Largest Poker Pot In History

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Biggest Online Poker Pot In History
Largest Poker Pot In History

The biggest online cash game pot in history was won by Patrik Antonius against Blom and it happened two days before Blom’s PLO match against Ivey. Blom opened to $3,000 with 9s8h7d6d. Antonius then three-bet to $9,000, holding AhKhKs3s. The action eventually led to Blom calling Antonius’s $81,000 preflop.
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The two were locked in a high-stakes heads-up cash game in 2009 when one of the biggest pots in poker history developed. The two players were stacked deep and playing Pot Limit Omaha with stakes of $500/$1,000. There was heavy betting before the flop and Antonius made a five-bet with A♥K♥K♠3♠.
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On November 13th, 2007, the latest episode of the High Stakes Poker tournament saw the largest cash pot in its existence contested by players. Over $700,000 was on the pit during the heads-up showdown between Jamie Gold and Patrik Antonius. With the minimum buy-in cost in the tournament raised to $500,000, the High Stakes Poker event has been really interesting in the last few episodes.

In that particular hand, Patrik Antonius get As/Jd and raised the stakes to $4,000. Jamie Gold then looked down on pocket kings and re-raised the stakes to $14,000. Only Patrick Antonius called at that round. Then the flop came at 3s/Qd/Th. Antonius checked and Gold wagered $15,000 with the use of his overpair.

Antonius called with the use of his one overcard and a gut-shot/straight/draw. Astonishingly, the turn produced the Kh. Gold now possess the top set, while Antonius possessed the nuts, an ace high straight card hand. Antonius wagered $45,000 and Gold chose to move all-in at $341,500. Antonius called, making it the largest cash pot in the history.

Since it is considered as a cash games, players are permitted to make deals in these kinds of situations. Gold and Antonius decided to play the river 3 times, with $250,000 at stake for each card. Being an underdog, Jamie Gold was hoping to get at least a single good card and when the dealer put down the Qh on the poker table, which gave Gold a full house, he shouted in Joy.

The luck of the 2006 world series of poker Main Event champion's good streak continued when another river card was given. The 3d handed Gold another full house. Jamie Gold was hoping for the case king to come out for the 3rd time but it was the 8s that come out. Antonius finally collected a third of the cash pot. High Stakes Poker AJ Benza commented that Antonius had a really good game against Gold.

12/10/2007, Monday
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The highest big bet game stakes are $200/$400 on PokerStars and $500/$1000 on Full Tilt Poker (fixed limit has higher stakes, but pots can't grow beyond a certain number of bets).

It was at the latter that the biggest poker pot ever was played, on November 21, 2009, deep into the European winter.

Unknown Swede Viktor Blom, at the height of his epic burst onto the high stakes scene as 'Isildur1', logged onto Full Tilt and challenged Finnish pro Patrik Antonius to a multitable session of $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha.

Hand History

PTR caught the hand action, Full Tilt hand 16204298185 at cash table 'Royal Guard'.

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The Action

Blom began the hand with $677,000 in chips, Antonius $1,258,000. Action was raised to $9,000 preflop, a '3x9x game' where the two players had agreed to pot and re-pot preflop regardless of their hole cards.

Blom, effectively now looking at his hole cards, 4b to $27,000
Antonius 5b to $81,000
Blom requested time, then called for a $162k pot
Antonius bet a little over half pot, $91k on 4♠5♣2♥
Blom made a pot sized 3b to $435k, effectively all-in, Antonius raised the remainder of Blom's stack
Blom called, turning over 6♦9♠7♦8♥ versus Antonius' A♥3♠K♠K♥
The board ran out 5♥9♣ and Antonius won the biggest poker pot ever, $1.35m, with a straight

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Hand with Commentary

Biggest Online Poker Pot In History

Youtube user and railbird Pawel Nazarewicz expertly broke down the action with context from previous pots.

Equities

At first glance, Blom's play appears reckless committing all his chips with no pair, no backdoor flush draw.

However PLO is a funny game, and in fact he still had 45.4% equity in the pot with so many outs and two cards to come.

He also had a chance to fold out worse hands in Antonius' range with his large flop raise, and take down the pot there with 9 high and a wrap straight draw.

As it happened Antonius wasn't folding, flopping the second nuts with two backdoor flush draws against an aggressive opponent.

Antonius beat his own record for the largest online pot, set a few days earlier when he won a $878k hand, also against Blom.