Higher and Higher
‘The price of poker is going up!’ as Mike Sexton would say.
Just when you thought that action at the nosebleed tables was already ridiculously high, the stakes have been elevated. Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies engaged in several $3,000-$9,000 heads-up pot-limit Omaha matches. The two normally played with $500-$1,000 blinds, but they agreed to make it at least $9,000 to see the flop. Ziigmund alluded that he wasn’t all that comfortable playing so high, but with the lack of available high stakes opponents, he really had no choice.
‘I hope I won’t do it anymore,’ wrote Ziigmund on his blog. ‘That’s sick, sick big game.’
The swings have been immense. Durrrr won and lost a couple of million dollar sessions during the first week of escalated blinds. Eventually the two were involved in a pot so big that it set a record for largest pot-limit Omaha pot of all time. It was also the second largest pot ever played online. In case you w… Continue reading Higher and Higher
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