A NIGHT OF BIG LOSERS
16 October 2009
Top names take a hammering at the online high
stakes tables
Midweek saw a mass turnout of big name poker players on
the high stakes cash game tables at Full Tilt Poker, but
according to the independent poker stats site
MarketPulse, few of them escaped unscathed.
The
list of big losers speaks for itself:
Brian
Hastings - down $115 000 Phil Ivey - down $150 000
Cole South - down $249 000 Chau Giang - down $268 000
Nizot Skizared - down $157 000 Sirens - down $124
000.
Although not on the 'big loser' leaderboard,
Allen Cunningham and David Oppenheim also dropped
considerable sums of money in the session.
There
had to be some winners to soak up all those losses, of
course, and these were headed by Tom Dwan, who took home
over $650 000, mainly playing mixed 7-Game and Omaha.
Gus Hansen must have been relieved to end the session up
$100 000, and Richard Ashby took home a similar amount.
Also showing a profit, albeit relatively small, were
Patrik Antonius, John Juanda, Justin Smith, and David
Benyamine.
Adding sparkle to the evening was a
$30 000-a-pop multiple flip series featuring Phil
Galfond (undeterred by recent losses) and Rob Akery. The
flip involves each player wagering an agreed amount
pre-flop, giving a fifty percent chance of winning -
rather like a complicated coin flip. In their
entertaining clash, the two bet on a total of 26 flips,
with $60 000 riding on each.
Galfond was the
overall winner, taking 17 of the flips, which gave him a
useful payday of $270 000. Clearly buoyed by his
success, he went on to other games and ended the night
up $334 000!
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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