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Pot Limit Omaha games have often been the highest stakes poker games found online, and today was no different. Some of the highest stakes players came out to play on five different tables of $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha on Full Tilt Poker, with a $16,000 cap. Di Dang screen name ‘Urindanger’ , Cole South, Alexander Kostrisyn screen name ‘PostflopAction’ , Jani Vilmunen, and ‘NEKOTYAN’ all sat for some of the biggest action found online. Out first hand of the session came when Kostritsyn dodged Vilmunen’s straight draw to take this hand worth more than $35,000.

In this hand, aces held up for a big pot for ‘SxMxF.’

‘LokoIsBack’ took the next hand, dodging the straight draw of Cole South.

Another pot got capped in this hand, where Cole South took a pot from Alexander ‘PostflopAction’ Kostritsyn.

Jani Vilmunen lost another capped pot for a large amount of money in this hand, this time to high stakes regular ‘PixKim.’

The quick paced action didn’t stop there, as ‘Icre84U’ took this hand from Kostritsyn for over $30,000.

Cole South turned the nut flush to win this pot from Di Dang, taking a pot worth more than $30,000.

Dang got some revenge on the game, however, winning this big hand from ‘Icre84U.’

It is rare to see these games get a pot capped before the flop. It is even rarer to see that happen between three different players, which is exactly what happened in this hand. Alexander Kostritsyn made a flush to take this massive pot worth nearly $50,000.

Cole South took more from Di Dang in this hand with a straight.

The loser of the days session was Full Tilt Red Pro Jani Vilmunen. Winners saw Di Dang, Cole South, and Alexander Kostritsyn all leave the tables as six figure winners.

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February 15th in the United States in President’s Day, but on Full Tilt Poker, it has apparently been $200-$400 pot limit omaha Six-Max $16,000 cap day. Play started before sunrise and has continued all day and into the evening. The cast of characters has ranged from Gus Hansen to durrrrr, theASHMAN103, PostFlopAction, Ziigmund, and everyone’s favorite ATM Isildur1.

Viktor Blom screen name Isildur1 broke out of his cold streak of late by posting wins on all four tables he played. By the time he was done, Isildur1 was up $375,000 for the day. Hands such as one against both Di Dang screen name Urindanger and Ilari Sahamies screen name Ziigmund were big helps in his posting a win. Urindanger raised from the button to $900 and Ziigmund potted to $3,100. Isildur1 repotted to $10,200 and both of his opponents made the call. The flop fell Jc-4s-8d and Ziigmund pushed $5,800 to meet the cap max of $16,000. Isildur1 and Urindanger both made the call. Ziigmund showed Kd-Qc-10h-4c for a pair and gutshot draw. Isildur showed Ah-8h-Qs-Js for top two pair. Urindanger showed 9h-4h-7s-3s for a pair and lower gutshot draw. The turn fell the 3d and river the 2d and Isildur1’s two pair was good for a pot of $48,000.

Tom Dwan screen name Durrrr didn’t have as good of a session as Isildur1. He split time on two tables and finished the day down $34k. Gus Hansen on the other hand has been putting in the hands and as a result was up nearly $300,000 over 3,000 hands at the time of the writing of this article. Hands such as the one below against POKERBLUFFS has been helping Hansen to post a nice win so far. POKERBLUFFS raised to $800 pre-flop and Hansen three-bet to $1,200. The flop fell 3c-8d-5c and Hansen led out for $1,200. POKERBLUFFS called and the turn fell the 4d. Hansen bet out $2,800 and again was called. The river fell the 5h and Hansen bet out $10,600. POKERBLUFFS made the call and Hansen showed Ad-2d-As-Kc for a wheel. POKERBLUFFS mucked and Hansen took down a $31,798 pot.

A couple of the largest pots of the day went to ByTheBy. He pulled down two pots of around $48,000. Urindanger was involved in one of those pots. ByTheBy raised to $1,200 pre-flop and SyMxF re-raised to $4,000. Urindanger three-bet to $13,200 and ByTheBy called. SxMxF then moved in for the cap max of $16,000 and was called in two spots. SxMxF held Ah-Ac-10s-6h. Urindanger held Kh-Kd-Jh-7s and ByTheBy held 10h-8h-5d-2d. The board fell Jc-9c-7d to give ByTheBy the nut straight. The turn fell the 8c and river the 5s. Nobody had any clubs and ByTheBy took down the 47,999 pot. ByTheBy really needed those pots as he had a very swingy session. One table he was up over $200k but was down $196k on another one. Overall, ByTheBy finished up about $57,000 for the day.

