List of Top Poker Earners Announced

Jan 04, 2012
List of Top Poker Earners Announced
Hansen tops the 2011 list This week High Stakes Database has released its statistical list of top earners in online poker industry, and this year it has been headed by Gus 'the Great Dane' Hansen, who finished the year at $3,941,703 up, getting most of the money on Full Tilt Poker before its troubles took over. With such a high earning, Hansen found himself well ahead of other nine players, which include: 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 As for the year's biggest losses, they belong to: 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 Having in mind that FTP's significant share in online poker action virtually ceased after Black Friday in April, most of the players turned to another online poker giant, Pokerstars, where Finnish pro Ilari Sahamies topped the biggest earners list with $2,183,832. One of his achievements is also the largest pot ever played on Pokerstars - $421,826 played on September 7 at a $200/$400 PLO table.
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