About the Author

Curtis Mayfield III

Curtis Mayfield III is a freelance poker writer with several years of online and live experience.

He is also the son of R&B superstar Curtis Mayfield. As a player Curtis excels in all forms of poker and prefers No Limit Deep Stacks tournaments.

Curtis is author of the Do or Die Poker blog

He resides in Chicago, Illinois with his wife and 2 daughters.

Favorite Quote: “In order to live, you must be willing to die!” –Amir Vahedi

Largest online poker pot ever!

It looks like the big time pros are running at full speed these days. Patrick Antonius and Isildur1 just got involved in a $1.35 million dollar pot playing Pot Limit Omaha. Antonius eventually took down the hand but these pots keep growing and growing and growing. That is certainly a lot of money being tossed around in the online poker world. Each player is well known in the high stakes community and can be found playing against Phil ivey and Tom Dwan and the crew. So, as crazy as it may seem these kinds of swings, especially in pot limit Omaha, are not out of the ordinary. Will we be seeing our first $2 million dollar pot soon? It sure seems like it based on the way things have been going from this year alone.

It was only a few months ago that John Juanda and Phil Ivey had a monster pot over $500k+ and that record was broken in a matter of weeks. So I do not expect this record to stand very long in the large scope of things. Knowing these kinds of high stakes players that record can be broken at any time day or night. Either way I will definitely be watching from the rail checking out the action.