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Wednesday evening saw another healthy influx of high stakes cash games on Full Tilt Poker. To the surprise of none, the game was again full of the biggest named pros to ever play online. Tom Dwan ‘durrrr’ was joined by Di Dang screen name ‘Urindanger’, David Benefield, Gus Hansen, and Phil Ivey. In the first big pot of the day, Dwan wins a pot worth over $23,000 by rivering a straight against the top set of ‘FinnnishNightmre.’

The next hand went the opposite way. ‘FinnnishNightmre’ won this next pot for more than $20,000 with deuces full of aces, taking nearly all of his money back from Dwan.

Dwan dropped another pot in this hand. Gus Hansen made an eight high straight to win this pot after getting called on the river.

Hansen took another pot off one of his highest profile enemies witha bet of $3000 on the river of a Limit Omaha H/L hand.

Dwan got it back, however. In this pot, he made a full house on both runs of the hand for a win of over $32,000.

Dwan, however, went back in the red here. Phil Ivey took a Stud Hi pot to double up to over $23,000 with three eights.

Dwan once again took a hit, this time losing a hand of more than $35,000 to the quad aces of ‘FinnnishNightmre.’

Ivey won another big pot off Dwan in this hand. Kings were good enough to outlast straight and flush draws to take this pot.

The terrible day for Dwan didn’t stop there. In this Omaha H/L hand, Dwan called the river bet of Gus Hansen, only to be on the losing end of a scoop to a straight and a six low.

Di ‘Urindanger’ Dang came into the action here, winning a three way capped pot with queens full for $48,000.

The amazingly awful day of Tom Dwan continued in this hand, losing a pot of over $28,000 to Hansen, who won a Razz pot a queen low.

The biggest story of the big game on this day was the losses of Tom Dwan, which amounted to around $150,000. The winners on the session were Di Dang, Phil Ivey, and Gus Hansen. Hansen won nearly $100,000, while Ivey and Dang each won around $50,000.

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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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