2009 High stakes update

High Stakes Poker Update July 2009

July 29th, 2009

After all the action at the 2009 World Series of Poker and Bobby’s Room the action is returning to the high stakes rooms at Full Tilt Poker. Bobby’s room had a ton of action going on with Chinese poker, huge Pot Limit Omaha, and the usual limit games. At Full Tilt Poker, Richard Ashby is up more than a million dollars this month, Cole South is up almost a million in the last seven days, and Gus Hansen. is up a million over the last week too. In Gus Hansen’s case he is just about even now for the last 30 days because of his major swings. Ashton Griffin aka theASHMAN103 is up about 600k in the last week. Ashton Griffin is also known for 1st place finish in the 25k heads up championship. Ashton has some FTOPS wins under his belt in addition to the 25k Heads Up championship, which is pretty astonishing considering hes under 21. I believe he was removed from the Bellagio for being under age a few weeks ago (he talks about it in his audio blog on youtube but its too hard to listen to because of his mic). Niki Jedlicka and Patrick Antonius have been going at it over the last couple weeks. Niki was up big on him and lost around $550k back to Antonius in one session. John Juanda is up around 700k for the year and that’s just online. John Juanda gets little attention from forums and blogs and yet is one of the most successful poker pros of all time. DIN_FRU is down over 400k in the last 24 hours over 2500 hands.

I’m looking for increased action in the online poker rooms but slightly smaller stakes being played because of the economy. I expect to see more 25/50 games and less 100/200 and I expect more 200/400 and less 500/1000.