Huge Pots, Million-Dollar Runs and High-Stakes Legends: A Week on CoinPoker

Two Players Ran It Up to $1M in Cash Games on CoinPoker

They have a lot in common.

• Both started with $80K–$100K stacks
• Both played heads-up on the VIP Arena (stakes of $50/100 and higher)
• Both have some kind of crypto mentioned in their screen names
• CoinPoker called both of them “high-stakes newcomers,” even though we’ve seen their screen names before

DogeCoinMaximaliste is a PLO Cash Game World Championship participant and an Omaha regular. He played $500/1,000 5-card PLO against recreational player YoloF1.

Over 24 hours, DogeCoinMaximaliste won more than $1,068,583. CoinPoker released a punchy 12-minute video set to phonk music, featuring commentary from Gary Blackwood — watch.

BTCdemon turned things up on NL$1,000/2,000. He fearlessly played heads-up against Chris “Lukabrate” Nguyen and Owen “Pr0digy” Messere.

BTCdemon ran his bankroll up from $80K to $1.5M! Together with Chris “Lukabrate” Nguyen, he played $1.1M and $891K pots.

Rui Cao Brings the Action Against Linus on the CoinPoker VIP Arena

Legendary cash-game player and Triton regular Rui Cao played for about three hours against Linus “LlinusLlove” Loeliger.

He started a stream.

In the very first hand, they got 72s.

In the second hand, at the table next to them, they got 72s again.

Both hands made it onto the stream — check it out.

Clearly, there’s a reason the entire poker Twitter community — Jungleman, Robl, Galfond, Cates, Hastings — recently showed Rui some respect.

Linus was stronger that evening, though. He won around $120K.

Jared Bleznick Is Back

He played $300/600 and $500/1K against Eelis “1btc1btc” Pärssinen and GucciNIKE. We don’t know how things went against Pärssinen. The recording is available on the KakiTee channel.

Bleznick also played a session with GucciNIKE — you can watch the highlights here. They started with $60K stacks each, and Bleznick eventually ran it up to $1.05M. Legend! We can be sure there’s plenty more action to come.

The Global Online Poker Championship Brings Some Cinderella Stories

GOPC kicked off on August 23 and runs through September 28. We covered the series in more detail here.

For those who’ve had enough of the high-stakes battles, here are two great stories from the micro and low stakes.

Ddango worked their way through $0.55 → $5.50 → $55 Opening Ceremony step satellites, finished 2nd, and won $14,114!

Dennism97 made it from a $15 satellite into the $122 CoinMasters Asia Bitcoin, where they earned $24,243.

Congratulations to these legends!