The $200/400 PLO tables have been home to most the online action. Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin has been the biggest beneficiary with most of it coming from Gus Hansen. Griffin scooped a large pot when the table was three-handed, luckexpress10 being the third player in addition to Hansen. Griffin had the button and raised to $1,610. In small blind luckexpress10 called and Hansen 3bet to $6,650 from the big blind. Griffin and luckexpress10 both called and the flop came 6c2d8d. It was checked to Griffin who bet $20,160, luckexpress10 folded and Hansen called. 6h came on the turn and Hansen shoved in the rest of his stack of $56,000. Griffin called all in for just over $42,000 and showed ThTd6d2c while Hansen showed AdAsTc8h. The river was 7h and Griffin won the pot of  $146,000with sixes full of deuces.

Griffin got the best of Hansen again shortly after. Griffin, on the button, raised to $1,610, Hansen 3bet to $5,440 from the small blind. Luckexpress10 folded and Griffin called. The flop came TcAs4s and Hansen check-called a bet of $11,490 from Griffin. The turn came 6c and Hansen led out for the pot of $34,470. Griffin shoved for $52,448 and Hansen called with Ac8c9h5s for multiple draws and top pair, while Griffin tabled Ad6d7d7s for two pair. The river was 3d and Griffin dodged all of Hansen’s outs to scoop the $139,365 pot.

Cole South ended July on a high note and has on his upswing so far in August. Playing heads up $200/400 PLO with Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, South won a few pots to book a winning session. One of the biggest hands in the session saw South open to $800 and Sahamies 3bet to $2,400. South called and the flop came Jc7sAc. Sahamies bet $4,800 and South raised to $13,200. Sahamies then 3bet to $44,800 and South shoved all in while Sahamies called with AsTc9s8 for top pair, a wrap, and a flush draw. South tabled KhQcTs4c for straight draws and a higher flush draw. The turn came 5c to give South the better flush, sending the $108,000 pot his way.

Another big hand hand between the two went five bets pre-flop. Each stuck in $34,220 to see a 4s9s5c flop. Ziigmund shipped it in for about $47,000 and South called all in for slightly less. Ziggy had KcKs8h6c and South 6s3s5d2d. Fourth street was the 8c but South hit gin when the 3h came on the river!

Who’s Up, Who’s Down
So far this week’s biggest winners:
Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin (+$790,264)
Cole South (+$651,273)

This week’s biggest losers:
DIN_FRU (-$640,673)
Gus Hansen (-$510,339)
Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond (-$555,361)
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies (-$443,564)

The world’s two biggest poker sites were at war this weekend. Both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker attempted to break the current world record for the largest ever online tournament. Pokerstars currently held the tiltle by breaking the previous record last year in an event that featured an $11 buy-in and attracted 35,000 online runners.

Last week Full Tilt Poker announced its intention to break that record with a special massive tournament to wrap up its “FIVE” promotions – a celebration of the site’s fifth birthday. Full Tilt’s event was set for Sunday, July 19th and featured a $5 buy-in and generous overlays.

Just days later, PokerStars decided to make an attempt to keep its own record intact! Stars scheduled its own tourney to take place about an hour before the scheduled attempt at Full Tilt. The PokerStars tourney, called ‘Guinness World Record’ had a lower buy-in of just $1. Initially, the PokerStars tournament did not have a cap on the number of players allowed to enter, but eventually a cap was set at 65,000! Massive!

When Full Tilt neglected or declined to remove the 50,000-player cap from its world record tournament, this battle was pretty much over already. Both events sold out in quick time and the previous world record was broken by a long margin. PokerStars, the holder of the old record, will retain the record with a new mark of 65,000 online runners — almost double the previous record!!

With Cole South running pretty deep in the WSOP ME, he made his way back to the $200/400 HA tables, successfully taking on Gus Hansen, “—DONKEY1965—“ and “luckexpress10.” Over two days of play he raked in over 300k including 200k from this hand alone.

—DONKEY1965— raised to $1,200, South three-bet to $3,600, and –DONKEY1965— called. South cbet $4,800 on a Td7d2c flop and –DONKEY1965—called. The turn came 8h and South check-called a $13,000 bet. The river fell 8c and South check-shoved over –DONKEY1965—’s bet of $32,000, to $109,769. –DONKEY1965—made the call and South revealed tens full with KdJcThTs  to take down the $208,783 pot.

