High Stakes Poker short handed with Patrik Antonius

October 16th, 2009

High limit, Short handed No Limit games ran on Wednesday evening. One of the games greatest No Limit Hold ‘Em players, “target=”_blank”>Patrik Antonius, played on both the running tables. On the first, Antonius took on newcomer to the nosebleeds ‘kingofcards‘ in a heads up game with blinds of $500 and $1000. On the other table, a six handed table with the same blinds, Antonius also sat with ‘kingofcards,’ however they were joined this time by another player ‘POKERBLUFFS.’

On the first big hand of the day, Antonius was min three bet by ‘kingofcards’ in the following hand on the heads up table, making Antonius lay his hand down, sending the pot of worth nearly $25,000 to his opponent.

Over $80,000 went into the middle on the flop in the following hand, with Antonius trailing. However, a miracle river led to Antonius winning the massive hand, taking the pot off ‘PokerBluffs.’

Nearly $40,000 went into the middle on the following hand, most of it from a ebt on the end from ‘kingofcards.’ Antonius made the call, and lost the hand.

‘kingofcards’ continued his aggression on Patrik Antonius in the next hand. Although preflop aggression ran wild, as is common in these high stakes heads up no limit games, ‘kingofcards’ took the check from Antonius on the turn to be a sign of weakness, and fired away over $10,000.

The 7-Game has been a new hit, and Wednesday was no different. Two of Full Tilt Poker’s biggest name pros in Richard Ashby and David Benyamine sat at the $2000/$4000 7-Game, one of the highes limit games available on the net. In the first hand, the two checked the river, and David Benyamine took the pot worth over $35,000 with two pair on the river.

A $26,000 bet, almost one of the pot which itself was worth almost $30,000, won the pot for Richard Ashby in the following hand of Pot Limit Omaha.

The very next hand, the first hand of the limit Hold Em round, a pot worth $30,000 brewed, with David Benyamine taking it down with a $4000 bet on the river.

Our next hand comes from the Stud H/L round, and in a pot worth over $25,000. David Benyamine made a bet after seventh street, and took it down in the following hand.

While the two started the game nearly even, both sitting with around $70,000, at this point in the game David Benyamine had a lead of about $120,000 to $20,000. It was not long thereafter that Ashby found himself all in on the flop. Lucky for him, he held top and bottom pair against a pair of fours and a backdoor low draw. Ashby held, and doubled up to over $11,000 in the following hand.

Ashby soon rebought into the game, and ran his money up towards $60,000 at it’s peak. Then, he won even more of his money back from Benyamine, to the tune of a pot of over $30,000. Aces were good as Ashby got a call on the river from Benyamine to bring his stack to over $80,000, and almost bringing him even in the game. So by the time we finished covering this marathon heads up match, Benyamine had defeated Ashby in the amount of nearly $20,000.