Tag: Wiktor Malinowski

Wiktor Malinowski EPT Monte Carlo
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With the World Series of Poker (WSOP) churning up the chum over at GGPoker, the sharks and whales have turned up en masse to take advantage of the carnage, with two of the best in the business setting a new online record. 

Wiktor ‘limitless’ Malinowski is mustard at No Limit Hold’em cash games, and he recently offered a heads-up challenge to anyone, playing while drunk, while guesting on the Joey Ingram podcast. Michael Addamo is one of the world’s top multi-table tournament (MTT) artists with more than $8.3m in live tournament earnings and two WSOP bracelets to his name. 

Both Addamo and Malinowski were competing alongside Chris Brewer, Tan Xuan and the anonymous Maltese falcon ‘UnderO’ in an invitation-only VIP cash game on GGPoker’s Natural8 skin, with blinds $500/$1000 with a $1000 Ante, when the pair locked horns, thumbs and fingers in the following hand.

Sitting behind 400+ big blind stacks, the action folded to Malinowski who looked down to see two black aces in the cutoff. The Pole opened to $2,000, folds followed until Addamo three-bet to $14,000 from the big blind holding two black kings. Malinowski four-bet to $43,500, Addamo five-bet to $108,000, and Malinowski made the call. 

With more than $216,000 in the pot, a 7h5d2c flop beckoned both to continue their love for this hand, with Addamo’s proving to be unrequited. Addamo bet $71,775, and Malinowski made the call.

You could hear the footfall of the 9c on the fourth street, and Malinowski called a $100,146.50 Addamo bet. The 5s finished the action on the river, and Malinowski called when Addamo moved all-in for his remaining $140,547.80. 

The final tally was a spacious looking $842,438.62, a new record, beating the $723,941 that went the way of ‘Urindanger’ in a mirror of a hand that saw his pocket aces out-flop, turn and river the pocket kings of Tom Dwan back in the halcyon days of Full Tilt.

Another beguiling bonanza of a GGPoker report courtesy of having a few moments to spare as the Yerba Mate tea sits heavy in the strainer and Steve O’Dwyer had a better weekend than most.

O’Dwyer has distinguished gluttony when it comes to hogging live tournament wins, and he’s been transferred his jug of luck and skill to the online realm equally successfully in the past 12-months.

The American star picked up two impressive wins at GGPoker over the weekend. Both tournaments were $5k events, and both had field sizes that exceeded the usual intimate get together you typically see in the high stakes games online.

O’Dwyer conquered fields of 111 and 133 entrants to collect a combined haul of $259,226.12.

While the No-Limit Hold’em saw bumper fields, the Short-Deck didn’t. There were two on the weekend at the $10k price point, and Ihor Shkiliaruk won them both (although the fields were 4 and 6 respectively, and 50% of the buy-ins in the field of 6 were Skiliaruk’s)

Outside of the double winners, Wiktor Malinowski took down a $10k, and Joao Vieira and Mikita Badziakouski collected wins in $5k events.

Here are the results in full.

$10k Bryns High Roller

27-entrants

Results

  1. Wiktor Malinowski – $117,735.04
  2. Jonathan Van Fleet – $72,359.90
  3. Oasis – $44,472.37
  4. Elio Fox – $27,332.69

$10k Bryns Short Deck High RToller

4-entrants

Results

  1. Ihor Shkiliaruk – $38,800

$10k Bryns Short Deck High RToller

6-entrants

Results

  1. Ihor Shkiliaruk – $58,200

$5k High Rollers Blade PLO

36-entrants

Results

  1. Joao Vieira – $85,316.76
  2. Onetimeplease22 – $50,409.56
  3. Isaac Baron – $31,730
  4. Sean Winter – $19,972.26
  5. Gr4vyB04t – $12,571.42

