Gus ‘the Great Dane’ Hansen has finished off the year in fine style as top of the respected High Stakes Database.com list of high earning online poker players.
Hansen completed the year $3,941,703 up, well ahead of nine other internet experts and much of it on Full Tilt before disaster overtook that company. He was chased by:
Ilari FIN, $2,183,832
refaelamit, $2,105,597
jungleman12, $1,952,994
NoPasaran, $1,875,348
Isildur1, $1,472,695
Matt Hawrilenko, $1,440,095
bixiu, $1,406,194
Jeans89, $1,377,019
Phil Ivey, $1,336,313
Biggest losers over the year were:
Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, -$2,474,309
fishosaurusREX, -$1,399,950
kagome kagome, -$1,377,281
cadillac1944, -$1,336,308
Esvedra, -$1,182,259
Zypherin, -$1,054,638
nutsinho, -$1,025,356
nasud 11, -$877,151
UarePileous, -$837,803
Cole South, -$778,457
With the practical demise of Full Tilt Poker following Black Friday in April, much of the non-US nosebleed action shipped across to Pokerstars, where Finnish pro Ilari Sahamies was the top earner on $2,183,832 after a close contest for the top spot against Rafi “refaelamit” Amit, who ended the year up $2,105,597.
The largest pot ever played on Pokerstars – a monster $421,826 on September 7 played on a $200/$400 PLO table, was among Sahamies’ achievements.
The mercurial Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom finished the year as the third top earner on Pokerstars on $1,472,695.