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OMG it’s nice to make $400k

April 12, 2008

Big swings come with the territory in high-stakes poker, and Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond has definitely had his share of brutal days at the tables.

Occasionally dropping a few buy-ins in a session is par for the course, but at the highest stakes, those buy-ins can add up to a pretty daunting number – $400,000, $500,000 some days.

And even if your bankroll can handle it, it’s got to be a fairly overwhelming feeling when you drop that kind of coin in a short period of time.

So after a tumultuous end of the year in 2007 – including a couple of $600k and $400k downswings wrapped around a $1.3 million upswing – it’s got to be pretty satisfying for Galfond to break through with another big haul.

The cards delivered in a big way yesterday, with a couple of sessions of $300/$600 No-Limit Hold’em adding a sweet $400k (according to highstakesdb.com) to his bankroll – the bulk of it at the expense of high-stakes regulars “present” and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies.

The biggest pot he dragged – for $145,182.50 – came against present, when his flopped set of aces held against present’s turned two pair.

This is how the hand played out, as tracked in the PokerListings.com MarketPulse section:

Full Tilt Poker Game #5980486728TABLE : Super (heads-up)$300/$600 – No-Limit Hold’em – Thu Apr 10 2008 – 3:42pm (ET)

Seat 1: OMGClayAiken ($105,293.50)
Seat 2: present ($72,591.50)
present posts the small blind of $300
OMGClayAiken posts the big blind of $600
The button is in seat #2

Pre-Flop

present raises to $1,800
OMGClayAiken raises to $6,200
present calls $4,400

Flop3

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-J

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-A

OMG it's nice to make $400k

OMGClayAiken has 15 seconds left to act
OMGClayAiken bets $7,600
present has 15 seconds left to act
present calls $7,600

Turn3

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-J

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-A

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-9

OMG it's nice to make $400k

OMGClayAiken has 15 seconds left to act
OMGClayAiken checks
present has 15 seconds left to act
present bets $16,200
OMGClayAiken has 15 seconds left to act
OMGClayAiken has requested TIME
OMGClayAiken calls $16,200

River3

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-J

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-A

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-9

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-8

OMG it's nice to make $400k

OMGClayAiken checks
present bets $42,591.50, and is all-in
OMGClayAiken calls $42,591.50

Showdown

present shows J

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-9

OMG it's nice to make $400k

two pair, jacks and nines
OMGClayAiken shows A

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-A

OMG it's nice to make $400k

three of a kind, aces
OMGClayAiken wins the pot ($145,182.50) with three-of-a-kind, aces
present is sitting out

Summary

Total pot $145,183 | Rake $0.50
Board: 3

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-J

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-A

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-9

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-8

OMG it's nice to make $400k

Seat 1: OMGClayAiken (big blind) showed A

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-A

OMG it's nice to make $400k

and won ($145,182.50) with three-of-a-kind, aces
Seat 2: present (small blind) showed J

OMG it's nice to make $400k

-9

OMG it's nice to make $400k

and lost with two pair, jacks and nines

To see more big pots from Galfond’s sessions yesterday, and more of the biggest Hold’em pots won online over the last day, week and month, jump over to the PokerListings.com MarketPulse section.

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