Another player raking in the cash last weekend was Di “Urindanger” Dang. He went on a huge upswing in the $200/400 pot-limit Omaha tables playing short-handed against “theASHMAN103,” Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro, “HarrisMP,” Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, “Tdanger00,” and Gus Hansen. He sure isn’t afraid to play all the big names! Altogether, Dang won over $412,000 in only around 1.5k hands!

Jay “pr1nnyraid” Rosenkrantz and David “Viffer” Peat (playing under the screen name “amosa”) played a $200/400 heads-up no-limit hold’em match. Many speculated that the entire session was staged for an episode of Rosenkrantz’s upcoming reality show “2 Months, 2 Million.” We’ll never know!

Though Peat ran bad in most of the big pots, his play seemed to grow more ‘tilty’ as the match went on. In the biggest ‘WTF?!’ hand of the session, Rosenkrantz raised to $1,200. Peat 3bet to $3,600 and Rosenkrantz called. Peat cbet $7,200 on a KsTs3h flop and Rosenkrantz flat-called. The turn came the Qd and Peat double barreled for $21,600. Rosenkrantz again called. Then Peat moved all in for $136,568 when the 5d river came and Rosenkrantz called all in for the $125,796. Peat had nothing with 69o and Rosenkrantz raked in the $316,393 with top two.

After Peat dropped over half a million, pr1nnyraid was either concerned or was trying to needle in the following chat:

pr1nnyraid: dont take this the wrong way
amosa: ?
pr1nnyraid: are you ok? you are playing insane
amosa: you beat me 500k str8
amosa: lol
amosa: am i ok?
amosa: die in a grease fire
pr1nnyraid: haha
pr1nnyraid: ok ok
Cole South: u guys mind if i play?
amosa: yes
amosa: hu please
Cole South: ok gl
pr1nnyraid: gl in main cole
amosa: am i ok
amosa: wt
amosa: f
amosa: vd
amosa: d
amosa: df
amosa: dfw
amosa: dfw
amosa: D V
amosa: FV
amosa: D V
amosa: d
amosa: e f3
amosa: dv E
Chat Monitor (Support): amosa has lost their chat privilege for 2 minutes. Spamming the table is prohibited.

After the match, Rosenkrantz addressed the rumors that the match was staged :

“of course he didn’t show up out of nowhere, the action is obv related to the show. we/the production have feelers out to see if ppl are interested in playing one/some of us on tv, viffer was one of several live pros that agreed to play. he’s also playing dani tomorrow live for 50 or 100k. i’m sure he got money online for the purposes of the match.

we’re also playing some other guys that i can’t talk about but i’m sure if you are railing ftp/stars over the next 2 weeks you will figure it out.

crazy f****g match though”

The early going featured a flurry of eliminations. 14 of the 30 remaining players were shown the door within the first two hours of play, including one on the very first hand.

After a couple more hours it was whittled down to the last 9. Helder was the chip leader at that point, with 2.9 million, followed by Levy with 2.5 million.

Nathan Page was first on his way. He had entered the final table as the second-shortest stack. He had AQo and raised to 110,000. Andrew Chen pushed all in with 99 and Page called. Chen won the race and hit quads! Page was awarded $80,894 for ninth place.

Jason Helder lost the last of his 2.5 million shortly after, about two hours into the final table. He had earlier given most of his chips to Chen when they both got it all-in preflop with AQo and AKs respectively. Then, just after Page’s exit, Helder doubled up Thibault Durand. So at this stage he only had 600k left of his original 2.5 million. With blinds at 25,000/50,000/5000 Helder shoved with AKo but he was called by Owen Crowe with 99. The board bricked and Jason Helder was on his bike in eighth place and with $86,702.

Georgios Kapalas was next out. His stack had dwindled so much that he was all-in on the big blind with J7o  after a raise from Carsten Joh with 77. The board gave no help to Kapalas and he was on his way in seventh place for $97,634.

Thibault Durand was next out, eliminated in sixth place. He had donked off most of his chips in the previous hand with K6o when someone looked him up with 99. On the next hand, Durand was all in before the flop with J7o, facing the dominating Q7o of Steven Levy. Queen-high was the winner and Thibault Durand left with $115,817.

Owen Crowe was next on his bike in fifth place when Andrew Chen raised on the button with pocket 8’s. Crowe reraised from the small blind with ATo and Chen shoved. Crowe thought for a while and made the call. The community cards did not give Crowe any help and he was sent packing.

