Biggest Poker Pot In History
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The highest big bet game stakes are $200/$400 on PokerStars and $500/$1000 on Full Tilt Poker (fixed limit has higher stakes, but pots can't grow beyond a certain number of bets).
It was at the latter that the biggest poker pot ever was played, on November 21, 2009, deep into the European winter.
Unknown Swede Viktor Blom, at the height of his epic burst onto the high stakes scene as 'Isildur1', logged onto Full Tilt and challenged Finnish pro Patrik Antonius to a multitable session of $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha.
Hand History
PTR caught the hand action, Full Tilt hand 16204298185 at cash table 'Royal Guard'.
Top 7 Biggest Wins in poker history. The one below happened at the Triton Super High Roller Series in 2018, which produced a pot of more than $1.5 million. The biggest cash game pot in online history For over a decade, no other recorded cash game pot has beaten Patrick Antonius and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom’s smashing record in value. With online poker in its peak back in 2009, the historic $1.35 million Pot Limit Omaha hand played through on Full Tilt, granting Antonius the huge win. But now he hits the headlines once again as he has played what probably is the biggest pot in the history of televised poker in Full Tilt's Million Dollar Challenge. The pot landed on $1,100,000 dollars, and it was against one of the best poker players in the world at the moment - Phil Ivey.
Rail chat exploded, and the High Stakes Thread for that month on the TwoPlusTwo forums saw 3.9m views.
The Action
Blom began the hand with $677,000 in chips, Antonius $1,258,000. Action was raised to $9,000 preflop, a '3x9x game' where the two players had agreed to pot and re-pot preflop regardless of their hole cards.
- Blom, effectively now looking at his hole cards, 4b to $27,000
- Antonius 5b to $81,000
- Blom requested time, then called for a $162k pot
- Antonius bet a little over half pot, $91k on 4♠5♣2♥
- Blom made a pot sized 3b to $435k, effectively all-in, Antonius raised the remainder of Blom's stack
- Blom called, turning over 6♦9♠7♦8♥ versus Antonius' A♥3♠K♠K♥
- The board ran out 5♥9♣ and Antonius won the biggest poker pot ever, $1.35m, with a straight
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Hand with Commentary
Youtube user and railbird Pawel Nazarewicz expertly broke down the action with context from previous pots.
Equities
At first glance, Blom's play appears reckless committing all his chips with no pair, no backdoor flush draw.
However PLO is a funny game, and in fact he still had 45.4% equity in the pot with so many outs and two cards to come.
He also had a chance to fold out worse hands in Antonius' range with his large flop raise, and take down the pot there with 9 high and a wrap straight draw.
As it happened Antonius wasn't folding, flopping the second nuts with two backdoor flush draws against an aggressive opponent.
Antonius beat his own record for the largest online pot, set a few days earlier when he won a $878k hand, also against Blom.
Viktor Blom later took down $1,254,400 in a single event at the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and landed a Full Tilt Poker sponsorship thanks to his online escapades.
| Wiktor Malinowski | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | limitless |
| Born | 2 August 1994 (age 26) Belarus |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Final table(s) | 1 |
| Money finish(es) | 2 |
Wiktor Malinowski (born 2 August 1994) is a Polish professional poker player who focuses on mid to high stakes online no limit hold 'em (NLHE) cash games. He transitioned to the live poker tournament scene in 2019. He formerly played handball professionally for the national team of Poland.[1]
Career[edit]
Malinowski started playing poker seriously in 2014. He began playing freerolls and the lowest stakes offered for online cash games. Over the next two years, he managed to become a regular at mid to high stakes online cash games playing under the alias 'limitless'. In 2018, he won the World Championship of Online Poker $25K High Roller Turbo, winning $726,000 in the process.[1]
While on Joey Ingram's podcast, Malinowski offered a 'heads-up challenge to anyone, playing while drunk'.[2] In June 2020, Malinowski won the partypoker High Roller Club $25,500 Main Event winning $443,750 in the process.[3]
In August 2020, Malinowski won a $842,438 pot from Michael Addamo while playing NLHE on the poker site Natural8.[4] It became the largest online pot in NLHE history beating the previous record of $723,938 won by Di Dang against Tom Dwan in 2008.[5] The record was beaten just a few days later when poker player Ali Imsirovic won a pot worth $974,631 while playing NLHE online.[6] Approximately one week later Malinowski won another pot worth $500,146 holding 7♥2♥ for a wheel.[7]
As of August 2020, Malinowski's total live tournament winnings exceed $700,000.
References[edit]
- ^ abCross, Valerie (April 30, 2019). 'Limitless: High-Stakes Online Crusher Wiktor Malinowski Joins Live High Roller Scene'. PokerNews. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^'Wiktor 'limitless' Malinowski and Michael Addamo Play Out The Biggest NLHE Cash Game Pot in Online Poker History'. Paul Phua Poker. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^Pitt, Matthew (June 8, 2020). 'Sunday Briefing: Big Win at partypoker For Malinowski'. PokerNews. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^Epskamp, Yori (August 13, 2020). 'Malinowski Wins $842K Pot Off Addamo in Biggest-Ever Online NLHE Cash Game Hand'. PokerNews. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^Tom (August 12, 2020). 'Wiktor Malinowski Takes $842,000 Cash Game Pot from Michael Addamo in Natural8 VIP Game'. HighstakesDB. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^Nuwwarah, Mo (August 20, 2020). 'Another Record Pot at GGPoker High-Stakes Cash'. PokerNews. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^Tom (August 23, 2020). 'Wiktor Malinowski Scoops $½million Pot with 7 2 on Natural8'. HighstakesDB. Retrieved August 23, 2020.