Weekly High Stakes Report: Isildur1 up $330k, thecortster Drops Half a Million

8 years ago
Viktor Blom
13:00
20 Apr

It's that time of the week again. There is hardly anything else that lights up the imagination of poker fans like the super high stakes games, online and offline. Unfortunately, live games, like those in Macau, are often inaccessible to us mere mortals and our knowledge of what happens behind the closed doors of these mysterious poker rooms is reduced to bits and pieces. Online, however, offers us a much better insight into six figure swings which are perfectly normal occurrence in a life of any nosebleeds player.

After not having such a great time at the tables last week, Phil Ivey started to bounce back, booking a decent winning session during the last day covered by our last report. His good run continued the next day as he topped the Sunday's winners' list with the profit of $186k according to HighStakesDB.

Ivey took on another regular at the highest of stakes, Cort 'thecortster' Kibler-Melby, and after a 2-7 TD match that lasted about an hour, 'thecortster' dropped almost $200k to 'Polarizing'. The only other six figure winner for the day was German pro 'SanIker' who boosted his roll with $107k, courtesy of Prahlad 'Spirit Rock' Friedman.

Monday was the day of 'Isildur1'. Swedish phenom and the nosebleeds legend switched his action between 8-game and 2-7 TD tables, first taking a bite out Ivey's Sunday profits to the tune of $73,000 and then proceeding to dominate in a heads-up match against 'thecortster', which saw him add further $160k to his daily tally. After a small loss to 'punting-peddler' later in the day, and taking Ivey for another $60k, 'Isildur1' finished the day up $256,000.

Ben 'Bttech86' Tollerene ended the day with six-figure profit as well, $116k richer, after a successful heads-up session against Prahlad 'Sprit Rock' Friedman at the $100/200 NLHE tables.

There was a gap after Monday, as no significant action has been reported until Thursday. Even high rollers have to take it easy from time to time (much to the dismay of the rail birds). They were back at it on Thursday, although there were no huge winners for the day.

It was Phil 'Polarizing' Ivey on top of the winners leaderboard, with a day worth $53,000. Adding to that another $52k he won playing as 'Raise Once' at PokerStars, Ivey rounded up his winnings at total slightly in excess of $105,000.

Friday saw some more exciting action, with the main protagonists being Mikael 'punting-peddler' Thuritz and Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom. Clashing at the $1,500/3,000 Full Tilt 8-game tables, the duo played for about three and a half hours before calling it a day. When they eventually stopped, it was Thuritz counting the money, as he finished with the total profit of $127,000.

There were no other big winners for the day, as 'BigBadBoss' claimed the second spot on the leaderboard with a profit just shy of $51k.

Week of 'Isildur1'

After struggling lately, Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom has finally booked a winning week, and he has done so in style, adding a total of $330,000 to his roll. His winnings came from Full Tilt games, where he in fact won about $360k, but he did drop some of it at the PokerStars tables, lowering his overall take for a bit.

Ben 'Bttech86' Tollerene did not put in many hands last week, but did end up adding just shy of $119k to his online bankroll.

German heads-up specialist 'SanIker' had a winning seven day span as well, raking in $71,000 for his efforts.

While Blom was enjoying a very successful week, Cort 'thecortster' Kibler-Melby found himself on the completely opposite side of things, as he left more than half a million at the tables (517k, to be more precise). Nothing went right for 'thecortster' despite of playing different opponents and different games, and he will have some making up to do in the coming days.

Prahlad 'Spirit Rock' Friedman's adventure at the high stakes did not end too well either. Friedman dropped a total of $204k, distributing it between 'SanIker' and 'Bttech86'.

'punting peddler' finished in the red as well, but his loss was not in the six figure territory. Thuritz booked a loss of about $64,000 when all the numbers were added and subtracted.

As for Mr. Ivey, despite of having a very good week at the Full Tilt tables, things on PokerStars did not quite go as planned, which resulted in another negative week for 'Polarizing', albeit to the tune of only $32,000.


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