Saturday, June 28, 2008

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Phil Galfond, aka OMGClayAiken.

By Sean Lind

This probably won't come as a surprise to anyone, but players such as David Benyamine and OMGClayAiken are playing high-stakes PLO and NL Hold'em online.

It may seem sick that after playing WSOP tournaments and cash side games all day, these boys go home at 3 a.m. and dump hundreds of thousands of dollars into play online. But that's life as a degenerate.

Here's the biggest hand of the session:

TABLE : Pantheon (six-max) $200/$400 - Pot-Limit Omaha Hi - Sat Jun 28 2008 - 2:52am ET

Table Setup

Seat 1: patatino ($101,953)

Seat 2: riverboatking ($78,264)

Seat 3: David Benyamine ($72,982.50)

Seat 4: tsarrast ($10,467)

Seat 5: OMGClayAiken ($61,914)

Seat 6: sexyolivia ($21,690.50)

tsarrast posts the small blind of $200

OMGClayAiken posts the big blind of $400

The button is in seat #3

Pre-Flop

sexyolivia folds

patatino calls $400

riverboatking calls $400

David Benyamine raises to $2,200

tsarrast folds

OMGClayAiken calls $1,800

patatino calls $1,800

riverboatking has 15 seconds left to act

riverboatking has requested TIME

riverboatking folds

Flop [J 3 T]

OMGClayAiken has 15 seconds left to act

OMGClayAiken bets $5,200

patatino has 15 seconds left to act

patatino calls $5,200

David Benyamine has 15 seconds left to act

David Benyamine raises to $28,000

OMGClayAiken has 15 seconds left to act

OMGClayAiken has requested TIME

OMGClayAiken raises to $59,714, and is all in

patatino folds

David Benyamine calls $31,714

OMGClayAiken shows [4 A T J]

David Benyamine shows [Q K A 6]

Turn [J 3 T] [Q]

River [J 3 T Q] [4]

OMGClayAiken shows two pair, jacks and tens

David Benyamine shows a straight, ace-high

David Benyamine wins the pot ($131,825) with a straight, ace-high

At the same time, Galfond was also playing Benyamine and Whitelime on the $200/$400 NL Hold'em tables. OMGClayAiken won himself $100,000 in Hold'em six minutes after losing this pot. The swings these guys take in a few minutes are larger than some people's lifetime earnings.

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