By Will Wright - December 1st, 2011
Three of the highstakes regulars from last week’s action that generated pots of $266k and $196k were at it again Wednesday on PokerStars, but the high-stakes action only lasted a few hundred hands, with two of the three finishing the day with six-figure swings. Read More…
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By Will Wright - November 23rd, 2011

For weeks, the action at PokerStars seemed to be settling down. Ever since Viktor ‘Isildur1‘ Blom disappeared, the high-stakes action has been sporadic and, to railbirds’ chagrin, relatively cheaper. Most PLO games have not climbed above $50/100 and players seem to be content with multi-tabling at lower levels lately. Read More…
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By Will Wright - September 28th, 2011
It has been a hectic start to the week at the PokerStars PLO tables. The swings have been massive and the games are going on around the clock with numerous regs battling daily at the $50/100 and $100/200 levels. Although Isildur1 has not been around to partake in the festivities, other big names such as ‘MrSweets28‘ Galfond, Brian ‘$tinger 88‘ Hastings, and Ilari ‘Ilari FIN‘ Sahamies have been busy at the highstakes tables recently. Read More…
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By Will Wright - September 8th, 2011
The law of compounding is a funny thing. It rings true not just in a financial sense, but also in an emotional sense as it applies to the game of poker, as all the big swings at $100/200 finally seemed like they brought out the gamble in the high-stakes players the past 48 hours. Tuesday and Wednesday were chalked full of insane action, bringing some round-the-clock action to PokerStars as well as some more monstrous swings. Read More…
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By Will Wright - September 2nd, 2011
Another day, another 240k? That’s the current mantra of high-stakes PLO regular Ilari ‘Ilari FIN‘ Sahamies, who hustled the $100/200 Omaha tables last night for nearly a quarter-million dollars in under 1,400 hands. It was a well-deserved day of poker for the Fin, who had quite an impressive run, especially since he was crippled by a $148,000 6-outer at the hands of Swiss pro Ronny ‘1-ronnyr3‘ Kaiser during the middle of his session. Read More…
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By Will Wright - August 27th, 2011
It has been quite an exciting week of high-stakes sessions at PokerStars to say the least. We have already seen some intense action, enormous swings, and a million-dollar run from Ronny ‘1-ronnyr3′ Kaiser leading up to the weekend, as the $100/200 PLO games have been reallocating player’s bankrolls at a frenzied pace. Read More…
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By Will Wright - August 25th, 2011
It’s been an amazing week at PokerStars so far, as the PLO games have been a pleasure to watch in the past few days. The stakes have been as consistently high as we’ve seen in some time, with big names like Isildur1, Ilari Fin, refaelamit, 1-ronnyr3, jeans89 and RealAndyBeal battling it out at the $100/200 levels for hours in recent sessions.
The matches have been quite diverse, featuring some riveting heads-up play between 1-ronnyr3, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom and Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies (Ziigmund on FT), as well as some interesting short-handed games. Read More…
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By Will Wright - June 29th, 2011
Premier matches have been few and far between since Black Friday. It seems that all of the scandals and uncertainty of online poker have shifted most of the attention from the players to the poker sites themselves. Alas, a great match took place at PokerStars yesterday, with two heavyweights battling at the high-stakes tables once again. Monday’s contest featured Viktor Blom (’Isildur1′) and Ben Sulsky (’Sauce123′) butting heads at the $25/50 PLO tables, Read More…
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By Will Wright - May 24th, 2011
Although big sessions have been few and far between lately, Monday provided some intense action at the PokerStars tables. The featured bout was another installment of Isildur1 vs. Gavz101, who faced off in a hotly contested $50/100 PLO session. Read More…
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By Will Wright - April 14th, 2011
It’s not every day that a newcomer bursts onto the scene, wins a quarter of a million dollars, and proceeds to roll it up into almost a cool half million in less than a month. It’s even less likely that this newcomer would be a random player who just happened to place 2nd in PokerStars’ Sunday Warm-up on April 3rd. Read More…
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