Poker Winning Graph
Everyone loves to see a sick graph and there are very few sicker than the five huge winners you are going to see today – ranging from single session $millions to beautifully consistent decade long grinds at the highest stakes.
- Poker Winning Sequence
- Poker Winning Graphics
- Poker Winning Graphic
- Winning Online Poker
- Winning Poker Hands
- I have been playing and winning at poker since 2008 and have put together some charts for you. The chart will work well both online and live, in cash games and tournaments. In order to make things simple, I have given you an easy to read, yet comprehensive, range chart that covers virtually every pre-flop decision you could face at the poker table.
- Every Texas Hold’em Poker Hand by Winning Percentage. These charts show the average winning percentage (its equity) of every Hold’em hand at showdown. To find a specific hand’s ranking look it up by its largest card. Unless noted, unpaired cards are unsuited. Suited cards add an average winning percentage of 3-4%.
By: Andrew Burnett
Isildur’s $6.5million monthly paycheck
Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom is the natural place to start when discussing the most amazing runs in highstakes online cash game poker.
The Swede blasted his way through the ranks as an anonymous teenager in the late noughties.
His first tilt at the nosebleed games on Full Tilt in October 2009 saw him quickly lose $1million, but within the month he had reversed that – topping out at $5.46million!
What follows is poker rankings from the strongest to the weakest. In the event of a tie, the highest poker cards win. The poker hands in order. The strongest poker hand is the royal flush. It consists of Ten, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace, all of the same suit, e.g.
We’ll see how that money disappeared when we get to Brian Hastings bio, but from the graph above you can see that Blom – by this time outed as the man behind the Isildur1 account – almost reproduced that amazing month in late 2012.
His 2009 battles featured this monster PLO pot against Phil Ivey, showing that $million swings could happen in seconds in the rail heaven days on Full Tilt.
Isildur1 flops kings full against Ivey for $1,127,955 pot
Poker Winning Sequence
Phil Ivey’s pre-Black Friday FullTilt Feast
You can’t mention Phil Ivey and leave it with one huge losing hand of course. After all, nobody won more than the now 43-year old Californian in the online nosebleed cash games.
That’s four years and a total of $19,242,744 profit, working out at a massive $60 per hand for Ivey, and his own biggest single winning pot was a revenge of sorts against Isildur1…
Ivey flushes out Blom to scoop $832,940 pot
The year 2009 on Full Tilt was the when the stakes were highest, the play as loose and free as you’ll ever see, and where fortunes were won and lost in single sessions.
Hastings takes Isildur to the cleaners
Tuesday December 8th 2009 is one of those dates that poker players don’t know, but most certainly now about. It’s the day that Isildur1 had his entire bankroll cleaned out by Brian Hastings.
Here’s how we reported it the following day: ‘It seemed to be another massive day for Isildur1, winning $471K from Jungleman12 at $100/$200 NLHE and $722K from Brian Townsend at $500/$1000 PLO. He stayed well in the green all throughout the period, even peaking as high as $2M, but things were about to change.
Poker Winning Graphics
In steps Brian Hastings, and from then on Isildur1 seemed to fall into a bottomless pit. Over the course of the next 2858 hands, he lost an astounding $4.2 million dollars, and it was clear from the comments he made in the chat, that he thought he was caught in a parallel universe or something.’
That parallel universe was because Hastings had teamed up with Brian Townsend and Cole South to dissect Isildur’s hand histories – which they should never have had in the first place.
Poker Winning Graphic
And that explains Hastings’ late 2009 graph…
The biggest pot he took being this one worth $682,995
Phil Galfond’s $8million upswing
Winning Online Poker
A year prior to all the other impressive graphs, Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond had already set a huge bar for anyone looking to impress the poker world.
That’s a monster $7million profit for Galfond, although it helps when you pick up kings in the big blind and flop a full house when you have the likes of Sami ‘LarsLuzak’ Kelopuro and Phil Ivey sniffing about for action at your table!
The Flying Finn builds a $12million wall
If you are sitting second on the all-time highstakes profit list, the chances are good that you have an impressive graph to show off. Patrik Antonius, however, has perhaps the sickest of all…
Winning Poker Hands
Three full years at $4million per annum puts the Flying Finn among the legends of the game, and he still boasts the record for the single biggest PLO pot of all time – a $1,356,947 monster against our old friend Viktor ‘Isildur1 Blom.…