Apart from live casino tournaments of poker which are the privileged places by high stakes competitions, playing online poker between rich persons and professional players are more and more feasible with big stakes. During last May, monthly outcome was lucrative for some players but bitter for others. The monthly gains record was acquired by Tom Dwan aka « durrrr ». Among his 211 sessions of online poker high stakes counting 19,743 deals in which he played, this player had accumulated a jackpot of $2,143,952. The second position, Ziigmund who won a total amount of $568,273 got only the quarter of durrrr’s gain. MR B 2 U SON with a gain of $537,255.65 and OMGClay Aiken ($440,444) are placed in the 3rd and the 4th positions.

But the monthly balance of tournaments that Dwan played wasn’t always too filled like in May. During last April, he lost more than $600,000 of his bankroll. The list given by online games portal unveils too several players names who were in the category of those who lost during theses competitions. Gus Hansen is in this way the player who lost the biggest sum by leaving $1.4 millions during his 174 sessions at these online casinos. LarsLuzak and Phil Ivey have also lost respectively $1.1 millions and $924,000 in a month. In spite of these gigantic losses or enormous gains in high stakes tournaments on the Internet, adventure continues this month of June on the best online casinos.

Source:  Poker 777

Monday, 08 June 2009