Dwan and Ivey’s Vegetarian Prop Bet

Poker has had it’s fair share of crazy prop’ bets down the years. Everything, from racing a racehorse to growing facial hear, has been on the agenda for some of the more fun-loving poker players. The latest prop’ bet is certainly a new one on us here at Poker News Headlines.

The bet in question came up on the latest edition of High Stakes Poker. Tom Dwan suggested to meat loving Phil Ivey that if he didn’t eat any meat (including fish) for the next year then he would pay him $1 million.

High Stakes Poker Season 6 Underway

Fans of High Stakes Poker are set for a treat every Sunday from now on as season 6 of the popular show has started on the Game Show Network.

The first episode started on Sunday, Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. EST and will now run each subsequent Sunday. The build up to the new season saw GSN airing an eight hour poker marathon. I Love Poker began at Noon and featured highlights of High Stakes Poker games from the past.

Gabe Kaplan has returned for season 6 with a new co-host in the form of Kara Scott.

Full Tilt’s Million Dollar Cash Game sees Record Pot

You might expect the occassional large pot in a cash game title “Million Dollar” but rarely do you see a pot exceed the one million mark in Full Tilt’s flagship televised cash game.

$1,108,500 found it’s way into the middle of the table when two old rivals, Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan, locked horns. Fellow Full Tilt Poker pro’ Patrik Antonius was also involved in the action but the savvy Finn had step aside from this particular hand before both players held monster hands.

When the turn fell both players held a straight but it was Phil Ivey who was in big trouble…

David Benyamine Joins the Las Vegas Premier League Party

The big names just keep on coming in regards to the next Party Poker Premier League. Perhaps the lure of Las Vegas is attracting some but surely the $1.5 million prize pool is pricking up the ears of all the “big hitters”.

Today, David Benyamine and been revealed as the next player to join the Premier League IV. Benyamine Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Phil Hellmuth, JC Tran, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Roland de Wolfe, Luke Schwartz and, as we announced last week, Tony G.

Each player (12 in total) is putting up $100,000 to buy in and Party Poker are adding $300,000 to the prize pool.

Timoshenko joins JC Tran in Premier League Line-up

Yevgeniy Timoshenko is to join JC Tran in the pro line-up to make his PartyPoker Premier League debut. Timoshenko has taken the poker world by storm in recent years by winning the big WPT Championship Main Event at the Bellagio, taking down the 2008 Asian Poker Tour Macau title and the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker Main Event. Timoshenko was born in Kharkov, Ukraine but moved to Washington State when he was 10 years old. In the last couple of years he has established his reputation as a fearsome online and offline player.

Timoshenko said: “It is fantastic to be invited and I’m very happy to be competing in this tournament against the world’s best!”

Isildur1 On The Ropes After Several Losses

The new month hasn’t started off well for the latest online poker sensation Isildur1. The Swedish high stakes player has become the media darling in the last couple of weeks due to huge swings on the Full Tilt Poker nosebleed tables.

After posting some big profits only a couple of weeks ago it seems Isildur1 has been on the slide ever since. Last night saw the Swede take on Brian Townsend, Ilari Sahamies, Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius and Cole South. Despite hours of play and thousands of hands in the books it was a disastrous session for Isildur.

Isildur1 Hits Jedward Style Lows

While the high stakes poker players continued their nosebleed grinding the UK seemingly let out a collective cheer as tone-death twins John and Edward (Jedward) were eliminated from the popular X Factor TV show. The glum looks on Jedward’s faces could possibly be matched by Isildur1’s this morning. The Swedish sensation was beating up the highest stakes games on Full Tilt less than a week ago, putting Tom “Durrrr” Dwan to the sword on several occasions.

Now it seems the variation bitch has bitten for Isildur1. Only a few days ago he was several million dollars in the black. Today that figure is a relatively small $750,000. So what’s been happening?

Durrrr Hits Back in London Million Dollar Poker Challenge

It seems a few pundits may have written off Tom “Durrrr” Dwan a little too soon following his poor run against Swedish online sensation Isildur1. Dwan is currently in London to play the Full Tilt Million Dollar Challenge against the likes of Sammy George, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Marcello “Luckexpress” Marigliano.

Dwan arrived in London on the back of one of his worst runs online to date. Isildur1 was the benefactor of the Durrrr downswing. Such was the extent of Dwan’s losses to the Swede it left many questioning if the 23 year old was on the verge of going bust. The action in London proved otherwise as Durrrr hit back in style over three match ups.

Patrik Antonius wins Biggest Pot in Online Poker History

The high stakes action at Full Tilt Poker has been the main subject of conversation between poker forumites of late. Isildur1, Durrrr and now Antonius are the names associated with the nosebleed stakes and, like many dramas, the action has been full of unexpected twists and turns and even a mysterious player!

Last week we saw Tom “Durrrr” Dwan take a beating from Isildur1. The Swedish player appears to be the latest darling of Internet poker after taking several million dollars from Dwan. To date nobody really knows who Isildur1 is! That fact alone is whetting the railbird’s appetites each time the $500/$1,000 PLO tables swing into action.