Weekly High Stakes Report - HoldemJill9 and Rui Cao Win Big, Galfond and Haxton Back in Action

Last week was marked by several big winners, all adding in excess of $600k to their respective bankrolls. Likewise, there were several big losers, led by Phil Ivey who left $600k+ at the tables. The German pro ‘Trueteller’ did not have the best of times either, having lost close to $450,000.

There was no break in action from the weekend, as the games continued on Monday. The highlight of the day was the match between Swedish phenom ‘Isildur1’ and ‘Rui Cao.' According to HighStakesDB, Rui ‘Rui Cao’ Cao is a French PLO specialist originally from China who found poker in 2006. Although he has had limited success on the tournament circuit, Cao is best known as one of the high stakes regulars.

His Monday encounter with Blom proved to be a fruitful one for him, as he earned just shy of $240k to put him at the top of the daily winners’ list. The two played 600 hands of $100/$200 PLO and things pretty much went Cao’s way all along.

Another six-figure winner on Monday was ‘zanyzeng,' who dominated the PLO tables at PokerStars. His total take for the day amounted to $128.6k. Ilari ‘Ilari_FIN’ Sahamies came ever so close to six-figure land, but ended the day with $99.7k added to his bankroll after taking on Dan Cates and Ben Tollerene at PokerStars.

Tuesday saw just one six-figure winner, as ‘HoldemJill9’ made a $104k profit. Those winnings came from a HU 8-game match played against Phil ‘Polarazing’ Ivey that lasted about two hours. However, ‘Polarizing’ still finished the day up $40k after coming out on top in a very long 2-7 TD game against ‘taktloss47’ and ‘SanIker,'

Second on the winners' list was ‘bbvisbadforme’ with a profit of $82k, also coming from the $2k/$4k 2-7 TD tables. Ben ‘Ben86’ Tollerene added close to $62k to his roll as well.

Wednesday produced several six-figure winners led by JayP-AA, whose profit amounted to $165k. It was his performance at the PokerStars PLO tables against the likes of ‘Jeans89’ and ‘Odd_Oddsen’ that landed him in profitville.

Rui Cao was also back to his winning ways, adding another $140k for his efforts. This time he took on ‘thecortster’ on Kibler-Melby’s favorite playground – the 2-7 TD tables – and delivered a quick and painful punishment within an hour of play. On top of that, Cao won another $58k over at the PokerStars PLO tables, playing as ‘PepperoniF,' which brought his daily total into the vicinity of $200k.

Ike Haxton had a good Wednesday as well, as he took home $115k and change after taking on Doug ‘WCGRider’ Polk for some HU PLO action on PokerStars.

The biggest daily win came on Thursday, as ‘bbvisbadforme’ was able to book a profit of $352k. He was able to hold his own in the biggest game available, $2k/$4k 2-7 TD featuring the likes of Phil ‘Polarizing’ Ivey, ‘Trueteller,’ ‘SanIker’ and some other usual suspects.

Another two winners from the game were Cort ‘thecortster’ Kibler-Melby, who finished the day up $116k, and Phil Ivey, who booked a winning session to the tune of $108.5k. ‘Odd_Oddsen’ was the second biggest winner of the day, but he decided to steer clear of the 2-7 tables and instead took his battle to the PokerStars PLO action where he was able to make a profit of $116k.

After a little break on Friday, the tables were once again bursting with action on Saturday, with multiple six-figure winners led by ‘thecortster,’ whose cashier balance increased by $259k. The Triple Draw tables were once again the place to be, but apart from ‘thcorster,' there were no huge winners there.

‘HoldemJill9’ was the second biggest winner of the day, with the entire $174k profit coming from an 8-game heads-up clash with Phil ‘Polarizing’ Ivey.

Isaac Haxton’s game of choice was Pot Limit Omaha and after some decent action over at PokerStars, Ike banked close to $157k. The majority of that profit came from heads-up play against Ilari Sahamies. Another PLO winner on Saturday was Phil ‘MrSweets28’ Galfond, who added $133k to his roll after dominating some ring games on Stars.

Finally, Sunday action was highlighted by ‘Carlooo13,' who topped the winners’ list with a $347k profit. His winnings came from his encounter with Phil ‘Polarizing’ Ivey, who he met at the 8-game tables at Full Tilt. Despite that loss and a bad session against ‘HoldemJill9,' Ivey still managed to finish the day in the black thanks to some earlier wins.

Second on the list was ‘thecortster,' who banked $113k from his 2-7 TD adventures. Phil ‘MrSweets28’ Galfond also had a six-figure day as he finished $104k to the good after a long and grueling 8-hour match against Doug ‘WCGRider’ Polk.

Bling Blang Blaow

The title of the biggest winner for the past week goes to ‘HoldemJill9,' who finished the seven-day period just $1k shy of a $400,000 profit. A close second spot belongs to Rui Cao, whose winnings of $325k on Full Tilt combined with a $63k profit on PokerStars (PepperoniF) amount to $388k.

JayP-AA booked earnings of $286k.

Isaac ‘Ike Haxton’ Haxton had a good seven-day stretch as well, profiting to the tune of $287k, mostly from the PokerStars PLO games. Another PLO specialist, Phil ‘MrSweets28’ Galfond, also finished the week in the black with a profit of $147k.

Both ‘carloo13’ and Cort ‘thecortster’ Kilber-Melby had profitable weeks as well, finishing with $140k and $95k to their names, respectively.

German pro ‘Trueteller’ found himself once again on the other side of the line, as he finished the week with a $251k loss. Things did not go much better for Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom, as the Swede dropped $247,000.

Phil Ivey’s downward spiral continued as well, although he lost only around $150k across the sites since the last report.

Doug ‘WCGRider’ Polk dropped $95,000 as a result of his PLO clashes with Phil Galfond.