Steven Levy was out in fourth place with some BvB action. He raised to 220,000 in the SB with A9o and David Walasinski in the big blind with AJo shoved it all-in. Levy called immediately, but no help came for him. He was sent on his way with a check for $192,650 and 4th place.

Joh knocked out Walasinski’s next when the latter moved all in from the button with K7o and Joh called from the big blind with KTo. Both players made a pair, but Joh’s was better. David Walasinski was on his bike in third place, picking up $272,405.

That pot gave Joh a 1.2 million lead over Chen going into heads-up play: 6.9 million to 5.7 million. He steadily increased that lead over the next hour, until he held a 4-to-1 advantage. Then, the deciding hand…

Carsten Joh raised to 410,000 from the button with 66 and Andrew Chen moved all-in for 2.2 million with Td9d. Joh called instantly. The board played out giving no help for Chen and a set on the end for Joh. Chen, who had been the chip leader for most of the final table, had to settle for second place, with $412,632.

Joh took his first WSOP cash, final table, and bracelet!

Jerrod Ankenman — 1.2 million
Jon Turner — 591,000
Sergey Altbregin — 387,000
Eric Crain — 355,000
Jeff Tims — 260,000
Chris Klodnicki — 109,000
Dario Alioto — 103,000
Layne Flack — 60,000

The two shortest stacks didn’t get any reprise when they were both the first to be eliminated at the final table. In a stud hand, Dario Alioto called off the last of his chips on sixth street vs Jon Turner. Alioto held sevens and fives for two pair and Turner held trip nines. Alioto bricked the river and was sent on his way with nice cash of $25,860.

Well known poker pro Layne Flack also went out during the stud round. Flack moved in on fifth street with split eights and Eric Crain called with split nines. Flack improved to eights up on sixth street, but Crain also improved to nines up. Flack failed to fill up on the river and was on his bike in seventh place, taking home $30,674.

Eric Crain was the next to go. The major hand that broke the camel’s back came in Hold’ m when he moved all in pre AhKh but was caught by the AA of Sergey Altbregin with pocket aces. Altbregin doubled up to 600,000 and Crain was left with a lowly 160,000. The very next hand, Jerrod Ankenman raised to 30,000 and Crain moved all in. Ankenman called with 88 to Crain’s KQo. Unfortunately the board bricked for Crain’s and he bombed out in sixth place, for $38,075.

Jon Turner was sent packing in fifth. Jerrod Ankenman raised preflop and Tuner called with the last of his chips. Sergey Altbregin and Chris Klodnicki also came along for the ride. This gave Turner great value for his hand as he stood to quadruple up. The flop came 9d8c7s and was checked around. The turn fell the 8s and action was checked to Klodnicki who bet out. Ankenman was the only caller and the river was the 6d which both players checked. Ankenman turned over K9o for nines up. Klodnicki tabled 76o and Turner flipped up AJo. Ankenman won the pot and Turner headed off with $49,569!

Jeff Tims was busted next when he moved all in preflop during no-limit hold’em and got called by Klodnicki. Tims’ A5dd was in trouble with the A6hh of Klodnicki. Klodnicki flopped well with KhQs7h and the turn left Tims drawing dead when the 4h. Jeff Tims finished in fourth place and took home $67,848.

Chris Klodnicki however was the next person out when he raised from the button to 30,000 preflop during a pot-limit Omaha hand. Jerrod Ankenman called and the flop came 9d4s3s. Ankenman checked and Klodnicki fired out 72,000. Ankenman re-potted to 288,000 and Klodnicki moved in for 375,000 total. Ankenman made the call with AsKsKc2h for the nut flush draw, a wheel draw, and a pair. While Klodnicki held Ac9h6c3c for two pair only. The turn fell the Ts to fill Ankenman’s flush, and the river bricked. Klodnicki finished in third place. $97,897!

Heads-up play began with Sergey Altbregin holding a 400k lead on Jerrod Ankenman. Altbregin had 1.8 million to the 1.41 million of Ankenman. Ankenman took a series of pot off Altbregin during Omaha hi/lo to move into a pretty massive chip lead with 2.39 million to just 700,000. Altbregin slipped further down to 415,000 before committing the last of his chips during a no-limit hold’em hand which would give the prize and bracelet to Ankenman.

