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The Online Poker Week – Heinecker’s Heater Still On
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sun, 2013-11-24 08:14
The last couple of months have been truly favorable for German poker professionals, and Niklas Heinecker has been a top exponent of this trend: the German managed to finish with the biggest profit of the week yet again, for the third consecutive week.
This time around, Heinecker finished the week $461.7k above the red line, having logged 2.074 hands spread over 19 different sessions. His latest profits added to the tally, Heinecker now has some $4.65 million in profits for 2013.
The player who finished second on this week’s biggest winners’ list was a very welcome presence: Gus Hansen, who is now pretty much set to become the biggest
online poker cash game loser of the year, accrued $340.9k in profits, having played 3,417 hands through 37 sessions.
Phil Galfond was also among the winners: he finished with $183.8k. bbvisbadforme joined the winners’ circle as well: his profits tipped the scale at $150.7k.
Wherever there are winners, there have to be losers as well: this week, Alexander Kostritsyn finished with the biggest loss. Kostritsyn has been getting familiar with the losers’ end of the profit-list for a while and this week, he further solidified that “status”. He dropped $586.3k, having played 5,627 hands spread over 59 different sessions through the week.
No one else came even close to his counter-performance at the virtual green felt: the next biggest loser was Denoking, who dropped $168.8k. Kyle Ray and Rui Cao were among the big losers as well: they lost $151.8k and $121.6k respectively.
Some of Heinecker’s chips came on Tuesday, when he put in a session against Viktor Blom, whom he took for $102k. The two only logged 109 hands, but that was seemingly more than enough for the German to do his magic. Hansen made most of his money on Wednesday, from Kyle Ray and Kostritsyn.
PokerStars is the top online poker destination in the world, and despite the state-by-state legalization drive in the US, it is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
