This week there were big pots shipped between Julius KagomeKagome Fletcher and Alexandre alexonmoon Luneau.
The German managed to get the upper hand and added $600k to his bankroll. In addition Alexander Kostritsyn and Cort Kibler-Melby both added to their successful years with huge scores.
It Starts with TheCortster
Even after the demise of Viktor Blom and Gus Hansen, the $2k/$4k 2-7 Triple Draw are the epicenter of high-stakes online poker.
Sunday and Monday, Cort Thecortster Kibler-Melby and French play Alexandre alexonmoon Luneau battled it out, and the German-American player turned out to be the clear winner.
They played four sessions and Kibler-Melby won every single one of them, eventually taking $230k from the Frenchman.
Unfortunately for Luneau, who recently moved to London to live with his friend Sebastien Seb86 Sabic and is now specializing on Mixed and Drawing games, this was only the beginning of a horrific week.
KagomeKagome Fights Back, Kostritsyn Destroys vandi4rek
Luneau’s battle with KagomeKagome Fleischer proved to be especially damaging.
On Thursday, alexonmoon still managed to get away with a loss of only $50k, playing Triple Draw heads-up.
The day after that, it was time for KagomeKagome to hit hard.
Luneau lost more than $350k to Fleischer on this day alone and he seemed to be fed up playing the German afterwards.
After a very successful 2014, Luneau lost a quarter of his winnings within three days.
The most successful player is still Alexander Kostritsyn, who continues to consistently post big wins.
Even after he lost $100k last week as PostflopAction on FullTilt, he is still the number one player.
Because, at the same time, he won $200k on Friday as joiso on PokerStars from unknown player vandi4rek, playing one his favourite games: FL08.
Biggest Pot of the Week
There were no huge pots in online poker last week. The most expensive hand played out as low as $50/$100 PLO, and the pot didn’t grow over $67k.
Rui PepperoniF Cao was playing unknown player maroonLime heads-up. Pre-flop, Maroonlime had raised to $300, and Cao 3-bet to $900. There was a call, which led to a flop of:
Cao checked and then called a bet of $1250. The turn was the
And now Cao took the lead with a bet of $3500. But MaroonLime wasn’t impressed. He raised to $14k and saw a call by Cao. The river was the
Now Rui Cao reverted to checking again, but then called the all-in of his opponent. The showdown made it clear that it hadn’t been a particularly difficult decision.
PepperoniIF:
MaroonLime:
Maroonlime had been ahead until the river and then got sucked out by a higher full house.
Leaderboard and Loserboard
Winners of the Week
Julius KagomeKagome Fleischer, $+522.782 Alexander joiso Kostritsyn (PS): $+273.341 Cort thecortster Kibler-Melby: $+166.462 AckmaJin: $+147.086 Rui PepperoniIF Cao: $+140.567
Losers of the Week
Alexandre Alexonmoon Luneau: $-623.981 vandi4rek: $-205.233 Alexander PostflopAction Kostritsyn (FT): $-93.684 PimpyLimpy: $-91.370 Supernova9: $-82.269
Biggest Winners 2014
Alexander PostflopAction Kostritsyn: $+3.741.654 Dan jungleman12 Cates: $+2.807.509 Mikael Punting-Peddler Thuritz: $+2.562.379 Cort thecortster Kibler-Melby: $+2.226.465 Alexandre alexonmoon Luneau: $+1.887.223
Biggest Losers 2014
Chun samrostan Lei Zhou: $-6.659.033 Gus Hansen: $-5.522.853 Phil Polarizing Ivey: $-2.471.001 Julius KagomeKagome Fleischer: $-1.859.223 Viktor Isildur1 Blom: $-1.395.340
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