When the Swedish players’ Odonkor1 “in the last week in the High-Stakes No Limit Holdem tables at Full Tilt appeared, there was naturally some speculation in the forums about the fact that it is acting in the new player to an incarnation of” Isildur1 ” could. Although it is still not 100% confirmed, it is in the name of “Odonkor” to the screen names of Joel Nordkvist, a Swede who was the “best online players” at the PokerStars.com ’s 2009 Scandinavian Poker Awards. Odonkor plays regularly at the highest in the Betfair Stakes NLHE and iPoker and has started this week to play a few hours at Full Tilt. He played heads-up $ 100 / $ 200 NLHE (and higher) and won $ 850,000 since Saturday, which he secured after Patrik Antonius 2nd place in the rankings this week’s winners.

Odonkor1 wins $ 850K in 72 hours
The Saturday night, 17 April, Odonkor played two major heads-up matches at the $ 100 / $ 200 NLHE tables. His first opponent Isaac “luvtheWNBA” Haxton, and the two played 90 minutes in 583 hands, while Odonkor1 won $ 156,500. After a two-hour break, he returned to the table games and played 1124 hands against “UrnotINdanger2″ again in Level $ 100 / $ 200 Odonkor1 won $ 159,000, while also having a straight draw against a top pair, the highest pot ($ 69,000) won this match.
On Sunday afternoon was Odonkor1 again to find at the tables, this time he played against Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro. Kelopuro Odonkor1 and played in two 3 + hour sessions a total of 2987 hands. Odonkor1 won it a total of $ 179,000. Later that evening, he moved to the $ 300 / $ 600 & $ 500 / $ 1,000 gaming tables, playing 316 hands against “cerutten”, where he won another $ 57,000.

These matches were only a “warm up” for the marathon session, which Odonkor1 on the following Monday against “jungleman12″ was playing. The two played in the Level $ 100 / $ 200 7.5 hours against each other (3228 hands) and at the end of the day had Odonkor1 further $ 309,500 on his online account. This 714 Big Blind Pot Pot was the highest of this session – jungleman12 opened with $ 600 from the button, raised to $ 2,400 and Odonkor1 jungleman12 answered with a 4-bet to $ 6,200. Odonkor1 called, the flop of (J-Hearts) (9-Diamonds) (7-Clubs), Odonkor1 checked, Jungleman12 bet $ 4,400 and Odonkor1 called. The turn was the (A-Hearts), Odonkor1 checked again and sat jungleman12 $ 14,700. Odonkor1 then went all-in with $ 69,836 and received a jungleman12 Insta-Call, jungleman12 was (A-Diamonds-Hearts) (K) for top pair, top kicker. Odonkor1 had (Q-Spades) (10-Spades) on the hand and needed now for his Straight 8 or a King on the River. He got what he needed – on the river was the (K-Spades) and the pot in the amount of $ 142,787 emigrated to Odonkor page.

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