Online Poker's Winners And Losers From 2013Heinecker Tops The List Of Winners, While Hansen Is No. 1 Loser |
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Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker went on an absurd heater during the fourth quarter of 2013 on Full Tilt Poker to end the calender year up around $6.3 million, which was tops in the online poker world, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB.
By the way, he also won another $4.5 million from tournaments.
It’s safe to point to Heinecker as the largest winner, but after that it’s impossible to give you any sort of top 10 list, as numerous high-stakes regulars have opted out of having their results tracked. They wanted privacy, and HighstakesDB obliged.
At any rate, Texas-native Ben “Bttech” Tollerene won nearly $3 million during 2013, which was by far his best year ever. Tollerene was up that massive amount despite losing $1.7 million to Viktor “Isildur1” Blom in a single session during in an action-packed spring.
Ola “Odd Oddsen” Amundsgaard, who defeated a Norwegian politician in a highly publicized heads-up battle in early December, also won around $3 million last year.
Brit Alex “IReadYrSoul” Millar had a consistent 2013, winning around $2 million.
Patrik Antonius, who now plays under the screen name “FinddaGrind”, proved yet again why he might be the best online poker player in history. He won $1.7 million last year in his return to Full Tilt, bringing his lifetime earnings there to at least $13 million.
Tom “durrrr” Dwan played sparingly in 2013, but still managed to win $750,000.
Although he was up more than $5 million at one point during 2013, Blom managed to end the year with profits of around $580,000. A large six-figure year doesn’t sound too bad for the Swede, given his lifetime deficit on Full Tilt Poker, but the year could have been much, much greater had he figured out how to slow down a bit.
As for the losers last year, no one compared to Gus Hansen. He dropped around $8.4 million, bringing his lifetime losses on the Full Tilt software to around $14 million. He had few upswings in 2013, as he continued to get crushed session after session. However, he still remains stubborn and looks to be a very active player in 2014.
Unknown Macau account “MalACEsia” lost around $3.7 million last year, but that was in a pretty short span during the summer. The account was the catalyst for massive $400-$800 no-limit hold’em six-handed games that made a lot of regulars a lot of money.
Perhaps the biggest surprise last year was seeing Phil Ivey — now playing as “Polarizing” — get owned at the virtual felt. He is still the largest online poker winner in history, but 2013 saw him drop around $2.4 million. Perhaps his online magic is gone?
New Hampshire-native Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky was the largest winner in 2012, taking home nearly $4 million, but 2013 was terrible for him. He lost $1.4 million.
His final figure was not the result of a couple of bad months near the tail end of 2013. He struggled all year, and against the same opponents he had crushed a year before.
There is a lot of parity in the high-stakes online poker world.
The year 2013 was the first full year of Full Tilt Poker being back as the epicenter of the high-stakes online cash games. The site was shutdown in 2011 thanks to the Black Friday mess, before re-opening in late 2012. The return of Full Tilt reunited a lot of high-stakes regulars with their frozen account balances, most notably Hansen, who had been on a $6-million upswing prior to the site going defunct. Hansen went on to dust off all of that and then some to his peers.
One should expect 2014 to also be an exciting year for the online games at Full Tilt Poker, and to some extent at its sister site PokerStars. Stay tuned to CardPlayer.com for weekly recaps on Friday, with results and even some hands from the action.
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