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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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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Markus Golser ($62,185) played $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha Hi against applsgirl ($34,790), ICallSoWhat ($329,739), guaranteed376 ($186,038) and halfdozen999 ($28,798). The poker game was played at FullTiltPoker.net at the Acres (deep 6) table.

This was a great game to watch with a bunch of high stakes hands. The first huge hand was won by Markus Golser who had a queen high straight and beat guaranteed376’s three of a kind aces. The board showed [Ts Ah 9d Js As] and players went all-in after the flop when Markus Golser had already made his hand.  He ended up taking down the pot even though a second ace did come on the river and raked in the pot worth $108,570!

The largest hand of the day was between guaranteed376 and ICallSoWhat.  After a flop of [3h 6h Qs] iCallSoWhat bet, was then raised, and finally iCallSoWhat went over then top and all-in for more then $100k! The board ended up like this  [3h 6h Qs 2d] [Qc] with  ICallSoWhat showing [Ad 9h Ah Qd] and guaranteed376 showing [3s 6d Js Tc]. The winner was  ICallSoWhat who won with  three of a kind, Queens and raked in a monster pot worth $201,668!

After about 60 hands the chip totals were:

• applsgirl ($14,962)
• ICallSoWhat ($442,362)
• KObyTAPOUT ($46,896)
• Markus Golser ($111,470)
• War Stories ($27,596)

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John Juanda ($17,191) and Erick Lindgren ($8,000) played $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha Hi at Full Tilt.com. Also playing at the table was  Cogaz ($20,997), ICallSoWhat ($49,695), applsgirl ($7,397) and present ($56,282).

A large hand between Erik Lindgren, applsgirl and present was played. The big winner of the hand was applsgirl who won $20,585 with three of a kind aces. Erik Lindgren took the side pot worth $7,209 against present with Three of a king queens. Present was the big loser of the hand with two pair.

A couple hands later Erick Lindgren lost to ICallSoWhat after a flop of [7h Tc 2d 5s Jd] and ICallSoWhat had three of a kind jacks.  Lindgren never showed his hand and mucked giving the pot worth $22,600 to ICallSoWhat.

The largest hand at the table (when I was watching) was a hand between Cogaz and applsgirl. Applsgirl won the hand with a two pair (kings and eights) against the two pair that cogaz held (queens and eights).  The board had two 8’s and the players each held their other pockets (kings/queens). The hand was won by applsgirl and she took down the pot worth $36,988.

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David Benyamine ($108,372.50), durrrr ($18,295) and ICallSoWhat ($7,400) played $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha Hi. The table was “Pantheon” a 6 max table at Full Tilt. Also at the table but soon left was tsarrast.

This was an awesome table with David Benyamine and Durrr never afraid to go toe to toe in some high stakes hands. They did not disappoint with some huge hands worth $50k+.

One of the hands was worth $50,992 and both of the players had a Ten high flush. But Durrr had a 8d, 7d while Benyamine had 6d, 3d. A tough way to lose if you are David Benyamine.

Well David Benyamine didn’t wait long to reclaim his money and more. The largest hand of the table and one of the largest I have seen in awhile while watching Omaha Hi was played a couple hands later. David Benyamine won on the river with a five high straight against Durrr’s two pair that he hit on the flop. The hand worth $100,982!

The $100k hand pretty much wrapped up the table and a couple hands later all the players were sitting out. The chip count at this time was:

• David Benyamine ($128,304.50)
• durrrr ($7,648)
• ICallSoWhat ($20,284)

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Andrew Black ($19,688), MSampoerna ($58,201), EURO32PLYR ($8,797), 6speed ($8,000), CHUFTY ($8,000) and southside1 ($43,293) played $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha Hi at FullTilt Poker.com.

CHUFTY was sitting at the table and multiple times he went broke. While he was playing his chip stack went up and down winning a big hand and then losing a couple in a row. The average pot at the table was $6661 and it seemed that every pot that CHUFTY was involved in was over $10k.

Andrew Black did pretty well during the time I watched the table. He was slowed down by it is anna when he lost  with two pair against it is anna’s flush that she hit on the river. She went allin after the turn and Andrew Black called and was ahead at that point. But the next card was a diamond which gave is it anna an ace high flush and the pot worth $29,412.

When I left the table the chip count was:

• it is anna ($29,808)
• Andrew Black ($19,668)
• EURO32PLYR ($22,024)
• Rick W_88 ($8,888)
• CHUFTY ($6,398)
• southside1 ($45,317)

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durrrr ($64,605.50) played against adamkopelman ($44,059.50) in a $200/$400 No Limit Hold-em game at the “Vasari” heads up table at FullTiltPoker.net.

The average pot at the table was $3174 with 196 H/hr and 70 Plr/Flp. The game had a lot of $15k pots and they were definitely willing to raise and call each other down to the river.

There was a large pot where durrr went all-in with a flush draw and adamkopelman called with a flush draw of his own but also had a small pair on the board. The flush never hit which was a good thing for adam who had the lower flush and won the pot worth $51,550.50.

About 5 hands later Adamkopelman went all-in after the river with the cards on the board showing: [5s 4h 4c Td] [Qh] and durrr called and ended up losing to Adamkopelman ’s three of a kind for a pot worth $100,700.50.

This tipped the scales and at the end of about 70 hands the chips were:

durrrr ($41,999)
adamkopelman ($109,064.50)

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