Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

Another record breaking cash pot at GGPoker

You wait 12 years for the biggest No Limit cash game pot record to break, and then two come around in the same week.

It appears that we are back to the days of railing huge cash games online as the another nosebleed record pot went down this week. 

High Roller Ali Imsirovic took down this monster against Tan Xuan at a $500/$1,000 table with a $2,000 straddle. 

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The almost seven-figure pot

That is a $974,631 pot, breaking the record set just last week of $842,438 at the same tables. This is the record for No Limit Hold'em pots, the biggest cash game pot in poker history remains a 2009 PLO pot worth $1,356,947 between Viktor Blom and Patrik Antonius. 

This is still a remarkable milestone and Imsirovic made a subtle gag about it on Twitter. 

Watch this space. A few months ago the prospect of the 'Rail Heaven' days being replicated seemed highly unlikely but these are not normal times and while the online WSOP is taking place there is a lot of liquidity on GGPoker. You would not want to bet against a seven-figure pot taking place on the site in the next week or two. 

Will we see a seven-figure pot this year? Let us know in the comments:

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Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.