Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game wrapped up filming in London this week, in the process breaking the record for the largest pot in televised poker history.
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The game featured some of the biggest names in poker including Phil Ivey, Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson, Gus Hansen, Mike Matusow, Allen Cunningham, Patrik Antonius and Tom 'durrrr' Dwan.
- The biggest online poker win in history came courtesy of the PokerStars-sponsored 2010 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event. This $5,200-buy-in tournament attracted a field of 2,443 players and offered a total prize pool of almost $12.22 million.
- Today was a particularly ridiculous day, as the record for the largest ever online poker hand was broken THREE times in just a couple of hours. First ' durrrr ' set the record with a $618k pot over 'LarsLuzak'. 'durrrr' held A-9 for two pair and picked off a very large bluff attempt from 'LarsLuzak'.
Early highlights included Antonius flopping a set of kings to crack Dwan's pocket aces and drag a $500k pot.
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However, the real action began after 20 hours on the felt when all the other players had walked away from the game leaving just Ivey, Antonius and Dwan to play three-handed.
With blinds at $1,000/$2,000 with a $200 ante and more than $2.2 million on the table between the three, Dwan raised.
Ivey re-raised from the small blind and after Antonius folded the big blind, Dwan made the call.
Ivey fired $40k into the Q♣ 5♣ 3♦ flop and Dwan flatted. However, when the 4♥ fell on the turn and Ivey bet again, Dwan raised it up to a whopping $240K.
Ivey tanked, but emerged shoving. Dwan insta-called with 6♥ 7♥ for the nut straight and Ivey's A♣ 2♥ for the smaller straight was drawing dead, leaving Dwan to collect the massive $1.1 million pot.
Dwan also won the previous largest pot in televised poker history during Season 5 of High Stakes Poker when he flopped top pair and a flush draw against Barry Greenstein's pocket aces and turned trips to collect an amazing $919,600.
Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game will air on Sky Sports in the UK in January 2010 featuring commentary from Full Tilt Poker pro Robert Williamson III.
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The highest big bet game stakes are $200/$400 on PokerStars and $500/$1000 on Full Tilt Poker (fixed limit has higher stakes, but pots can't grow beyond a certain number of bets).
It was at the latter that the biggest poker pot ever was played, on November 21, 2009, deep into the European winter.
Unknown Swede Viktor Blom, at the height of his epic burst onto the high stakes scene as 'Isildur1', logged onto Full Tilt and challenged Finnish pro Patrik Antonius to a multitable session of $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha.
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Hand History
PTR caught the hand action, Full Tilt hand 16204298185 at cash table 'Royal Guard'.
Rail chat exploded, and the High Stakes Thread for that month on the TwoPlusTwo forums saw 3.9m views.
The Action
Blom began the hand with $677,000 in chips, Antonius $1,258,000. Action was raised to $9,000 preflop, a '3x9x game' where the two players had agreed to pot and re-pot preflop regardless of their hole cards.
- Blom, effectively now looking at his hole cards, 4b to $27,000
- Antonius 5b to $81,000
- Blom requested time, then called for a $162k pot
- Antonius bet a little over half pot, $91k on 4♠5♣2♥
- Blom made a pot sized 3b to $435k, effectively all-in, Antonius raised the remainder of Blom's stack
- Blom called, turning over 6♦9♠7♦8♥ versus Antonius' A♥3♠K♠K♥
- The board ran out 5♥9♣ and Antonius won the biggest poker pot ever, $1.35m, with a straight
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Hand with Commentary
Youtube user and railbird Pawel Nazarewicz expertly broke down the action with context from previous pots.
Equities
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At first glance, Blom's play appears reckless committing all his chips with no pair, no backdoor flush draw.
However PLO is a funny game, and in fact he still had 45.4% equity in the pot with so many outs and two cards to come.
He also had a chance to fold out worse hands in Antonius' range with his large flop raise, and take down the pot there with 9 high and a wrap straight draw.
As it happened Antonius wasn't folding, flopping the second nuts with two backdoor flush draws against an aggressive opponent.
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Antonius beat his own record for the largest online pot, set a few days earlier when he won a $878k hand, also against Blom.
Viktor Blom later took down $1,254,400 in a single event at the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and landed a Full Tilt Poker sponsorship thanks to his online escapades.