On the flop of 3c6d4s, Ankenman bet out 50,000 and Altbregin responded by pushing all in. Ankenman made the call with 6c5s for top pair and a straight draw, while Altbregin held Jd4dfor middle pair only. The turn fell the 7c to give Ankenman his straight and Sergey Altbregin finished as runner-up for this event, taking home $149,342!

Ankenman took home $241,637 in prize money and the bracelet! gg

Tom “durrrr” Dwan decided he’d go pretty sick this week. While playing Patrik Antonius in the longest “durrrr” Challenge session to date, Dwan separately took on Phil Ivey, Alexander Kostritsyn, and Gus Hansen in a few heads-up sessions on the side! lol nosebleeds!

Ivey played 2 tables of $500/1,000 PLO with Dwan and was up by as much as $575,000 at one point. Ivey ended up +$372,000 vs durrrr in this session.

In the largest pot of the session Ivey raised to $3,000 and Dwan called. Dwan checked a AdQd7c flop and Ivey bet $5000. Dwan called and the turn came 6s. Dwan checked again and Ivey bet $14,000. Dwan raised to $58,000 and Ivey shoved for $120,298. Dwan made the call and showed Ac9c5d4d for top pair and a flush draw and Ivey showed a set of queens with QsQh9h2c. The river was the 9s and Ivey’s hand held to scoop the pot.

By the end of the week, Dwan had erased all his year-to-date losses, which at one stage this year was more than $4 million. He is now up nearly $180,000 for 2009.

The Finnish player known only as “DIN_FRU” played a lot of hands this week across all disciplines of poker. He started off Tuesday morning with $500/1,000 Omaha hi/lo, picking up $55,000 in just under 200 hands against “NO IT ALL.”

He then took on Niki Jedlicka at $500/1,000 limit hold’em and ended up down $85,000 win after an hour and a half of play.

DIN_FRU then switched over to pot-limit Omaha, taking on Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin at the $50/100. After losing he then decided to up the stakes to $200/400. After losing some more in a short space of time they decided to change the blinds again to $100/$200 and again he lost some more. At this point he was stuck around $128,000.

The next day he played HU with John D’Agostino at $500/1,000 H.E.R.O.S. where he banked a $41,000 win and a $1,000/2,000 H.E.R.O.S. battle with Alexander “PostflopAction” Kostritsyn, where he picked up another $115,000.

The action really got going the day after for DIN_FRU. He started off the day dropping $62,000 to Alexander Kostritsyn at $1,000/2,000 H.E.R.O.S. Then he decided it’d be wise to play Phil Ivey, in a massive five-and-a-half-hour HU game at $1,000/2,000 limit hold’em. Ivey ran away with the match booking a $382,000!

DIN_FRU then played Patrik Anotius and booked a $124,000 win in a heads-up $1,000/2,000 half limit hold’em, half Omaha hi/lo session against Patrik Antonius! All in all, DIN_FRU earned $422,000 for the week! Nice score!

Who’s Up? Who’s Down?
This week’s biggest winners: Di “Urindanger” Dang (+$611,000), Tom “durrrr” Dwan (+$516,000), DIN_FRU (+$422,000)
This week’s biggest losers: Gus Hansen (-$876,000), Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro (-$615,000), “Bomberman” (-$405,000)

During the first part of the session Antonius jumped out to a $250K lead, but durrrr made a comeback and came within $30K of pulling even. He then dropped another $200K for a good hour or so before going on a massive upswing for $370,037.50! wheeeeeeeeee

In the second session they logged 3,343 hands and durrrr added $391,103.5 to his lead, so durrrr is now up a whopping $726,546.5!

Here are some of the biggest hands that gave durrrr the massive lead:

durrrr (BTN/SB): $95792.50
Patrik Antonius (BB): $173990.50
durrrr bet/4bets to $10800 and Patrik Antonius calls the extra $7200. The flop comes 3sTs9d and Patrik Antonius checks and durrrr bets $13,200. Patrik Antonius responds by c/r to $61,000 and durrrr shoves $84,992.50. Patrik Antonius calls it off and the turn and river bring a Kd and 9c respectively. Durrrr shows AcThTd7c for the flopped top set and rivered fullhouse and Patrik Antonius showed 8s7s5s6c for the draws. durrrr wins $191584.50.

