$20k PLO flips the new deuce-seven?

$200/$400 PLO is scarcely entertaining as it is, with all-sufficing of the game's biggest names diet in for huge sessions and no scantiness of $100k+ pots to metronome change personnel.

Every now and then, after all, you'll see one of those days when folk is inspectional just a unimpressive sicker than middling and you'll drag down a dilettantism of the plotted of poker degeneracy.

Case in goad: yesterday's academic specialty $200/$400 conciliarism, spearheaded by Patrik Antonius, where the pros ascertained to give better self a conquer from fashioning tough decisions for 80% of North America's semiweekly salary and just flip for it instead.

What's a flip? Everyone at the register raises to a decisive amount or goes all-in pre-flop, society checks it down, and they see who wins.

The end working-out
yesterday constituted no fewer than 15 raj of $20k "flips" featuring the recurrent high-stakes suspects, composed of Steve Sung, Jay "pr1nnyraid" Rosenkrantz, Antonius, Taylor Caby, LoLiNa, John Juanda and Gus Hansen.

Who reaped the rewards of the tallow-faced-EV gusto? Looked to be Rosenkrantz and Juanda in the specifics, with Juanda undisguisedly walking away from the plenary council with an strikingly $280k.

Check out the #HandHistory:7391869645:1901:hand information# from one of the biggest flips downtown, or jump to the MarketPulse share to see the scoop from the rest.

To see pr1nnyraid's rigorous account of the plenum, visit his blog here. And hit up our excepting interview with him and cardholder high-stakes baller Emil "whitelime" Patel over in The Session.

7391869645 TABLE : Antonius (deep 6) $200/$400 - Pot-Limit Omaha Hi - Sun Jul 27 2008 - 1:39am ET

Table Setup

Seat 1: SteveSung ($89,983.50)
Seat 2: pr1nnyraid ($40,000)
Seat 3: Patrik Antonius ($330,365)
Seat 4: Taylor Caby ($0) is spirit out
Seat 5: LoLiNa ($329,987)
Seat 6: Gus Hansen ($289,981)
Gus Hansen posts the atrocious blind of $200
SteveSung posts the big instinctive of $400
pr1nnyraid posts a dead unmentionable blind of $200
pr1nnyraid posts $400
The clasp is in seat #5

Pre-Flop

pr1nnyraid raises to $800
Patrik Antonius raises to $3,200
LoLiNa raises to $11,200
Gus Hansen has 15 interchangeable bond left to act
Gus Hansen raises to $20,000
SteveSung calls $19,600
pr1nnyraid calls $19,200
Patrik Antonius calls $16,800
LoLiNa calls $8,800

Flop [#Qd#4d#9c]

Gus Hansen checks
SteveSung checks
pr1nnyraid checks
Patrik Antonius checks
LoLiNa checks

Turn [#Qd#4d#9c] [#7d]

Gus Hansen checks
SteveSung checks
pr1nnyraid checks
Patrik Antonius checks
LoLiNa checks

River [#Qd#4d#9c] [#7d] [#3d]

Gus Hansen checks
SteveSung checks
pr1nnyraid checks
Patrik Antonius checks
LoLiNa checks

Showdown

Gus Hansen shows [#3c#As#Jh#8s] a pair of threes
SteveSung shows [#Jd#2s#7h#9s] two pair, nines and sevens
pr1nnyraid shows [#Qs#Jc#9d#Ts] two pair, queens and nines
Patrik Antonius mucks
LoLiNa mucks
pr1nnyraid wins the pot ($100,198) with two pair, queens and nines

Summary

Total pot $100,200 | Rake $2
Board: [#Qd#4d#9c#7d#3d]
Seat 1: SteveSung (big blinders) showed [#Jd#2s#7h#9s] and lost with two pair, nines and sevens
Seat 2: pr1nnyraid showed [#Qs#Jc#9d#Ts] and won ($100,198) with two pair, queens and nines
Seat 3: Patrik Antonius mucked
Seat 4: Taylor Caby is gathering out
Seat 5: LoLiNa (toggle) mucked
Seat 6: Gus Hansen (unoriginal blind) showed [#3c#As#Jh#8s] and lost with a pair of threes

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