$5k High Rollers Blade Mulligan

111-entrants

Results

  1. Steve O’Dwyer – $120,755.41
  2. Kristen Bicknell – $90,925.15
  3. Joao Vieira – $68,463.93
  4. Stephen Chidwick – $51,551.28
  5. Pascal Hartmann – $38,816.56
  6. Timothy Adams – $29,227.68
  7. FuTimReilly – $22,007.57
  8. Mikita Badziakouski – $16,571.04

$5k High Rollers Blade Closer

55-entrants

Results

  1. Mikita Badziakouski – $86,269.92*
  2. Daniel Dvoress – $59,549.32*
  3. David Peters – $39,930.05
  4. Sam Greenwood – $28,825.41
  5. Mustapha Kanit – $20,809
  6. Isaac Baron – $15,021.97
  7. RIVERRAT89 – $10,844.33
    *Indicates a heads-up deal

$5k High Rollers Blade Prime

133-entrants

Results

  1. Steve O’Dwyer – $138,470.71
  2. DanBiz – $105,332.75
  3. KeiijoKonvehti – $80,125.23
  4. Viktor Kudinov – $60,950.16
  5. Michael Addamo – $46,364
  6. Xingyun888 – $35,268.45
  7. Sean Winter – $26,828.21
  8. Laurynas Levinskas – $20,407.86
Wiktor Malinowski

partypoker drove down the online poker’s high roller street in their double-decker bus this weekend. The ‘High Roller Club’ is their latest revamped and rock n roll high stakes billboard, and in this little ditty, we will bring you the results.

partypoker’s ‘High Roller Club’ consists of 13 events (Mon-Sat) and 6 on Sunday. Buy-in constellations twinkle between $530 and $25,000, and that puts them right up there with the action on GGPoker.

Two of the events carry a $1m guarantee.

High Roller Club: $5,200 The Big Game

High Roller Club: $25,000 Main Event

Wiktor Malinowski overcame all impediments on his way to victory in the $25,000 Main Event. The polished Pole overcame a final table that housed the likes of Nick Schulman, Justin Bonomo and Matthias Eibinger, but it was Steve O’Dwyer who Malinowski beat heads-up for the title.

Here are the results.

  1. Wiktor Malinowski – $443,750
  2. Steve O’Dwyer – $296,875
  3. Giuseppe Iadisernia – $190,625
  4. Matthew Wood – $121,875
  5. Nick Schulman – $81,250
  6. Justin Bonomo – $62,500
  7. Matthias Eibinger – $53,125

The sharks also dove deep into the $1m GTD Big Game, including Malinowski, who finished eighth. Ali Imsirovic, Luke Reeves and Daniel Dvoress also made the final table. Muehloecker defeated Teun Mulder, heads-up, for the title and $203,900 in prize money.

Here are the results.

  1. Thomas Meuhloecker – $203,900
  2. Teun Mulder – $148,000
  3. Daniel Dvoress – $105,500
  4. Omar Alomar – $78,000
  5. Rok Gostica – $55,000
  6. Luke Reeves – $42,000
  7. Ali Imsirovic – $31,000
  8. Wiktor Malinowski – $23,000

Dario Sammartino is another high roller that made a mark on the high roller scene this weekend winning the $200k GTD Knockout contest for $54,286.

Schindler With a Showing at GGPoker

Only three people entered the Bryn High Rollers $5k on Monday, and Jake Schindler defeated Ali Imsirovic and AndyAtTheBike to claim the $14,250 first prize. Schindler also finished second in a second Bryn High Rollers $5k that attracted 16-entrants. AndyAtTheBike won that one for $49,400.

Elio Fox

The barometric pressure inside the bedrooms of the world’s most incredible poker players continues to increase thanks to PokerStars, GGPoker and partypoker.

All three are running online tournament series with millions up for grabs. For this short round-up, the thermometer goes up the bum of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Online Championships courtesy of partypoker.