durrrr (BB): $310761.50
Patrik Antonius (BTN/SB): $204197.50
Patrik Antonius raises to $1200, durrrr raises to $3600 and Patrik Antonius calls. The flop comes 9c8d2d and durrrr leads out for $4800. Patrik Antonius raises to $21,600 and durrrr calls. The turn comes 5s and durrrr check raises Patrik Antonius’ $50,400 bet to $201,600. Patrik Anoniuis calls off his last $128,597.50 and the river brings a Tc. Durrrr shows 7c8h6s7h for a Ten high straight and Patrik shows 9s9hAdTh for a flopped set. durrrr wins $408394.50.

durrrr (BTN/SB): $787061.00
Patrik Antonius (BB): $141391.00
durrrr raises to $1200, Patrik Antonius re-raises to $3600 and durrrr calls $2400. The flop comes 7cJcJh and Patrik fires out $6000 which is quickly called by durrrr. The turn brings an action inducing 8h and Patrik Antonius leads again for $16,400. Durrrr raises to $48,100 and Patrik shoves in the rest of his $131,791. Durrrr calls and the river brings a 9h, durrrr shows 4hKcJd8c for the turned house while Patrik showed AsKcQsJs for flopped trips.

Durrr won $376,597 in an epic 3 hour session in which they logged 786 hands!

The challenge can almost now be called even since Patrik Antonius only has the lead by $34k. With the size of the pots and the variance in these games it’s a pretty thin lead.

Here are the biggest pots they played:

durrrr (BB): $245162.00
Patrik Antonius (BTN/SB): $114795.50
Patrik Antonius raises to $1200, durrr 3bets to $3600 and Patrik Antonius makes it $10,800. Durrrr decides to call and the flop comes AdJd2s. durrrr check raises Patrik Antonius’ $16,400 bet to $70,800. Patrik Antonius calls and the turn comes 6d. durrrr shoves and Patrik Antonius calls. The river brings a 2d and durrrr scoops the pot with a fullhouse, ThJc8dJh to Patrik Antonius’ flush Qc3dTd6c. durrrr wins $229,590.50.

durrrr (BTN/SB): $86865.50
Patrik Antonius (BB): $113115.00
durrrr raises to $1200 and calls the 3bet of $3600 from Patrik Antonius. The flop comes low and red, 5h2d4d and durrrr calls Patrik Antonius’ flop bet of $6000. The turn brings Th and Patrik Antonius leads for $19,200. durrrr raises to $76,800 and Patrik Antonius calls with $26k behind. The river comes 3h and Patrik Antonius ships in the rest, durrr quickly calls.

Durrrr shows 6c8c2s5c for a six high straight while Patrik Antonius shows 7s8d4sAd for the lower straight. durrrr wins $173,730.50.

durrrr (BB): $185972.00
Patrik Antonius (BTN/SB): $53994.00
Patrik Antonius raises to $1200, durrrr reraises to $3600 and Patrik Antonius calls. The flop comes JdAc9h and durrr bet/3bets to $72,000 and Patrik Antonius shoves over his last $28k. The turn and river come 5d and 3d respectively.  durrrr shows 9cAsJsJc for a flopped set and Patrik Antonius shows 5hTcQcKh for the bricked straight draws. durrrr wins $107987.50.

Day 3 kicked off with only 19 survivors, but it didn’t take long to drop down to just two tables. Chris Sparks got his chips preflop in one of the fiorst hands of the day versus AK and was drawing slim on AAK flop. When a second K hit on the turn it was all over for Sparks. He collected $17,753 for his 19th-place finish.

Other early eliminations included Andrew Seden (18th, $25,347), Roberto Correa (17th, $25,347), Ali Davoudi (16th, $25,347) and Roberto Truijers (15th, $36,225). Mihai Manole lost a standard coinflip when he busted in 14th place ($36,225) and after the elimation of Stuart Marshak (13th, $36,225), Gualter Santos (12th, $51,755) and Benny Champlin (11th, $51,755) the remaining ten players consolidated to one ten-handed table awaiting the official final table.

