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Phil Ivey's Hellish 2015
Posted by: Randy Williams - Tue, 2015-12-22 13:21
With 2016 closing in on us fast, it's already pretty clear - barring any major surprises - who the biggest online cash game winners and losers of 2015 will be. In the winners' department, Viktor Blom has things firmly under control. The Swede has amassed some $3.5 million in profits at PokerStars, for which he played quite a bit indeed: he logged some 250k hands, over 1,790 sessions. No one came close to this performance: the second biggest winner currently is bbvisbadforme, who only took down profits totaling $965.7k. The problem for Blom is that while he has obviously dominated the action at PokerStars, he didn't do nearly as well at
Full Tilt Poker. At the former best destination for high stakes cash games, the Swede ended up a loser, to the extent of $1.36 million. Still though, everything accounted for, he is indeed the biggest winner of the year by a large margin.
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The biggest loser of the year is Phil Ivey, and he is just as big a loser and Blom is a winner. So far, Ivey has dropped some $2.5 million at PokerStars and 1.25 million at Full Tilt Poker. Ivey's disastrous 2015 run is even more dire when considering that in 2014, he lost $2.3 million, becoming that second biggest loser of that year behind Gus Hansen. This time around, he didn't have Hansen to overtake him: the Great Dane has slipped off the radar.
As said above, this data is only valid for 2015 barring a major reversal of some kind, the possibility of which is always there. On December 11 for instance, Cobus83 put in a quick session which saw him pick up more than $3k per minute.
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