High Stakes January recap

Courtesy of http://www.highstakesdb.com/

Gus Hansen became the biggest winner
last month when he closed January for
a $500k profit. There´s been a lot of
action on his PLO HU tables, and also
some huge swings.

Patrik Antonius looked good all through
the month but was passed at the finish
line by Gus Hansen as the biggest winner
this month. Patrik still made a total profit
of $2.6M and played his A-game
straight through January, making most
of his profit on the HA tables.

Gus Hansen won his biggest pot ever,
the hand was played against durrrr and
trex313, a $537k pot.

Patrik Antonious wins his third biggest
pot ever, which also was the biggest of
the month, $562k pot

Durrrr didnt have a good month, experiencing
his presumably biggest poker loss ever.
There have also been alot of roumors going
around him, some about his huge loss and
some about he not being able to run his
Million dollar challenge. Most of these were
straightened out when durrrr did a radio
interview, in which he talked about the
rumours and stated that the challenge
was in no danger. All in all he is UP about
$1.0M in NLHE but STUCK $4.0M in the
other games in January.

Dwan Continues Hot Streak

Tom "Durrr" Dwan, had a hugely successful weekend, winning over $ 1,300,000 multi-tabling at Full Tilt for a few hours. He was playing NLHE $500/1000, PL Omaha $500/1000 and Mixed HA $500/1000.

He won a $209,000 pot against Patrik Antonius playing Pot Limit Omaha, $297,963 from OMGClayAiken in NLHoldem, a $433,737 holdem pot against Trex313, and a $394,297 holdem pot against Mastrblastr.

Huge Pots at FTP High Stakes Tables

www.HighStakesDB.com reported this week
that a new record in chip stacks was set, with
Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond enjoying big success
in the 6-max games on www.FullTiltPoker.com .

At one point during a remarkable session over
the weekend, Galfond was sitting on a stack of
$1.5 Million at a $500/$1,000 NLHE 6-max table.
The $1.5 million stack is believed to be the largest
stack at a single table in online poker history.
Despite experiencing a couple of big hit reversals,
Galfond left with $1,266,264, also a new record.
During the action Galfond apparently won 3
seperate pots each valued at well over $400,000.

Over the past week the action around risk-taker
Tom "durr" Dwan had some exciting moments, too.
On December 5th playing Hold'em NL $500/1,000
he achieved a very impressive profit of $955,000
having totally dominated all opponents including
formidable names like Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen
over a 24 hour period. He left the tables with
$455,000 and $772,000 stacks for an overall
profit of +$955,000.

On December 6th, Dwan was at the tables again,
this time pushing his 24 hour winnings up over a
million dollars by winning his largest hand ever,
$657,000.

The other side of the coin was a staggering
$1.4 Million loss for player "Ziigmund" in a
NLHE game on December 7th, when the player's
successful run in recent days came to an abrupt
and expensive end.

He wasn't alone, player "Elmariachimacho"
took a $750,000 hit, too. The losers shipped it to
the still successful OMGClayAiken (+ $613,000)
durr (+ $501,000) and Urindanger (+ $409,000).