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ComeOnPhish has had a great January, but he is still slightly lower than some of the great online players with his TTP stat. I nevertheless rate him as quite possibly the best rebuy player online.

ComeOnPhish Stats :-

Winnings :- $287,121
Profit :- $180,155

ROI = 168%
ITM = 14% (88 cashes from 622 tourneys)
TTP (Top Ten Percent of field) = 12%

11 Wins
6 Second places

Annette_15 is a truely awesome player. She shows what is possible if you are prepared to grind it up over the years

Annette_15 Stats :-

$530,931 winnings
$389,111 Profit

274% ROI
134 cashes out of 790 tourneys
Equilvalent to 17% ITM

Top Ten Percent of field = 15% of time

11 tourney wins
10 tourney second places

18 men turned up for Event 8 of the Aussie Millions. With a buy-in of $100,000 this one certainly wasnt for the faint hearted

Event 8 - $100,000 Buy-in, Texas Holdem, Results

1st Erick Lindgren - $1,000,000
2nd Erik Seidel - $550,000
3rd Masaaki Kagawa - $250,000
4th Phil Ivey
5th Tony G
6th Michael Sampoerna
7th Tony Bloom
8th Joe Reina
9th Jeffery Lisandro
10th Jason Gray
11th John Juanda
12th Gus Hansen
13th Lee Nelson
14th David Benyamine
15th John D’Agostino
16th Daniel Negreanu
17th Roland DeWolfe
18th Kevin O’Donnell

This was a mixed format game with Pot Limit only pre-flop, and then NL post flop.

It took Eric Lindgren almost 14 hours to swell his bank balance by $1,000,000 a he emerged as the champion of Event 8 at this years Aussie Millions.

Event 8 had a wopping $100,000 buy-in tournament and therefore, not surprisingly only attracted 18 contenders. It was a fairly solid field shall we say with Phil Ivey, Eric Seidel, Daniel Negreanu, Tony G, and Gus Hanson amongst some of the names.

1st Erick Lindgren - $1,000,000

2nd Erik Seidel - $550,000

3rd Masaaki Kagawa - $250,000

4th Phil Ivey

5th Tony G

6th Michael Sampoerna

7th Tony Bloom

8th Joe Reina

9th Jeffery Lisandro

10th Jason Gray

11th John Juanda

12th Gus Hansen

13th Lee Nelson

14th David Benyamine

15th John D’Agostino

16th Daniel Negreanu

17th Roland DeWolfe

18th Kevin O’Donnell

With a 30 second time limit and a Pot Limit before the flop / No Limit after the flop format, the high limit tournament was guaranteed to prove an exciting game to watch and it didn’t disappoint. From the seat draw that saw Ivey, Negreanu and Hanson positioned up the same end of table 28 through to the final table webcast, the event attracted a huge field of spectators and much interest from the media present.

While pro players Kevin O’Donnell, Roland DeWolf and Daniel Negreanu all busted out of the event early, it was the two least recognizable players, Masaaki Kagawa and Michael Sampoerna that caused an upset coming home in third and sixth place respectively. The million dollar first prize was won after an hour long heads up battle that ended with Eric Lindgren’s Ac7c too good for Seidel’s KhJh when the board showed Ah8d9h6d5c.

Ryan Daut has won the 2007 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Ryan started off his poker with just a $45 deposit. That is starting to look like a good investment

The PCA 2007 Result

1) Ryan Daut $1,535,255
2) Isaac Haxton $861,789
3) Robert Ford $550,980
4) Robert Mizrachi $409,703
5) Jonathan Little $317,873
6) Frank Rusnak $247,234

And then there were six.

1) Issac Haxton 9,216,000 chips
2) Jonathan Little 2,366,000 chips
3) Robert Ford 2,324,000 chips
4) Ryan Daut 2,300,000 chips
5) Robert Mizrachi 1,450,000 chips
6) Frank Rusnak 1,166,000 chips

Jesus lookalike Issac Haxton’s massive chip dominance puts him in a great spot to take it down from the front. This is poker however, and anything could obviously happen, but things are certainly looking good for Haxton

Well, self-styled Jesus look-a-like Isaac Haxton steamrollered through the field to take the cheap lead by the end of day 3. Sixteen men with a twinkle in their eye now remain. Jesus Haxton only started playing poker 9 months ago, so lets expect him to blow the chip lead all-in pre-flop with 72 offsuit.

On a side note from the Johnny Cam, we can see two John’s still lurking. The littilest of the two sat with the biggest of the stacks.

1) Isaac Haxton 3,754,000
2) Jon Little 2,084,000
3) Robert Mizrachi 1,798,000
4) Antonio Ribeiro 1,532,000
5) Robert Ford 1,313,000
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11) Jon Friedberg 792,000

The fourth annual PCA (Pokerstars Carribean Adventure) is currently running. We have reached the end of day 2 and it is very much the ‘tournament of the Johnathan’.

Currently chip situation :-

1st Justin Bonomo 475,000
2nd Steve Paul-Ambrose 408,000
3rd Johnathan Drane 386,000
4th Johnathan Hart 368,000
5th Johnathan Little 352,000
6th Johnathan Friedberg 345,000

There is a 7 million dollar prizepool up for grabs, and despite the amazing Johns, there is also another juicey little fact. Steve Paul-Ambrose was last years winner, taking home a small matter of $1.4m. His younger sisters were all there to cheer him on, perhaps hoping a few presents were coming there way.

When this tournament first started in 2004 it was very much a big pros hangout, with Gus Hansen winning and Daniel Negreanu coming 3rd. Now the internet boys (and girls) are steam rollering it, and the big faces are struggling to keep up. Nevertheless a few “names” remain. We shall just have to see if the can halt the Ambrose man.