Seriously High Stakes

Full Tilt Poker’s high stakes tables has seen 24 hours of intense Poker play between several of its high rollers. With pots worth over $1.5m, it was definitely a worthwhile day for the winner.

The action has been red hot at the Full Tilt Poker high stakes tables, with two well known players registering massive wins in what can only be described as a frenzied 24 hours of play.

In a post World Series of Poker Europe flurry of action, Andreas “skjervoy” Torbergsen enjoyed a seven figure single day gain, winning nearly $1.2 million playing several volatile heads-up Pot Limit Omaha matches against "cadillac1944". A 535 hand, $500/$1,000 match on Wednesday night netted Torbergsen $600,000 and he clinched victory on another two pots that crossed the $400,000 mark. The following day started much the same as it ended, with Torbergsen raking in another $414,000. The Norwegian even managed to find the time to pull another couple of hundred thousand from Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies before ending the day a very happy man indeed.

But Torbergsen wasn’t the only one to hit the high notes in a single day’s play, as Tom “Durrrr” Dwan managed to beat Torbergsen’s $1.2 million mark by $3,000.

In 2,362 hands, Dwan won over $1.51 million, $1.22 million of it coming from a $500/$1,000 PLO bloodbath against Sahamies. Four pots topped the $275,000 mark, Dwan winning all of them, including a monster of a pot at $416,000. It seems that Sahamies was having the polar opposite to Dwan and Thorbergsen’s profitable day.
It makes this final winning pot look like small change... Swedish player Isildur1 met up with Dan “jungleman12” Cates this weekend and in a 2,100-hand session of $100/$200 no-limit hold’em, Cates came out on top, collecting a very respectable $93,397 pot.