Patrik Antonius(credit: Patrik Antonius' Web Site)
Patrik Antonius is having a good week online.
Patrik Antonius raked in nearly $900,000 over last week online. Last Sunday, Antonius collected the majority of that profit – some $684,000 – in a game of $500/$1,000 HA (Texas Hold’em/Omaha Hi). The short-handed session was played against Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, Hac ‘trex313’ Dang, Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey and Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies.
A big confrontation occurred between the two Finnish players (Antonius & Sahamies).
Here’s how it went down:
Sahamies opened with his pair of aces for $3,000. Antonius three-bet to $9k. Sahamies came back over the top for $27,000. Antonius called and they both checked a flop of K
,Q
,6. A 3 came on the turn, and Antonius made a pot-sized bet of $54k. Sahamies went in for $92k. Antonius called back and flipped over trip queens (Q
,Q
,J,9).
Sahamies desperately needed an ace on the river to take the pot back from his fellow countryman. Unfortunately, the river was a six of hearts and Antonius raked in $239,000 for the one pot alone.
As a result, the Finnish Adonis is up nearly $4,000,000 online in 2009.