High Stakes Poker at Full Tilt for first half of September 2008
Posted by info on October 19th, 2008This past week’s high stakes action did not produce the massive pots of the past week, but there was still plenty of action, including a $1 Million winner. Patrik Antonius finished the week ahead over $1.2 Million over 75 sessions played during the week. Zilgmund was a close second with over $993,000 in wins. Hac “trex13” Dang was a distant third with over $314,000 in wins. John Juanda and Gus Hansen broke the quarter million in wins.
Ugadabugada had a tough week online, losing over $672,000 over 2236 hands. Slaktarn recently won the 25k PLO Heads-Up World Championship but gave the money won in that event back this week in the cash games. He finished down over $564,000. David Benyamine and Phil Ivey both had down weeks online as well. Benyamine lost $292,000 while Ivey was a $338,000 loser. The biggest loser per sessions played was elmariachimacho. He only played 2 sessions lasting 149 hands and dropped $300,000. The equated to him losing $2,013 per hand.
Phil Ivey and David Benyamine won 6 of the 10 largest pots of the week. To put Phil Ivey’s week in perspective, on Thursday he won the Million Dollar Cash Game hosted by Full Tilt. This posted a $536,400 win for him. One of Ivey’s targets during that cash game was Tom “Durrrr” Dwan. Online play mimicked his live play, as Ivey took $500,000 off Dwan in the span of an hour playing PLO heads-up online.
The first hand between the two saw Ivey make a third pot raise to $27,000 preflop. Tom Dwan called and the flop fell of 3d-5s-9s. Dwan bet out $54,000 and Ivey fired a raise to $108,000. Durrrr called all-in for $43,144.50. Ivey showed As-Ad-2d-Qs for aces and both the nut flush draw and wheel draw. Dwan showed 7s-Qh-8h-6d for the higher straight draw. The turn fell the 2h, which helped neither player. A 5c on the river gave the first heads up pot to Ivey with aces up. The pot was worth $248,289.
The second large hand between the two occurred less than an hour later. Durrrr made a small raise to $3,000 and Ivey made the call. The flop fell 10s-3d-5s and a raising war ensued between the two. Dwan bet out $4,600. Ivey raised to $19,800. Dwan then reraised to $65,400. Ivey then threw down the gauntlet with a raise to $202,200, which was enough to put Dwan all in. Dwan called. Ivey showed 8c-10c-6d-5d for top two pair. Durrrr showed 9d-As-Jh-9s for the nut flush draw and a pair of nines. The turn fell the 3h and the river the Qc. Ivey won the $252,185.50 pot with tens up.
While Patrik Antonius was the big overall winner this week, Antonius only had one pot in the top 10 this week. He took the fourth largest pot of the week against durrrr playing $500-$1,000 blind no limit. Antonius made a raise to $3,000 and durrrr made a reraise to $9,500. Antonius made the call. The flop fell 2c-5c-Jd and it was checked around. The turn fell the 8s and Durrrr bet $14,200. Antonius raised to $44,000 and durrrr came over the top all-in for $144,794.50. Antonius made the call. Durrrr showed Js-4s for top pair and Antonius showed 5d-5h for a set of fives. The river card fell the Ad, and Antonius took down a pot worth $308,588.50.
While durrrr was the whipping boy of the pros for most of the week, he did manage to take the second largest pot of the week against Putinovitch. On a flop of 8c-2c-3d, durrrr bet out $6,600 and Putinovitch raised to $19,000. Durrrr raised to $52,500 and Putinovitch moved all in for $186,377.50. Durrrr called and showed 4c-4d. Putinovitch showed Ac-Jc for the nut flush draw. A Ks on the turn and a 6d on the river gave the $329,009 pot to durrrr with a pair of fours. Putinovitch was never able to recover from the loss of this hand. He finished the week down $80,000 over 2 sessions.
The largest pot of the week fittingly pitted Phil Ivey against David Benyamine. Both are known for their ability to play all games well, but this week their clash was in the NL holdem arena. Since durrrr felt that he hadn’t donated enough money to Ivey this week, he decided to play with the two to start the hand. Ivey raised to 3,000 preflop. Benyamine then reraised to $13,000. Durrrr decided to three bet the pot to $32,700. Ivey put in the fourth raise to $83,000 followed by another raise from Benyamine to $133,300. Durrrr finally decided that he had donated enough to this pot and folded. Ivey then moved all in for $221,486. Benyamine called for $18,974 and was all-in. Ivey showed Ad-Ac and Benyamine showed 10s-10h. Both players started rooting for the other to hit their set after the flop of Kh-Qh-Js. As fate would have it, running deuces fell on the turn and river and Ivey won the $337,245 pot with aces up.
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