Since the return of Full Tilt Poker last November, the action at the tables online poker rooms highstakes has increased. It gave rise to very intense swings for several poker players.
For example, Ben Sulsky who was the biggest winner of the year in 2012, has had a very bad year start. Isildur1 meanwhile had won hundreds of thousands of dollars in a very short time (several million should we say). Tom Dwan meanwhile had silenced skeptics on the quality of his game by winning 2 M$ in 48 hours.
At the beginning of March, we note that the biggest winners of the year are Tom Dwan with 1.75 M$ (2.2 M for the month and 1.75 M for the year) and Alexandre Luneau which had a beginning of year difficult.
Let us recall that Tom Dwan, currently located in Macao, has won 2,293,368$ in 20,794 hands. Much of this money comes from 2-7 Draw no-limit tables.
Alexandre Luneau specialist 2-7 has finished the month of February with a bit more "modest" incomes, either 1,055,815$ (the figures cited in this article were all taken on www.highstakesdb.com).
So, if it summarizes, for the month of February:
Tom "durrrr" Dwan $ 2.293.368
Alexandre"Alexonmoon" Luneau $1.055.815
Alexander Kostritsyn $ 961.994 "PostflopAction"
HAC 'trex313' Dang $773.980
Kyle "KPR16" Ray $749.102
With respect to the losers, Isildur1 sees his name at the top of this list (gossips had predicted, he who has the habit of the swings). However, Viktor started the year in lion winning nothing less than 5 M$ just a few days! Since this fantastic upswing, it has lost about 4 of those 5 million dollars. Viktor has lost 1, $5M in February and is the biggest loser of the month. Phil "Polarizing" Ivey is not far with losses of 1, 1 M$.
In summary:
Viktor "Isildur1" Blom $1.508.279
Phil "Polarizing" Ivey $ 1.166.271
punting-peddler $ 776.287
Scott "mastrblastr" Seiver $745.912
Ben "Sauce1234" Sulsky $598.612
With these losses, Isildur1 is no longer in the top 5 of the biggest winners of 2013, charts where we find Tom Dwan 3rd with 1, 75 M$ winnings and Phil Galfond ranks 2nd with 1, 79 M$ gains!
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