John Juanda ($147,881) played $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha Hi against ICallSoWhat ($27,995.50), OnTheRize ($16,399.50) and LoLiNa ($59,991). They played at the Panthoen (6 Max) poker table at Full Tilt Poker.

While I was watching there was 8 hands in a row that were $23,999. I haven’t watch a game like this for awhile where none of the players were afraid to bet, raise and re-raise pre-flop. It made the game a good one to watch and a big portion of each of the players chip stacks were at stake nearly every hand.

Well as I keep watching the table it is the same pattern, it wasn’t just 8 in a row like I mentioned earlier but it has been the last 16 hands and counting have been the same way. Pre-flop one bets the other raises and finally the last person bets to $8000. They all call and check the whole way down. Pretty funny to watch and John Juanda mentioned the “suspense” of playing like this.

Talk about throwing your money in the middle and hoping the poker gods help you out. This is truly gambling and none of the players seem to budging on the their $23,999 betting game.

The chat box was ranting and raving about how John Juanda kept losing and his stack was dwindling being split up between the two other players and he finally said “Shut Up” “Just lost 100k straight”, “STFU”, “This is too annoying now”. He finally sat out with $51,876….A far cry from $147k that he had when I started watching which was about 20 minutes.

After watching 4 hands  John Juanda switched seats and was back at it again.  The first two hands went to Lolina which would have been John Juanda’s cards if he didn’t switch his position at the table…The next hand then went to ICallSoWhat. After losing the hand to ICallSoWhat he said he was going to quit if he didn’t win the next hand….And he ends up winning the hand and he responded in the chat box “thy dont want me to quit” (I think referring to the poker gods). He then lost the next two hands…One hand was won by Lolina the other by ICallSoWhat. Not to be discouraged the poker gods had John Juanda win another hand.

Well hand after hand John Juanda kept losing. Lolina was basically scooping up pot after pot and John Juanda started to buy back in $8k at a time so he would be able to play the hands. Finally after buying in 5 times he wins a hand. John Juanda in the chat after losing and losing and Lolina sitting out iwth $184k says “yea I was the donkey” about his play at the table…

When they left the table…they played 50 hands in a row of $23,999 Coin flip and John Juanda went broke with his original $147k and about 5 buy-in’s of $8k. While Lolina went up to $175,969.50 and ICallSoWhat left with $103,974.50.

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Mike Matusow ($13,094)  and Allen Cunningham ($14,729.50) played $300/$600 HORSE at FullTiltPoker.net. Also playing at the poker table was Slick Puppy ($6,294), DAT MOOSE ($15,919), NO IT ALL ($3,744) and imabigkidnow ($33,064.50).

Allen Cunningham at some points sat out and would watch a couple hands then would sit back down at the table.  There weren’t any large hands but lots of $3k+ hands.  I would have thought there would be bigger hands but it always seems like the Mike Matusow tables are never that active in terms of number of high stakes hands.

After watching for about 75 hands the table broke up after Mike Matusow and Allen Cunningham played two heads up hands. They left with:

Mike Matusow ($28,390)
AllenCunningham ($12,744)

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Gus Hansen ($180,493.50) played heads up against SteveSung ($69,495.50) at the $2000/$4000 HORSE at Full TIlt Poker.  It was actually a six player table but when I was watching it was just heads up. They were playing at the Patrik Antonius table.

It was definitely a good table to watch with a lot of hands over $25k. It seems like a lot of tables lately haven’t had much action but this was definitely did.

There were a couple large hands including a $68,599.50 hand. They were playing Limit Stud Hi and Gus Hansen was betting the whole way while along the way SteveSung raised and re-raised. In the end SteveSung showed a king high flush while Gus Hansen mucked his cards.

Another hand in the $60k range was also during the Limit Stud Hi game and SteveSung had a straight this time against Gus Hansen’s mucked hand. Gus Hansen was betting but it just didn’t pan out and he lost the hand worth $60,599.50.

At the end of about 100 hands the chip totals at the table was:

Gus Hansen - $126,284.50
SteveSung - $123,683.50
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AllenCunningham ($50,319.75), Mike Matusow ($16,311.05) and Gus Hansen ($28,789.50) played $1000/$2000 HORSE. Also at the table was CHUFTY ($92,098.25), Boosted J ($20,300) and Confused 1 Here ($39,422.85). They played at ELK a 6 max table at FullTiltPoker.net.

There were a couple good hands that I watched. One of them was between CHUFTY and Gus Hansen. Gus Hansen was betting $2k and was being called by CHUFTY every step of the way. After 7th street Gus Hansen showed three of a kind jacks and CHUFTY mucked his cards and Hansen raked in the pot worth $22,20.

Most of the hands that were played were in the teens.

I was able to watch for a little over 100 hands and then the table broke up. At this time the chip counts were:

Mike Matusow ($13,445.55)
CHUFTY ($89,885.75)
Gus Hansen ($49,918.50)
LoLiNa ($23,496.50)
AllenCunningham ($38,305.75)
Confused 1 Here ($69,903.35)

Gus Hansen was the big winner going from 28.7k to almost 50k while Cunningham and Matusow went down in chips during the same time period.

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Mike Matusow ($49,090.30) played $500/$1000 HORSE against Mark Weitzman ($37,428), Doesburg ($29,061.25) and Boosted J ($9,738.75). They played at the Pineview table which is a 9 seat table but theren’t weren’t  many high stakes players on tonight so it was only the 4. Though a little later in the game HoSS_TBF joined the table with $20k.

