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With American high stakes online pros unable to play online, many have taken up temporary residence in Macau. Players like Tom Dwan, Sam Trickett, Andrew Robl, and Alec Torelli to name a few. They are very secretive about who plays in the games because they don’t want to scare off the fish Chinese billionaires who frequent the games.

PokerPortal.asia’s Twitter reports that Tom Dwan has won the biggest hand in poker history, a whopping $3.8 Million US in the Macau high stakes poker games. The hand came when the blinds were HKD $10,000/$20,000 (USD $1300/$2600) at StarWorld Hotel’s Poker King Club in the Macau Big Game.

This week Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 scooped 2 scoop events at Pokerstars. I predict announcement of Pokerstars purchase of Full Tilt Poker to come tomorrow or Friday. With pledge to pay off US players within 90 days. Within those ninety days, I expect to hear a new Isildur1 VS Durrrr challenge.

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Amarillo Slim Preston dead at age 83

Amarillo Slim Preston who was one of the most famous gamblers of all time is dead at 83. Amarillo Slim was one of the original Texas Rounders which included Slim, Doyle Brunson aka Tex Dolly, and Sailor Roberts. The Texas gamblers traveled all around the large state of Texas, playing in poker games, as a crew who shared their roll. Many great stories of long sessions of poker games came from these historic times of poker.

Here are some of Amarillo’s most famous bets from his website:

Amarillo Slim’s Greatest Bets

Playing Minnesota Fats in one-pocket with a broom.
Taking 211/2 points on the Jets and winning a big bet on Broadway Joe in Super Bowl III.
Hitting a golf ball a mile on a frozen lake—inspired by Titanic Thompson.
Wagering that a cat could pick up a Coke bottle.
Betting on which sugar cube a fly would land on in an Arkansas jail.
Outrunning a horse for a hundred yards (no one ever said nothing about the race being a straight-away).
Holding a horse’s tail for a quarter of a mile in San Angelo, Texas.
Broad jumping farther than a superior athlete at Rogers Municipal Golf Course.
Winning the World Series of Poker at Binion’s Horseshoe in 1972.
Rafting down the River of No Return in winter in a wetsuit made by Jacques Cousteau–a bet that earned me $31,000 from Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder.
Beating Evel Knievel in golf with a carpenter’s hammer and betting that two out of thirty cab drivers in Dallas would have the same birthday.
Shooting free throws with a football against a Hall-of-Fame basketball coach.
Beating Bobby Riggs playing Ping-Pong with a skillet.
Beating a world champion Ping-Pong player with a Coca-Cola bottle.\
Betting that a champion bowler couldn’t bowl seventy blindfolded (and that a driver with a little physical impairment could).
Finding (a) person who could eat a quail a day for thirty days.
Beating Willie Nelson out of $300,000 playing dominoes in Las Vegas.
Riding a camel through Casino El Mamounia in Marrakesh, Morrocco.
Pitching coins with Bob Stupak for $65,000 at the Orleans in Las Vegas.
Playing Larry Flynt head-up poker at the Fips Club in Los Angeles.
Betting a prominent politician that George W. Bush would win the 2000 Presidential election.

Watch this documentary on Amarillo Slim:

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!P0krparty¡ has been on a huge heater since August 17th averaging 4000 hands a day and up $285,000.00. He is alleged to be real name Jon Eaton screen name sketchy1. Jon Eaton has $2,693,268.56 of career winnings online and has $603,267 in live winnings.

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