"patpatman" wins big, Phil Galfond loses bigger

The high stakes games have been running hot all week, but especially two players have been feeling the heat. "patpatman" is up $446,000 for the past 48 hours, while Phil Galfond has lost more than $600,000.

The online high stakes tables have been glowing with activity all week, with several of the regulars getting a piece of the action.

Among those who created headlines earlier this week was Team PokerStars Pro's Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, who booked a $600,000 win on Tuesday playing in the nosebleed PLO games.

In his usual style, Blom would go on to drop a chunk of his winnings already on Wednesday morning, instead leaving the top spot to the anonymous "patpatman".

"patpatman" turned on the heat in a number of big games, and ended with a $446,765 profit to make him the biggest winner for the past 48 hours, according to numbers from Highstakesdb.com.

Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen and German regular "mTw-DavIN" also had big runs, pocketing $344,795 and $228,926, respectively.

Meanwhile, most of the other usual suspects have been losing big since Tuesday morning, including Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies, Patrik "Fake Love888" Antonius and Phil "MrSweets28" Galfond.

Antonius lost a bit more than $300,000, while "Ziigmund" dropped $163,460, but none of the two were ever near the nightmare numbers of Galfond, who has now lost a staggering $687,444 in the past two days.

Galfond's uncharacteristically bad run is not yet threatening his yearly profit, but according to the pro himself, there is room for improvement if he is to turn around the tide.

"I need to work on my all-in game" Galfond stated this morning via his Twitter.

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Comments

nitulbhatia

311

4 months ago

Phil galfonds losses are a silent reminder of the dangers of high stakes poker to your bankroll. Apparently phil galfond was a coach at a reputed poker training site, so he was not a noob or a fish, if such an established player who knows strategy can lose $600,000 in 2 days then any random player that plays high stakes can lose $600,000 in a few days. I personally will never play in the highest stakes of poker, and i do not believe it is an intelligent proposition for a persons money no matter how good they think they are at poker. Ive seen this happen to the best of the best, phil galfond just re-affirms my beliefs on this subject.

bOyA

of Cocaine Inc.

705

4 months ago

This is what separates the pros from the amateurs. Instead of obsessing about his bad beats or how he's running bad, he doesn't make excuses and instead focuses on solutions, "I need to work on my all-in game". Great attitude.