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Online Poker weekend – Dwan, Sahamies and Isildur1 in action
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2010-03-10 05:31
The weekend saw some pretty hectic online poker action at
Full Tilt Poker, where the nosebleed tables came under fire by Tom Dwan, Ilari Sahamies and Isildur1. Building on his excellent form, Tom Dwan added $1.3 million in winnings to his tally on Saturday alone. That means the New Jersey Wonderkid is around $2.4 million up this year. Together with the profit he’d booked in December, that pretty much makes up for the losses he’d suffered at Isildur1’s hands last year.
Dwan hit several of Full Tilt’s nosebleed regulars last weekend. Apparently nobody who tangled with him got away unscathed: PixKim dropped around $1 million, Di Dang lost close to $300k as Sami Kelopuro, Sahamies and Brian Hastings lost around a quarter million each.
The biggest pot that Dwan raked in over the weekend came courtesy of his Durrrr Challenge rival, Patrik Antonius, though it didn’t come at one of Full Tilt’s special Challenge tables.
Dwan was playing PixKim and Antonius at a $300/$600 PLO table, when a $423,419 pot developed after all three players pushed all their chips into the middle.
In the meantime, Sahamies locked horns with Isildur1 at the $300/$600 PLO tables. Over just 699 hands, Sahamies found himself a whooping $710,000 down, so they decided to raise the stakes to $500/$1,000. Chasing his losses, the Finn was unable to put in a better showing though and he finished a further $330k down at the end of it.
The match-up saw 4 pots that were all bigger than $200k. The largest single haul of the session weighed in at $423k and it obviously ended up in Isildur1’s possession after his top set made short work of the Finn’s aces.
Riding an emotional high, Isildur1 then came to grips with none other than Brian Hastings, his nemesis, the player who’d wrecked his bankroll back in December, exiling him from the nosebleed tables for a while.
This session wasn’t meant to break the curse either. In the wake of about 1,300 hands of $300/$600 and $500/$1,000 PLO, Hastings found himself more than half a million in the black. Isildur1 had dropped around $82k to Cole South before his match with Hastings, so it became obvious the Cardrunners team members still treated the Swede as their personal ATM.
