The places where you can find ultra high stakes poker online have become fewer. But the remaining games are bigger than ever.
Full Tilt Poker has made deals with poker pros such as Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, Gus Hansen, Howard Lederer and many more. Those players will only play at Full Tilt, and they will play at the room on a regular basis. Additionally, FT also provides a great poker client, welcomes US players and so it is only natural that the pros are happy to play at the FT tables.
The most popular high stakes games are the $200/$400 NL holdém game and the Omaha high $200/$400 PL.
The minimum buy-in for these tables is $8,000 dollars with many players buying in for the maximum $40,000. In these games you will find pros like Phil Ivey Mike Matusow David Benyamine and Brian Townsend (Sbrugby) winning and losing pots of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The biggest winner this year at Full Tilts Texas Holdém NL tables is pr1nnyraid (Michael Krantz?) with a net win of 2.3 million dollars. And at Omaha High PL KaiBuxxe (Niki Jedlicka, 19 years old from Austria) are in top with a net win of 3.2 millions.
Famous pro David Benyamine are down 1.2 millions at Texas Holdém this year but up 1.7 at Omaha. Gus Hansen has lost 700.000 at Texas and Phil Ivey is up a million at Omaha.
If you’re not a really great player, you should probably keep away from these ultra high stakes games but they are really entertaining to watch sometimes. At Full Tilt Poker online poker has become a big spectator sport.

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