2009 Nov 26

Townsend takes $1.1 million from Isildur1

Brian Townsend
Brian Townsend proving he still has what it takes.
By: Sean Lind

In a bloodbath of a $200/$400 Pot-Limit Omaha session, Full Tilt Pro Brian Townsend took unknown Swedish player Isildur1 for over $1.1 million this morning.

Isildur1's morning began playing David Benyamine at $200/$400 PLO where he made $268k against the French pro.

At the same time, Isildur1 sat for some heads-up $500/$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em with Phil Ivey. Ivey stuck around for almost 200 hands, losing $85k in the process.

Up next came the main event of the day where Isildur1 and Townsend sat for 1,000 hands of $200/$400 PLO.

Despite the limit being less than half of what Isildur1 has been playing over the last week, Townsend still managed to win over $1.1 million.

Rather than making his profit from record setting pots, Townsend ground out the massive win from a series of pots worth no more than $305k.

When Townsend left the tables with his profit, Isildur1 turned his sights back on his most lucrative high-stakes rival, Tom Dwan.

Over 542 hands of $300/$600 PLO Isildur1 managed to take another $175k from Dwan, who continues to struggle in the midst of a massive multi-million-dollar downswing.

Finishing off the action for the day was high-stakes regular Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies. Sitting at $500/$1,000, Isildur1 lost $267k to the Finnish action player before throwing in the towel.

At the end of the day Isildur1 finished his session down over $976k.

Below you can see some of the largest hands from today's various heads up battles. If you'd like to see more, head to MarketPulse.

Versus Ziigmund.

Versus Townsend.

Versus Ivey.

Comments

7
  1. ssrof

    2009-11-26

    Maybe I am stupid but how can Townsend win the hand. Doesn't he have trip Aces and Isildur a straight 6 thru 10? Am I blind or what?

    ssrof

  2. Preete

    2009-11-26

    J7 makes J-10-9-8-7 and isuldur1 has 19-9-8-7-6 a lower straight :)

  3. chris

    2009-11-26

    In the first hand I don't c why isildur just calls on the flop with the nut flush draw, then check raises all in when a card comes to complete a likely str8, when he's chances of hitting his flush are decreased, i presume he's trying to disguise his hand a bit but he's only gona get called by a str8 or 2pair, and had no pair and only a club cud save him, I think he loses a lot on these very slim draws when he doesn't need to take the chances, cud av saved 200k there!

  4. ssrof

    2009-11-26

    Yeah, I am blind and stupid! How could I not see that?

    This is exactly why I don't play Omaha :)

  5. jux

    2009-11-26

    @ssrof
    It took me a while to figure out, why trips A win against a street ;-), I stay at TH. And think of this multitabling!!!

  6. cockyfuk

    2009-11-27

    @ chris he had a staight draw also

  7. Youandmehu

    2009-11-27

    Happened to me also haha, J7!

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