martonas takes $500k from Ivey, Antonius

Who else wants a shot at martonas?

No durrrr, no problem.

After an epic 24-hour session yesterday with high-stakes wildcard martonas, Tom "durrrr" Dwan finally decided he had to go to sleep.

martonas came to a different conclusion.

After unsuccessfully trying to convince Dwan to stay so he could get unstuck, martonas settled on playing a formidable group of players including Phil Ivey, LarsLuzak and Patrik Antonius.

Surprisingly, this may have been the smartest decision he made all day.

He lost millions to Dwan playing No-Limit Hold'em, made up some ground playing Pot-Limit Omaha later in the session and by the time he finally quit, martonas was down about $850,000 for the day.

A big loss no matter how you look at it, but considering martonas was down more than $2.5 million at one point, it is being hailed as one of the biggest swings in the history of online poker.

A good percentage of martonas' losses were made up playing Ivey in a heads-up PLO match where he profited nearly $500,000. It's tough to feel bad for Ivey, however, considering he has a shot at $8.5 million this November.

For his part, Dwan ended the day with $1.3 million in profits and G4 might want to start considering Dwan for a new poker show called 2 Nights, $2 Million.

Although martonas was playing Brian Hastings heads-up at $300/$600 PLO as of 12 p.m. PT Wednesday, it's unknown how long he will stick around as the player behind the online account has a history of disappearing from high stakes for long periods of time.

Either way, it's been a thrilling week of poker online thanks to martonas.

Check below for two of the biggest Ivey/martonas hands in the PokerListings hand-replayer and you can always find the biggest pots of the day on our MarketPulse page: