22 Sep 09
Poker After Dark: Total war at the table
Elezra is getting frustrated by the prop bets slowing down the game, Ziigmund is bluffing even more than before and Ivey and durrrr, the two largest stacks at the table, tangle up in some interesting hands.
As the play progresses into the night in Poker After Dark's cash game, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Eli Elezra and Howard Lederer waste no time in battling for the increasing amount of money at the table.
Phil Ivey (pictured right) is still steadily accumulating chips and in this episode the action was pushed even further as he went up against the biggest stack at the table - durrrr. The two didn't even need to see a flop to make their clash interesting, as they threw bluffs at each other pre-flop.
"I can't play with you, you're too funny"
Patrik Antonius (pictured right) didn't do so much bluffing, but he did catch his friend Ziigmund in a tricky position when the hyper-aggressive Finn tried to scare Antonius away in similar fashion he tried to do in the previous episode against Ivey.Besides picking up some nice pots, Antonius also had fun in a hand against Ivey. On a board of
, Ivey checked to Antonius who fired $16,000 into the $16,900 pot. Ivey stared at Antonius, trying to figure out what could he possibly have and Antonius replied by turning his back to Ivey to eat some food.Seeing Antonius munching food hardly helped Ivey but it did make him laugh and Antonius laughed back, saying "I can't play with you, you're too funny." Ivey folded his hand and couldn't hide his curiosity as to what Antonius held. With Antonius refusing to tell his hand, Ivey would have to watch the episode later to see that his
was no good against Antonius' 
.Here are some of the hands from one of the most intense episodes so far:
durrrr raises to $2,200, Ivey re-raises to $9,000, durrrr re-raises to $29,600,
Ivey re-raises to $84,600, durrrr folds
Hole cards:
Ivey:
wins $115,700durrrr:
(folded)Ivey raises to $3,000, durrrr calls
Flop($6,800):
Both players check
Turn($6,800):
durrrr checks, Ivey bets $4,000, durrrr raises to $16,500, Ivey calls
River($39,800):
durrrr bets $39,300, Ivey calls
Hole cards:
durrrr:
wins $118,400Ivey:
Antonius calls, Ziigmund raises to $4,000, Ivey calls, Antonius calls
Flop($12,900):
Ivey checks, Antonius checks, Ziigmund bets $9,000, Ivey folds,
Antonius raises to $28,000, Ziigmund re-raises to $65,000,
Antonius re-raises to $202,200 all-in, Ziigmund folds
Hole cards:
Antonius:
wins $280,100Ziigmund:
(folded)Ivey:
(folded)