Friday, Oct. 10, 2008

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As the durrrr turns: Dwan spins up $620k

It's a Dwanderful world.

By Christopher Hunt

Eventually the high-stakes online poker community will just have to come to grips with the fact Tom Dwan's bankroll always seems to come out ahead in the end.

Case in point: another episode of the irresistible force vs. the immovable object yesterday, as two of the game's most aggressive high-stakes rivals squared off in another $500/$1,000 RailHeaven session at Full Tilt Poker.

The force: Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies. The object: Tom "durrrr" Dwan, with maybe the most interesting side note this time being it's Ziigmund on the heater, racking up over $1 million in Hold'em profit over the last week or so while durrrr slowly rebuilds from his $1 million Dwanswong late in September.

Or Ziigmund was on a heater it should say, as the online poker world seems to have rotated back to its natural state of affairs - Dwan raking in huge pots with good river cards, and Ziig spewing profanities in the chat box.

Dwan indeed bounced back in a big way yesterday, finishing up roughly $620k - pretty much wiping out his $1 million loss and throwing Ziigmund into a reported -$900k swong of his own.

A good portion of it came in this pot - the biggest online on Thursday - when a turn check by Ziig allowed durrrr to see a free card, fill his straight on the river and get paid off huge.

Hand history in the PL.com Hand Replayer here or text version below, as tracked by the PL.com MarketPulse software.

Game: 8419952352 TABLE: RailHeaven (six-max) $500/$1,000 - No-Limit Hold'em Thu. Oct. 9, 2008 - 7:04 p.m. (ET)

Table Setup

Seat 4 durrrr ($214,091)
Seat 5 Ziigmund ($200,000)
Seat 6 Genius28 ($132,597)
Ziigmund posts the small blind of $500
Genius28 posts the big blind of $1,000
The button is in seat #4

Pre-Flop

durrrr raises to $3,000
Ziigmund raises to $10,000
Genius28 folds
durrrr calls $7,000

Flop: [8 3 9]

Ziigmund bets $21,000
durrrr has 15 seconds left to act
durrrr calls $21,000

Turn: [8 3 9][K]

world1969 sits down
Ziigmund checks
world1969 adds $50,000
durrrr has 15 seconds left to act
durrrr checks

River: [8 3 9 K][7]

Ziigmund bets $63,000
durrrr has 15 seconds left to act
durrrr raises to $183,091, and is all-in
Ziigmund has 15 seconds left to act
Ziigmund has requested TIME
world1969 is sitting out
Ziigmund calls $106,000, and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $14,091 returned to durrrr

Showdown

durrrr shows [J T] a straight, jack-high
Ziigmund mucks
durrrr wins the pot ($400,999) with a straight, jack-high
Ziigmund is sitting out

Summary

Total pot $401,000 | Rake $1
Board: [8 3 9 K 7]
Seat 4 durrrr (button) collected ($400,999)
Seat 5 Ziigmund (small blind) mucked
Seat 6 Genius28 (big blind) folded before the flop

Yesterday's win pushes Dwan's Hold'em profit for the year to date back up to a tidy $1.1 million and reestablishes him in the top three overall Hold'em moneymakers, along with Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond and David Benyamine.

No tears to shed for Ziigmund, however, as the bad day only pushed him back down to the nine spot, with a still none-too-shabby $740k profit himself.

Rest of the top 10 below, and see the full top 100 online Hold'em winners and losers today, this week, this month and this year here and here.

Top 10 Online Hold'em Moneymakers so far in 2008:

Rank	Player	Poker Room	Total
1.	OMGClayAiken	Full Tilt	$1,962,463
2.	David Benyamine	Full Tilt	$1,690,477
3.	durrrr	Full Tilt	$1,151,745
4.	Hoss_TBF	Full Tilt	$1,136,849
5.	PrtectYaNeck	Full Tilt	$1,000,589
6.	jimmie23	Full Tilt	$886,828
7.	aejones	Full Tilt	$815,725
8.	INTERNET POKERS	Full Tilt	$811,491
9.	Ziigmund	Full Tilt	$742,264
10.	present	Full Tilt	$726,527

Top 10 Online Hold'em Losses so far in 2008:

Rank	Player	Poker Room	Total
1.	patatino	Full Tilt	(-$1,494,920)
2.	Patrik Antonius	Full Tilt	(-$1,166,424)
3.	Matt Hawrilenko	Full Tilt	(-$745,849)
4.	whitelime	Full Tilt	(-$640,730)
5.	elmariachimacho	Full Tilt	(-$609,039)
6.	Cole South	Full Tilt	(-$511,419)
7.	TonyBliar	Full Tilt	(-$498,622)
8.	STAADY	Full Tilt	(-$459,681)
9.	just_the_nuts	Full Tilt	(-$457,077)
10.	OnTheRize	Full Tilt	(-$427,605)

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