Exceptional performances from the world of online poker including a unique achievement in the PokerStars Sunday Million, a bullet in the Blade Series, and the World Number #1 live multi-table tournament player shows his online skills.
In other sports, games, let’s not argue about that one here, the tournament organiser would have held a press conference for what happened on PokerStars this weekend.
On Sunday, March 3, ‘Lucky_Jew_17’, defeated a field of 11,525 entrants to win the $117,222 top prize in the game’s most prestigious weekly event. Then, on the weekend, he did it again, only this time the feat was even more incredible than watching a man slip one into a hornet’s nest as ‘Lucky_Jew_17’ defeated the former PocketFives World #1 Niklas ‘lena900’ Astedt at the end of a gruelling grind that saw him conquer a field of 11,212 entrants to bank another $114,039.
Another big winner on PokerStars this weekend was Jon ‘apestyles’ Van Fleet. The man with more than $10m in online MTT winnings took down the PokerStars $2,100 Sunday High Roller for $56,111. Lena900 also made that final table finishing fifth, and the world #5 hello_totti finished eighth. The tournament contained 128-entrants.
Standing in the ever decreasing shadow of PokerStars is partypoker, and this weekend Patrick ‘patrick_leonard’ Leonard, and Roman ‘Romeopro33’ Romanovsky chopped the 117-entrant $2,100 Sunday High Roller Gladiator with Leonard banking $47,421.17 and the title, and the Ukrainian taking $43,415.44 and nothing else. Kristen ‘krissyb24’ Bicknell finished fifth, Sami “LarsLuzak1’ Kelopuro finished fourth, Lena ‘Drulitooo’ Astedt finished seventh, and Conor “ADRIEN_BRODY” Beresford finished eighth.
As a winner, Romanovskiy would have been disappointed with the defeat, but as a grinder, what a weekend the man had. During the Blade Series on the GGNetwork, the former World #1 took fourth in a $1k for $18,000, third in a $5k for $39,930, and second in a $10k for $92,904.
Finally, the Global Poker Index (GPI) World #1 showed that he could chew people up like kids chew straws on both the live and online felt. Alex ‘OUTFOXENYOU’ Foxen outsprinted a field of 222-players in the High Five #8 $80,000 GTD 8-Max on Americas Cardroom, collecting $19,272.60. It’s Foxen’s second big win on the site this month after taking down the $1k, $200k GTD event on April 1. beating 186-entrants to collect the $58,050 first prize. The man is no fool.
PocketFives world rankings
1. Andras “probirs” Nemeth – 12,201
2. Roman “RomeoPro’ Romanovsky – 11,635
3. Niklas “lena9000” Astedt – 11,287
4. girafganger7 – 10,232
5. hellohellohello – 9,992
PocketFives top earnings
1. Chris ‘moorman1’ Moorman – $15.91m
2. Niklas ‘lena900’ Astedt – $14.85m
3. Simon ‘C Darwin2’ Mattsson – $12.54m
4. Johannes “Greenstone25” Korsar – $12.40m
5. Sebastian “P00cket00” Sikorski – $12.27m