Poker news tagged with 'pot limit omaha'

It has been almost four years since Sam Trickett has signed a sponsorship deal with partypoker.

The poker site has recently launched a special promotion involving aspiring players to challenge Sam in his own club game with a free $1,000.

Now that the WPT World Online Championships is currently ongoing, and there is a PLO Championship Event involved, Sam is happy to share a few tips on how to improve your PLO game.

Read more » Sam Trickett's 3 Tips to Improve your PLO Game

It has been an very turbulent year for young Swede Viktor "Isildur1" Blom at Full Tilt Poker. Blom started the year by winning $5 million in about 2 weeks time, then he lost almost everything of the enormous profit during the month of February.

Read more » Viktor Blom Wins Over $1.1M in 48 Hours!

Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom was doing very well at PokerStars' nosebleed tables last Friday and Saturday. He started at the $25/$50 PLO tables but quickly got bored and move over to the $100/$200 PLO tables where patpatman and other regulars were playing.

Read more » Viktor Blom Wins More Than $500,000!

It has been very quiet about Viktor "Isildur1" Blom in the past few weeks. The reason for this is mainly due to the fact that the he has been losing a lot of money and not been able to play the highest stakes on PokerStars. However, he was back at $25/50 and $50/$100 PLO tables on Sunday afternoon and took around $100k in no-time, mostly from some heads-up sessions against "Phiserman36".

Read more » Isildur1's Back In Business!

Phil "MrSweets28" Galfond had not been playing on PokerStars since May, before the 2012 WSOP kicked off, until he made his long-awaited return on Monday. Before he started playing he tweeted "First online poker session since may. Excited to be playing, but I definitely have some rust to shake off."

Read more » High Stakes: Phil Galfond's Back With a Vengeance

Gus "broksi" Hansen has been doing very well at PokerStars' high stakes tables lately. Last Friday, he won $431k playing $200/$400 PLO - $350k of those winnings came from late night/early morning sessions against Ben86, duubadaaba, Axel82 and other regulars. In total, he won $548k in 48 hours and was involved in 7 of the biggest pots on Saturday. Here is the biggest pot Gus won...

Read more » High Stakes: Gus Hansen on a Winning Spree

Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has been lying low since he returned home after the 2012 World Series of Poker, but yesterday he finally made a comeback on PokerStars. He started in the afternoon with $3-4k stacks on six $25/$50 Pot-Limit Omaha tables. The short-stack strategy worked very well and he built up a nice $40,000 stack in no-time.

Read more » Amazing Comeback by Isildur1

The Finnish poker pro Ilari Sahamies has been running extremely well in the past few days. Last Saturday he scored a $367k profit, and two days later he walked away with a $444 profit in just under 600 hands. After these two sessions, Ilari was up about $50,000 on PokerStars this year. However, it doesn't seem like the winning streak is over yet as he won another $181k last night...

Most of these winnings came from a two-hour session on a $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha table against regulars such as Bernsden12, Phisherman32 & Theo J. In total, the Finnish poker guru played for about four hours yesterday, and he took down the 3rd and 4th biggest pots of the day on PokerStars.

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After 9 levels of play in the LE Cannes Croisette Casino, the field of 180 players had been squeezed down to a final table with 9 players. In a big lead is no one else than Sam Trickett with 713,500 chips. Trickett, from UK, has had a fantastic tournament year with 2 big cashes at Aussie Millions in January, and in total he has won over $3 million dollars this year. If Trickett takes home this final table today, he will take home another €238k!

But it won't be a walk in the park for the British poker pro as there are some amazing players on the final table today. One player that most probably will be his toughest opponent though is Ramzi Jelassi from Sweden. Jelassi has been around the live tournament scene since 2005 and has managed to take down quite a few tournaments all over the globe.

The American poker pro Jason Mercier has done it again! Today, he took home the $5k Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha Championship and laid hands on the first prize of $619,575 and his second WSOP gold bracelet! Mercier had to overcome a strong field totaling 507 entrants, and it was the most impressive tournament win of his career. Mercier has cashed 18 times at the World Series of Poker - more than $1.5 million won! In total, he has more than $6 million in live tournament earnings.

The theme for this week's Poker After Dark is "Idol". Five young successful players will play against the man who's been playing poker since the days when the west actually used to be wild, Doyle Brunson. Below is the lineup of players that have paid $50,000 each for the freezeout tournament where the winner will walk away with the whole prize pool ($300,000).

Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad
Andrew Lichtenberger
Eric Baldwin
Melanie Weisner
Tom "durrrr" Dwan

Read more » Poker After Dark: The godfather takes on 5 young guns

120 players took part in the WSOPE London £5,250 PLO event and created a prize pool of £600,000. The tournament began on Thursday and finished on Saturday night. Jeffrey Lisandro, the Italian poker pro, played fantastic poker from day 1 to the final table, where he continued playing killer poker and defeated Joe Serock in heads-up. For the win he received his 5th WSOP bracelet and £159,000.

Jeffrey Lisandro has been around for quite some time now, however, it was during last WSOP, when he won 3 bracelets, that he really made a name for himself. Lisandro is one of a very few players in the world who has a WSOP bracelet and a WSOPE bracelet.

Do you remember Martonas? For those who don't remember him, I can inform you that he's from Sweden and used to play high stakes at Full Tilt Poker over a year ago. When Martonas started showing up at Full Tilt, he won about $2.5 million in less than 2 weeks time (most of it from durrrr) and create headlines all over the poker world. But it didn't take long before he lost it all again (most of it to durrrr) and disappeared from the scene shortly after.

Many thought that we would have to wait for a very long time before another unknown player like Martonas would show up and play against the world's best. However, most people forgot about him almost straight away when another unknown swede entered the scene and broke all the records. You know who I'm talking about, right? :)

Read more » High Stakes legend "Martonas" back at the tables

Event #49, No-Limit Hold'em $1,5000, has found its winner. Michael Linn (USA) took home the first prize of $609,493 after knocking out his final opponent Taylor Larkin (USA) in heads up. Michael was quite lucky with the cards on the final table. Of course the fact that his family and Barry Greenstein was there to support him must have helped a lot as well. A big congratulations to Michael Linn and his first ever WSOP bracelet.

Read more » 2010 WSOP: Michael Linn wins Event #49 and Chance Kornuth takes home Event #50

Yesterday, the mysterious Swede Isildur1 and Cole South started playing $100/$200 PLO (Pot Limit Omaha) on several tables. Then they moved on to playing $200/$400 and at last $300/$600. This was probably Isildur1's best session so far against Cole South as he ended up winning about $800,000. It wasn't all about who took down the biggest pots in this session, it was more about Isildur1 playing his very best game.

Its great to see that Isildur1 has been doing so well since the comeback. It seems like he have learned something from the mistakes he did back in 2009, when he played too long sessions and easily went on tilt. Maybe he's playing so good and focused this year because he's staked by someone who gives him expertise coaching (Tony G??!!)?

Read more » Video: Isildur1 wins $800k from Cole South!

Day 1 in the WSOPE Event #3, £5,000 Pot Limit Omaha ended a few days ago. Only 45 out of the 165 players survived the day.

One of the first players out were Gus Hansen. Also french player David Benyamine and last years Main Event winner from Norway, Anette Obrestad, were busted out during the 8 hours of play at day one.

Day 2 which ended yesterday brings the amount of players down to 9 and we therefor have a final table for later today with danish player Theo Jørgensen as chipleader.Read more » WSOPE Event #3: Theo Jørgensen reaches final table