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Online poker happenings in the wake of the WSOP
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2009-07-22 10:41
Following a long break caused by the 2009 WSOP, high stakes poker action kicked off in style. Phil Ivey, a November Nine member now, showed up at the highest stakes to play Ilari Sahamies, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius. The nose-bleed green felt battles didn’t take place online though: they nearly spilt out of Bobby’s Room in Vegas, where Doyle, who has seen a thing or two in his life-time – said the action was indeed out of control. The Legend himself was involved in three pots, each over $1 million big.
The $4,000/$8,000 Mixed tables were hot, but so were the $2,000/$4,000 PL Omaha ones. With the cream of the crop- still tied up in Vegas, the week’s online action was a little slow to say the least.
One of the main protagonists of the online scene came fresh off his 162nd place WSOP Main Event finish too. Cole South posted a very profitable session against the Great Dane, Gus Hansen himself.
The two of them locked horns at the $200/$400 HA tables and were joined by two other online players, luckexpress10 and -DONKEY1965-. South registered a $300,000 profit at the end of about 2 days of action, having taken down some pretty amazing pots.
One of them was a more than $200,000 one, which started out in a manner that didn’t herald the kind of action it would generate. -DONKEY1965- raised to $1,200 preflop, South made it $3,600 and his opponent called. The flop fell 10,7,2 rainbow, and South fired out a $4,800 bet. -DONKEY1965- made the call and the turn landed a 8h. South checked and -DONKEY1965- bet $13,000. South called him and the river came a 8c. -DONKEY1965- bet $32,000, South shoved it all in and his opponent called. South then showed a boat, turning over K,J,10,10 and picked up the $208,783 pot.
A little later, South got lucky against Hansen to take down a $68,000 pot. He made a straight and a flush on the turn and then a higher straight on the river to make short work of Hansen’s overpair and nut flush draw.
Another online poker headliner was Di Dang, known online as “Urindanger”. He made about $412,000 over the course of a 1,663 hand session against Sami Kelopuro, Phil Galfond and Gus Hansen. The biggest pot of the session was a $105,000 one which Dang pocketed at the expense of Galfond.
Jay Rosenkrantz and David Peat also drew some attention through the $200/$400 Heads-up NL Holdem action they sparked off. Rosenkrantz made over half a million dollars off Peat in this encounter. The biggest pot of this session was a 316,393 one, which landed in Rosenkrantz’s pocket, after – quite inexplicably – Peat paid him out all the way holding nothing but 9,6 on a board of K,10,3,Q, 5. Of course Rosenkrantz had K,Q to seal the fate of that pot.
Due to the fact that Rosenkrantz is set to appear on a reality show the goal of which is to prove how 3 poker professionals can win $2 million within 60 days, a rumor took off that the above described heads-up match was staged.
Rosenkrantz addressed those rumors in a forum post.
