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High Stakes Poker – Tom Dwan Annihilating The Competition

Tom “durrrr” Dwan seems to be making up for lost time by annihilating the competition on Full Tilt Poker.

Mcdpoker has been keeping a close eye on the high stakes action over at Full Tilt this week and “durrrr” put in countless hours at the tables this week, played over 7,070 hands and earned $969,145.

His victims included Gus Hansen, Niki Jedlicka and Patrik Antonius.

The sheer volume Dwan is able to generate in a week continues to leave his opponents in the dust. Cole South was the nearest high stakes player in terms of hands played but he had only 3,434.

For the year Dwan is now up an astounding $4.8 million.

Meanwhile Phil Ivey continues to be red hot online with another $931k in the bankroll after a busy week.

Ivey didn’t shy away from anyone taking on Dwan, South, NEKOTYAN, Jani Vilmunen, Dan “Jungleman12″ Cates, Observer84 and others while recording over 3,000 hands on the site.

The action was spread over a variety of games including $300/$600 Cap Pot-Limit Omaha, $2,000/$4,000 Limit Hold’em and even $500/$1,000 Cap No-Limit Hold’em.

To put things in perspective Ivey only won $352,319 over the entire six-week long WSOP. Ivey is now up $3.2 million in online poker alone this year.

Also winning hundreds of thousands this week were Cole South (+$343,742), Dan “Jungleman12″ Cates (+$285,628) and Jared “harrington25″ Bleznick (+$204,446).

Meanwhile NEKOTYAN had the dubious honor of being the hardest hit player this week.

NEKOTYAN, who is rumored to be Russian pro Vladimir Schemelev, lost $1.04 million or approximately everything he won by placing second in this summer’s WSOP $50k Player’s Championship.

Gus Hansen was also a big loser, racking up $484,456 in damage. Hansen now finds himself $794,667 in the hole in 2010.

We found a few recent videos of Dwan racking up the hands this week on Full Tilt courtesy of some of our friends over at youtube. hope you like them. Watch, learn and enjoy!

Dwan V Gohanounet

durrrr vs. Ziigmund Heads Up Battle

Tune in next week for more high stakes poker news from Full Tilt and PokerStars

Tom “durrr” Dwan on His Way To a Massive Year Online in 2010

Tom “durrrr” Dwan, who has taken a stranglehold on the 2010 online high-stakes profit lead, absolutely crushed Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies for over $1.2 million last night.

The sick $500/$1,000 action sessions seen in 2009 have been almost non-existent this year. Although there could be any number of explanations, the most likely is simple: The biggest action players in the game haven’t been around.

Patrik Antonius has struggled to turn a profit in any session he plays, forcing him to keep his game to lower-stakes in an attempt to stem the bleeding.

Phil Ivey has been little more than a ghost, playing just a handful of sessions all year.

Isildur1 seems to have stepped down from the big games and, for the first few months of the year, Dwan was still trying to work his way out of the massive hole he dug himself at the end of 2009.

All that was left were Sahamies and some CardRunners pros not known to spark sick action at the nosebleeds.

Dwan, already up over $5.5 million on the year, began yesterday’s session with Odonkor1 at $100/$200 No-Limit Hold’em, beating the Swedish pro rumored to be Joel Nordkvist out of $225,048.

After completing the four-hour battle, Dwan took five hours off before returning to Full Tilt to sit at the $500/$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Ivey Thunderdome, to play the man himself heads-up.

As has been his style this year, Phil Ivey only stuck around for 11 hands, leaving the game down $30k.

After another three and a half hour break, Dwan returned to the $500/$1,000 PLO tables, this time sitting across from Sahamies.

This match was absolutely brimming with action, with over a dozen pots worth more than $200k. The largest pot rang in at a sick $557,994, marking the fourth biggest played all year.

Dwan came out on top of all three of the largest pots, all worth over $400k, and by the end of the session, he had made over $1.2 million from Sahamies, putting him at around $7.1 million in profit for the year.

He’s now officially out of the 2009 hole he built and well on his way to another massive year online.

2010 Online High-Stakes Review

While it’s no shock seeing Tom “durrrr” Dwan on the top of the leader board with over $3.4 million as we near the end of the first quarter of 2010, it is that Phil Ivey has barely played.

In total, Ivey has logged just 4,351 hands this year. And while he ‘s showing a $194,074 profit, every big name in the biggest games have played more hands.

In the meantime, Alexander “PostflopAction” Kostritsyn, winner of the 2008 Aussie Millions, has had tremendous success on Full-Tilt in 2010 so far, earning over $2.2 million to put him into second place.

Kostritsyn has proved himself to be a master of mixed games, with more than $1.6 million of his profits coming from the high-stakes 7-Game tables.

But perhaps the biggest story of the year has been Cole South.

He held the profit lead with as much as $3.6 million to start the year, but a recent month-long downswing has left him with only $1.2 million of it.

The most volatile players ever to hit the digital felt made his first splash late in 2009, making over $5 million in just three days from Dwan.

Identity unknown, Isildur1 went on to play the biggest pots in online history, the largest worth over $1.3 million against Patrik Antonius, before losing that and another $2 million in just two weeks.

The majority of the losses came at the hands of Brian Hastings, including more than $4.2 million in a single session, and with the unknown Swede returning to the tables again this year, we’ve already seen more than one epic rematch.

Despite playing slightly more conservatively, Isildur1 has managed to go on a $3.6 million dollar swing. And even though Hastings still appears to still be getting the best of him, he’s currently sitting with $422,400 in profit.

Antonius has been another shocking story.

He absolutely crushed the leader board last year, but has been unable to find his stride in 2010, down almost $3.8 million since the first of January.

In addition to his massive losses, Antonius has also been getting dismantled in the durrrr Challenge, Dwan’s lead extending to almost $2 million.

Finally, since the 30-day suspension of his Full-Tilt pro status, Brian Townsend has struggled to turn a profit in almost every session he has played, losing over $1.9 million so far this year.

It’s anybody’s guess as to what will happen over the next nine months, but the two questions most online rail birds are still hoping to have answered appear to be: When will Ivey decide to put up some numbers and just who is Isildur1?