Markus Golser ($189,166) played $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha Hi against halfdozen999 ($67,194.50) at Full Tilt Poker.com. They played at the Barn which had 6 seats but they ended up just playing heads up with no other players joining the table.

The game had a lot of pre-flop folds but a couple hands were around $10-15k. One of the hands was a hand between the two with halfdozen999 holding [Qh Ks Kh Jd] and Markus Golser with [9s 7d Kd 3h] and the board showing [2d Js 5s Jh 5c]. halfdozen999 won the hand with three of a kind jacks and took the pot worth $16,799.50.

Another interesting hand during the play had a board showing [2s 7h 8h 5c] [Qs]. After the river card halfdozen999 bet $19,200 and right away Markus Golser threw out a raise to $38,400. Halfdozen999 called adding an additional $19,200 to the pot. They both showed their hands with Golser showing first [6s 9d Td 9c] and then halfdozen999 with [9s 6d 5s 8c]. Both of them had the nine high straight and split the nearly $100k pot.

The final hand between the two was the most exciting and had a pot worthy of a high stakes game. The hand started normally without a pre-flop bet and just a call from halfdozen999 in the small blind for $200 to enter the pot.  The flop was [9d 6h 2d] and both checked going to the turn which was a [3s]. Markus Golser bet $800 and was then raised to $3,200 (now we are getting somewhere) then Golser re-raises to $10,400. Halfdozen999 then thinks for a bit and what do you know…he re-re-raises to $32,000 which Markus Golser takes sometime but eventually makes the call. The final river card was an  [8s] and Markus Golser throws out a raise of $64,800 and halfdozen999 quickly calls with his last $41,190 and is all-in. Markus Golser then shows his hand [7c 4s Js 5c] and halfdozen999 see’s the nine high straight that was caught on the river and mucks the card and leaves the table. I am sure disgusted with the  results of the hand he probably had until the river 8. Markus Golser then rakes in the hand worth $147,180!

At the end Markus Golser ended up with ($256,350) while halfdozen999 lost his buy-in and left the table.

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David Benyamine ($41,880) played $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha Hi against Brian Hastings ($143,259), OMGClayAiken ($4,800), CHUFTY ($12,198) and ICallSoWhat ($7,198). The game was played at “Ano” a 6 max table at Full Tilt Poker.net. At the time there were 5 tables of $200/$400 going on with most of the players at multiple tables. I picked this one because players had the most money and all the full tilt pro’s online were sitting at the table.

This is the first game I have seen David Hastings play at Full Tilt Poker. He wasn’t messing around as he was sitting at 4 tables and playing heads up against Ziigmund in two of them.

After watching for awhile (50+ plus) chip counts were:

• OMGClayAiken ($28,764)
• KObyTAPOUT ($19,591)
• Brian Hastings ($121,318.50)
• ICallSoWhat ($15,281)
• trex313 ($49,986)
• David Benyamine ($10,791), is sitting out

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John DAgostino ($19,977) played against sexyolivia ($39,977.50) in a $500/$1000 Limit Razz game at Full Tilt Poker.com. The table was “value” and it was a heads up match. The game was going very fast in terms of H/hr with more then 200! The average pot size was very low and only $570, basically the small blind was usually folding…

After about 70 hands and only 3 or 4 more then $500 there was a fairly large pot (for this match up). It was a $6,199.50 pot with sexyolivia winning after DAgostino mucked his hand after the turn on a bet from olivia. After more then 100 hands and sheer boredom the end chip count was:

sexyolivia ($40,124)
John DAgostino ($19,823)
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Chris Ferguson ($1,611) was playing heads up $50/$100 Limit Razz against fgt4w ($1,434). This is the first time I have seen Chris Ferguson playing at a poker table on Full Tilt Poker. I don’t know if he has been playing poker lately but it definitely hasn’t been online poker. This wasn’t very high stakes compared to other pro’s but was still interesting to watch.

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