In the 1912, Summer Olympics held in Stockholm Sweden, American George Horine broke the men’s high jump record when he leapt an incredible 2.00m into the air without knocking the bar onto the ground. In 1993, Javier Sotomayor from Cuba broke that record for the 46th time when he leapt 2.45m into the air without dislodging the bar. That record has now stood for the past 18 years. Maybe the bar can no longer be raised?
In the crazy, virtual, world of online poker the High Stakes Action, whether using Betfair promo codes or not, just keeps getting higher. For every George Horine along comes a Javier Sotomayor who raises the stakes. In the high jump it seems that physical human constraints keep the bar at a certain height. What will be the barrier that eventually puts a ceiling on these high stakes games?
It seems that there is an influx of new blood intent on trying to raise that bar and to put out a challenge to the likes of Dwan, Antonius and Ivey. Here are some of those new kids on the block.
Those over at www.betfairpoker.com note that there is a new player on the block going by the name of Toomten. Not unusually he comes from Sweden home of last years Sotomayor, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom. The Swede found himself in a $25/50 pot-limit Omaha match with Daniel “jungleman12” Cates where he came out on the losing end with a $79k loss over 1,128 hands.
Bryn Kenney returned from the PCA $643,000 the richer after his 3rd place finish in the Super High Roller and he has been putting some of it to good use in the online high stakes games. Kenney managed to win $96,000 during one session including $49,000 against Richard “nutsinho” Lyndaker.
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