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Online Poker action – Martonas is back!
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2010-08-04 15:29
It’s official: the
WSOP hangover is done with in the
online poker world. Big names like Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey have returned to the tables at
Full Tilt Poker and a surprise appearance from Martonas was also in order this week. Finns had an excellent week as they dominated the high stakes action. LocoIsBack logged a $300K+ profit to close out an altogether excellent month. Patrik Antonius did well too and earned about $600k. The monster pots have returned as well. The biggest one of the week was a $256k whooper, which Patrik Antonius won from Gus Hansen, who had apparently regained his swagger too as far as dropping money was concerned.
Another player who had an excellent week was Phil Ivey. Ivey took on Dutch sensation Luukie21 and promptly relieved him of nearly $700k in only 652 hands. Luukie21 will certainly think twice about picking on someone his own size next time he hits the $500/$1,000 capped PLO tables.
The news of the week was martonas’ return though. For those of you who may not be in the know, martonas was a Swedish mystery player (pretty much like Isildur1) who hit the nosebleed stakes last August and amassed close to $2.4 million in winnings before he gave it all back and sunk back into anonymity.
Over a span of two days, martonas played 3,116 hands, at various PLO limits. He won some and he lost some and in the end, he finished with a $90.6k loss, not exactly the best way to strike fear into opponents’ hearts upon his return.
Luukie21 and Di Dang were joined by Cole South on the list of the biggest losers of the week. Antonius finished with the biggest profit, but Ivey and LocoIsBack did well too.
