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Capped Limit Omaha games have been the new craze in the online poker world. Friday was no different as four different tables of this high stakes action took place on Full Tilt Poker. As usual, the biggest names in poker took to the online felt such as Tom Dwan screen name durrrr, Ilari Sahamies screen name ‘Ziigmund’, Di Dang screen name Urindanger, and Markus Golser.

Our first hand sees online pro Jared Bleznick screen name ‘harrington25′ take a pot worth nearly $25,000 with a bet on the river.

Di Dang took this pot from ‘Luukie21′ by flopping a straight against two pair.

Jared Bleznick took both runs of another pot in this hand by making a full house on the turn, besting the straight of ‘LokoIsBack’ on both runs, for a pot worth over $30,000.

Bleznick continued his big day by capping this next hand on the flop, forcing Di Dang to lay his hand down.

Dwan took some back from Bleznick here. An all in shove on the flop was good enough for this pot.

Aces held for ‘LokoIsBack’ to take this pot from Dwan, surviving both runs to win a total pot of nearly $30,000.

‘LokoIsBack’ took the biggest hand of the session here. On a three way cap, the player’s flush was good enough to take over $40,000 from both Sahamies and Dwan.

Di Dang capped this hand against Jared Bleznick, and made his straight on both runs to take the entire pot.

On the final hand of the day, Tom Dwan used a big bet of nearly $10,000 to win this hand from ‘LokoIsBack.’

On the session, Jared Bleznick was the big winner, of nearly $100,000. Dwan was also a winner, but only to the tune of around $25,000. Di Dang and Ilari Sahamies were the two notable losers on the day.

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John Racener Bio

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John Racener is an American professional poker player born in 1985 in Dunedin Florida. Racener is one of the final nine in the 2010 World Series of Poker. The 24 year old Racener is well known for his polarizing spiky hair, making you wonder if he ever left the eighties at all. John Racener goes by $JMONEY$ in the online poker world and his favorite player is “The Grinder” Michael Mizrachi, whom he will be competing with November 9.

John Racener is a self taught player and had immediate success at the age of 21, it was on that birthday he cashed in at Harrah’s Atlantic City, “Spikey” another moniker finished 3rd in the Championship event in 2009. John Racener was $103,527 dollars richer and definitely a birthday to remember. John Racener would disclose that “I don’t work” and I just play poker, so the win was a life changer for Racener.

John Racener’s early good times would continue, he caught fire with 10 cashes and finishing 8th in the Borgata Winter Open/WPT Event taking home $166,161, for a self taught player just 4 short years ago he had asserted himself quite well. John Racener stormed Atlantic City like a hurricane smells properties, he made it his place to play. John Racener’s most memorable win was in 2007 at the World Series of Poker Circuit Championship Event, taking home $379,000 his dream of not working and just living off poker was now a reality.

Still entering this year’s 2010 World Series of Poker, Racener was still not considered a favorite to make it to the final table, on some levels he was still an unproven talent who played online with his 3rd place finish in the Full Tilt Poker’s $750,00 Guaranteed in April 2009 for $54,000 in his back pocket, and early on success not enough to label him a threat.

John Racener enters a table at the Rio in Las Vegas as one of the many surprises to make it there, he will take his seat with 19.05 million the 4th largest stack. The question now is can John Racener complete his run, can he do it staring at the “Grinder” sitting at the same table whom he has said to be his favorite.

John Racener his a little over three months to prepare for what could be his first bracelet and the cash that goes with it. He lives in Port Richey Florida, but will he just simply stay at home and play online or will he do a combination of table play and perhaps work with a seasoned pro?

John Racener’s lifetime stats include $1,730,585 in earnings, 79 career cashes and 3 titles.

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The big Full Tilt Poker high limit mixed games went off again on Tuesday. The first of the two big tables going off saw David Oppenheim take on Brian Townsend screen name ’sbrugby.’ The first hand we saw saw Oppenheim lay a Stud hand down on the river to Townsend’s $3000 bet.

The next hand saw a massive pot get all of Oppenheim’s money in the middle. Although he flopped top pair, he was way behind Townsend’s flopped top set. He didn’t get there, and Townsend won the pot for more than $50,000.

David Oppenheim re-bought, and the games continued. This hand saw Townsend make a min-raise of an additional $1800, forcing Oppenheim to lay his hand down and leave himself with yet another short stack.

In the Limit Hold’Em game, all the money went in on the flop. Oppenheim had a bleak king high and didn’t get there, once again losing his stack to Townsend.

Oppenheim finally got some back in this hand. Flopping top pair top kicker, Oppenheim faced a big bet on the river. He made the call, picking off Townsend’s missed flush draw bluff for a pot of $60,000.

This was enough for Oppenheim. Only being down around $20,000 at this point in the game, he opted out and left the table. Townsend also left, but it didn’t take long for both seats to fill. High limit pro Gus Hansen took one seat. As is expected at these limits, it didn’t take long for Hansen to find an opponent, as Brian Hastings joined him at the table. The first big hand played by the two came in this pot of PLO. Hansen made a pot sized bet on the turn, which was good enough to force Hastings out.

Hastings got the better of Hansen in this hand with a raise on the river.

Hastings won another big pot, this time in the Stud H/L round. Three kings were good enough for the scoop and most of Hansen’s chips.

Hansen bought back with a big stack and won another big hand on seventh street of the Stud Hi round.

On the sessions, the two winners were both Brian Hastings and Brian Townsend, taking home a little more than $50,000 and $20,000 each.

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Jonathan Duhamel Bio

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Jonathan Duhamel is a Canadian born professional poker player, born in 1987 is from the city of Boucherville. Like many young poker players Jonathan Duhamel has made a decision like many before him have, to leave school. Jonathan has decided to pursue his dream of winning millions and will get his shot come November 9 when the 2010 World Series of Poker resumes play.

Jonathan Duhamel will enter 2010 November 9 with the chip lead for essentially four months, his play at this years WSOP has been nothing less then stellar. In just two days he chipped up from 4 million to over 60 million. Looks like Jonathan’s choice to leave a finance major in college has paid off so for considering the fact he will be sitting at the final table with a chance at a bracelet and the cash that goes with it.

Duhamel’s day 7 was pretty special, he came in at 17 on the leaderboard with 4.30 million in chips and in just a few hours later it ballooned to nine million. By the end of day 8, Jonathan would have a healthy chip lead over the rest of the November 9. Duhamel finished 15th in as $2,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament at the 2010 WSOP prior to his deep run in the Main Event. He established credibility by taking $37,000 in a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max event, he finished 50th and earned nearly $6,000.

Jonathan Duhamel has proven he is a force in professional poker, you don’t just end up in what some would call the playoffs of poker without excellent play, and knocking of the elite getting there. Jonathan Duhamel at age 23 has crossed the border in hopes of winning it all.

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