The table had a lot of $10k+ hands. Nothing really over that though but there was enough action at the table that made it interesting. I looked at a couple hand histories and after about 100 hands their isn’t much to talk about. I put some of the hands in the Top hands … but nothing really jumped at me to really breakdown and discuss.

Mike Matusow started to sit out and I decided to stop watching the table after about 100+ hands. When I left the chip counts were:

Hoss_TBF ($26,642)
LoLiNa ($10,000)
EazyPeazy ($15,268.50)
Doesburg ($45,355.25)
Mark Weitzman ($24,147)
Boosted J ($17,896.25)
Mike Matusow ($53,474.80)
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Gus Hansen ($66,710.50), AllenCunningham ($72,691.75) played $1000/$2000 HORSE againstfrog22 ($7,190.25) Confused 1 Here ($49,500) and Phil Ivey ($43,501…who sat out most of the game). During the game John Juanda sat down with $20k. Along with Hoss_TBF and CHUFTY.

I had high hopes for the poker game thinking it was going to have a lot of high stakes hands. I was a little let down as players were sitting out and most of the hands were in the teens. With less then a handful being over $20k.

The largest hand of the table was between Hoss_TBF and CHUFTY. They were playing Limit Razz and the pot reached $30,899. Hoss_TBF won showing [5h 4s 9s 6h 7s 2c 4h] 7,6,5,4,2 while CHUFTY mucked.

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Gus Hansen ($251,930) played $2000/$4000 HORSE against Eli Elezra ($70,094), EazyPeazy ($144,972), Rob Hollink ($39,695) and ICallSoWhat ($66,791.50). They played at the Patrik Antonius table at FullTiltPoker.com.

It was a fun game to watching with most of the hands $20k+. Gus Hansen was winning a lot of hands throughout the game and it seemed like he could do no wrong. I saw him collect multiple $30k+ hands and a handful more $20k+ hands.

There were a couple good hands with other players involved including when ICallSoWhat played a hand against EazyPeazy. EazyPeazy ended up winning the hand with a Nine high straight against ICallSoWhat’s two pair (aces and kings). The hand was worth a healthy $53,798.

When I stopped watching the chip counts were:

CHUFTY ($117,345.50)
EazyPeazy ($79,461)
Rob Hollink ($39,373)
Gus Hansen ($283,157)
ICallSoWhat ($101,363.50)

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Brian Hastings ($138,340), trex313 ($43,194), CHUFTY ($20,000), The_Houdini ($22,395), patatino ($53,275) and halfdozen999 ($16,800) played $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha Hi at FullTiltPoker.net. About 10 hands after I started watching John Juanda sat down with $20k.

John Juanda won a large hand against patatino. After the flop patatino bet and John Juanda raised to $20k and patatino went over the top all-in. In the end of the hand the board showed [Td Qd 4c 5c] [9h] with John Juanda holding [Ts 3c Th Jc] for three of a kind tens against patatino’s pocket aces. The pot was worth $77,344.

After watching for about 60+ hands the chip counts were:

John Juanda ($114,261)
The_Houdini ($22,787)
patatino ($23,987)
Ziigmund ($90,798)
Brian Hastings ($139,321)
trex313 ($54,780)

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I was looking for some high stakes tables and happened upon a great HORSE game that was being played at Full Tilt. The players involved were Phil Ivey ($74,989.50), Gus Hansen ($85,085.50), David Singer ($75,491), David Oppenheim ($173,179) and David Benyamine ($91,187). They played at the Patrik Antonius table which is a $2000/$4000 HORSE game.

One top hand that I watched was between Gus Hansen, David Oppenheim, David Benyamine and David Signer.  After 3rd street their was a bet, raise, re-raise and a re-re-raise. On 4th street Gus Hansen bet $2k and was called by both David’s. 5th street was David Benyamine betting $4k, raise by signer to $8k, re-raise by Benyamine to $12k and a called by both Singer and Gus Hansen. 6th street was a bet from Gus Hansen for $4k and a call from both Benyamine and Singer. 7th street everyone checks and Gus Hansen showed two pair, aces and nines while Benyamine and Singer mucked. The pot was worth $80,097. After the hand Singer added $100k to the table.

There were a lot of 30k hands which made the game pretty fun to watch. I have a bunch of hands below that does a pretty good job with the best hands of the table. After I watched for 50+ hands Phil Ivey was the bigger winner…when I first sat to watch the table he had about $75k but when I left he had $179k…not bad for about 45min of work?

Other chip stacks at the table:

David Singer ($80,578)
Eli Elezra ($54,798.15)
Gus Hansen ($106,566)
David Benyamine ($114,017.75)
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Brian Hastings ($29,294) played $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha Hi against OMGClayAiken ($78,980), patatino ($41,026.50), applsgirl ($83,953) and  trex313 ($65,278). They played at Broad a 6 max table at Full Tilt.

The table was actually pretty slow with most of the hands not even breaking $10k. There was one hand early between OMGClayAiken and applsgirl that had some large bets. After the turn OMGClayAiken bet $16,400 which was called after a bit of a hesitation from applsgirl. On the river, applsgirl bet $35,200 and OMGClayAiken then folded and applsgirl won the pot worth $52,598.

At the end of about 100 hands chip counts were:

OMGClayAiken ($77,553)
Brian Hastings ($80,958.50)
patatino ($39,600)
War Stories ($49,398)
Aeron73 ($14,300)
trex313 ($25,764)

Sorry this is a short post but its the 4th. Have a good Fourth of July!

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