Full Tilt Poker High Stakes November 2008

High Stakes Stats First half of November 2008

November 26th, 2008

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.