Weekly High Stakes Report - Big Week for Ivey and 'Ben36', 'Isildur1' Swinging Again

Not unlike last week, the most recent seven day stretch was marked by 'Isildur1's' big swings and his presence at the tables driving the action. Phil Ivey was rather active, playing practically every day if there were games available and Ben Tollerene was again the one who profited the most from Blom's bad fortune.

Continuing where we left off with our last report, Sunday was all about Phil 'RaiseOnce' Ivey. Not the one to run away from a tough game, Ivey sat down one of the best 8-Game players around, Alexander 'joiso' Kostritsyn and, according to HighStakesDB, the two proceeded to play a single 8-Game table for seven hours straight.

Although it was a fairly even match throughout, Ivey finally broke away during the final hours, securing the profit of $56,000. Whereas most people would just call it a day at that point, 'RaiseOnce' returned to the tables after a very brief break and joined a 2-7 table, where he played for nearly seven hours more. Things went well for Ivey once again, as he ended almost $66k in black, for the daily total of $118,000.

'RaiseOnce' was the only one in the six-figure territory, while 'ringosnuff', 'Raveswood13' and Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom all booked the profit as well. 'ringosnuff' came close to breaking the $100k mark, as he took $92,600 off the tables.

Blom continued his winning streak, topping the winners' leaderboard on Monday. 'Isildur1' who's been swinging left and right last couple of weeks has been on the right path lately once again as he added further $108k to his winnings.

All of Viktor's winnings came from the HU PLO session against Isaac Haxton in a realtively short confrontation. However, 'Isildur1' proceeded to lose some of those winnings to Sebastian 'taktloss47' Ruthenberg, which helped the German end the day with $81,000 profit.

With Viktor Blom, a big swing is always only a few hands away and that was confirmed once again on Tuesday when the Swedish phenom left more than $700,000 at the tables. The biggest beneficiary of Blom's downswing at PokerStars was, once again, Ben 'Ben86' Tollerene, whose bankroll was $354k better off after a big PLO session against 'Isildur1'.

As for Full Tilt, things weren't much better for the Swede there either as his downswing continued, much to the pleasure of Phil 'Polarizing' Ivey, who ended the day with a profit just shy of $160,000. Alexander 'PostflopAction' Kostritsyn took his share of the pie as well and he was in fact second on the winners' leaderboard, with the profit of $172k.

It seems that Blom's downswings usually lead to action drying up somewhat and it was no different this time around. High stakes tables went pretty much quiet until Saturday, when the action picked up again.

'Polarizing', who was quite active last week, took on 'HoldmJill9' for some heads up 8-Game action and things did not turn out so great for Ivey, as he proceeded to lose $195k in under two hours of play. This blow was somewhat softened by Ivey's winnings against 'thecorster' to the tune of $85k as well as his good performance on PokerStars, where he profited for about $78k.

Finally, Sunday games saw two more big names topping the winners' leaderboard, as Ike Haxton and Doug 'WCGRider' Polk cashed out $106k and $102k respectively. Haxton got involved in some 6-max PLO action and things went his way overall, securing a six-figure profit.

Polk started off with a very short NLHE session, earning $35,000, and then moved on to the mixed-game tables where he proceeded to win the rest of his daily profit playing against Shaun Deeb.

Phil 'Polarizing' Ivey finished in black as well, with $47,500 to the good.

Hard way to make easy living...

If you are fazed by losing six figure amounts on a regular basis, that is. Otherwise, it can be a lot of fun, as many of these high stake regulars would no doubt tell you.

It especially holds true when, like Ben 'Ben86' Tollerene, you finish the week up $406k. The majority of Tollerene's profit came from playing Viktor Blom who hasn't had much luck in these confrontations thus far.

Phil Ivey has put in some decent volume and that volume translated into profit this time around. Across both sites, Ivey concluded the week with $354,000 profit.

Doug Polk and Seb 'taktloss47' Ruthenberg also made it to the weekly winners' list, earning $161k and $135k respectively.

Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom found himself on the other side of things once again. Despite of the good start to the week, things turned bad for Blom real fast and he finished the week in the $429k deep hole.

Cort 'thecortster' Kibler-Melby didn't have a week to write home about either. Across two sites, Kibler-melby ended up losing to the tune of $280,000.

Finally, Dan 'w00ki3z' Cates ended on the losers' list, stuck about $95,000 in total.