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Online Poker action – Ivey on a roll
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2010-08-18 05:46
During the WSOP, the online poker action had pretty much ground to a stand-still, all the regulars caught up in various WSOP-related ventures. Nowadays, as the memory of the summer’s biggest poker frenzy is slowly fading into the distance, the action is gradually returning to its pre-
WSOP intensity levels. All the “name” regulars were busy doing what they usually do: Ivey was winning, Hansen was losing and Dwan was losing a little bit of steam coming off his wild August ride.
Last weekend, Dwan embarked on a 2,000 hand session of NLH and PLO at the end of which he found himself a massive $470k below the red line. He also squeezed in a 475 hand heads-up PLO match with URnotInDanger2 which cost him a further $236k.
Needless to say, Dwan lost the majority of the largest pots that went down during the above mentioned sessions.
In other Tom Dwan-related news: apparently, the second round of the $1 million durrrr challenge series is about to commence. Jungleman12 (Daniel Cates) has apparently already deposited the money with Phil Ivey in preparation for the confrontation. Dwan’s first Challenge match-up against Patrik Antonius has not yet concluded, but the New Jersey Wonderkid has that part of the deal firmly under control, or at least so it seems.
As Dwan was losing money at the
Full Tilt Poker online tables, Phil Ivey was doing the opposite: he racked up winnings of over $760k last week, mostly at the expense of “deprimiert”. The two players had a 334 hand session, at the end of which Ivey was $373,000 in the black.
He took some money off Cole South too later on.
For Gus Hansen, business returned to its usual track too: the Great Dane dropped close to $500k to various poker players. Adding that to his $1.3 million loss in August, he’s in the red for 2010, after a promising but short-lived starting run.
