Poker pro Patrik Antonius scooped more than $900,000 over the past seven days on Full Tilt Poker, according to data from HighstakesDB. Since starting to play again on the software under his old screen name “FinddaGrind”, Antonius has won more than $2.5 million.
While playing under his real name on the software, Antonius was up $11.3 million.
According to HSDB, Antonius’ FinddaGrind screen name was his old account on Full Tilt, which he used between 2007 and 2008 before switching over once he was a site-sponsored player.
Altogether, he has won just under $16.4 million lifetime on the software.
Patrik Antonius is a professional poker player from Helsinki, Finland, currently living in Monte Carlo. He is known for winning the European Poker Tour Baden Main Event in 2005 as well as scoring.
Phil Ivey, who since late 2012 has been playing under the screen name “Polarizing”, has lost $4.7 million over the past 17 months or so. While playing under his real name on Full Tilt, Ivey was up $19.24 million. Ivey may have bigger things than his online downswing to worry about, though.
After the Finnish poker pro Patrik Antonius had swept Rui Cao (France) clean in a Triple Draw match last Friday at Full Tilt Poker, Cao suggested that the two should start a $1 million challenge consisting of pot-limit Omaha ($350k match), no-limit hold'em ($350k) and 2-7 triple draw ($300k). I have not played Heads Up No Limit on Full Tilt for a long time and have hardly any experience playing it compared to these guys, yet, they refuse to play me and are dodging me in all games. Patrik Antonius at 1:54 AM. Newer Post Older Post Home. About Patrik. Monte Carlo, Monaco View my complete profile. Full Tilt Poker; Official.
In other words, Antonius recently overtook Ivey ($14.54 million in lifetime profit on the site) as the most successful player in the history of the Full Tilt Poker software.
Much of Antonius’ profits lately have come in limit Omaha eight-or-better.
In other news, Viktor Blom managed to drop just under $180,000 over the past week, which brings his losses on the year to $968,000. He was up $2 million in February.
Blom was Antonius’ victim in 2009 in a record sized $1.3 million pot in PLO.
Gus Hansen actually had a profitable week, winning $275,000. His lifetime losses on Full Tilt Poker now stand at $17.38 million, which is still a record.
Patrik Antonius, one of the most profitable players ever on Full Tilt Poker, has returned to the software for some high-stakes online poker action.
According to HighstakesDB, Antonius is up more than $11.5 million lifetime on Full Tilt. Only Phil Ivey, with more than $19 million, has fared better on the site.
However, since returning on Monday, Antonius has dropped more than $200,000.
After winning more than $5 million to start the year, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom had a rough week. He dropped more than $2 million of those profits. However, on Thursday he stopped the bleeding by putting together a small six-figure win.
Gus Hansen was victim to an awful run on Tuesday, but managed to recoup some of his losses Thursday. He won more than $500,000.
Keeping with the trend of high-stakes pros who are on the upswing, Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky — last year’s biggest winner on the Internet — was just recently down more than $2 million on 2013. However, over the past few days he put a $500,000 dent into the deficit.
In contrast to winning the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller for $2 million, Scott “mastrblastr” Seiver has had a difficult time finding traction on Full Tilt. He’s down more than $400,000 on the year there, after losing about $100,000 over the past week.
Data according to HighstakesDB.com.