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Online Poker Action – Cates Loses It
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sat, 2013-12-14 09:20
Although the online action slowed down a bit over the last few days on account of the EPT’s Prague Stop, there was still enough money going around to make a few players really big winners. Niklas Heinecker has definitely dominated the high stakes cash games lately and despite the dip in the intensity of the action, he still managed to take down a nice profit this week, although the biggest winner of the week title eluded him this time. The German finished with a $270.3k profit, for which he played 866 hands spread over 8 different sessions. The reason why Heinceker failed to grab top honors again was that two players did better than he: samrostan was the one who finished with the biggest profit. He pocketed $358.2k, having played 3,550 hands spread over 20 different sessions for it. The other player who did better than Heinecker was Patrik Antonius, who played 926 hands spread over 12 sessions to battle his way to a $287.4k profit.
Wherever there are winners, there have to be losers as well, and this week none of them came any bigger than Alex Kostritsyn, who has made quite a staple presence of himself at the top of the weekly losers’ lists lately.
Kostritsyn dropped some $323.8k, over the 4,941 hands he played. While Kostritsyn’s losses came at
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PokerStars, Daniel Cates lost big too. Cates ended up losing $301.4k, through 9,323 hands. He didn’t take the losses in stride either: he blew up in a rather shameful fashion after he lost some money to a player known as “bajskorven87”.
Viktor Blom was among the losers as well: he dropped $222.5k. Rui Cao and Phil Galfond made the losers’ top 5 too.
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