The New Year always brings renewed hope for online poker players that they can achieve lofty yearly goals. For micro-stakes and even small stakes players, this means playing a certain number of hands and squeaking out a modest profit to build their bankrolls. For the mid and high-stakes players, it’s time to recharge the batteries and start the yearly grind all over again. The players at PokerStars are especially affected since their pursuit of SuperNova or SuperNova Elite begins at New Years Eve.
The New Year always brings renewed hope for online poker players that they can achieve lofty yearly goals. For micro-stakes and even small stakes players, this means playing a certain number of hands and squeaking out a modest profit to build their bankrolls. For the mid and high-stakes players, it’s time to recharge the batteries and start the yearly grind all over again. The players at PokerStars are especially affected since their pursuit of SuperNova or SuperNova Elite begins at New Years Eve.In this article we’ll take a look at the mid and high stakes players to see who jumped out to a great start in January of 2010. This analysis will cover No Limit Holdem Games at $2-$4 (400nl) through the $25-$50 (5knl) games. Later this week we’ll do the same for the micro and small stakes No Limit Hold’em games. Readers should note that the stats were drawn about an hour before the month (CST) was officially over.
400nl Games ($2-$4 No Limit Texas Hold’em)
TOP WINNER:
Nicolak on Full Tilt Poker
Profits: $35,871 in 87,599. Win-rate = 5.12 BB/100
This player started out 2010 on fire and put in a ton of hands at a tremendous win-rate. Most players that put in 75,000 hands or more in a month rarely ever show this kind of win-rate, so his effort was definitely something special. Primarily a 6-max player, we’ve seen him play games as high as the $10-$20 games, but he just crushed the 400nl level.
Other Notables
scorpionfish on PokerStars
Profits: $33,055 in 151,812. Win-rate = 2.72 BB/100
GUIGUI_88 on Absolute Poker
Profits: $30,895 in 82,780. Win-rate = 4.67 BB/100
600nl Games ($3-$6 No Limit Texas Hold’em)
TOP WINNER:
Jenn415 on PokerStars
Profits: $33,948 in 85,686. Win-rate = 3.3 BB/100
He/She is one of the absolute true grinders of the 600nl games. We’ll assume it’s a her based on her attractive looking female avatar picture at PokerStars mainly because it makes us happy. She plays a mix of full ring and 6-max games and occasionally is seen at the 1knl games, but she definitely won at a very nice buy-in for this level considering the mass number of hands she played. It took me twenty minutes to write the next sentence after the last one because I just daydreamed what it would be like to be married to a successful 600nl grinder…
Other Notables
adam001 on PokerStars
Profits: $31,782 in 51,862 hands. Win-rate = 5.11 BB/100
the_little_rock on Full Tilt Poker
Profits: $31,512 in 93,545 hands. Win-rate = 2.81 BB/100
1knl Games ($5-$10 No Limit Texas Hold’em)
TOP WINNER:
nanonoko on PokerStars
Profits: $120,885 in 77,474 hands. Win-rate = 7.8 BB/100
There’s a good reason why our residing 2009 Mid-Stakes and High Stakes No Limit Hold’em Player of the Year won his awards – he’s absolutely frickin’ awesome at poker. We predicted that nanonoko would simply continue to crush the games at the high stakes and beyond in 2010 and January looked spot on. His win-rate is absolutely unheard of for a player playing this many hands at these stakes. The guy is just plain sick, there’s no other way to put it.
Other Notables
Edge93578 on PartyPoker
Profits: $59,411 in 48,626 hands. Win-rate = 6.11 BB/100
JETFIRE68 on PartyPoker
Profits: $57,608 in 36,800 hands. Win-rate = 7.83 BB/100
noluck17 on Full Tilt Poker
Profits: $54,961 in 29,923 hands. Win-rate = 9.18 BB/100
2knl Games ($10-$20 No Limit Texas Hold’em)
TOP WINNER:
fr79 on iPoker Network
Profits: $59,678 in 12,607 hands. Win-rate = 11.83 BB/100
We’re not quite sure where this player came from as he’s a relative new comer to the iPoker Network. We do know that over the course of 12,000 plus hands playing $10-$20 Heads Up he dominated the competition for a ton of cash made in just one month’s of work (if you want to call it that).
Other Notables
ADZ124 on PokerStars
Profits: $54,369 in 14,774 hands. Win-rate = 9.2 BB/100
crying_queen on PartyPoker
Profits: $52,301 in 6,439. Win-rate = 20.31 BB/100
5knl Games ($25-$50 No Limit Texas Hold’em)
TOP WINNER:
gogoGoGoGOOO on Full Tilt Poker
Profits: $234,098 in 28,858 hands. Win-rate = 8.11 BB/100
This Canadian sniper has been crushing some of the top games in the entire world. To win almost a quarter of a million dollars in a month is just an unfathomable accomplishment, even at the high stakes. Remarkably this player does not play heads-up but plays 6-max games on Full Tilt Poker. This was a month to remember where this player played well and ran hot, which is what it takes to have this kind of month.
Other Notables
Do4Love on PokerStars
Profits: $192,971 in 27,365 hands. Win-rate = 7.05 BB/100
ZeeJustin on PokerStars
Profits: $150,399 in 5,850 hands. Win-rate = 25.71 BB/100
Tags: adam001, ADZ124, crying_queen, Do4Love, Edge93578, fr79, gogoGoGoGOOO, GUIGUI_88, Jenn415, JETFIRE68, Nanonoko, Nicolak, noluck17, scorpionfish, the_little_rock, ZeeJustin
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wat about abeezy813
Omaha
Omaha would be interesting, too.
Thanks. Great article. Keep the info coming every month.
wheres my name with stats? lol