Thomas Koral has been cashing in major live poker tournaments consistently for three years now, but his biggest payday came last week at the Horseshoe Hammond WSOP Circuit Event. Koral finished second in the $5000 + $150 main event and took home over $126,000, mostly because of a great call he made at the final table with four players left in the poker tournament.
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The 2009 Aussie Millions poker tournament was a big success again this year. It attracted the biggest names in the poker world, not only for the main event but also the $100,000 buy-in event and the million-dollar high-stakes cash game. The big cash game had some prominent names from the live and online poker world. During one game there was a hand that you won’t see very often. Two players played a dramatic $225,000 hand that would test the emotions of any player.
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We’ve all seen Patrick Antonius in big poker tournaments and in high-stakes cash games on television, but many observers of the poker scene don’t realize that he also plays in the biggest online poker cash games .In a recent hand in a $500/$1,000 no-limit hold’em game, Antonius got as lucky as you can get against a player named “world1969”. They were playing with another online poker professional named “MR B 2 U SON” and live game legend Phil Ivey, who was sitting in the small blind position. “MR B 2 U SON” was in the big blind with Patrick Antonius sitting under the gun.
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It’s not enough that the guy has 11 WSOP bracelets, or that he manages to get in front of every television camera that’s anywhere near a poker game. Now Phil Hellmuth is getting paid for hands that he loses. What are we referring to? We’re talking about UltimateBet.com awarding the Poker Brat a $5,600 cash-game pot that should have gone to someone else.
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During a recent game of High Stakes Poker, “Yukon” Brad Booth made a hand that we all dream about hitting in the biggest televised cash game. After Minh Lee made it $2,300 to go with A-4 off-suit, both Daniel Negreanu and Brad Booth called to see a flop. Booth had 9-8 of diamonds while Negreanu was holding Q-9 off-suit. The pot was $7500 when the three of them saw a flop of 10d-Jd-4c. Lee had a bottom pair of fours, which he came out betting for $3,600. Booth had a straight-flush draw, and Negreanu had an open-ended straight draw. Both called the bet and they saw the turn, which was the queen of diamonds.
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