High Stakes Poker

Gus Hansen back to the winners circle

04 June 2025

The presence of many regular players of the online nosebleeds cash tables at the WSOP has progressively reduced the high stakes action on Full Tilt and PokerStars.com. we remind you that its already permitted to play inside Nevada in online poker rooms that are properly licensed, which is not the case of Full Tilt and PokerStars . However, not all have traveled to Sin City. Some, like Viktor Blom "Isildur1", have chosen not to go this year to the World Series and keep fighting in the online tables.

The big star of the week was Gus Hansen. The “Great Dane” has finally started to invert his tremendous downswing. He has recently won $878,871 in just over 6,000 hands, which has led to lower is annual losses up to $2,175,950.

Hansen began the winning week on Monday May 27 with a whopping $811,618. On Tuesday continued to win, this time, $130,879. On Wednesday also ended in positive ($39,179). On Thursday continued to show signs of regular improvement with a positive session of ($113 981). However, on Friday changed its trend, losing -$15,361. With another bad run on Saturday: -$36,046. And ended with bittersweet week, on Sunday, leaving at tables -$165,379. Still, his balance has been fantastic, especially when you consider he has been long losing regularly.

The week also has been very favorable to the interests of Kyle Ray "KPR16" who has achieved over half a million in profits, which have allowed him disappear from the top 10 of "donors" of the year.

The week has also been prolific for the controversial "kagome kagome", which has won $ 445,078 and is knocking on the doors of the top 10 earnings, with an accumulated profit in 2013 of $ 747,488 ..

This is the top 10 winners of last week at the high stakes cash tables at Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars;


Pos. Player Sessions Hands Winnings ($)
1 Gus Hansen 39 6.013 878.871
2 KPR16 27 3.947 507.666
3 kagome kagome 23 3.104 445.078
4 kipu 45 3.953 301.251
5 Denoking 4 537 223.416
6 DR_Pumpe 107 7.631 222.060
7 no_Ola 36 5.523 221.154
8 cottonseed1 2 344 206.580
9 verve.oasis 92 4.895 156.915
10 KidPoker705 3 368 139.498


Moreover, the week has been disastrous for one of the most internationally recognized French pros, Alex Luneau "Alexonmoon" which indeed seems to have been on the moon in recent days. He lost $750,815 in just 1,838 hands (mostly for the benefit of Gus Hansen, playing 2-7 Triple Draw).

Despite having a few good days, Viktor Blom "Isildur1" has ended up being the 2nd player with the most losses of the week, with a negative balance of $ 547,874. For any regular high stakes would be a drama, but for him lose half a million is as routine ...

In the list of "donors" are other pros and Hac Dang, Sebastien Sabic, Patrik Antonius and Daniel Cates Jens Kyllönen.

Here are the 10 players who lost last week in the cash tables high stakes;


Pos. Player Sessions Hands Losses ($)
1 Alexonmoon 8 1.838 750.815
2 Isildur1 8 8.781 547.874
3 MalACEsia 12 1.395 442.929
4 trex313 18 2.073 311.130
5 Seb86 13 1.198 275.878
6 FinddaGrind 8 525 259.436
7 Ingenious89 9 1.588 220.728
8 Carlooo13 21 3.003 219.417
9 John R Turk 6 220 168.723
10 jungleman12 15 983 166.689


The ant work of Kyle Hendon "cottonseed1" is giving him optimum performance this year. The American hardly ends a day with losses. Usually win quite regularly, but not too large amounts. Hendon has taken the temporary drop "Isildur1" and the presence of other high stakes regular in Las Vegas, as Kostritsyn or Tollerene to exceed 3 million profits and placed 1st on the Gains ranking of 2013.

This is the top 10 winners of 2013:

  1. Kyle Hendon “cottonseed1”: 3.095.602$.
  2. Alexander Kostritsyn “PostflopAction” y “joiso”: 2.993.245$.
  3. Ben Tollerene “Bttech86” y “Ben86”: 2.505.973$.
  4. Viktor Blom “Isildur1”: 2.359.826$
  5. Tom Dwan “durrrr”: 1.484.451$.
  6. Patrik Antonius “FinddaGrind”: 1.300.210$.
  7. “SallyWoo”: 1.401.126$.
  8. Phil Galfond “OMGClayAiken” y “MrSweets28”: 1.300.210$.
  9. “1Il|1Il|1il|”: 1.116.176$.
  10. “Odd_Oddsen”: 1.040.934$.

 

At the opposite extreme, the side of the "sad", we find increasingly blurred Phil Ivey. Once considered the best player in the world is being the biggest loser of 2013.

This is the top 10 losers on Full Tilt Poker:

  1. Phil Ivey “Polarizing”: 2.297.409$.
  2. Gus Hansen: 2.175.950$.
  3. “samrostan”: 2.111.644$.
  4. “patpatpanda”: 1.330.885$.
  5. Scott Seiver “mastrblastr” y “gunning4you”: 1.092.456$.
  6. “punting-peddler”: 1.099.064$.
  7. Ben Sulsky “Sauce1234” y “Sauce123”: 1.097.158$.
  8. “CRAIN85”: 925.500$.
  9. “Johnbest”: 860.857$.
  10. Alex Millar “IReadYrSoul”: 795.599$.