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Online Poker Action – Sander Berndsen Dominates
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2012-01-15 10:56
There are several high profile live poker events running in various areas of the world, which take up much of the fire-power of the high stakes online regulars. One would expect the
on line poker action to take a bit of a dip at times like this, but it seems like whenever the top pros are missing, there’s an inexhaustible supply of new players willing to step forth into the spotlight.
Sander Berndsen is by no means a novice but his is not a name that’s usually featured in weekly online action reports. Yet last week, he clinched the top spot on the winners’ list, with a not too shabby profit of $631,422. He scored that profit over 11,318 hands, in 88 different sessions. The second place man, Ben Sulsky was much more diligent: he played 126 sessions, although his were shorter ones. His profits were shorter too, at $333,436. Another player who had an exceptionally profitable week was Niklas Heineckerragen – himself a rather unusual presence at the top of the pops. Known by the online moniker “ragen70”, Heineckerragen finished the week a massive $251k above the red line to clinch 3rd place on the winners’ list.
Phil Galfond made the winner’s circle too: he returned to action on January 7 and he took on Viktor Blom to kick off the New Year on the right foot. He won about $90k over a few short sessions.
Whenever there are winners, there have to be losers too. GVOZDIKA55 was the one who bore the brunt of the losses last week. He dropped 240k+ to become the biggest loser. Diggidave finished almost a full 100k better, but it wasn’t enough to keep him off the losers’ list. With $158k under the red line, he was the second biggest loser of the week.
Ilari Sahamies was the third biggest loser. After finishing as the biggest winner of the previous year, Sahamies dropped $131k to begin the year in the red.
