God Loves a Tryer

Alex Foxen's stack took an early hit after a river bluff with a busted straight draw failed to dissuade short stack Anthony Nicholls from calling.  A pot of over half a million chips was already formed when Foxen made his river bet (it looked like 350,000) into two players.  Nicholls,

Welcome To the Game, Steve O’Dwyer

It's not been Alex Foxen's (pictured) morning. With the addition of starting-stack-wielding Steve O'Dwyer to his table (in position as Kurganov was), there followed a gigantic pot, reversing Foxen's Day 1 trend of accumulation and leaving him skirting the felt. Foxen opened preflop under the gun for 80,000, button O'Dwyer raised

Million Plus Pot for Kurganov

Igor Kurganov three-bet Alex Foxen in position (from 65,000 to 205,000) preflop and was called.  Foxen checked the [KcTh7h] flop, Kurganov continued for 145,000, called again.  The turn brought the [6h] and no betting from either player.  The river was the [4c].  Foxen checked a third time, and this time

Super High Roller Day 2 Initial Seating

With late registration still open, the starting line-up will be as follows: Table Seat Player Chips 1 1 1 2 Mikita Badziakouski 2,250,000 1 3 Kristen Bicknell 2,455,000 1 4 1 5 Preben Stokkan 2,685,000 1 6 Igor Kurganov 2,380,000 1 7 1 8 Rainer Kempe 1,085,000 2 1 Ben Heath 1,555,000 2 2 Luke Reeves 5,160,000 2 3 2 4 Joao Vieira 1,970,000 2 5 Christoph Vogelsang 290,000 2 6 2 7 Alex Foxen 2,240,000 2 8

$25,500 Super High Rollers Return to Action at 1pm with Two Tables Left

Day 2 of the partypoker MILLIONS UK $25,500 Super High Roller brings back two tables that are not yet set in their line-ups: late registration remains open for two more 40-minute levels and a full redraw will be done prior to cards hitting air.  Anyone buying in today will receive

Squeeze Works for Foxen

Preben Stokkan opened the hijack to 37,000 holding [Jc7c] and Christoph Vogelsang called from the button with [Kh8h]. Alex Foxen squeezed from the small blind with [As9c] making it 175,000. The big blind and Stokkan and Vogelsang both gave up.