02 Jan 12
The Daily Rewind: Ivey's Paycheck, Gus is King of High Stakes, Duthie's Exit
Today we reveal some interesting news surrounding Phil Ivey's monthly pay from FTP. We have the final high stakes results of 2011, and news of John Duthie and PokerStars going their separate ways.9
The Daily Rewind is your one-stop-shop for a sharp review of the day in poker. Join us here for a mix of the latest news and a more irreverent insight into the poker world. Today we discovered the following topics for you:
Ivey's paycheck
It wasn't the most memorable year for poker superstar Phil Ivey in 2011.The collapse of Full Tilt Poker, a WSOP-less summer and a messy divorce settlement has meant the once golden boy of poker has been rarely seen over the past 9 months.
Ivey makes the news again today, with LRVJ's recent revelations that he had been receiving a monthly salary of $920,000 per month from FTP's parent company Tiltware.
His estranged wife Luciaetta was set to receive $180,000 per month in alimony provided Ivey was still taking home the $920,000 monthly from Tiltware.
These payments ceased after Black Friday, and Luciaetta Ivey has claimed her settlement has been "unfair". Ivey and his ex wife will be reappearing in court sometime soon.
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| Ivey will be downgrading to a Ford Focus after his latest divorce dilemma |
High stakes corner
It's been a fairly quiet start to 2012 but everyone's favourite high stakes monster, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom is back to his old tricks and seems to be in full grind mode.The Swedish Team PokerStars Pro has booked a solid $97,000 profit over the past 24 hours according to HSDB, and at the time of writing is embroiled in some deep stacked PLO across several tables.
Yesterday's biggest loser was Ilari "Ilari FIN" Sahamies, who dropped just shy of $120,000. PokerStrategy.com Black Member
mTw-DaviN had the best day of all, banking a tidy $134,068 overall.Duthie severs ties with PokerStars
EPT founder and high stakes pro John Duthie has parted ways with sponsors PokerStars.The Englishman renowned for his wild style at the table confirmed this in a thread on 2+2, claiming "I'm afraid this decision had nothing to do with the VPP situation or the 'Sit-Out'; it was quite simply that I didn't want to renew my contract which expired 31st December".
Duthie is the latest in a long line of sponsored PokerStars pros who will not be part of the Team Pro roster in 2012.
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| Duthie leaves Team PokerStars Pro |
Gus is King of the nosebleeds
It seems a long time ago that the likes of Phil Ivey, Tom "durrrr" Dwan and Gus Hansen were battling for supremacy over at the Full Tilt Poker high stakes tables.PokerStars has been the number one choice of site for the high stakes games ever since FTP's collapse, but it's a telling sign that 6 of the top 10 biggest winners of 2011 come from FTP.
Likewise, 7 of the top 10 biggest losers of 2011 were playing at Full Tilt Poker.
It's Gus Hansen who takes the honours for 2011, banking an impressive $3,941,703 to make him the King of the nosebleeds.
Top 10 online winners 2011 |
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| Place | Name | Winnings | ||
| 1st | Gus Hansen (FTP) |
$3,941,703 |
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| 2nd | Ilari FIN (PokerStars) |
$2,183,832 |
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| 3rd | refaelamit (PokerStars) |
$2,105,597 |
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| 4th | jungleman12 (FTP) |
$1,952,994 |
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| 5th | NoPasaran (FTP) |
$1,875,348 |
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| 6th | Isildur1 (PokerStars) |
$1,472,695 |
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| 7th | Matt Hawrilenko (FTP) |
$1,440,095 |
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| 8th | bixiu (FTP) |
$1,406,194 |
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| 9th | Jeans89 (PokerStars) |
$1,377,019 |
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| 10th | Phil Ivey (FTP) |
$1,336,313 |
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| Tracked by HighStakesDB.com | ||||
Top 10 online losers 2011 |
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| Place | Name | Winnings | ||
| 1st | durrrr (FTP) |
-$2,474,309 |
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| 2nd | fishosaurusREX (FTP) |
-$1,399,950 |
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| 3rd | kagome kagome (FTP) |
-$1,377,281 |
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| 4th | cadillac1944 (FTP) |
-$1,336,308 |
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| 5th | Esvedra (FTP) |
-$1,182,259 |
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| 6th | Zypherin (PokerStars) |
-$1,054,638 |
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| 7th | nutsinho (PokerStars) |
-$1,025,356 |
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| 8th | nasud 11 (PokerStars) |
-$877,151 |
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| 9th | UarePileous (FTP) |
-$837,803 |
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| 10th | Cole South (FTP) |
-$778,457 |
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| Tracked by HighStakesDB.com |
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WAG of the day
Today's WAG (wives and girlfriends) features a face we're all familiar with.Liv Boeree is one half of a power poker couple, being the girlfriend of fellow EPT winner Kevin Macphee.
The model, TV presenter and Astrophysics graduate can be seen cracking her whip in the latest PokerStars TV commercials.
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| Liv Boeree: EPT champ, maths wiz, and part time mistress |
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Hahaownedlolz, 02 Jan 12 17:20
Funny how this year's biggest winners were actually big fish the year before. I believe Gus hansen dropped about $9-10M at his worst point. And Ilari lost quite a few millions playing drunk/not enough sleep on FTP.Ilari is still profitable on FTP and Pokerstars though. But it must hurt going from 7M to 800k profit on FTP in 1,5 year.
Good to see them both back and winning though.
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malosanmaka, 02 Jan 12 21:15
Kinda doesn't make sense to include FTP winners when it's not even sure some are getting that money -.-#3
oblitron, 02 Jan 12 21:22
I reckon Phil's decision to get married was -EV from the start.#4
b0b01111, 02 Jan 12 22:53
imo John Duthie has an agreeament with FT...who knows,maybe will see FT back soon :D#5
datsmahname, 03 Jan 12 07:04
Liv is such a rock star. I wish I knew someone that cool.#6
BigOVERBET, 04 Jan 12 13:17
liv is a fish#7
danielbocai, 13 Jan 12 13:38
why is not 0human0 in this top??