2009 Nov 17

Antonius wins $2.4 million and takes back the lead

Patrik Antonius
Patrik Antonius, back on top.
By: Sean Lind

Isildur1's streak of online domination came to an end at the hands of Patrik Antonius last night, who spent the evening and early morning destroying the unknown Swede to the tune of $2.4 million.

Isildur1, who was briefly the year's top money earner, proved once again that he's not afraid of a little action.

After taking nearly $800k off of Antonius two days ago, Isildur1 tried for a repeat performance, but ran out of run-good along the way.

The two players took their seats on four $500/$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha tables on Full Tilt, starting the game anywhere from 200 to 400 BB deep.

The session lasted for almost nine hours, playing 2,092 hands across the four tables. Unfortunately for Isildur1, Antonius left all four PLO tables in the black with his gross profit totalling over $2.13 million.

For close to five hours in the middle of the session, the two also added a couple of $500/$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em tables into the mix.

Isildur1 suffered crushing defeat on these tables as well, losing another $275k to bring Antonius's single-session profits up to a whopping $2.4 million.

This huge session not only saw the largest online pot ever played, worth $878,959, but it had six pots worth over $500k, and another six over $400k.

Last night's results have dropped Isildur1 down to around $3 million in total online profits for the year, while Antonius has busted his way back to the top of the profit list with over $7.3 million.

Below you can watch replays of the three largest pots of the night, including the largest pot ever played online. To see more of the sessions largest hands replayed, head to MarketPulse.

The largest online pot in poker history.

Antonius takes the backdoor.

Three for three.

Comments

8

  1. Grey Goose

    2009-11-19

    they neglect to mention that Isildur1 beat the balls off Cole South earlier in the night

  2. Jim.M

    2009-11-19

    oh come on this is ridiculous. All the relevant pots are decided on who will run good.

    Isildur won 800k off of patrik few days ago, now patrick won 2.4m.

    Throw a coin once and it will land on heads, throw it again and it will land on tails.

  3. martin

    2009-11-19

    Isildur has played very well but is now trying to play 7 or more tables against 3 top players at the same time. Playing this morning against Phil Ivey2 Patrik Antonius3 and Durrrr3. He lost all strategy and played transparently. He can only win playing one of these at a time. Otherwise he will be broke and soon.

  4. ted

    2009-11-18

    He was mearly trying to get PA to fold his flush draw, little did he know he also had a gut shot straight draw on the turn and also top 2.

    Isidur should have played small ball there, knowing how Full Tilt poker likes to create action hands and encourage all ins....

  5. ScottieD

    2009-11-18

    Then I see Isildur takes 60% and %70 in the next 2 big all ins but loses them all. Got to chalk it up to running bad to be fair.

  6. ScottieD

    2009-11-18

    Only 5 outs to win on river in omaha is pretty bad shape (11% win). Antonius had 11 to win (25%). The remaining 28 split the pot (64%). This has a negative EV of $123k each time you run the river, however, Isildur didn't actually make this -EV play or a mathematical mistake - it was his reraise to 192k on the turn that slaughtered him and meant he had to call the all in, folding would be a bigger mistake (-EV = $216k). Aggression isn't always right perhaps...

  7. mike

    2009-11-18

    880k pot? That's the GNP of some countries.

  8. og

    2009-11-18

    sweet. now I know where i can do some sort of tax evasion.

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