The final table bubble came fairly quickly, as Ronnie Kevin sent Ernst Hermans home in tenth place ($51,755), and the final table seating assignments and chip counts looked like this:

Seat 1: David Lerman — 625,000
Seat 2: Ronnie Kevin — 670,000
Seat 3: Dean Hamrick — 1,450,000
Seat 4: Glenn McCaffrey — 1,900,000
Seat 5: Michael Greco — 400,000
Seat 6: Brian Fitzpatrick — 390,000
Seat 7: Andy “BKiCe” Seth — 2,770,000
Seat 8: Alan Jaffray — 1,200,000
Seat 9: Panayote “Pete” Vilandos — 1,490,000

On the FT bubble Brian Fitzpatrick made his moved with A8o and shoved preflop only having Vilandos call and show ATo. The flop came Ten high and he had to settle for ninth place and $73,886.

Kevin headed home in eighth place ($79,017). Andy Seth raised preflop, Pete Vilandos reraised, and Ronnie Kevin moved all in over the only to have Vilandos make an the easy call with KK. Kevin needed to catch an ace with his AQo, but the board bricked.

Lerman was done in seventh place ($88,937) after a 3way flop of Tc3s4c in a raised pot Lerman fired first, moving all in on the flop. McCaffrey went into the tank and he reraised. Jaffray folded and McCaffrey showed KThh for top pair and Lerman tabled 94hh for bottom pair. The turn and river bricked and he was sent on his bike.

Alan Jaffray was sent packing next in sixth place ($105,699) when he shoved preflop with KQo. Pete Vilandos called with AQo, and Jaffray was was in a world of hurt.The board came Queen high and Vilandos took over the chip lead.

Vilandos then claimed a second casualty when he busted Dean Hamrick in fifth place ($132,380). Hamrick raised preflop, then called off the rest of his stack when Vilandos moved in over the top. Hamrick had AQs versus the pocket nines of Vilandos. The flop was safe for the 99 and the turn brought one of the two remaining 9’s in the deck making it all over for Harmick.

Next to drop was Glenn McCaffrey in fourth place ($176,165). Seth opened for a raise preflop, McCaffrey moved all in over the top with AJo and Seth made the call with A7o. McCaffrey held the lead going into the hand, but the board ran 4 diamonds to give Seth a diamond flush with the 7 and sent McCaffrey on his bike.

Well known English actor and poker player Michael Greco logged his second WSOP final table in this event. He  also picked up his biggest tournament cash to date when he busted third place ($248,855). The money all went in again preflop on a coinflip, Andy Seth’s 77 vs Greco’s ATo. However, there was no help for Greco on the board and Andy Seth took a slight chip lead over Pete Vilandos into heads-up play.

They went back and forth for a little while, but were fairly even in chips until thihs hand cropped up. Andy Seth raised preflop from the button, Vilandos reraised and Seth four-bet. Vilandos shoved and Seth pretty much snap called, but found himself absolutely crushed when he tabled AQo to Vilandos’ AQo. The board bricked and Vilandos took a massive chip lead.

A few hands later, Pete Vilandos limped in from the button and Seth raised. Vilandos moved in over the top with A5o and Seth quickly called. Seth showed AJo but Vilandos came from behind and turned the wheel on a Td4d3s2cKc board.

Vilandos had won the bracelet and the $607,256 top prize!

Pete Vilandos moved over the $1 million mark in total 2009 winnings, adding a first-place finish to the second place he picked up in the “Stimulus Special”.

With the World Series now in full swing it’s unlikely we’ll see much play until it’s all over, but late last week they logged in 874 hands to push it just over 15k. Patrik is now 447k in front with 35k hands left.

Here are some big pots from the session:

Durrrr bet to 10,800 on the button and Patrik elected to call. The flop came Td2c3s and Patrik check called a $15,600 bet from durrr. The turn showed a 7s and Antonius lead out for $52,800. Durrr shoved over and Patrik called the extra 2k.  Durrrr showed 7dQdKhJh for a pair of 7s, no draw – a slightly strange play from Dwan. Patrik showed QhTs7c9h for two pair, which improved to a fullhouse with a Th falling on the river.

The biggest pot of the session was to follow next.  Durrrr opened for 1200 and Patrik 3bet to 3600. Durrr decided to call and the flop came 8dTc8s. Durrr raised Patrik’s cbet of $5200 to $15,900 and Patrik called. The turn came As and Patrik check called durrr’s $27,600 bet. The river fell Qc and again Partick check called durrr’s last 53,057. durrrr showed 9dTdTsAh for a flopped fullhosue and Parkir mucked.

It’s unlikely we’ll see much more in the next few weeks with the World Series, but I’ll keep you all posted.