Phil Hellmuth has another 2nd place finish in the 2011 WSOP, this time it’s not John Juanda preventing Hellmuth from winning his 12th WSOP bracelet. In Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship, Hellmuth managed to survive a tough playing field of 168 players and was eventually defeated Heads-up against Eric Rodawig.

Phil Hellmuth misses his 2nd attempt at winning a bracelet at this years World Series of Poker, although we have only reached the half way mark of the 58 events in the series. So far Hellmuth has cashed more than half a million dollars for his two 2nd place finishes, not bad even though he hasn’t won Gold yet.

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The World Series of Poker have decided to continue the WSOP Tournament of Champions event, which is possibly the biggest freeroll tournament ever with a million dollar prize pool. Only 27 players will be invited to play this event, fans can vote for their favorite WSOP bracelet winner to participate in this all stars event.

20 players will be selected from the votes received from fans, 5 players who have won the Tournament of Champions throughout the years and the winners of the WSOP & WSOPE main event for the previous year will also be invited including two wild card players.

The Tournament of Champions will be an entertaining event with top players from the past returning to relive their dream, the tournament will be televised on ESPN on the 3rd August 2010

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The countdown to 2010 has began and I’m still wandering where the year has gone, but 2009 was a good year for poker. There were many new records and achievements like the youngest player to win the World Series of Poker, the largest online poker pot and tournament. Phil Ivey makes it to the November Nine after winning his 7th WSOP bracelet.

High Stakes player Tom Dwan became a Team Full Tilt Poker member after many hours of high stakes action in the Durrrr challenge. Isildur1 the unknown Swedish high stakes player ends the year on a bad note.
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Isildur1 was on a winning streak for about a month in November peaking to more than 5 million dollars profit from playing high stakes poker games on Full Tilt Poker against Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Brian Townsend and David Benyamine. Around the 24th November his bankroll was falling into the negative.

He then started to make a recovery until he played Brian Hastings and lost more than four million dollars playing $500/$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha which is the most amount of money ever won playing poker online in one session. This put Isildur1’s bankroll to more than two million dollars in the red till he played Durrrr and Brian Townsend where he recover by winning more than one and a half million dollars against his opponents.

Isildur1’s bankroll then took a huge fall down to $-2,139,064 after playing Brian Townsend and Brian Hastings on Tuesday. Will Isildur1 recover from this huge loss or will he just disappear unnamed without anyone knowing who he is.

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Full Tilt Poker have finally added Durrrr to their Pro Team list, Tom Dwan is one of the best online cash game players and has certainly earned his way on the Team. Finally he will have his own pro custom avatar and will not be represented by the standard Full Tilt Poker dog avatar anymore. Durrrr will also be contributing content to the Full Tilt Poker Academy which was created for players to learn from the pros.

Anyone can download Full Tilt Poker for free and watch the Durrrr challenge from the rail, Durrrr vs Patrik Antonius is currently underway use WAP as your Full Tilt Poker referral code to get 100% of your deposit matched as a bonus up to $600

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