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Online poker action – things are eerily quiet
Posted by: Jo Martin - Fri, 2010-06-04 11:23
The WSOP is on, there’s no denying it. If one needs proof of it, he only needs to take a look at the nosebleed stakes online where the wind seems to be blowing among empty tables these days. The otherwise always bustling high stakes tables at
Full Tilt Poker yielded little noteworthy action this week.
Thankfully, some of the poker pros who usually play at these tables are hopeless addicts apparently, who cannot go without
online poker for any meaningful stretch of time. It so happened that Brian Townsend, who got the boot at the WSOP’s $50k Players’ Championship tables relatively early on, woke up with some spare time on his hands and jumped online right away. Taking advantage of the
WSOP lull, Isildur1, everyone’d favorite mystery Swede reared his head at Full Tilt Poker again. He put on a series of heads-up confrontation with other hopeless online pokeroholics like Di Dang and URNotInDanger2.
Despite playing his favorite format, Isildur1 didn’t quite manage to open the customary can of whoop-ass. He won some, he lost some and at the end of it all he was left with about $16k.
The Swede first took on URNotInDanger2 at $50/$100 NL Holdem, where he dropped around $74k. The two then moved on to PLO where, uncharacteristically enough – Isildur1 recovered all his losses and added some nice profits onto the tally too.
The next victim on the list was Di Dang. Isildur1 took about $84k of him too at the $50/$100 PLO tables. The size of the largest pot the two have played during this session ($36k) was a living testimony to how far down Isildur had fallen from the multi million dollar pots he’d played a few months ago.
Brian Townsend had a much more successful online poker run. He booked profits totaling a handsome $142k, mostly from christinhoch but also from also from Antonius. He began by taking $103k off christinhoch at the $100/$200 PLO tables. He then proceeded to fleece Antonius for $39k at the $300/$600 tables. The biggest pot of the Christinhoch – Townsend session managed to break into 6-figures at $113k. Townsend made a wheel on the river to beat Chistinhoch’s pair of Aces.
The biggest winners of the week were Brian Townsend, Jared Bleznick and Observer84. Di Dang finished well in the red, having dropped around $97k.
