04 Feb 12
High Stakes Round-Up: Back in Macau, Patpatman Tops January, Screen Name Rumours
This week on the high stakes round-up - the big names are back in Macau, patpatman is the big winner for January, and can you put a name to these online aliases?
The High Stakes Round-up is a weekly summary of all the goings-on in the world of high stakes cash games. Find out what the rail birds are talking about, who the top winners and losers are, plus catch the biggest pots of the week.
Back in Macau
With the Aussie Millions done for another year, it was no surprise to see the biggest names in the game have flown right back to Macau.Gus Hansen blogged this week that he had returned to the new home of the high stakes cash games, and mentioned that he has spotted John Juanda, Andrew Robl, and Sam Trickett there.
Speaking of which, one of the winningest players of the the last couple of years, Sam Trickett, is certainly not having it all his own way out there at the moment:
Great start in Macau! Won my 1st session/Won online/Utd won and City Lost.... ''if carlsberg did perfect days'' :)
— Sam Trickett (@Samtrickett1) February 1, 2012
Running bad in Macau! Early days tho.... playing 10k/20 HKD blinds! sick stuff!
— Sam Trickett (@Samtrickett1) February 2, 2012
Jus lost the biggest pot i have ever played!95% Equity not good enough! Feel physically sick..........
— Sam Trickett (@Samtrickett1) February 3, 2012
In case you missed it...
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| Barry Greenstein |
Ivey wins $2 million: Phil Ivey is back in the winner's circle, booking a $2 million win in the $250,000 Super High Roller at the Aussie Millions.
Negreanu hacked: Kidpoker had his PokerStars account hacked this week and was seen dropping huge sums of money at the $100/$200 NL tables.
FTP Latest: In an exclusive for PokerStrategy.com, Groupe Bernard Tapie revealed this week that several high stakes players owed large sums of money to Full Tilt Poker, and are reluctant to pay. Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, Layne Flack, Barry Greenstein, David Benyamine, and Erick Lindgren were all named.
Barry Greenstein, who is a PokerStars pro, was the surprise inclusion in that list, and was the first to publicly respond.
Screen name rumours
There are a lot of new names at the high stakes tables at PokerStars at the moment, and as always, the rumour mill churns when we don't know the real name behind the screen name. During the high stakes cash games and super high roller events at the Aussie Millions last week, people started to notice a number of names not playing online.This led to further speculation that some of the big names in Australia were the names behind the screen names. This includes 'RaiseOnce' (Rumoured to be Phil Ivey), 'FakeLove888' (Rumoured to be Patrik Antonius), 'patpatman' and 'Long90110' (Both accounts have been rumoured to be Tom Dwan and Gus Hansen at one time).
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| Gus and Tom are rumoured to be playing on PokerStars |
Biggest pot of the week
The biggest pot of the last seven days helped catapult patpatman into the top spot of the money rankings in January.Heads-up no limit $200/$400
patpatman ($104,814) is in the small blind and altiFC ($223,283) is the big blind.
patpatman opens to $1,000, he is reraised to $4,400 by altiFC. patpatman reraises to $10,800, which is pumped up again by altiFC to $23,400, patpatman shoves all in for a total of $104,934 and his quickly called.
patpatman:
altiFC:
Flop:
Turn:
River:
Ship a $210,026 pot to a very lucky patpatman.
patpatman leads January profit rankings
2012 so far belongs to 'patpatman' on PokerStars. A previously unknown player on the high stakes scene, he has really taken control of the biggest online games, to finish January as the money leader, with $858,821 in winnings. This includes almost getting to the $1million mark towards the end of the month.Nobody knows who he is, but he has been involved in everything in January, including several of the biggest pots, at the No Limit and PLO tables.
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| 2012 so far for patpatman (Graph courtesy of HighStakesDB.com) |
JensKyllonen, who plays under the screen name 'Jeans89'. He was one of the biggest winners of the year in 2011 and he has started off 2012 with a $698,662 profit. Fellow PokerStrategist and former coach 
Ragen finishes the month on fourth place.
Top 5 online winners January 2012 |
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| Place | Name | Winnings | ||
| 1st | patpatman (PokerStars) | $858,821 |
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| 2nd | Jens 'Jeans89' Kyllonen (PokerStars) | $698,662 |
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| 3rd | Ben 'Sauce123' Sulsky (PokerStars) | $671,148 |
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| 4th | Ragen70 (PokerStars) | $608,130 |
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| 5th | Sander 'Berndsen12' Berndsen (PokerStars) | $576,251 |
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| Tracked by HighStakesDB.com | ||||
Top 5 online losers January 2012 |
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| Place | Name | Winnings | ||
| 1st | Phil 'MrSweets28' Galfond(PokerStars) | -$663,653 |
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| 2nd | GVOZDIKA55 (PokerStars) | -$499,607 |
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| 3rd | Long90110 (PokerStars) | -$369,936 |
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| 4th | Viet Russian (PokerStars) | -$353,350 | ||
| 5th | Isildur1 (PokerStars) | -$350,537 |
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| Tracked by HighStakesDB.com |
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#1
1984ioc, 04 Feb 12 12:20
Hope ye can get details of that hand that Trickett is on about.He talked recently about a huge pot that he bluffed on the river to win the hand and that was a massive pot so this must have been huge.Hope he discusses soon how the hand played out.Looks like the high stakes is starting to pick up again towards Full Tilt levels.Thanks for updates PS and would be nice to put names behind those screen names on Pokerstars soon as well.
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surfwell1818, 05 Feb 12 00:20
I'm sure I read earlier(like a month and a 1/2 ago 'ish) that Viet russian was suspected to be Tom Dwan??