Legends of Poker final table behind Frankenberger. The chip leader told WPT hostess Kimberly Lansing, “My strategy has been consistently inconsistent, so I’ll try to keep that up.”
Tyler “brainwash” Cornell was ousted from the WPT Legends of Poker in 11th place and picked up $24,000. Cornell open-shoved all-in pre-flop with A-8 and received a call from Frankenberger, who held pocket rockets. No help came for Cornell, who picked up his second WPT in the money finish. Cornell’s elimination set up the unofficial final table, as all 10 players remaining combined into one group.
Victory Poker’s Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little was gunning for his record-tying third WPT title on Tuesday. However, his bid ultimately came up short, as Little found the exit in 12th place. In his final hand, Little called all-in on a board of Js-6h-2d-7s-10s. Frankenberger flipped over 8s-6s for a runner-runner flush and Little exited stage right. He Twittered after the fact, “Ran into runner-runner flush of the table clown twice. Guess I just suck.”
The good news for Little is that, according to his Twitter feed, he won $1,500 in the Los Angeles airport while waiting for his Southwest Airlines flight back to Las Vegas: “Flying to LAS. Wheeeee. Somehow won $1,500 online in the airport despite being on monster tilt. Shiiiiippp.” Little has 11 cashes in WPT tournaments and was the Season VI Player of the Year after logging two final tables and bubbling a third.
Perhaps the most memorable ride on Tuesday belonged to Adam Schiffer. In a span of just three hands, Schiffer lost pocket queens to Lee’s A-Q and pocket kings to Jared Jaffee’s A-Q of clubs. In the latter hand, Jaffee flopped a pair of queens, but rivered a flush to deliver the bad beat to Schiffer. One player at the table noted, “[Schiffer] built up this great image where everyone thinks he’s bluffing, and then he traps them with strong hands – and loses.”
Here are the chip stacks of the six players remaining in the hunt for the WPT Legends of Poker title:
1. Andy Frankenberger – 3,015,000
2. Tom Lee – 2,915,000
3. Kyle Wilson – 2,854,000
4. Jared Jaffee – 1,006,000
5. Tom Braband – 968,000
6. Franco Brunetti – 800,000
The experienced final table includes Jaffee, who made the finale of the WPT Southern Poker Championship in January. Kyle Wilson took sixth in the Legends of Poker two years ago, while Lee finished sixth in this tournament 2004. For Frankenberger, Tom Braband, and Franco Brunetti, this year’s Legends of Poker marks their first WPT final table.
We’ll have full results from the WPT Legends of Poker on Thursday right here on Poker News Daily.
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08 25th, 2010
Antonius played an epic 908-hand session of $500/$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo last night against Cole South, NEKOTYAN, EazyPeazy, Gus Hansen and Phil Ivey.
It wasn’t pretty for Antonius and by the time the dust had settled he was down an astounding $697,887.
Antonius went on to play $200/$400 Cap PLO Six-Max and managed to recoup some of his losses but still finished down $668k for the day.
The Finnish Team Full Tilt Pro now finds himself up only $170,071 on the year and is also still down $2 million in the durrrr Challenge with approximately 15,000 hands to go.
CardRunners instructor Cole South was the biggest winner of the PLO Hi-Lo session as he took down $523,404.
Despite his tremendous PLO Hi-Lo session, South still finished down $150,000 thanks to some earlier losses in $200/$400 Cap PLO Six-Max.
NEKOTYAN was the biggest overall winner with $308k in profit.
Gus Hansen continued his downward trend by losing $168k. Hansen admittedly ran poorly but the Great Dane is now down $1.3 million in 2010. He might want to consider taking a brief break from the tables.
Below are some of the biggest pots on Full Tilt last night. For more hand replays head to our .
08 24th, 2010
The young Norwegian pro hit the $200/$400 Cap PLO Six-Max tables and recorded over 1,329 hands. He eventually left with a $201,250 profit.
It was no cake-walk for Torbergsen who had to beat players such as Phil Galfond, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey over the course of the evening.
Torbergsen is one of the lesser-known pros in the high stakes online scene but he’s actually a full-time instructor with CardRunners.
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08 21st, 2010
It was widely reported that Patrik Antonius had a torrid start to 2010 and was losing money faster than it was possible to imagine. By March of this year he had lost $3,610,000 at the nosebleed tables including over three-quarters of a million dollars to Tom “durrrr” Dwan in the durrrr challenge.
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