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September was a banner month for the mystery player known only as “Giselle54” on CoinPoker. The high-stakes Pot-Limit Omaha regular pocketed approximately $3 million in a series of heads-up matches.
Giselle54 battled the likes of Jared “Theblez” Bleznick and “LUKAKU” at stakes as high as $1,000-$2,000 PLO. Their huge windfall came only a month after Bleznick handed them several beatings, including one as part of a $2.5 million win in a single session.
This month, the tables turned in a big way. Giselle54 beat Bleznick for around $1 million, though the two seem to have paused their match over the past week or so. A match with LUKAKU has been even more fruitful, though it’s worth noting that Giselle54 ran about $1.2 million above expectation on the month.
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High Volume, High Stakes Play on CoinPoker
How did the highest-volume heads-up players on CoinPoker do against each other in the past month? PokerScout has put together a matrix of the matches between each of the top five players by total hands played at the high stakes, heads-up CoinPoker tables. Scroll down each column to see how that player did versus each of the others in the top five. The approximate win/loss is listed along with the total number of hands in parentheses. Match-ups that saw at least 1,000 hands played are indicated in bold.
| Giselle54 | Clickr | LUKAKU | venividi1993 | KayhanMok | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs. Giselle54 | - | +$30K (20) | -$1.2M (8,938) | +$12K (15) | - |
| vs. Clickr | -$30K (20) | - | +$1K (2) | -$30K (1,301) | +$7K (81) |
| vs. LUKAKU | +$1.2M (8,938) | -$1K (2) | - | +$6K (2) | -$500K (6,098) |
| vs. venividi1993 | -$12K (15) | +$30K (1,301) | -$6K (2) | - | +$30K (28) |
| vs. KayhanMok | - | -$7K (81) | +$500K (6,098) | -$30K (28) | - |
Keep in mind that these players also faced many other opponents, along with potentially playing hands in six-max games. Thus, in some cases, these numbers only reflect a small slice of their actual results.
For example, Dirk “venividi1993” Gerritse didn’t get much done against these players in heads-up games. However, the popular pro and burgeoning content creator won more than $300,000 in one day on CoinPoker. He said on his YouTube channel that it was the biggest winning day of his entire career. He played more than 10,000 hands in September, so these matches barely scratched the surface of his play.
Kayhan “KayhanMok” Mokri had tougher results online in September, but he had a notably massive win in the live arena. Taking on controversial recreational player Ossi “Monarch” Ketola heads up on a livestream, Mokri won €2 million. Normally a No-Limit Hold’em player, Mokri has been mixing it up with LUKAKU, mostly at 5-Card PLO.
