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Durrrr VS Gus Hansen Heads Up Poker

Two of the biggest game regulars in Gus Hansen and Tom Dwan sat down and battled in a high stakes Pot Limit Omaha game. The action took place over three separate tables of $300/$600 action. The first notable hand came when Gus Hansen made a bet of over $7,000 on the river. After thinking for a minute, Dwan folded the hand and surrendered the pot.

Hansen kept up his well known aggressive style in this next hand, betting $11,400 on the river. Once again, Dwan folded after thinking for a moment.

Although the same thing happened in this next hand, not many were surprised. Hansen made Dwan lay his hand down with another river bet.

Tides slightly turned in the following hand. Dwan turned Hansen’s style against him and led with a $7,200 bet on the turn, forcing Hansen to fold.

The next pot was one of the largest you will see online. All the money got in on the flop, creating a total pot worth more than $200,000. When it was ran twice, it ended up being a split pot. The anti-climactic ending did not deter the rail, as talk of the massive hand ran rampant for quite a while.

Another huge pot took place only minutes later. Once again, getting it in on the flop meant wunning it twice, and an eventual split. Hansen had the better with top set of eights vs. Dwan’s middle set of sevens. Dwan, however, made a straight on the second round, and saving him over $100,000.

On another table, Hansen got all his money in on the flop against Dwan. Hansen had flopped top set against Tom Dwan’s flush draw. Dwan hit a diamond on both runs and took the total pot of $50,000.

Rarely do you see pocket kings hold up in big heads up pot limit hold’em pots, but they did exactly that in this hand. Hansen’s kings held and he took this pot.

Dwan finally showed an adjustment to Hansen’s game here, when he raised Hansen’s turn bet to over $30,000. Hansen timed down before laying down his hand.

In the final hand of the session, Gus Hansen doubled up by hitting a set in two different runs. First it was a six on the turn, followed by a deuce, giving the pot to The Great Dane.

All in all, the two players played for a lengthy amount of time, to no one’s surprise. When all was said and done, however, Hansen was up just a slight amount over the three tables, around $50,000. Dwan, as we know too well, will have to live to fight another day.

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Last week, Scott Palmer screen name urnotindangr won $5,425 in the first of two rounds against Viktor Blom screen name isildur1 in the PokerStars SuperStar Showdown Challenge. The two came back on Sunday to play another 2,500 and determine the winner of the match.

It did not take long before Blom jumped out to the lead. He quickly took a $21,000 lead and Palmer could not seem to win a decent pot against the internet phenom. Blom continued to dominated early on and by the time the match reached the 1,000 hand mark, Isildur1 was up $70,000. He managed to win 7 out of 9 all-in situations early on and there didn’t appear to be any way that Palmer could stop him.

As the match marched on, Isildur1 continued to take pot after pot. It didn’t matter whether he had the cards or not, he seemed to find a way to get there. With about 200 hands left in the match, Isildur1 had moved up to a $95,500 lead. This lead came off of the strength of a huge $47,000 pot.

Isildur1 three-bet pre-flop to $1,100 and urnotindangr made the call to see a flop of 8d-Qh-Ad. Blom bet out $1,300 and was called. The turn fell the Qc and then the fireworks commenced. Blom bet out $3,150 and was raised to $8,000 straight by Palmer. Blom then raised to $12,850 and was called. The river then fell the 2h and Blom moved all-in for $8,250. Palmer made the call and showed Qd-Jc for trip queen. Isildur1 then revealed Ah-Qs for a turned full house. This cooler for Palmer sent the $47,000 pot to Blom.

Palmer was able to narrow Blom’s lead to $60,407 with about 79 hands left, but he was able to get no closer. Blom would finish round 2 up $66,607 and would take the match with a profit of $61,182 after 5,000 hands.

Blom is now 6-2 in SuperStar Showdown Matches. Isildur1’s next opponent will be Mastermixus. He won Sunday’s SuperStar Showdown Qualifier and will receive $15,000 to play in a $5-$10 Showdown Challenge. The date of the challenge has not been officially released.

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High Stakes PLO had a surprise winner last night
Not an expert online cash player, Erick Lindgren caught attention last night when he made an 87 thousand dollar profit playing high stakes PLO last night.
Known as an incredible live tournament poker competitor, Lindgren will occasionally dabble in the high stakes games online. Last night was one of those nights. When he sat down at the Pot Limit Omaha tables, he was faced off against top high stakes, online poker players. He surprised everyone by how comfortable he was at the table last night.
Although Erick Lindgren is one of the top live poker event players in the world, he’s always struggled online. Last year he lost more than 337 thousand dollars in online poker games alone. Last night, after 428 hands of 6-Max 300/600 blinds, he was up more than 87 thousand dollars. This has given him a 90 thousand dollar overall profit so far this year.

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Viktor Blom in another 2 part match up

April 3rd was another SuperStar Showdown on PokerStars. Viktor Blom screen name isildur1 was challenged by Scott Palmer screen name urnotindangr. Palmer is a high stakes player with some previous experience in competition against Blom. Due to the uniqueness of this event, like the last, it is being played over 2 weekends and 5000 hands. In a brief four hours, Scott Palmer came out of round one, up barely more than 5 thousand dollars.
Keeping in mind that all SuperStar Showdowns are played in a four table, heads up, 2500 hand match up playing either NL Hold’em and or pot limit Omaha (players choice), it’s clear why this event is drawing attention. The players this week will return next to compete in the same setup with the same bankroll they ended with. The way this match up has played out, it’s clear that Isildur1 has a nearly equal competitor in Palmer.
The whole match was played with huge swings in both directions, and at no time did either player seem unreachable. When the pair reached 2500 hands, Palmer had squeaked ahead with a mere 5425 dollars. The vast majority of the pots won in part one of this competition were far more than the final win amount.
Now, after splitting a similar competition with Daniel Negreanu last week, will he split this competition with Daniel Palmer? Or will we see Palmer sweep the PokerStars Pro at his own game?

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