High Stakes Online Poker Report: Triple Draw Tables Again the Center of Nosebleed Action

The Week’s Top 10 Online Poker Winners

Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker found his form this week—grinding out 5,955 hands across 39 sessions of Deuce to Seven Triple Draw. He managed to be the only player this week to win over $1 million, according to online results tracker highstakesdb.com.

Heinecker was off to a great start after taking $590,385 in 14 sessions and 1,846 hands on Monday. Another 10 sessions on Tuesday comprising of 1,372 hands , and Heinecker had another handsome win topping up with a $260,744 profit.

By Wednesday he had pulled together another $514,278 in profit over 4 sessions and 648 hands going $1,365,406 into the green before experiencing a downswing. Over the remainder of the week he went backwards over 11 more sessions where he dropped $277,200 in 2,089 hands.

Joining Heinker with Triple Draw profits were Alexonmoon ($649,674), Kagome Kagome ($557,534) and Follow The Hawk ($290,098)—all topping the charts after taking down six figure profits.

Alex “Alexonmoon” Luneau added more cash on top of his Triple Draw wins with another $290,695 in profit from 6 sessions of 8-game, where he played 1,416 hands. His combined winnings took his weekly total to 2,597 hands played in just 12 sessions, which incidentally placed him within a whisker of Heinecker.

The Week’s Top 10 Online Poker Losers

Last week Gus Hansen won $490,744. The week before he was a $770,139 loser, and the week before that a $260,958 loser. It is difficult to predict where Hansen will land in the charts from week to week, and this week he ended up a big loser again after landing on the opposite side of the fence to Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker.

Hansen dropped a staggering $1,029,238, with $973,361 of those losses coming from 28 sessions and 3,107 hands of Triple Draw. His loss makes him almost a $1-million-a-month loser on the Triple Draw tables after this week’s performance put him down $3,062,783 for the year in these games. His overall losses across all games now stands at $2,784,306 for 2014.

Phil “Polarizing” Ivey was also not in good form as he lost $416,224 in 31 sessions and 5,539 hands of 8-Game. On the PLO tables Ivey lost $60,390 and sent another $71,798 to his opposition playing Triple Draw. Had he not pulled back $234,175 playing 6 sessions and 1,422 of PLO Hi/Lo, his week could have been far worse.

Viktor “Isildur1” Blom was another big name to record a huge loss. Blom lost $267,344 on the PLO tables, $209,590 on the PLO Hi/Lo tables, $196,233 playing Triple Draw, $143,309 playing 8-Game and $66,835 on the NLH tables—making him the week’s biggest all-round loser on the online poker tables.

Last week Blom was leading the yearly profits, but after a week of disappointment he has surrendered his position to Dan “Jungleman12” Cates, who is now number one for 2014 with 285 sessions played and 36,601 hands making a $1,026,236 profit. In the meantime, Blom’s 1,043 sessions and 114,257 hands in 2014 have left him with only a $242,010 profit—down from $1,125,321 last week.