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High Stakes Pot Limit Omaha at Full Tilt Poker

July 24th, 2009

Full Tilt Poker saw a big $200/$400 game running Wednesday, with some of the biggest and best PLO players participating. This was a new form of the game, as the new high limit PLO tables came with an ante of $70 to go along with the $200 and $400 blinds. Some of the biggest players in the game including Full Tilt Poker Pros Niki Jedlicka, Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, and Cole South were joined by notable online powerhouses Phil Galfond aka ‘OMGClayAiken’, ‘LarsLuzak,’ Tom Dwan aka Durrrr, and ‘theASMAN103.’ The first big pot played saw ‘theASHMAN103’ take a pot worth over ‘HarrisMP’ in the following hand.

Soon after, ‘theASHMAN103’ left the table, leaving the action to the rest of the table. Patrik Antonius wasted little to no time in getting in on the action as he made a raise on the river on the following hand against Niki Jedlicka.

Gus Hansen won a monster pot in a three way all in situation to win over $125,000 in the following hand.

‘LarsLuzak’ won the next real big hand, another three way all in situation where queens were good enough to defeat ‘HarrisMP’ and Niki Jedlicka.

The game slowed down a touch as the preflop action became smaller and slower. Three bets preflop became rarer, while post flop action slowed as well. With the biggest names in the game, however, and players such as Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan at the table, the action was sure to resume eventually, and it did so in a big way. To end the session, Patrik Antonius took the biggest pot of the session, worth over $110,000 turning a set of kings against ‘LarzLuzak’ and Tom Dwan.

Dwan, Antonius, and Hansen were the big winners of the session, while players like South and Jedlicka saw themselves as losers on the session of the big game.