Thursday
January 01, 2009
The year 2008 had pretty much everything we could hope for. The new $500/1000 tables introduced on Full Tilt Poker let us see a lot of new records being hit, and we also had over 60 hands where the pot size reached $400.000 or more! The largest online poker hand ever was won by Urindanger and had a staggering pot size of $723k. On several occasions we also saw players sitting with more than $1 million on the tables and Ziigmund ended December with a new record when he left one table with over $1.4 million.
Here are the largest winners from our monitoring this year. The limits monitored are Hold'em NL and Omaha PL $50/100 to $500/1000. We has also been monitoring HORSE FL & Omaha Hi/Lo from 2008-07-01. (NOTE! Mixed HA Results are not included in these stats, read more here)
| Largest winners 2008 |
Hands |
Profit |
| Phil Ivey |
95248 |
+$7,54 million |
| OMGClayAiken |
153907 |
+$6,97 million |
| durrrr |
223044 |
+$5,36 million |
| Urindanger |
168801 |
+$3,68 million |
| trex313 |
143818 |
+$3,45 million |
| David Benyamine |
241499 |
+$2,93 million |
| howisitfeellike |
46387 |
+$2,66 million |
| CHUFTY |
138715 |
+$2,36 million |
| La Key U |
77149 |
+$2,14 million |
| Patrik Antonius |
102293 |
+$1,90 million |
Click here for the top 50 overall winners/losers from the high stakes year 2008. You can also make your own searches on different games/networks and dates.
Largest hands from 2008
As we wrote earlier we monitored a lot of huge hands this year and here are the ten largest hands sorted by pot size:
$723,938 - Urindanger wins the largest online poker hand with a pair of aces
$687,025 - Phil Ivey wins the second largest hand with a set of tens
$678,069 - John Juanda hits a very lucky river against durrrr
$657,070 - durrrr wins a huge hand against Urindanger with a bottom set
$643,986 - durrrr wins his second largest hand ever with four ladies
$637,353 - LarsLuzak wins his largest hand ever against his finnish countryman Ziigmund
$617,968 - durrrr makes a great play when LarsLuzak tries a huge bluff
$609,730 - patatino wins a very sick hand with just a pair of decues
$606,177 - Patrik Antonius wins his largest hand, LarsLuzak wrote AA in the chat
$604,247 - David Benyamine wins his largest hand with a pair of aces
We'd like to thank all our visitors and members for a great 2008. Let us hope that this year will be just as interesting and that we will finally see the first one million dollar pot in online poker!
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