Weekly High Stakes Report - Kostritsyn Continues to Crush, Isildur1 Drops Nearly $400k

Another week of nosebleeds action has passed. Once again, it is time to see who the big winners and big losers were in the biggest online games on the planet. Old rivalries continue and new ones were created, all to the pure pleasure of the railbirds.

We concluded last week’s report with the big clash between ‘Trueteller’ and ‘thecortster.’ The German pro was the player walking away with his head held high, as he took Kibler-Melby for nearly $160k. But ‘thecortster’ did not wait long to return the favor.

The two met again on Sunday and started their nearly 5-hour long match on Full Tilt at the highest available 2-7 TD tables. On several occasions through the contest it seemed as if ‘Trueteller’ would once again triumph, as he had about a $100k lead not once, but twice, according to HighStakesDB. It was not meant to be this time around.

Kibler-Melby was able to turn the tables on the German pro during the second half of the confrontation, creating a nice cushion between him and his opponent before hitting a real good run of cards that saw him eventually leave the tables almost $183k to the good.

Sunday was rich in action, as ‘Carlooo13’ and ‘Isildur1’ clashed at the $2k/$4k FLO8 tables. After about an hour of play, ‘Carlooo13’ was able to accumulate $141k in profits, making it a pretty bad day for the Swede.

PokerStars was not lacking in games either. The tables over there were dominated by Russian pro Alexander ‘joiso’ Kostritsyn, who added $112k to his winnings, nearly half of which came from heads-up sessions against Viktor ‘Isildur1' Blom.

The only six-figure winner in Monday's games was, once again, Cort ‘thecortster’ Kibler-Melby. His opponent was none other than ‘Trueteller,’ as the duo continued to test each other’s mettle. This time around, ‘thecortster’ walked away with a profit of $148k after about two and a half hours of play and 267 hands.

The second biggest winner for the day was ‘Zugwat,' who accumulated the combined profit of about $90k across two sites versus his opponent on both Full Tilt and PokerStars: Viktor Blom.

We’ve said it many times before and we'll say it again, Alex Kostritsyn is crushing. Apart from an occasional downswing, the Russian pro seems to be among the most consistent winners lately. Wednesday saw him take on ‘EireAbu’ on PokerStars and after an hour of play at the 2-7 TD tables, ‘joiso’ was up a cool $170k. The rest of his profit came from several sessions spread across the mixed game tables, bringing his total for the day to $198k.

‘Zugwat’ and Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom continued to battle and Blom continued to lose, as ‘Zugwat’ added another $97k to his bankroll.

Thursday action was marked by the big win of Elior ‘Crazy_Elior’ Sion. After playing about 2k hands and spending around 10 hours at the PokerStars tables, Sion was able to accumulate a profit of $231k. The majority of that sum came from ‘Ravenswood13,' with another $59k coming from a late session against the usual suspects like ‘Sauce1230' and ‘GVODZIKA55.’

Doug ‘WCGRider’ Polk was the second biggest winner of the day, with a profit of $62k. He took on ‘asianflushie’ across three tables on PokerStars and emerged victorious.

The final games for this report took place on Friday. It was again an exciting day at the tables, as ‘Trueteller’ and ‘thecortster’ squared off once again and, this time around, the German pro was able to book a big win over his opponent. His $240k score came from a two-hour session and, after pretty much dominating the entire match, ‘Trueteller’ brought the score closer to even.

Ben ‘Sauce123’ Sulsky was able to break the 6-figure mark on Friday as well, claiming a profit of $101k. The majority of his winnings came from the 2-7 TD matches against Luke ‘lb621’ Schwartz.

Bring on the Russians!

Or don’t… Alex Kostritsyn was, once again, at the top of the winners’ list with another $345.5k profit. With that, his combined earnings for the past fifteen days between the two major sites climbed to around $1 million!

Another big winner was Elior ‘Crazy_Elior’ Sion, who added $304k to his bankroll from several different sessions, the most important being the one against ‘Ravenswood13.’

‘Zugwat’ had a good week as well, as his accumulated profit on PokerStars and Full Tilt rounds up to approximately $215k, mostly courtesy of Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom.

Cort ‘thecortster’ Kibler-Melby was able to negate his weekend loss and actually make some profit against Trueteller, so his week ended with a $165k profit.

Ben ‘Sauce123’ Sulsky did well for himself, padding his roll with another $133k.

As for Viktor Blom, he was last week’s biggest loser, as he left around $378k at the tables. Things did not go right for the Swede in any of his games and his lifetime graph took another significant dive.

‘Trueteller’ was on the wrong end of his matches against ‘thecortster.’ He was able to mitigate the losses in their last session, but still finished the seven-day period stuck for about $157k.

Gus Hansen is still busy playing bridge.