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Online poker news: Antonius wins big
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2009-11-20 08:41
Isildur1’s insane run at the nosebleed stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker is officially over. The Swede had amassed around $6 millions in winnings over a month’s time. He took a staggering $3 million from Tom Dwan alone in a series of online poker sessions last week, but he took money off David Benyamine, Cole South and Brian Townsend too. His run came to an end the other day, and the name of the obstacle that put an end to his domination was Patrik Antonius. The Finn pro hit Isildur1 for almost $3 million. Thus, it’s pretty much safe to say that the money Isildur1 had won from Dwan last week ended up in Antonius’ possession.
Isildur1 and Antonius had a 2,189 hand session at
Full Tilt Poker, during which several monster pots developed. As a matter of fact, one of the pots beat all records, becoming the largest ever pot in the history of online poker.
Isildur1’s domination has been so overwhelming lately, that with Dwan on his way to London, he was finding it tough to convince anyone to play with him. He descended the limits and was playing at the $50/$100 PLO tables with Jani Vilmunen and Prahlad Friedman when he was approached by Antonius, who convinced him to go play heads-up with him at 4 $500/$1,000 PLO tables.
What one needs to know is that most of the money Isildur1 had amassed over the previous weeks came from the NL Holdem tables. PLO is apparently his weakest game at the given limits, but he accepted Antonius’ proposition nonetheless. 2,189 hands later he probably wished he hadn’t but the die had already been cast. Things started off on the wrong foot for Isildur1, as he immediately dropped a $200,000 pot to Antonius. It took Antonius about 30 more minutes to land another similarly large pot.
That time around, his pocket As held up against Isildur1’s pocket Ks for the $287,000 pot.
A few minutes later, the perfect hand stung Isildur1: he made a set of 7s against Antonius’ wheel. That pot was a $408,000 one.
That was when the largest ever pot not only in Full Tilt Poker's but in the entire
online poker history unfolded. Antonius took down that $878,000 monster too, and Isildur1 began asking him to switch games.