Elio Fox repelled 87-entrants on his way to a $565,500 purse in Event #32: $25,500 Super High Roller. The win was the second most substantial of the series behind Charlie Carrel’s $600,250 windfall in a similar event last week.

The former World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event winner, spends most of his time grinding on GGPoker’s skin Natural8, winning ten six-figure scores in the past 12-months, including $449,407.83 after taking down a 48-entrant $25,000 in October on the GGNetwork.

Juan Pardo Dominguez went into the final day with the chip lead, only for Fox to defeat the Spaniard during heads-up, for the title, and $150,000 difference in prize money.

Results

  1. Elio Fox – $565,500
  2. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $402,375
  3. Pauli Ayras – $282,750
  4. Samuel Vousden – $195,750
  5. Mark Davis – $152,250
  6. Timothy Adams – $108,750
  7. Christopher Hunichen – $87,000
  8. Andrii Novak – $76,125

Giuseppe Iadisernia Wins Event #26: $2,650 No Limit Hold’em Bounty Builder

The Venezuelan high stakes star, Giuseppe Iadisernia, bagged himself a title by winning Event #26: $2,650 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty Builder. The man who won the 54-entrant $50,000 No Limit Hold’em Super High Roller at the 2018 partypoker Caribbean Poker Party in the Bahamas for $845,000 topped a field of 280-entrants in this one.

Results

  1. Giuseppe Iadisernia – $69,650 + $66,230.51 in bounties
  2. Kasparas Klezys – $50,400 + $28,378.90 in bounties
  3. William Arruda – $35,350 + $5,351.56 in bounties
  4. Phillip Mighall – $25,725 + $12,140.62 in bounties
  5. Shyngis Satubayev – $18,200 + $8,867.19 in bounties
  6. Chad Eveslage – $13,650 + $6,796.87 in bounties
  7. Enrico Camosci – $9,625 + $10,000 in bounties
  8. Pedro Garagnani – $7,000 + $10,195.31 in bounties

Nortbert Szecsi Wins Event #27: $5,200 No Limit Hold’em High Roller

Norbert Szecsi made monkeys out of the 202-entrant field in Event #27: $5,200 No Limit Hold’em High Roller.

The two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner showed that he could be a prickly cactus in the online world as well as the live realm.

Alongside Szecsi’s double bracelet wins include a personal best score of $731,716 for finishing runner-up to Max Silver in a €10,300 No Limit Hold’em High Roller at the 2018 European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona.

In November, Szecsi won the $10,300 No Limit Hold’em MILLIONS High Roller Finale at the Bahamas for $400,000, before finishing runner-up to Mikalai Pobal in December’s €5,300 EPT Prague Main Event, earning $664,617.

Results

  1. Norbert Szecsi – $194,656.20
  2. Laszlo Bujtas – $160,762.81
  3. Artur Martirosian – $106,555
  4. Vicent Bosca Ramon – $78,780
  5. Nick Petrangelo – $55,550
  6. Alexander Ivarsson – $42,420
  7. Rob Lipkin – $31,310
  8. Jans Arends – $23,230

Wiktor Malinowski Wins Event #29: $10,300 High Roller

Wiktor ‘limitless’ Malinowski continued his rise from online freerolls to the biggest stakes games in the world with a win in Event #29: $10,300 High Roller.

Malinowski only became a professional poker player in 2016. Still, he’s more than made up for it, competing, and winning, regularly in the high stakes online cash games, before adding live and online multi-table tournaments (MTTs) to his repertoire.

The Pole topped a field of 115-entrants to win the $281,750 first prize.

Results

  1. Wiktor Malinowski – $281,750
  2. Nick Petrangelo – $201,250
  3. Pascal Lefrancois – $143,750
  4. Samuel Vousden – $100,625
  5. Elias Talvitie – $74,750
  6. Giuseppe Iadisernia – $57,500
  7. Artur Martirosian – $46,000
  8. Benjamin Rolle – $37,375