Antonius takes biggest pot in online poker history
In the middle of an epic session on Full Tilt Poker late Monday night, Patrik Antonius and Isildur1 played the biggest pot in online poker history.
At a massive $878,959, the pot totally crushed the old record of $723,000 set by Tom "durrrr" Dwan and Di "Urindanger" Dang in October 2008.
The game was $500/$1,000 heads-up Pot-Limit Omaha and both players sat with over $400,000 on the table.
Nothing extraordinary happened pre-flop or post, but when the A♦ came on the turn the action went nuts with both players raising until all the money - $878,959 - was in the pot.
When the money went in, Antonius and Isildur1 both had aces up, but both also held the chance to hit cards on the river to scoop the insanely large pot.
PokerListings' odds calculator shows it was a 62.5% chance for a split pot when the money went in.
Thanks to his flush draw and gutshot straight draw, Antonius had a 25% chance to win, while Isildur1 had just a 12.5% chance with his seperate gutshot draw and a shot at a non-heart king for a higher two-pair.
In the end, the 8♦ river came down giving Antonius his gutshot and the outrageous pot.
At press time, the heads-up session was still ongoing, but thanks to the record-breaking pot Antonius was up over $2.5 million on Isildur1 in a battle between online poker's two biggest winners so far this year.
You can see how it all played out in our hand replayer below:
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Comments
10Gunnz
2011-03-22If I lost that I would get physically sick.... If I won that I would geet physically sick..... Not sure if high stakes is for me!
Bill
2010-12-01I see pots bigger than that in my basement all the time. Someone usually ends up getting stabbed down there though...
Sarah
2010-10-02You gotta admit , Antonius hand KILLED .
poker lessons
2010-09-14the river was a very interesting card and bad luck for Isildur1
rakeback101
2010-08-22wow thats a sick amount of money to play for on a single hand, cant wait until i can hang with those kind of pots and not bat an eyelash.
Tarlo
2010-05-13My weiner is huge
pokern
2010-01-30unbelievable, if were such a player i would try to work with any online poker company insider to knew what the other player hold. there is alot space for fraud! but maybe all these hands are only a marketing gag! who knows....
bigblatch
2009-11-18Not *that* sick...he had a lot more outs than just the gutshot.
momo
2009-11-18With the sick rivers Durrr had to endure at the hands of Isilder, its was only fitting that he would get one back. Good one Antonius.
DaMatrix
2009-11-17Sick river! I think we will see the first million dollar pot online soon.