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Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn go on episode of an episode of Poker After Dark to battle it out with high stakes pros Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey. Unfortunately Olivia Munn is felted early by Kevin’s AA vs her KK.

That didn’t really happen, but G4 did cover all the top poker blogs in the world and featured Pokerbloggs.com and Felttube.com. Little do they know I’m a huge fan and watch the show every day that I can. G4 covering poker blogs is really good attention for the online poker industry since most of the people that watch their show are tech savvy, and are online all the time. I think Olivia Munn would make a great poker host but I think their other host Layla Kayleigh already had that gig.

Kevin Pereira has been involved in websites since he was a teen. Kevin had earned three California Media Festival awards which launched him towards his career as a quick witted tech reviewer/host on G4 TV. It would be really cool to see Kevin enter some poker tournaments at Full Tilt Poker!

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The high stakes tables have been buzzing this month at Full Tilt Poker and the top five winners so far this month should come as a surprise to none. Chau Giang poker screen name La Key U is fifth on the list, winning $217,897 this month. Sami Kelopuro AKA LarsLuzark has been in the news quite a bit lately with his return to high stakes action online. He ranks #4 so far this month with $383,021 in winnings. Brian Hastings is up nearly $493,075 this month and ranks 3rd. Patrik Antonius comes in at the #2 spot with $825,869 in winning this month. The biggest money winner this month is the man, Phil Ivey. Phil Ivey has won $992,398 so far this month.

The biggest losers this month are just as interesting. David Benyamine comes in at #5 in our list of losers at $233,313 in the red. Matt Hawrilenko is #4 with $333,959 lost so far this month. Regista8 is in 3rd, losing $450,703 this month. John Juanda is donating back some of his WSOP Europe Main Event winnings to the poker community. He is down $732,597 so far, but he still doesn’t hold a candle to our top loser of the month. Lady Marmelade has lost a whopping $1,154,702 this month. This just compounds her overall losses. Right now, Lady Marmelade has lost over $2.68 Million this year in online poker.

The biggest pots won this month have all come courtesy of the RailHeaven table at Full Tilt Poker. RailHeaven can be considered the new Bobby’s Room of online poker. As expected Tom Dwan poker screen name durrrr was involved in many of the largest pots. In fact, he was in six of the top 10 pots so far this month. The largest was the 2nd largest pot of the month against lolzcapano. Pre-flop, durrrr made his typical raise to $3,000 and was called along by both John Juanda and Phil Ivey. Lolcapaneo raised to $16,500 and only durrrr made the call. The flop fell 3h-10c-7c and lolzcapaneo bet out $27,500. Durrrr made the call. On the turn of the Kd, lolzcapaneo bet out $46,500 and durrrr made the call yet again. The river fell the 5d and lolzcapaneo bet out $119,577. Durrrr made the call and showed pocket sevens for a set of sevens. Lolzcapaneo showed pocket jacks and durrrr took down a pot worth $428,151.

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Now there are 2 “Big Games”! One is at the famous Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas and the other is the $2,000/$4,000 H.O.R.S.E. game at Full Tilt Poker. Both are limit mixed games, but Bobby’s game is $4,000/$8000. The game is basically the same since there are probably three hands played at Full Tilt Poker for every one at Bobby’s. Some of the players
at Full Tilt include Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Eli Elezra, John Juanda, and many more.

Here you can see how big the pots get in this nose bleed limit game. Phil Ivey rivers a set to scoop the huge poker pot.

river:

Full Tilt Poker Game #9016505551: Table Patrik Antonius - $2000/$4000 - Limit Omaha H/L - 0:02:29 ET - 2008/11/17
Seat 1: Eli Elezra ($198,458), is sitting out
Seat 2: John Juanda ($59,795)
Seat 3: Patrik Antonius ($80,493.50)
Seat 4: Phil Ivey ($200,696)
Seat 5: world1969 ($182,451.50)
Seat 6: Gus Hansen ($27,186)
Patrik Antonius posts the small blind of $1,000
Phil Ivey posts the big blind of $2,000
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Eli Elezra has returned
world1969 raises to $4,000
John Juanda has 15 seconds left to act
John Juanda raises to $6,000
Patrik Antonius folds
Phil Ivey calls $4,000
world1969 calls $2,000
*** FLOP *** [Ah 9d 4d]
Phil Ivey checks
world1969 bets $2,000
John Juanda calls $2,000
Phil Ivey calls $2,000
*** TURN *** [Ah 9d 4d] [8c]
Phil Ivey checks
world1969 bets $4,000
John Juanda has 15 seconds left to act
John Juanda calls $4,000
Phil Ivey raises to $8,000
world1969 raises to $12,000
John Juanda folds
Phil Ivey calls $4,000
*** RIVER *** [Ah 9d 4d 8c] [Jh]
Phil Ivey checks
world1969 bets $4,000
Phil Ivey raises to $8,000
world1969 calls $4,000
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Phil Ivey shows [Jc 2h Jd 3h] three of a kind, Jacks, for high and 8,4,3,2,A, for low
world1969 mucks
Phil Ivey wins the high pot ($34,499) with three of a kind, Jacks
Phil Ivey wins the low pot ($34,499) with 8,4,3,2,A
The game is now $2,000/$4,000 Limit Razz with an ante of $300
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $69,000 | Rake $2
Board: [Ah 9d 4d 8c Jh]
Seat 1: Eli Elezra is sitting out
Seat 2: John Juanda (button) folded on the Turn
Seat 3: Patrik Antonius (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: Phil Ivey (big blind) collected ($68,998)
Seat 5: world1969 mucked
Seat 6: Gus Hansen is sitting out

