Phil Galfond(credit: Wikipedia)
Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond loves to play at the nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker. Usually, he’s pretty good at these high stakes tables. Pot Limit Omaha is one of his favorite games. He’s not afraid to sit down alongside the big stacks of people such as Patrik Antonius, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Phil Ivey and David Benyamine.
More often than not Galfond, who has a World Series of Poker bracelet, comes out on top. Unfortunately, this time, against a player by the name of ‘slaktarn’, he is on the losing end of a monster, six-figure pot.
We’ve got the results here:
7815065598 TABLE : Barn (deep 6) $200/$400 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - Tue Aug 26th 2008 - 9:21pm ET
Table Setup
Seat 1: David Benyamine ($229,467.50)
Seat 2: IAmSoSo ($18,400)
Seat 3: slaktarn ($108,189.50)
Seat 4: guaranteed376 ($88,788)
Seat 5: OMGClayAiken ($107,386)
Seat 6: DaEvils ($18,200)
DaEvils posts the small blind of $200
David Benyamine posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #5
Pre-flop
IAmSoSo folds
slaktarn raises to $1,400
guaranteed376 has 15 seconds left to act
guaranteed376 folds
OMGClayAiken calls $1,400
DaEvils calls $1,200
David Benyamine folds
Flop [J
7
8]
DaEvils checks
slaktarn bets $4,600
OMGClayAiken has 15 seconds left to act
OMGClayAiken raises to $14,200
DaEvils folds
slaktarn calls $9,600
Turn [J 7 8] [2]
slaktarn bets $33,000
OMGClayAiken has 15 seconds left to act
OMGClayAiken has requested TIME
OMGClayAiken raises to $91,786, and is all in
slaktarn calls $58,786
OMGClayAiken shows [8
T 8 9]
slaktarn shows [J 3 K 9
]
River [J 7 8 2] [T]
OMGClayAiken shows a flush, Ten high
slaktarn shows a flush, King high
slaktarn wins the pot ($216,569) with a flush, King high
OMGClayAiken adds $20,000
What happened: Galfond hit a great flop. Unfortunately, Omaha is not a flop game. The turn and river is where you’ll lose your chips (and probably your heart….or your lunch.)
Check out Galfond take on John D’Agostino at FTP in this video: