Scott "urnotindangr" Palmer Leads After First 2,500 Hands

Published on April 4th, 2011 12:31 am EST

Scott "urnotindangr" Palmer and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom played the first 2,500 hands of their "Superstar Showdown" match earlier today, with Palmer finishing with a profit of $5,425.

The winner of the match will be the player who is up after a total of 5,000 hands have been completed. The second half of the Palmer/Blom battle will begin next Sunday at 3 pm EST.

"Isildur1" had a sizable lead right near the end of today's battle, but a very large pot with just a few hands to go gave "urnotindangr" a small advantage heading into next Sunday.

Prior to the hand getting underway, "urnotindangr" had roughly $30k in his stack (at this particular table), while "Isildur1" had just over $45k.

Palmer called a standard pre-flop raise from "Isildur1", and the flop came:

5c-2h-2d

"urnotindangr" checked, "Isildur1" bet $500 and "urnotindangr" called.

The turn brought the 7d.

"urnotindangr" checked, "Isildur1" bet $1,400 and "urnotindangr" called.

The river brought the 4d.

"urnotindangr" checked yet again, "Isildur1" bet $2,850, "urnotindangr" raised to $8,600, "Isildur1" pushed all-in and "urnotindangr" made the call for about $18,625 more.

The two players turned over:

"Isildur1" - 8d-10s
"urnotindangr" - 5h-5s

"urnotindangr" took down the $60k pot with his full house, Fives full of Twos.

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As mentioned, Scott Palmer and Viktor Blom will finish up their match next Sunday.

"Isildur1" is currently 5-2 in "Superstar Showdown" matches, with wins against Tony G, Daniel Negreanu, "Dodgyfish72", Daniel Cates and Eugene Katchalov. Blom's two losses have come against Isaac Haxton and Daniel Negreanu (rematch).

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