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This past week’s high stakes action did not produce the massive pots of the past week, but there was still plenty of action, including a $1 Million winner. Patrik Antonius finished the week ahead over $1.2 Million over 75 sessions played during the week. Zilgmund was a close second with over $993,000 in wins. Hac “trex13” Dang was a distant third with over $314,000 in wins. John Juanda and Gus Hansen broke the quarter million in wins.

Ugadabugada had a tough week online, losing over $672,000 over 2236 hands. Slaktarn recently won the 25k PLO Heads-Up World Championship but gave the money won in that event back this week in the cash games. He finished down over $564,000. David Benyamine and Phil Ivey both had down weeks online as well. Benyamine lost $292,000 while Ivey was a $338,000 loser. The biggest loser per sessions played was elmariachimacho. He only played 2 sessions lasting 149 hands and dropped $300,000. The equated to him losing $2,013 per hand.

Phil Ivey and David Benyamine won 6 of the 10 largest pots of the week. To put Phil Ivey’s week in perspective, on Thursday he won the Million Dollar Cash Game hosted by Full Tilt. This posted a $536,400 win for him. One of Ivey’s targets during that cash game was Tom “Durrrr” Dwan. Online play mimicked his live play, as Ivey took $500,000 off Dwan in the span of an hour playing PLO heads-up online.

The first hand between the two saw Ivey make a third pot raise to $27,000 preflop. Tom Dwan called and the flop fell of 3d-5s-9s. Dwan bet out $54,000 and Ivey fired a raise to $108,000. Durrrr called all-in for $43,144.50. Ivey showed As-Ad-2d-Qs for aces and both the nut flush draw and wheel draw. Dwan showed 7s-Qh-8h-6d for the higher straight draw. The turn fell the 2h, which helped neither player. A 5c on the river gave the first heads up pot to Ivey with aces up. The pot was worth $248,289.

The second large hand between the two occurred less than an hour later. Durrrr made a small raise to $3,000 and Ivey made the call. The flop fell 10s-3d-5s and a raising war ensued between the two. Dwan bet out $4,600. Ivey raised to $19,800. Dwan then reraised to $65,400. Ivey then threw down the gauntlet with a raise to $202,200, which was enough to put Dwan all in. Dwan called. Ivey showed 8c-10c-6d-5d for top two pair. Durrrr showed 9d-As-Jh-9s for the nut flush draw and a pair of nines. The turn fell the 3h and the river the Qc. Ivey won the $252,185.50 pot with tens up.

While Patrik Antonius was the big overall winner this week, Antonius only had one pot in the top 10 this week. He took the fourth largest pot of the week against durrrr playing $500-$1,000 blind no limit. Antonius made a raise to $3,000 and durrrr made a reraise to $9,500. Antonius made the call. The flop fell 2c-5c-Jd and it was checked around. The turn fell the 8s and Durrrr bet $14,200. Antonius raised to $44,000 and durrrr came over the top all-in for $144,794.50. Antonius made the call. Durrrr showed Js-4s for top pair and Antonius showed 5d-5h for a set of fives. The river card fell the Ad, and Antonius took down a pot worth $308,588.50.

While durrrr was the whipping boy of the pros for most of the week, he did manage to take the second largest pot of the week against Putinovitch. On a flop of 8c-2c-3d, durrrr bet out $6,600 and Putinovitch raised to $19,000. Durrrr raised to $52,500 and Putinovitch moved all in for $186,377.50. Durrrr called and showed 4c-4d. Putinovitch showed Ac-Jc for the nut flush draw. A Ks on the turn and a 6d on the river gave the $329,009 pot to durrrr with a pair of fours. Putinovitch was never able to recover from the loss of this hand. He finished the week down $80,000 over 2 sessions.

The largest pot of the week fittingly pitted Phil Ivey against David Benyamine. Both are known for their ability to play all games well, but this week their clash was in the NL holdem arena. Since durrrr felt that he hadn’t donated enough money to Ivey this week, he decided to play with the two to start the hand. Ivey raised to 3,000 preflop. Benyamine then reraised to $13,000. Durrrr decided to three bet the pot to $32,700. Ivey put in the fourth raise to $83,000 followed by another raise from Benyamine to $133,300. Durrrr finally decided that he had donated enough to this pot and folded. Ivey then moved all in for $221,486. Benyamine called for $18,974 and was all-in. Ivey showed Ad-Ac and Benyamine showed 10s-10h. Both players started rooting for the other to hit their set after the flop of Kh-Qh-Js. As fate would have it, running deuces fell on the turn and river and Ivey won the $337,245 pot with aces up.

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