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The pros showed their worth again yesterday as Cole South took Isildur1 for $216k, and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan managed to finish the day $100k in profit.

Isildur1 wisely dropped his stakes to the $100/$200 tables to play 2979 hands of PLO with Fulltilt’s red pro, Cole South, and tried in vain to regain some of his gigantic losses from the previous weeks.

Isildur1 lost the biggest pot of yesterday’s sessions when the flop brought him a pair of 9’s with numerous straight outs against Cole’s pocket aces with the nut flush draw. Cole’s aces held up, hitting trips on the river to win the $126k pot.

Cole won a nice pot when he flopped a set of aces and decided to practically min reraise Isildur1’s continuation bet on the flop. Isildur1 had air, but it looks like he called to make a play on the turn if he caught some outs. Unfortunately for him, the turn gave Isildur1 a pair of kings, and Cole’s crafty check induced a pot size bet from Isildur1 on the river which Cole called to win a $61k pot.

Isildur1 survived a close shave when he called Cole’s check-raise all in with the nut straight on the turn against Cole’s set of 7’s with a flush draw. Even though Isildur1 turned a huge hand, he was still only a 60% favourite to win it. Luckily for Isildur1, the river brought a blank to take down a $59k pot.

Cole lost a big pot to a cold flop that gave him a set of jacks with top kicker against Isildur1’s full house. Cole smooth called the flop but check-raised all in on the turn, drawing to 6 outs of which the river didn’t deliver, sending the $57k pot to Isildur1.

Cole caught a bit of luck when an action flop saw him all in with a pair of 4’s and a straight-flush draw to Isildur1’s pair of 6’s with a straight draw and dominating flush draw. Cole was a 2 to 1 dog when the money went in, however he caught his straight on the turn which held up to bag him a $51k pot.

Isildur1 seemed to change his approach yesterday by dropping his stakes and playing an opponent with a better history against him, but unfortunately at this stage it hasn’t changed his luck. Anyone that has beaten the nosebleed stakes for $5m over 100k hands has to have some serious talent in the game, and by being a bit more conservative with his choice of stakes and opponents, it’s not inconceivable that we could once again see Isildur1 crushing the high stakes tables again soon.

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