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Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius face off at the high stakes tables
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2009-01-06 11:08
The online poker industry is slowly but surely grinding close to a standstill this time of the year, in anticipation of the live scene to kick off or just taking a well-deserved breather before the bustle sets in again. The high stakes online scene has had little to offer for railbirds these days. Nonetheless, some players never seem to rest. Tom Dwan known online as durrrr and Patrik Antonius were quite busy at a $200/$400 PL Omaha table at
Full Tilt the other day.
Those at the rail left disappointed though as the confrontation only featured one pot which was large enough to provide a news subject, never got around to a showdown. Maybe the high stakes giants were working on smoothing out the dents Santa’s recent visit had left on the inside of their wallets, maybe they were just taking it slowly. Anyway, here’s that one noteworthy hand:
Antonius has a 74k stack against durrrr’s 85k strong one. Antonius is the SB ($200) with durrrr in the BB ($400).
After the deal, Antonius raises $1,000 only to be re-raised by Dwan to $3,200. Antonius calls the $2,400 and the flop lands: 2h, 5c, 2s.
Durrr immediately moves on the offensive with a $4,800 raise. Not the one to be intimidated by such a move though, Antonius raises to $15,600. Durrrr makes the call and the turn comes a 4s. In an apparent sign of weakness, durrrr checks it, prompting Antonius to fire out a $21,200 raise. Dwan calls it down and the river comes a 9s. Durrrr checks again and Antonius hammers home the hand betting $34,198. Faced with that much pressure, durrrr folds it. No cards are shown as Antonius takes down the $80,000 pot.
For those wondering what the mucked hands may have been, the preflop raises and calls told absolutely nothing. What durrrr may have had was something that had a pretty good chance of filling up on the river. Otherwise a player of durrrr’s caliber wouldn’t have chased it all the way. Once it became obvious he had nothing, faced with Antonius’ massive raise the only reasonable move was to fold.
