Thu, 12/30/2010 – 02:43 – PokerPages Staff

Longtime nosebleed regulars, Patrik Antonius and ‘IHateJuice’, continued their competitive rivalry on Monday evening with a thrilling session of $3,000/$6,000 Heads Up No limit Hold’em action.

‘IHateJuice’ dominated the first exchange as he stormed to an upswing of $241,000, but Antonius responded with a lucrative victory of his own to completely erase those losses and more.

The lively session continued with a number of huge pots being downed by both players before ‘IHateJuice’, who suggested the creation of the $3,000/$6,000 table to Phil Ivey last month, took the Finn to the cleaners for almost $500,000.

However, the talented Finn bounced back once again to reduce those losses with a late surge and ended the evening with marginal losses of $73,000.

Team PokerStars Sponsored Pro ‘Isildur1′ continued his sparkling form on the world’s biggest online poker site with a commanding $25/$50 Pot Limit Omaha victory over ‘PeperoniF.’

The unknown Swede finished with profits of $60,000. ‘Urindanger’ (+$76,000), ‘IHateJuice’ (+$73,000) ‘airic1400′ (+$40,000) and ‘URnotIndanger2′ (+$33,000) were the other big winners on a busy night of action on the virtual felt.

2010 World Series of Poker Europe bracelet winner Gus Hansen, who posted profits of $71,000 over the weekend, dropped $72,000 in various high stakes cash games. ‘O Fortuna PLS’ (-$59,000) and Rui Cao (-$22,000) also struggled to make an impact.

Hansen is currently down $1.6 million for 2010 and it is highly unlikely that he will reduce that deficit before the year is out. However, he will not be the biggest loser, as Brian Townsend (-$2.5 million), Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies (-$2 million) and ‘cadillac1944′ (-$1.8 million) round out the top three for the calendar year.

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