High Stakes Online Cash Game Report: thecortster Scores Over $1 Million in a Week High Stakes Online Cash Game Report: thecortster Scores Over $1 Million in a Week
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Key Takeaways
  • Cort “thecortster” Kibler-Melby absolutely crushed the nosebleed stake online poker games this week netting over $1 million in profit.
  • Julius “Kagome Kagome” Fleischer racked up the biggest loss ending week down more than $600,000.
  • The biggest pot of the week was won by PokerStars Pro Ike “luvtheWNBA” Haxton who flopped a set and rivered a full house to felt Denoking.

Cort “thecortster” Kibler-Melby absolutely crushed the nosebleed stake online poker games this week, netting over $1 million in profit. Kibler-Melby has opted out of long-term tracking by HighStakesDB.com, making it difficult to determine just how much money the German has over the course of the month—but with a seven figure score this week and a big win the week before, he’s got to be leading the pack.

This Week’s Top 10 Online Poker Winners

1st thecortster $1,087,002 Full Tilt Poker
2nd Sanlker $596,904 Full Tilt Poker
3rd luvtheWNBA $556,840 Full Tilt Poker
4th KPR16 $318,523 Full Tilt Poker
5th PostflopAction $302,732 Full Tilt Poker
6th Follow The Hawk $279,224 Full Tilt Poker
7th toweliestar $123,998 PokerStars
8th cts687 $87,252 PokerStars
9th FinddaGrind $82,958 Full Tilt Poker
10th HoldemJill9 $81,253 Full Tilt Poker

Julius “Kagome Kagome” Fleischer racked up the biggest loss, ending the week down more than $600,000. Like fellow German Kibler-Melby, Kagome Kagome has also opted out of long-term tracking, but one only needs to follow him on Twitter to realize that 2014 has not been his best year. In fact, he has not dragged a six-figure pot this year.

Thought by many to be the best heads-up limit hold ‘em player in the world, Kagome Kagome has had to adapt to the changing landscape of nosebleed stakes and take action where he can get it—which in these days is the draw games.

This Week’s Top 10 Online Poker Losers

1st kagome kagome -$608,065 Full Tilt Poker
2nd Polarizing -$459,205 Full Tilt Poker
3rd Rui Cao -$366,147 Full Tilt Poker
4th taktloss47 -$348,176 Full Tilt Poker
5th Denoking -$342,617 Full Tilt Poker
6th Gus Hansen -$285,727 Full Tilt Poker
7th WCGRider -$216,029 Full Tilt Poker
8th bbvisbadforme -$205,500 Full Tilt Poker
9th Trueteller -$195,160 Full Tilt Poker
10th punting-peddler -$173,721 Full Tilt Poker

The biggest pot of the week was won by PokerStars Pro Ike “luvtheWNBA” Haxton who flopped a set and rivered a full house. Haxton felted his heads-up opponent Denoking who made trips on the river, and pulled in a pot worth over $303,000. That pot accounted for more than half of Haxton’s winnings for the week as he notched a $556,840 win.

While no player other than Kagome Kagome lost more than a half million dollars this week, Phil “Polarizing” Ivey came the closest by recording a loss of $459,205. That downswing pushed Ivey’s total losses for the year up over the $2 million mark to $2,276,313. However, once again, Ivey ranks second, this time to Full Tilt Pro Gus Hansen who dropped over $285,000 this week and failed to show up for promotional challenge against fellow Full Tilt Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom.

This Year’s Top 10 Online Poker Winners

1st jungleman12 $2,963,007 Full Tilt Poker
2nd FinddaGrind $2,166,570 Full Tilt Poker
3rd punting-peddler $1,944,594 Full Tilt Poker
4th luvtheWNBA $1,139,773 Full Tilt Poker
5th Tight-Man1 $663,477 Full Tilt Poker
6th Niki Jedlicka $624,921 Full Tilt Poker
7th WCGRider $538,070 Full Tilt Poker
8th Osama_no_Brunch $445,296 Full Tilt Poker
9th Kanu7 $435,009 PokerStars
10th joiso $376,472 PokerStars

This Year’s Top 10 Online Poker Losers

1st Gus Hansen -$5,522,853 Full Tilt Poker
2nd Polarizing -$2,276,313 Full Tilt Poker
3rd Isildur1 -$1,470,910 Full Tilt Poker
4th Crazy Elior -$1,135,936 Full Tilt Poker
5th OMGClayAiken -$1,082,089 Full Tilt Poker
6th MalACEsia -$823,325 Full Tilt Poker
7th Sauce1234 -$705,858 Full Tilt Poker
8th Rui Cao -$544,111 Full Tilt Poker
9th Patriktortonius -$477,924 Full Tilt Poker
10th tyme2gamb0l111 -$437,475 Full Tilt Poker