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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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Tom Dwan screen name durrrr has a nice little chip lead in the 2010 WSOP Event #55: Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship. Tom is going to have to “dodge some bullets” to remain atop these final 33 players. One of those bullets is Phil Hellmuth who is probably foaming at the mouth, trying to get his 12th bracelet. In 17th is Alexander Kravchenko who is excellent at riding short stacks to the final table. Blair Rodman is one of my favorite tournament players and has great instincts. Michael Binger is a “rock” and has a fairly healthy stack. Daniel Alaei is one of those silent assassins always lurking. Benjamin Lamb might be a future Phil Ivey but unfortunately hes riding a short stack with little room to make moves.

1 Tom Dwan 910,000
2 Danny Wong 563,000
3 Julio Marines 539,000
4 Ludovic Lacay 528,000
5 Seamus Cahill 495,000
6 Daniel Harmetz 490,000
7 Miguel Proulx 468,000
8 Dmitry Stelmak 448,000
9 Alessio Isaia 443,000
10 Ville Mattila 416,000
11 Michael Binger 391,000
12 David Ulliott 380,000
13 Phil Hellmuth 347,000
14 John Racener 335,000
15 Daniel Alaei 325,000
16 Stephen Ladowsky 302,000
17 Alexander Kravchenko 284,000
18 Leandro Pimentel 254,000
19 Blair Rodman 240,000
20 Jordan Smith 224,000
21 Fabrice Soulier 218,000
22 Jason Mercier 213,000
23 Matthew Wheat 208,000
24 Tony Cousineau 193,000
25 Shawn Hattem 181,000
26 George Abdallah 170,000
27 Stephen Pierson 165,000
28 Trevor Uyesugi 152,000
29 Benjamin Lamb 145,000
30 Jason Lester 143,000
31 Ben Blackmore 99,000
32 Nenad Medic 74,000
33 Timothy Flanders 64,000

Prizepool
1st $780,599
2nd $482,265
3rd $354,218
4th $262,208
5th $195,631
6th $147,138
7th $111,524
8th $85,180
9th $65,568
10th-12th $50,867
13th-15th $39,906
16th-18th $31,288
19th-27th $24,815
28th-36th $19,839

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The $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship kicked off this afternoon at the 2010 World Series of Poker. The $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Event has essentially received a face-lift with the format changing to an 8-game format. In addition, the final table of the event will be solely NL Holdem, just as it was for the 2006 Event.

This year’s event kicked off with an introduction by Jack Effel, the Tournament Director for the World Series of Poker. It soon became evident that this introduction would become a tribute to Chip Reese, the winner of the first $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event in 2006. Effel spoke a few words about the event’s format and the trophy and then recognized the past champions one by one.

The defending champion, David Bach, was asked to come up and say a few words. Bach gave a few positive words about Reese. He stated that he really didn’t know him, but always heard great things about him. After Bach’s brief statement, Effel then turned the floor over to long time close friend, Doyle Brunson. Brunson stated that Reese was “simply the best” and then presented a tribute video of Reese to the crowd. The video started with a interview with Reese and continued by replaying a tribute given to Reese during the broadcast of the 2008 WSOP. It was a very emotional tribute and one could see on Brunson’s face that he truly misses his friend.

After the tribute, Jack Effel went over a few more rules and then gave the microphone back to Brunson to utter the immortal words in poker, “Shuffle Up and Deal.” Players started play with 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball and betting of 800 and 1,600. Each player started with 150,000 chips.

Tom Dwan in 2010 WSOP Players Championship

Phil Ivey in 2010 WSOP Players Championship

The field indeed is a start studded field. Among those playing in the event are Phil Ivey, David Benyamine, Tom Dwan screen name durrrr, Jennifer Harman, Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Dario Minieri, Eli Elezra, Ted Lawson, Phil Hellmuth, Todd Brunson, Carlos Mortensen, David Bach, Michael Binger, Jeff Lisandro, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, Chad Brown, Josh Arieh, Steve Zolotow, Tony G, Gus Hansen, Chau Giang, David Chiu, and Scotty Nguyen. Harman appears to be the only woman playing in the event.

Levels are 90 minutes long and players will play six levels tonight. Dan Shak has actually already been eliminated. He was knocked out during PLO after flopping a set. He had no redraw and ran into a flopped straight with a flush redraw. 116 players entered the event and 115 remain. Four days remain in this $50,000 Player’s Championship. Stay tuned as we bring you coverage from this event.

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Jungleman12 experienced what can only be deemed his “best day ever” at the online poker tables. On May 1st, he took down a staggering $1,054,288 over the span of around 8,700 hands. While taking down a Million in a single day is not that big of a deal to some pros such as Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan aka durrrr, it is still a newsworthy event. However, the impressive part of this feat isn’t the fact that he won over $1 Million, but the fact he took over $600,000 of that win from Tom Dwan.

The game of choice for these two was $200-$400 Heads-Up NL Holdem. The two started with four tables and then moved on to six tables. The two moved tables during the session and in total the duo played on nine total tables.

The first two tables, Alaqua and Loleta were good to Dwan. He took down a combined $600,000 from the two. About $250,000 of that came off of two hands. The first table hand saw durrrr check-call bets on the flop, turn, and river from Jungleman12. Jungleman12 had flopped top pair with As-Js and durrrr called on the flop with 9c-8s for a gutshot straight draw. He hit his draw on the turn. At the river, Jungleman12 moved all-in and durrrr called to take the $105k pot and stack Jungleman12.

The next hand saw both go to a flop of 2h-3h-4s. Durrrr held Jd-5d for an open-ended straight draw and Jungleman12 held Ah-Qd for the gutshot wheel draw. Durrrr raised a $2,000 bet to $6,400 and jungleman12 called. The turn fell the Jc to give durrrr the lead. Jungleman12 bet out $12,400 and durrr flat called. On the river 2s, durrrr checked to Jungleman12, who moved all-in for $42,194. Durrrr made the call with his pair of jacks and took down the $124k pot to stack jungleman12 yet again.

Durrr probably had wished that these were the only tables that he played at because out of the nine tables, those two were the only ones he won at. To say that he got his virtual tail handed to him was an understatement.

Menagerie $94,088.25 over 167 hands

Bugle $125,586 over 179 hands

Spinal $333,239.25 over 699 hands

Box Canyon $170,033 over 1,363 hands

Tissue $116,862.25 over 1,349 hands

Casa Anita $87,610.25 over 1,261 hands

Clear Lake $287,814.30 over 1,059 hands.

The largest pot of the session resulted in a $169k pot on Spinal. Dwan three-bet with Qh-10c pre-flop and jungleman12 called with pocket eights. On a flop of 3d-Kh-8c, jungleman12 checked-called an $8,800 bet from Dwan. The turn fell the Ac and jungleman12 again check-called a $17,400 bet from Dwan. The river fell the 7c and jungleman12 once again checked to Dwan. This time durrrr moved all-in for $45,898.50 and jungleman12 made the call. Jungleman12 showed his set of eights and durrr’s bluff resulted in a $169,596.50

After his epic win on the 1st, junlgeman12 has run his winning up to $1,894,326. During that time, he had a session with Isildur1 where he practically broke even. Will jungleman12 be able to continue his run or will he drop his winnings back to durrrr or even Phil Ivey? To find out, check out the nosebleed stakes at Full Tilt Poker.

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