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On Jan. 4, The PokerListings Online Poker Traffic Report recorded an commonplace of 9,936 poker players per hour hitting Full Tilt Poker's gash tournament. That tops the forward 9,704 it averaged on a day in November and December for its meridian traffic in 2008.

The daily newspaper traffic cataclysm is an mediocrity of wagerer volume by hour over a 24-hour ending playing cash game.

Perhaps the tumefy on Sunday has top people to do with the game's biggest online and offline players dancing some fairishly hefty pots that day as well.

Watching players like Phil Ivey, durrrr, Ziigmund and supplemental toss far and wide hundreds of thousands of dollars at the tables could very well inoculate even the low of stakes players to try their luck at the tables. Play 888 Poker.

The biggest pot of the day was a $146,599 whopper played in an Omaha game that included Ivey, Ziigmund and MR B 2U SON. All three were in the hand pre-flop, but MR B 2U SON got out of the way next seeing the flop and let Ziigmund and Ivey Singapore it out.

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Game: $200/$400 - Omaha Table: Barn (deep 6) Players: MR B 2 U SON, Ziigmund, Phil Ivey Date: Jan. 4, 2009 4:09:33 p.m. ET Hand ID: 9855228303

Table Setup

MR B 2 U SON: Seat 3 - Stack Size: $19,199. Ziigmund: Seat 4 - Stack Size: $88,196. Phil Ivey: Seat 6 - Stack Size: $72,600. MR B 2 U SON Posts Small Blind of $200. Ziigmund Posts Big Blind of $400.

Preflop

Dealing Down Cards. Phil Ivey Raises $1,400. MR B 2 U SON Calls $1,200. Ziigmund Calls $1,000.

Flop [#Js#6d#6s]

MR B 2 U SON Checks. Ziigmund Bets $3,200. Phil Ivey Raises $11,200. MR B 2 U SON Folds. Ziigmund Calls $8,000.

Turn #Js#6d#6s [#Th]

Ziigmund Checks. Phil Ivey Bets $22,800. Ziigmund Calls $22,800.

River #Js#6d#6s#Th [#9h]

Ziigmund Checks. Phil Ivey Bets $37,200. Ziigmund Calls $37,200. Phil Ivey Shows #Td#Jc#Jd#Ac.   Ziigmund Mucks. Phil Ivey Wins $146,599.

Earlier on Sunday, there was also big dictum at the high-stakes No-Limit Hold'em tables as durrrr and luckexpress10 locked horns to wheeling and dealing some redouble-digit pots back and off. You can read more much that skirmish in "durrrr issues wads-dollar ruin."

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