Once again the record books need to be updated as the previous record for the largest online poker pot was once again smashed by a monster pot of $1,356,946.50.
This time around the hand included well known poker pro Patrik Antonius and unknown Swede “Isildur1“, prior to the hand both players were stacked at a high stakes $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha game at Full Tilt with Isildur1 having about $678k and Antonius approximately $1.26 million.

Preflop the pot was already $160,000 as both players raised and reraised each other.

All the recent action and large pot activity at FullTilt by the unknown Isildur1 begs the question to be asked, just who is Isildur1?

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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.

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Fans of GSN’s popular high stakes poker show will be pleased to hear that plans are underway to begin the recording of a new season of the series, with new episodes of High Stakes Poker season 6 being taped from the beginning of October through to November in Las Vegas once key players return from WSOPE and EPT scheduled events. Season 6 of High Stakes Poker will be broadcast in February 2010 it will be produced by Poker PROductions producers of “Poker After Dark”.

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The Durrrr Challenge seems to have faded with Durrrr currently ahead of Patrik Antonius by $140,380.00 having played 4,178 hands of the 50 000 scheduled for the event consisting of 6 total sessions taking 13 hours 12 minutes to date.

The slow down comes as a result of Durrrr taking a beating in 2009, he is currently losing approximately 4 million dollars this year at Full Tilt Poker with a recent losses over last weekend against Phil Ivey who got the better of  “Durrrr” while playing two tables at FullTilt Poker’s $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha plus an additional 2 tables of $500/$1000 H.A (Hold’em, Omaha High), Phil Ivey managed to build chip stacks of $2 million dollars over the four deep stacked tables with Durrrr holding $1 million.

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Despite high viewer ratings from all the previous episodes of the Game Show Network’s popular televised High Stakes Poker show, the continued production of session five in the series of the popular Poker TV show was nearly halted. Great news though for poker fans is that “High-Stakes Poker” among the best poker shows on television will make a comeback with recording of the new series at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas beginning on 19th December running through until 21 December 2008.

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