PTP Hit and Run: March 11, 2010

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Isildur1 drops $1.5 million, and the top 20 poker hotties. Stimulate your mind and your body with today’s PTP Hit and Run.

Remember when Isildur1 one was up more than $3 million for the year at Full Tilt Poker’s high-stakes tables? Yesterday? Well, the mystery Swede cut his profit for the year in half after suffering $1.6 million in losses to Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond on Wednesday. And he also dropped $900K to Tom “durrrr” Dwan. In all he was down $1.5 million for the day, with profitable sessions included. Such roller coasters.

Top 20 poker hotties? Count us in. Maxim released its list of the beautiful women of the game, complete with a photo gallery here. And some analysis here, from Bluff. A lot of them seem to just be hot women who play poker once in a while. Spoiler alert: Annette Oberstad is not on the list.

A new poll is out, and two in three Americans oppose online gambling. Read more about the poll here.

Phil Hellmuth is leading the World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event, heading into the next to last day of play. Story here. Hellmuth has never won a WPT event.

Usually, the stuff at pokerstarsblog.com is pretty dry stuff…live tournament updates and the like. Not so in one of its latest posts, in which a rugby team plays the “largest poker game” ever, with giant chips and cards. Blog here, video below.

Some day, we’ll find out why the host of cardplayer.com’s “Online Poker Zone” weirdly has a big stack of chips in front of him while he hosts the show. It really tilts us. In the meantime, you can watch the show, and an interview with Millad ‘losebigpots’ Jorshari:

Interesting story from pokernews.com, in which they are attempting to list the top 10 poker innovations of all time. Relatively new innovations like synchronized breaks for online games and Full Tilt’s “Rush Poker” made the bottom five. Story here, with more to come tomorrow.

And in keeping with the “top 10″ theme, Daniel Negreanu recently blogged about what he thinks the 10 toughest tournaments in the world are. Read it here.

Poker2Nite’s latest episode was on Vs. network…below is part of their interview with Annie Duke, who just won the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. More of the episode here, which includes an interview with Olympian Hannah Teter, who is a poker enthusiast.

Want to see how poker player Gavin Smith rolls at home? Video interview below with cardplayer.com:


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