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In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I’m writing this week’s post while drunk on Guinness and Jameson’s. Usually, it’s Budweiser and Jack Daniels but hey, it’s a holiday. Let’s celebrate.
Jen Harman Plays Good Poker – Loves Puppies
Speaking of something that has absolutely nothing to do with getting smashed on your favorite Irish drink, we want to congratulate Team Full Tilt’s Jennifer Harman on taking third at the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star tourney up in San Jose. Jen was the last “star” left in the stellar field when she got knocked out by eventual winner, Brandon Cantu. For her efforts, she took home $330K, which pays for a lot of Puppy Chow.
Oh yeah – Jen is all about the puppies, the kittens, the Panamanian bloodsucking grill-toothed wombat… whatever. She’s an animal lover and this past weekend, she and a few friends hit the virtual tables to help support one of her pet projects – the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The special $5 + $5 charity tourney raised more than $15,000 for the NSPCA and drew out some big names from both the poker and the extreme sports worlds (if you haven’t seen Howard Lederer throw a 540 McTwist, you’re really missing something by the way). Some of the players who came out for the cause include Jen’s fellow FTP pros Berry Johnston, David Chiu, Scott Fischman, Mandy B, and Marco Traniello, along with folks like snowboarding phenom Shaun White and skateboard legend Tony Hawk.
It’s no secret that we play for peanuts. Combined, the authors of this blog have a bankroll that – on a good day – may be able to buy a cup of coffee and a burrito. Still, that doesn’t stop us from dreaming of playing with the big boys.
Then we see how much money is really moving across the tables in the high-stakes games, and we go back to our 1,000 player Freerolls.
So far this month, our friends at High Stakes Database say one of the FTP’s newest pros – Team CardRunners’ Brian Hastings – is leading the way when it comes to raking in the dough, pulling in about $544K in the Pot-Limit Omaha games. Also running well this month are KobyTAPOUT with $379K and Durr who’s pulled down a little more than $300K.
The always popular Ziigmund is again leading the way in the NLH games with more than $405K in winnings. He’s followed by pr1nnyraid with $228K and, in a distant third, perkyshmerky with $46K in winnings.
This past weekend was every Tilter’s favorite Sunday tourney – the monthly Million. Seven figures worth of guaranteed prize money brought 2,245 players to the tables and pumped the prize pool up to more than $1.1 million.
When all was said and done Piotinus won the tourney’s final hand and walked away with the big prize – nearly $206K in nice green bills just in time for St. Paddy’s Day.
Did someone say St. Paddy’s Day? My god, how did this green beer get into my hand? It’s almost as good as finding a wee pot of gold beneath a shimmering rainbow…
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