January 2009 Archives

Australia's own Stewart Scott won the 2009 Aussie Millions, bringing in over $1.42 million for the victory. This year's event didn't have a lot of notables performing well and finishing in the top 50 with Kelly Kim (22nd), Clonie Gowen (32nd), Patrik Antonius (41st) and Scotty Nguyen (50th).

A few days later in the big H.O.R.S.E event, Alexander Kostritsin beat Chris "Jesus" Ferguson to take the title.

Speak Your Mind Week of Poker After Dark

Preview: In the world of professional poker, there are some players who are rather quiet at the tables, not saying much, and there are those who are anything but, and who sometimes offer their views on anything and everything whether asked for them or not.  This week on Poker After Dark brings together six of the latter in a match which is dubbed “Speak Your Mind.”  Those participating and putting up $20,000 each in an attempt to claim the $120,000 winner-take-all prize are Todd Brunson, David Grey, Phil Gordon, Gabe Kaplan, Cory Zeidman, and perhaps the most prolific of them all, Phil Hellmuth.

Analysis: If you watch this one it's pretty obvious that Zeidman got into Hellmuth's head. You almost feel bad for Phil if that's possible.