Fri, 09/09/2011 – 06:58 – PokerPages Staff

Phil ‘MrSweets28′ Galfond ended a barren run of form by booking a substantial $368,000 profit in high stakes cash games on the world’s largest poker site, PokerStars, on Wednesday.

Galfond had been in a rut for several days prior to his huge win which saw him thrash the red hot Andreas ‘skjervoy’ Torbergsen at the Heads-Up Pot Limit Omaha tables in mid-week.

The 26 year-old also enjoyed lucrative $200 / $400 PLO sessions against Ilari ‘Ilari FIN’ Sahamies, ‘socutiesf’ and Rafi ‘rafaelamit’ Amit and eventually logged off after 2,236 hands with a notable six figure upswing.

Galfond is now well on the road to recovery after a bleeding a significant chunk of his bankroll during the last ten days. The Vancouver, Canada resident is up $483,000 for the calendar year.

Ilari ‘Ilari FIN’ Sahamies also bounced back after several disappointing sessions. The nosebleed regular crushed the $200 / $400 Six-Max games for an impressive $183,000.

While the Finn continues to live up to his ‘King of ‘Swing’ tag he has now taken down $534,000 on the virtual felt during 2011. ‘socutiesf’ (+$110,000) and ‘VietRussian’ (+$149,000) rounded out the top four winners online.

Torbergsen’s woes against Galfond contributed to one of his worst evenings in months as he donated $470,000 in total. However, ‘skjervoy’ remains the biggest winner on PokerStars this year with profits of $1.49 million.

Rafi ‘rafaelamit’ Amit failed to buck a losing trend on Wednesday as he bled another $219,000. Team PokerStars Pro Viktor ‘Isildur1′ Blom, who only played 105 hands, also dropped $80,000.

Fri, 04/22/2011 – 01:03 – PokerPages Staff

Week One of the Poker After Dark $100,000 Pot Limit Omaha Cash Game concluded on NBC on Friday evening.

High stakes regulars Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey and Phil Galfond all featured in the first ever PLO session in Poker After Dark history.

Brian Hastings and Brandon Adams locked horns during the second episode following an action K-K-8-6 flop.

Hastings trip fours dominated Adams’ two pair but the Harvard professor check-called three five figure bets from Hastings before mucking his hand.

Tom Dwan then produced an impressive fold after rivering a six-high straight.

Dwan, wary of Ivey’s check raise post flop and $10,000 and $30,000 bullets on the turn and river, made the right call as his opponent had improved to a full house.

Dawn revealed, “I was pretty confident in my fold, I guess I’ll need to watch it on TV to see if I was right or not, but hopefully I was.”

A Patrik Antonius straddle then prompted the whole table to limp in pre flop. However, only Ivey and Galfond continued their interest in the hand when Antonius led out for $5,000 post flop.

Antonius had hit a straight but both Ivey and Galfond had cards to improve with flush and straight draws.

Those cards had arrived by the river as Ivey completed a King-high flush. Galfond, with a Queen-high flush, led out for $56,000 and was called down by both his opponents as Ivey shipped the $198,600 pot.