Saturday
September 04, 2010
It’s been a tough couple of days for Ziigmund. First he loses $519K to Cole South then yesterday fellow Cardrunner Brian Hastings took $244K off of him in the $300/$600 PLO game. Urindanger had the best day of everyone however, winning $302K in a marathon 4095 hand session of $100/$200 PLO from the newest Full Tilt pro, Andreas ‘Skjervoy’ Torbergsen.
Hastings flops top set but has to fade a bunch of draws to take a $188K
This hand is fairly representative of how Ziigmund has been running over the last two matches. Even against top set the hand is basically a coin flip, but he couldn’t even hit his draw when running the board twice. The play of the hand was standard with Ziigmund check raising to get some fold equity but Hastings also had a no brainer shove even though his hands was not the nuts at the time. When hands like these come around, there is nothing else to do but to get your money in and see what fate has in store for you that day.
Skjervoy flops three of a kind but Urindanger turns a full house to win a $102K pot.
The match between Skjervoy and Urindanger went on for seven hours and it was pretty much a rout all the way. Skjervoy held the lead for the first 32 hands and after that it was all Urindanger. 250 hands before the end, his lead was at $505K, but Skjervoy managed a last stand to improve upon what had been a disastrous day up to that point.
For a $100/$200 match, the pots were very big, and this hand was just the third largest of the day even though it totaled over 500 big blinds. It a hand where both players could have gone for different lines, particularly on the flop. I don’t like Skjervoy’s small raise on the flop here. He isn’t likely to get paid off by a worse hand so in my opinion he might as well make a full raise to shut his opponent out of the pot. The way he played now, he gave Urindanger the correct odds to catch up and he was duly punished when the seven came on the turn.