Friday, March 7, 2008

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Heavy hitters Antonius, Hoss_TBF square off

Hello, how are you, I'm Patrik. My watch is the same size as your head.

By Christopher Hunt

The haters cut him down for his pretty-boy profile, his fanboy following and his taste for shirts unbuttoned to the navel. But they can't say PA ever ducks a challenge.

Showing why he keeps his reputation as one of the game's best, Patrik "Finddagrind" Antonius got the fanboys in a sweat again today, stepping up for another heads-up $1k/$2k Limit Hold'em session on Full Tilt Poker with Matt "Hoss_TBF" Hawrilenko - a player Antonius himself called one of the top five Fixed-Limit Hold'em players in the world in a recent interview with a Finnish poker magazine.

It wasn't a particularly epic session by any means, lasting only an hour or two, but it was still long enough to show even Limit Hold'em can carry some big swings.

At one point Antonius looked to be up about $80k, but by the end of the session Hawrilenko had turned the tables and walked away up about $7k.

In the end, of course, there were also enough big hands for the two to dominate the Top 10 list of biggest Hold'em pots online so far today.

Biggest pot overall from the session was for $28,000 and went to Hawrilenko, who showed down K-Q off-suit to drag the chips. Here's the hand history, compliments of the PokerListings.com MarketPulse Biggest Pots section.

Full Tilt Poker Game #5536989765: Table Harlin (heads-up) - $1,000/$2,000 - Limit Hold'em - 8:04:59 PST - 2008/03/07

Seat 1: Hoss_TBF ($57,466.50)
Seat 2: FinddaGrind ($104,464.50)
Hoss_TBF posts the small blind of $500
FinddaGrind posts the big blind of $1,000
The button is in seat #1

Hole Cards

Hoss_TBF raises to $2,000
FinddaGrind calls $1,000

Flop: 3 4 K

FinddaGrind checks
Hoss_TBF bets $1,000
FinddaGrind raises to $2,000
Hoss_TBF calls $1,000

Turn: 3 4 K Q

FinddaGrind bets $2,000
Hoss_TBF raises to $4,000
FinddaGrind raises to $6,000
Hoss_TBF raises to $8,000
FinddaGrind calls $2,000

River: 3 4 K Q A

FinddaGrind checks
Hoss_TBF bets $2,000
FinddaGrind calls $2,000

SHOWDOWN

Hoss_TBF shows K Q for two pair, kings and queens
FinddaGrind mucks
Hoss_TBF wins the pot ($27,999.50) with two pair, kings and queens

To see more hand histories from the session, and more of the biggest Hold'em pots won online over the last day, week and month, jump over to the PokerListings.com MarketPulse section.

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