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Brian Townsend, formally known as sbrugby, made an epic comeback to the nosebleed stakes yesterday to take Isildur1 for $1.1m during a 90 minute session of $200/$400 PLO. Brian Townsend took the reins from the start and didn’t look back as they logged 1018 hands over 4 tables and yet another devastating blow was taken by Isildur1’s dwindling bankroll.
A few years ago, a name you were guaranteed to see playing the highest stakes on Fulltilt was ’sbrugby’. He ground his multi-million dollar bankroll from just $50, and has since become a Fulltilt pro. He found TV stardom when he appeared on High Stakes Poker Season 3 and Poker After Dark and has had some good tournament winnings amounting to over $350k, but cash games have always been his main game. It has definitely been a slower few years for Brian Townsend’s online action, but hopefully this latest session will wet his appetite for more.
In this latest session, Isildur1 was a bit unlucky when he flopped a 10 high straight to Townsend’s J high straight. A smooth check-raise saw Townsend get his money in the middle as a better than 4/1 favourite to win. The turn and river drew blanks and Townsend raked in a pot worth $304,371.
Another cold-deck flop built a huge pot when Townsend flopped a nut straight-flush draw with a back door flush draw to Isildur1’s two-pair with a lower flush draw. Again, a sly check-raise from Townsend on the flop eventually saw them both all in with Townsend as a slight favourite. The turn gave him the nut straight, but a twist on the river saw Isildur1 spike his full-house to take down a $242,740 pot.
It looks like Isildur1 has found yet another nemesis as he struggles to keep a grip on his bankroll which has taken a $4.7m dive in just a matter of weeks.
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well, Isildur wasn’t happy with Townsend… He quit suddenly without a warning and in the chat Isildur was mad at hit.. Then he said to durrr “I just got hit and run for a million” By who? And Isildur answered with “Townsend”
What a coward, dirty bastard
yea it was pretty weak of him.
not sure how 90 mins and over 1k hands played vs some one is a hit and run.
You should have put country flags on those boxing gloves like in Rocky IV (just replace the USSR one with a Swedish flag). You even could have animated it, showing an explosion and then the Swedish one blowing up into a million pieces.
“If he dies, he dies.”
That was no hit and run, it was an ‘owning’. Well done Brian!
having said that, bit out of order to isuldur if he didnt give him some notice that he was leaving
Why don’t the poker sites have tables with optional settings for a time limit?
lol @ people who think hit and running is cowardly. I bet Isildur is jealous he didn’t just take the $5M and never looked back. It’s business people.
“hopefully this latest session will wet his appetite for more.”
The phrase is “whet” not “wet.” Cheers.
I think I love Brian! And I am not even gay! :)
I think you are in denial of your homosexuality.
1000 hands isn’t a hit and run, no matter how many people complain about this… thats a full session, where he was up and destroying isildur the entire time… isildur should be happy the fight was stopped before he went broke.
This article is terribly written.
Also, because Townsend doesn’t wanna play a 10hr marathon session it’s a hit and run? Hit and running for $1M on a $40k buy-in table would be hard, no? Maybe he’s on to something playing him in short sessions, unlike say durrrr who’s gotten crushed over long marathon sessions?
Isildur is a crybaby. Townsend owned him. No reason for Townsend to give him a five minute warning. Would you??