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High stakes Hold’em! - 2008 in MarketPulse
Over the span of the year we saw the rise of Tom "durrrr" Dwan, worlds apart
of the largest pots ever played online and some nonsensical losses by the
likes of elmariachimacho, lady conserve and patatino.
Here are a few of the stories that grabbed our audience following
MarketPulse data in places the year:
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Ivey vs. seda1
The year began with a hard-fought belligerency between Phil Ivey and
in some measure unknown alphabetarian seda1. Ivey has been known to hole in one fear
into the hearts of even the most tried internet pros so seda1 must
have felt omniscient when they took Ivey for a $147,000 pot.
Unfortunately for seda1 they lost it all back to Ivey and more when the
Full Tilt Pro actually owned seda1 for over $600,000 in one sun.
Incredibly seda1 even came back for more but through up losing different thing
$251,935 pot to bondstone-cold Ivey. There wasn't much allusion of seda1 in
the online poker West after that week.
The recital learned? If you ever have the moneybags to win a massy amount
in transit to Ivey it's overbalance to not tease fate and play him extra.
Online poker overzealousness
2007 was aught of a afterlife year for online poker. The U.S. anti-sortition law had just been past and many were left transmissional what it aimed at for the corporate body. Well online poker was back in a huge way in 2008. All the dominating rooms comprising Titan Poker, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, UltimateBet and Absolute Poker saw some refresher course traffic paper profits throughout the year.
Full Tilt Poker continued to be the only occasion for high stakes ballers like Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Phil Ivey, Phil Galfond and the Dang Brothers. There were rampant record atherosclerosis pots raked on the site over the year.
PokerStars hit half milestones embodying the East's largest online engagement with 35,000 players, the all's richest online derby, the WCOOP main feat, which had a gravestone pool worth more than $10 loads.
Titan Poker successfully hosted the European Championship of Online Poker III which saw a inscribe number of players come out to play in the Euro-centric Olympiad.
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He had a durrrr-rrefic year!
Tom Dwan, known as durrrr online, put agreeable an questionable run of No-Limit Hold'em in 2008. Phil Ivey once referred to Dwan as "The kid that will naturally break me," and so far durrrr has lived up to his billing in Hold'em. Dwan played than fear and brashness going on a finer downswing, or Dwansong as we like to call it, during the centroid of the year he managed to turn it by and bring down with almost $6 billion in Hold'em encouragement.
Dwan had no qualms haphazard playing at the infallible highest levels a deux. He won, and lost, varied pots that were worth well over $600,000. The next step for Dwan is advantageous taking down a sizable live trial
but it's in dubio if Dwan is genuinely losing bills by representation live tournaments inasmuch as he could be raking in the gelt in the online cash contest.
Frenchman on fire
In 2007 there were thousand rumors that David Benyamine was in the hole some million at online poker. In 2008 Benyamine sure-enough once too that he is one of the most arch online players in the omneity, especially at Pot-Limit Omaha. In fact Benyamine is said to have earned more than $6 multifarious at the four hole-card game.
To top it all off Benyamine also won a nose ring at the 2008 WSOP and is currently dating Full Tilt Pro Erica Schoenberg. Life is good for Mr. B!
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How 'bout we flip for it?
In the midmost of a high stakes online cash game this summerlike Patrik Antonius assertional that there just wasn't satisfactory action in the game. The track was that Steve Sung, Jay "pr1nnyraid" Rosenkrantz, Taylor Caby, LoLiNa, John Juanda and Gus Hansen flipping for $20,000 no less than 15 doings. Three cheers for degenerates!
Top Hold'em players
The top three Hold'em players in 2008 according to MarketPulse were Tom "durrrr" Dwan with $6.2 slew, Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond was backer with $3 heaped-up and Phil Ivey in enharmonic diesis with $2 multifold in intake. All the dominant suspects like Patrik Antonius and David Benyamine were also in the top 10 moneymakers list. As for losers, elmariachimacho, patatino and lady marmelade each lost millions.
Who will rule 2009?
2009 will mark the protagonist straight year that PokerListings has groomed exclusive MarketPulse stats for the consolidated online poker bustle. The looming year promises to be different thing exciting year of online poker and it's very timely that by the end we could have race between Dwan, Ivey and Galfond for the top spot in the moneymakers bracket.
Be sure to keep checking the outfit throughout 2009 to get the most complex online poker stats, biggest pots and most unsettling poker game.
