advanced poker play

Introduction

One week after Joe Cada won the 2009 WSOP comes the news that Patrik Antonius has made a record online win for playing internet poker. The biggest win in online poker history came during an all-Scandinavian match between the Finn and the mystery Swedish online poker player ‘Isildur1′, who had himself previously taken apart top pro poker player Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan.

The game

The game being played in this historic poker match was heads-up pot-limit Omaha, at $500 and $1000. Until the identity of Isildur1 can be found out we can only presume he, or she, is one well heeled amateur as before long the pot had reached a six figure sum. The all important hand came when both players had stacks around $450k, with Isildur1 having the slightly bigger one by about $10,000. On the turn both players had pairs of Queens and pairs of Aces, but isildur1 was better placed also holding a King, whilst Patrick had a 6, 9, Q and A as his hole cards, with 5, 7, Q and A on the table. Whether an inspired guess or truly top-class poker play, Patrik went all in and forced Isildur1 to call, creating, at $878,958.50, the then world record online poker pot.

The river

When the river card was turned over the 8 of diamonds was revealed, giving Patrik the Straight and the pot. How long this new record will stand can only be guessed at, but the way Patrik is playing online at present – don’t be surprised if he surpasses even this big win soon. I don’t know what resources Isildur1 has at his/her disposal, but the pair of them were immediately back at it with Patrik quickly sitting on $1.575 million! Patrik, already the number 1 all-time money winning Finnish poker player, now has another title to add to his CV and quite a handy addition to his $3+ million poker winnings since 2002.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 6:06 pm and is filed under News, money. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.