Wednesday, June 25, 2008

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Who needs a bracelet when you clear $500k a day?

The Flamingo Kid.

By Christopher Hunt

So, despite his final-table appearance early on in the Series, the 2008 WSOP hasn't exactly been Tom "durrrr" Dwan's coming-out party.

Not that he really needs one, as his cash-game record pretty much stands for itself.

Still, his Internet fanboys had him pegged for around five or six bracelets to this point, so all in all are likely scrambling around the forums explaining away the mediocre performance so far.

durrrr himself, however, is likely not too bothered, as he seems to be consoling himself with his standard domination of the high-stakes Pot-Limit Omaha tables on Full Tilt Poker.

It was the same old story as always for Durrrr yesterday, as a huge session with the usual heavy hitters - Patrik Antonius, Urindanger, ICallSoWhat, Ziigmund, OMGClayAiken, etc. - saw him walk away with more than $500k (according to highstakesdb.com) for just a few hours' work.

The biggest pot, for $311,114, came mostly at the expense of ICallSoWhat, who couldn't catch up with Dwan's pocket aces.

The hand history looks like this, as tracked by the PL.com MarketPulse biggest pots section:

6960449831 TABLE: Antonius (deep six) $200/$400 - Pot-Limit Omaha Hi - Tues Jun 24 2008 - 11:16pm ET

Table Setup

Seat 1: Aeron73 ($64,448)
Seat 2: Urindanger ($39,400)
Seat 3: Patrik Antonius ($40,000)
Seat 4: ICallSoWhat ($154,872)
Seat 5: durrrr ($401,381.50)
Seat 6: patatino ($26,624)
ICallSoWhat posts the small blind of $200
durrrr posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #2

Pre-Flop

patatino folds
Aeron73 folds
Urindanger has 15 seconds left to act
Urindanger raises to $1,400
ICallSoWhat calls $1,200
durrrr raises to $5,600
Urindanger has 15 seconds left to act
Urindanger folds
ICallSoWhat calls $4,200

Flop: [3 K 5]

ICallSoWhat has 15 seconds left to act
ICallSoWhat bets $10,800
durrrr has 15 seconds left to act
durrrr raises to $37,100
ICallSoWhat has 15 seconds left to act
ICallSoWhat raises to $123,900
durrrr raises to $210,700
ICallSoWhat calls $25,372, and is all-in
Durrrr shows [6 A T A]
ICallSoWhat shows [A K 2 2]
Uncalled bet of $61,428 returned to durrrr

Turn: [3 K 5][T]

River: [3 K 5][T][J]

durrrr shows a pair of aces
ICallSoWhat shows a pair of kings
durrrr wins the pot ($311,142) with a pair of aces
ICallSoWhat adds $40,000

Summary

Total pot $311,144 | Rake $2
Board: [3 K 5 T J]
Seat 1: Aeron73 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: Urindanger (button) folded before the flop
Seat 3: Patrik Antonius is sitting out
Seat 4: ICallSoWhat (small blind) showed [A K 2 2] and lost with a pair of kings
Seat 5: durrrr (big blind) showed [6 A T A] and won ($311,142) with a pair of aces
Seat 6: patatino didn't bet (folded)

To see more pots from the session, or more of the top 100 biggest pots won online over the past day, week, month and year, jump to the PokerListings.com MarketPulse section.

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