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High stakes online action – Isildur1 is back!
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2010-02-04 12:58
The nosebleed stakes
online poker action has seen an unexpected resurgence this week. All the big names hit the tables at one point or another and monster pots went down left and right, once again dazzling railbirds and driving action hungry pros to put even more of their chips into the middle.
Ilari Sahamies, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey were once again in the center of the bustle at Full Tilt Poker, lighting up the $300/$600 and $500/$1,000 PLO tables. Nothing illustrates the intensity of the action better than the fact that over a 24 hour period last week, no fewer than 50 monster pots were played for. 6 of these pots were over $300k ones and 16 of them were over the $200k mark.
For Patrik Antonius – who’s had a pretty rough ride in January - all this action failed to bring about the end of the losing streak. The Finn dropped around $880k at the PLO tables, then went on to lose around $250k to Tom Dwan over at the Durrrr challenge tables. He topped all that off by dropping another $225k at PLO again, during a 1,259 hand session. Amazingly enough, despite the massive losses, Antonius was the one who took down the biggest pot of that session. Weighing in at $497,000, this pot came out of Ilari Sahamies’ pockets, at the end of an all-Finnish bout.
Sahamies recovered some of that money from Ivey later that evening. Antonius on the other hand couldn’t break the hex and lost some more money over the weekend. He lost another $572,000 chunk last Sunday, to sink $1.86 million under the red line for 2010.
Alexander Kostritsyn, the young Russian who’s a regular at the slightly lower stakes at
Full Tilt Poker, ventured into $1,500/$3,000 7-game territory this week and walked away with almost $600k of Ilari Sahamies’ money.
Isildur1 reappeared on Full Tilt Poker, for a couple of short sessions at the lower stakes, and dropped $1,000 at the $25/$50 PLO tables, followed by another $2,548 loss over at the $25/$50 capped PLO tables.
Rumor has it that he’s grinding hard over at Betfair preparing for a possible Full Tilt comeback.
Gus Hansen was the other big winner last week, having pulled in $384k at the 7-game tables.
