Weekly High Stakes Report - Kostritsyn up $500k, Galfond Struggles

Once again we had quite a fun week at the high stakes tables on both Full Tilt and PokerStars. Some walked away winners, others played the role of donors, but what's important is that railbirds had plenty to enjoy.

Alexander ‘josio’ Kostritsyn was a big winner in Monday’s games. A long day at the PokerStars 2-7 TD tables saw him eventually walk away with a profit of $205k, according to HighStakesDB. The action was fueled by the presence of the one and only Gus ‘broksi’ Hansen who, despite the sharks circling, managed to walk away with a small profit of around $19,000.

Apart from Kostritsyn, there were no other big winners on Monday, with ‘donthnrmepls’ taking second place on the profit leaderboard after finishing the day $54k to the good.

Tuesday was marked by a big confrontation between ‘thecortster’ and Elior ‘Crazy Elior’ Sion. The duo clashed at the PokerStars 2-7 TD tables and after about four hours of play, ‘Crazy Elior’ was up $157k.

As for Kostritsyn, the Russian changed his battle ground but continued his winning ways, banking $105,000. ‘PostflopAction’ took on Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond at the Full Tilt 2-7 Triple Draw tables and things did not really work out for Galfond despite persevering for nine hours straight. Other Tuesday winners were ‘Carlooo13’ and ‘Trueteller,’ who banked $67.5k and $56.6k, respectively.

Losing to Kostritsyn did not deter Galfond and he was back for more action on Wednesday. This time around, his opponent was the German pro ‘SanIker.’ As it turned out, a new opponent didn’t do much good for ‘OMGClayAiken’ as he dropped another $164k.

‘Crazy Elior’ continued to run hot as he made a profit of $141k from the 8-Game tables at Full Tilt where he took on Dan ‘jungleman12’ Cates. Jungleman did make up some of his losses, however, as he jumped over to PokerStars and made just shy of $63k playing as ‘w00ki3z’ against Ben ‘Sauce123’ Sulsky.

‘Crazy Elior’s winning streak continued on Thursday as he banked another $181k. All of his profit came from ‘HoldemJill9’ as the two played more than 1,000 hands at the 8-Game tables. There were no other six-figure winners, as second place on the leaderboard, ‘kkopghy,' took $87k off the tables.

Friday saw only one big winner on both Full Tilt and PokerStars and that was Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom. The Swede made $117k from his encounters with ‘Carlooo13’ on Full Tilt, while on PokerStars he took on ‘Ravenswood13’ and made most of his $112k winnings against that opponent. In total, ‘Isildur1’ finished the day up almost $230k.

The final day of play for this reporting period took place on Saturday and ‘bbvisbadforme’ emerged a big winner after a short session against ‘thecortster,' The two took it to the 2-7 TD tables and after about 40 minutes of play, ‘thecortster’ was $159k lighter.

Viktor Blom also had a winning day, adding $56k to his bankroll.

Summa summarum

Alexander Kostritsyn had a big week as he added $519k to his roll. He split his winnings between PokerStars and Full Tilt as both sites proved profitable for the Russian.

Elior ‘Crazy Elior’ Sion had a decent week as well, banking just shy of $200k, while Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom ended with $150,000 to the good.

Things did not go too well for Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond, as he lost $272k. The majority of his losses came from Full Tilt, with about $40k dumped at PokerStars.

Dan ‘Jungleman12’ Cates and Gus ‘broksi’ Hansen also booked six-figure losses of about $110k.