Huge online high stakes session brings big swings

<img src="http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/eaee2.dwanmartonas.jpg" align="right" style="margin:5px; border:0px solid black;">Some epic high-stakes action took place yesterday, as the biggest session of the year was played. The two key players of the day were Tom "durrrr" Dwan and relative newcomer Martonas. Martonas seemed to appear out of nowhere, but was never shy of any action. Durrrr and Martonas played a session of over 5000 hands in both No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha, with the majority of hands being played in No-Limit Hold'em. Finally some more NLHE action, as most of the high-stakes action lately had been in Omaha. In the end it was Dwan who ended the day as the happiest as he at one point had over 3 million dollar on the tables, while Martonas was down $2.7 million!

A lot of big hands played out, but the record for biggest online hand remains the same. The second biggest pot of 2009 did get played, and it wasn't surprising that Martonas and Durrrr were in it. Durrrr raises preflop with and Martonas 3-bets with . Durrrr 4-bets to $34,000 and Martonas calls. The flop makes both players check, and when a comes on hte turn, Martonas bets $78,000 to get called by Durrrr. The on the river gives Dwan the straight and he calls the shove from Martonas to win a sweet $603,752 pot! Fortunately for Martonas, he managed to recover a bit of his losses after most of the action became Pot-Limit Omaha. Here, it was durrrr who lost some money, while Martonas won back about almost 1.5 million dollar. At the end of a session of almost 24 hours, Dwan is up $1,3 million. Martonas is down about $900k.

So who is this Martonas? Nobody seems to have a clear answer. Most rumours say it's Martin de Kniff staking Jonas Danielsson, aka Nebuchad at LadBrokes Poker. This theory is partly based on the nickname: Mart(in)(J)onas = Martonas, and since Nebuchad is known for big swings and crazy bankroll management, it is plausible. However, others say this is not possible, since Nebuchad was said to be away during the session, and since his chat behavior and English are normally different. Whoever it is, it's certainly not a scared player and hopefully we'll see much more from him.

More hands and railing can be found in our railthread.

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nice article

good news post

how about highstakes report?

On August 20 2009 13:35 milkman wrote: i like news articles like this, keep um coming.

Dunno if its true or not for what it's worth some 2+2er said it could be Deldar ... Anyway i dont see the point in playing durrr heads-up except for proving he's not afraid to give action to anyone

how can he come from nowhere and have 3 millions on FTP account ? dont think it is possible to deposit million dollars

yeah folks, trillion is the new billion

On August 20 2009 15:29 maxousek wrote: how can he come from nowhere and have 3 millions on FTP account ? dont think it is possible to deposit million dollars

been wondering that too, he played some like 10/20s, then he was 4 tabling 500/1000 with like a million on the tables, with much more ready, cuz he reloaded many times later

so where these 2-3mil were coming from o.o

On August 20 2009 14:47 SheytaN wrote: Dunno if its true or not for what it's worth some 2+2er said it could be Deldar ... Anyway i dont see the point in playing durrr heads-up except for proving he's not afraid to give action to anyone

It wasnt heads-up play, but the regular 6-max tables (RailHeaven, trex313-table, and a few more). However, both Dwan and Mortanas were playing at all these tables, while others (CTS, Ziigmund, David Benyamine, Pokerbluffs, and some others) were just playing a few of them, or shortstacked. Whoever Mortanas was, he's got heart to keep playing the way he did and he played a pretty aggressive game, a lot of fun to watch him and Dwan playing eachother =)

wow that's crazy

I like interesting news like this being put on liquidpoker since I don't visit any other poker sites or really follow poker news.

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On August 20 2009 13:35 milkman wrote: i like news articles like this, keep um coming.

interesting read

On August 20 2009 13:35 milkman wrote: i like news articles like this, keep um coming.

On August 20 2009 13:35 milkman wrote: i like news articles like this, keep um coming.

On August 20 2009 16:23 Pindarots wrote: Show nested quote + On August 20 2009 14:47 SheytaN wrote: Dunno if its true or not for what it's worth some 2+2er said it could be Deldar ... Anyway i dont see the point in playing durrr heads-up except for proving he's not afraid to give action to anyone It wasnt heads-up play, but the regular 6-max tables (RailHeaven, trex313-table, and a few more). However, both Dwan and Mortanas were playing at all these tables, while others (CTS, Ziigmund, David Benyamine, Pokerbluffs, and some others) were just playing a few of them, or shortstacked. Whoever Mortanas was, he's got heart to keep playing the way he did and he played a pretty aggressive game, a lot of fun to watch him and Dwan playing eachother =)

Dunno what's worse lol, playing durrr heads-up or OMGCLAY, Ivey, CTS AND durrr at the same time