The main downside to the capped games is that you do not see the massive pots that had become commonplace in prior months. The good thing about a capped game is that you can limit some of your loss in the event your big hand gets cracked by garbage. Whether this is just a brief blip or a regular trend will remain to be seen as will whether Isildur1 will be able to continue his win streak. To rail these games live, goto Full Tilt Poker.

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Pot Limit Omaha is the 2nd most popular poker game in the world behind No-limit Holdem. With constant action and huge pots, action junkies flock to this game in droves and even the highest stakes of poker online are predominately PLO. One player that has made a name for himself is Andrew Brown, also known as browndog19.

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Since the Isildur1 mega matches, the high stakes matches have retreated from 500/1000 PLO to 100/200 PLO. Di Dang
aka Urindanger has slowly been building his roll:

Tom Dwan aka durrrr has also left the 500/1000 and is building his roll too:

Looking at the graph, you can clearly see the devastating losses Tom suffered to Isildur1. I’m going to chalk that up to tilt. I think he showed that he doesn’t have one of the most important attributes of a top level player – the ability to leave the table when taking heavy losses or suffering multiple bad beats.

Here is some action from 100/200 PLO Omaha at Full Tilt Poker.

Dealer: Hand #17524729877
Dealer: cane3418 has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: cane3418 shows [Ah 6h 9d Ks]
Dealer: Moscowflyer shows [5c 6c 3s 7h]
Dealer: cane3418 shows a pair of Fours
Dealer: Moscowflyer shows a straight, Seven high
Dealer: Moscowflyer wins the pot ($14,628) with a straight, Seven high

Dealer: Hand #17524886506
Dealer: geoff7878 shows [9c 4d Ah Qh]
Dealer: Urindanger shows [Jc Kh 2h Kc]
Dealer: geoff7878 shows a pair of Queens
Dealer: Urindanger shows a pair of Kings
Dealer: Urindanger wins the pot ($16,298) with a pair of Kings

Dealer: Hand #17525723011
Dealer: Urindanger has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: THEDONKEYNO1 has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: Urindanger shows [9c 9d Ah Ad]
Dealer: THEDONKEYNO1 shows [Js Jh Td 9h]
Dealer: Urindanger shows two pair, Aces and Fives
Dealer: THEDONKEYNO1 shows a flush, Jack high
Dealer: THEDONKEYNO1 wins the pot ($16,597) with a flush, Jack high

Dealer: Hand #17525804629
Dealer: THEDONKEYNO1 has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: THEDONKEYNO1 wins the pot ($1,797)
Dealer: Hand #17525829998
Dealer: THEDONKEYNO1 shows [8c Ah Kd Kh]
Dealer: PixKim shows [8s Ts Ac Qc]
Dealer: THEDONKEYNO1 shows a flush, Ace high
Dealer: PixKim shows two pair, Tens and Fours
Dealer: THEDONKEYNO1 wins the pot ($16,297) with a flush, Ace high

Dealer: Hand #17526024084
Dealer: Richard Ashby has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: PixKim shows a flush, Ace high
Dealer: PixKim wins the pot ($16,547) with a flush, Ace high

No hand history.

Urindanger would leave, and Tom Dwan and Brian Townsend would arrive.

Dealer: Hand #17527764436
Dealer: Richard Ashby has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: cane3418 has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: Richard Ashby has 15 seconds left to act
System: The $35,000 Guarantee ($24+$2 NL Hold’em) will be starting in 4 minutes.
Dealer: Richard Ashby has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: durrrr has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: Richard Ashby has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: durrrr has 15 seconds left to act
System: The $75,000 Guarantee ($150+$13 NL Hold’em) will be starting in 3 minutes.
Dealer: Richard Ashby has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: durrrr has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: durrrr has requested TIME
Dealer: Richard Ashby shows three of a kind, Sixes
Dealer: Richard Ashby wins the pot ($13,397) with three of a kind, Sixes

Dealer: Hand #17528300832
Dealer: cane3418 shows [3c As 6h Ac]
Dealer: Brian Townsend shows [Jc Tc Ad 3d]
Dealer: geoff7878 shows [Td 6d Kc Js]
Dealer: cane3418 shows a pair of Aces
Dealer: Brian Townsend shows a pair of Tens
Dealer: cane3418 wins the side pot ($600) with a pair of Aces
Dealer: geoff7878 shows two pair, Tens and Sixes
Dealer: geoff7878 wins the main pot ($23,198) with two pair, Tens and Sixes

Urindanger would end the day up around 75k. Tom Dwan would end the day down about 50k. Browndog19 how was playing earlier would lose a chunk and jump stakes to 500/1000
in attempt to recoup losses, but wouldn’t find someone to bite.
Brian Townsend would end the day up around 40k.

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