Monday
November 23, 2009
Only one day after he was on the losing end of the largest pot in online poker history, Isildur1 got his hands on his very own million+ dollar pot. It happened against Phil Ivey, and was the main reason why he was able to climb out of a near million dollar hole that he was in at one point during this match. But his day started, almost as usual, by taking out durrrr once again. This time Isildur1 ended their session $655K to the good, so his domination of durrrr does not seem to end anytime soon.
Isildur1 flops a full house and gets paid off all the way by Ivey. 1.1M pot.
Unfortunately for us railbirds, we are not shown Phil Ivey’s hand in this pot, but there are probably not so many alternatives. To call off more than $500K in this spot, I can only put him on a hand that includes KJ, JT or TT which, in truth is a real cooler. Isildur1 ended the PLO session up $793K, so this hand really saved his bacon.
Ivey flops top and bottom pair which holds up against Isildur1’s flush draw. $558K pot.
I was watching quite a bit of yesterday’s action live, and during that time I saw Isildur1 lay down quite a few hands when he was 3-bet pre flop, and I am sure that he in hindsight wished he had laid this one down too. Obviously 84s is not a great hand, and it makes me wonder which hands he did put down in the spots that I mentioned. Of course, he is in position and the hand does have some potential, and if you can’t lay down too many hands when you are 3-bet either.
On this hand, Isildur1 opted to go for the semi-bluff raise on the turn, a line we have seen him and others employ quite a lot lately. It puts a lot of pressure on your opponent, and will make him think twice about firing two continuation bets with marginal to bad hands. Also, if your opponent is aware that you are doing this from time to time, you will also be more likely to be paid off when you do have a strong hand. Alas, no line of play has only positive outcomes, and the flip side is obviously that you will sometimes be all in on a draw with only one card to come, and this was exactly what happened this time. Ivey was never going to put down his two pairs, and would probably have called with pretty much any ace as well. The result this time was that Isildur1 was all in as a 4-1 underdog and when he didn’t his one of his 11 sinners on the river, ha had lost a couple of buy ins and then some.
Isildur1 turns a straight as durrrr gets the nut flush draw and a gut shot straight draw. $254K pot.
On this hand, Isildur1 played a very raggedy hand, to say the least, but being in position is the excuse for many sins, and this time the cards really fell nicely for him. On the flop, Isildur1 is actually the favorite to win the hand (57%), but the potential spade draw that is there puts a bit of a cramp on his wiggle room in the hand. If he was to make a raise here, durrrr would probably show with any flush draw (in addition to any made hands) in which case Isildur1 would be in a lot of trouble. Better then to take off a card and then use his position to make a more informed play on the turn.
The ace of diamonds that peeled off was about as good of a card as Isildur1 could dream of. First of all, it made his straight, and secondly it was a card that encouraged durrrr to fire a second bullet into the pot and by doing so, committing all his chips in the process. Of course, durrrr is not drawing dead, but any time you can get your chips in the middle as a 3-1 favorite is a joyous occasion, and this time the straight held up which is always nice.
The European Championship of Online Poker is starting today at BETnGO.com, and as I have said before, I will be playing a few of the events while live Twittering. The first event is a $200+$15 NLHE tournament starting at 2100 CET. It would be really nice if as many of you as possible took part in this great event. Regardless, by following me on Twitter, you will eligible for some great, exclusive promotions that will only be announced in my Twitter feed.
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