The recently achieved record for the largest pot in a real-money online poker game ever – $609,730 on Saturday, September 13, did not last for long. Just a month-and-a-half later that record was smashed, not once, but four times over. And three of those in the same night!
Last time it was the FullTilt Poker high-stakes RailHeaven $500/$1000 NL Texas Holdem table that doled out the record-breaking winnings. And it just so happens that the newly set records came from the exact same source.
Here’s how it went. Sunday, October 26. First “durrrr” won $618,000. Then, a few hours after that, poker star John Juanda won $678,000, coincidentally in a head-to-head with none other than “durrrr” himself.
In the very next hand, fellow Team FullTilt poker celebrity, Phil Ivey $687,000 in a pot against – you guessed it! – John Juanda.
The final, and current standing, record setting pot came just 3 hours later when “durrrr” took another shot at reclaiming the esteemed record-holding spot, this time against Di Dang (aka “Urindanger”), but lost, making “Urindanger” the current record-holder with a single-pot win of nearly $724,000.
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