Townsend takes $1.1 million from Isildur1
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.
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Comments
7ssrof
2009-11-26Maybe 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
Preete
2009-11-26J7 makes J-10-9-8-7 and isuldur1 has 19-9-8-7-6 a lower straight :)
chris
2009-11-26In 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!
ssrof
2009-11-26Yeah, I am blind and stupid! How could I not see that?
This is exactly why I don't play Omaha :)
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!!!
cockyfuk
2009-11-27@ chris he had a staight draw also
Youandmehu
2009-11-27Happened to me also haha, J7!