The 2009 WSOP starts this evening in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.   The premium tournemant series of the poker calendar.

 Tonight we start off with the highest buy-in NL Holdem event in the series 40 years history.  It’s a massive $40,000 buy-in and likely to attract a very premium field of players.

Barry Greenstein, the robin hood of poker, has made a prediction of just over 220 players.  I am sure he wont be far wrong.  

The starting chips for this event are a very nice 120,000 with the blinds starting at 200/400.  Blind intervals run at 60 mins per level.  There is plenty of room for a lot of skill, and I wouldnt be surprised to see a final table of at least 5 or 6 very big names.   Great for entertainment purposes, so look out for it.

We’ll do some round ups later into the series but for now, good luck at the tables.

KipsterDK won the PokerStars Sunday Million for the second time in just over a year this weekend just gone.  An amazing achievement only done by a couple of players, Legato being one other.

He first won the event back in 27th April 2008 where there was a 5-way chop and he went on to win.  The prize money he won that time was $149,861

Then fast forward 1 year and there were 7177 players entered into the PokerStars Sunday Million this week with KipsterDK from Copenhagen in Denmark eventually emerging as the winner, again!

1st: KipsterDK ($206,834.57)
2nd: philipoo ($174,580.93)
3rd: praetoriancz ($129,139.50)
4th: bbs99 ($79,500.00)
5th: Pokermon1960 ($61,500.00)
6th: guideguy ($46,500.00)
7th: TUGA_ACE ($32,250.00)
8th: Poker Man ($18,000.00)
9th: aakkari ($11,625.00)

There was a 3-way chop this time, with KipsterDK and philipoo getting near even amounts and praetoriancz getting 9K more than the official 3rd place amount.   KipsterDK then went on to take down the event and the extra 30K left on the table.

Winning this event twice is a truely remarkable feat.  Congrats to Kipster for some epic pwnage.

A notable finish also for PokerStars Pro aakkari as well, who final tabled, finishing in 9th

The high stakes cash tables on Full Tilt contain some of the best poker players in the world.  But who are the big winners and losers, and who are the most consistant players?

Winners (Total Profit on Full Tilt for 2008)

Phil Ivey $7.328.672,04  (96203 hands)
OMGClayAiken $7.080.790,21  (154760 hands)
durrrr $5.413.470,30  (223259  hands)
Urindanger $3.673.050,78  (168811 hands)
trex313 $3.492.242,32  (144,748 hands)
David Benyamine $2.939.865,49  (241499 hands)
howisitfeellike $2.668.631,60  (46387 hands) 
CHUFTY $2.368.891,85  (138715 hands)
La Key U $2.098.427,69  (77221 hands)
David Oppenheim $1.695.769,85  (21990 hands)
Ziigmund $1.608.285,92  (136920 hands)
sunra18 $1.333.077,40 (36610 hands)
-NoName- $1.225.677,94  (67317 hands)
Patrik Antonius $1.224.799,42  (105082 hands)
ICallSoWhat $1.215.640,70  (145112 hands)
Nuts78 $1.160.515,30  (17404 hands)
LarsLuzak $1.031.101,89  (40661 hands)
Eli Elezra $874.133,30  (46902 hands)
ByTheBy $795.518,50  (29098 hands)
ActionJeff $763.247,50  (1222 hands)
EazyPeazy $760.659,60  (28081 hands) 
The_Houdini $718.529,45  (74517 hands)
Eila $681.957,10  (65297 hands)
slaktarn $681.625,80  (24431 hands)
dingepling $618.844,80  (13419 hands)
DIN_FRU $604.413,40  (23868 hands)
LIMPA_DIRR $573.807,50  (69785 hands)
Nebuchad $567.812,69  (35162 hands)
mastrblastr $564.560,75  (29428 hands)
PrtectYaNeck $551.914,15  (20766 hands)

Losers (Total Profit on Full Tilt in 2008)

lady marmelade $-6.632.177,45 (36712 hands) 
patatino $-4.328.466,38  (36496 hands)
elmariachimacho $-4.161.883,92  (18862 hands)
Bleachbum $-1.097.457,00  (8562 hands)
luvtheWNBA $-1.041.669,15  (38970 hands)
John Juanda $-1.023.810,50  (37548 hands)
SteveSung $-1.010.158,75  (61497 hands) 
PostflopAction $-999.256,10  (29973 hands)
noataima $-990.652,40  (9279 hands) 
MSampoerna $-945.242,15  (23453 hands)
Gus Hansen $-931.681,64  (219932  hands)
Cole South $-891.619,45  (33126 hands)
Ugadabugada $-876.097,20  (30522 hands)
tsarrast $-795.047,00  (64375 hands)
whitelime $-778.657,30  (14130  hands)
Idontgiveashi $-741.906,50  (7201 hands)
halfdozen999 $-740.696,25  (34939 hands)
KObyTAPOUT $-720.660,60  (22493 hands)
MR B 2 U SON $-709.715,70  (34835 hands)
mrcall912 $-703.911,35  (6164 hands)
theASHMAN103 $-688.203,85  (46323 hands)
FakeSky $-677.636,30  (13128 hands)
Mike Matusow $-673.633,75  (34954 hands)
Eric Liu $-647.409,20  (32444 hands)
ahtata $-643.490,50  (5762  hands)
PixKim $-640.664,25  (85078 hands)
PAKD650 $-621.948,00  (10559  hands)
thecranium $-566.652,40  (5175 hands)
Niki Jedlicka $-565.555,60  (19356 hands)
DaEvils $-561.487,90  (24413 hands)

2009 Winners to Date
 
Patrik Antonius $5.135.292,22  (68850 hands)
trex313 $3.009.023,32  (65292  hands)
Phil Ivey $1.938.949,38  (45382 hands)
Gus Hansen $1.922.973,07  (117264 hands) 
Mark Vos $1.877.845,95  (8677 hands)
Ziigmund $1.761.102,29  (46607 hands)
__FullFlush1__ $1.014.530,00  (25632 hands)
PostflopAction $675.211,85  (9234 hands)
SirWatts $499.684,30  (6753 hands)
luckexpress10 $491.977,91  (41434 hands)

2009 Losers to Date

durrrr $-2.346.302,44  (105503 hands) 
MR B 2 U SON $-1.669.033,56  (16651 hands)
LarsLuzak $-1.597.169,11  (70768 hands)
papa ninja $-1.245.031,65  (4766 hands)
ahtata $-971.744,05  (7115  hands)
Urindanger $-771.297,80  (44185 hands)
HarrisMP $-734.921,30  (10857 hands)
Brian Hastings $-722.910,26  (3663 hands)
world1969 $-674.313,10  (5067  hands)
Chau Giang $-652.723,55  (7726 hands)