Mikael "ChaoRen160" Thuritz Wins $151k at PokerStars
Luke "lb6121" Schwartz was the day's biggest PLO winner after victories over bazzzzzzz and WCGRider
For the second day in succession we had a six-figure winner at the nosebleeds as Swedish mixed-game pro Mikael "ChaoRen160" Thuritz won $151.5k against Russian pro Alexander "joiso" Kostritsyn at PokerStars $400/$800 8-Game tables.
The pair played at four different tables (one at a time) over the course of yesterday morning, afternoon, and early evening, with Thuritz pulling away from his opponent in the final 3 hour session where he won $132.5k in 459 hands. In fact, the majority of Thuritz profit for the day came during the last hour of play.
Despite this win, and the fact that Thuritz won close to $200k for taking down this year's $10k HU WCOOP tourney back in September, he still has a way to go to break even for the year at Stars as ChaoRen160 is still down $560k this year in highstakes cash games - although his "punting-peddler" account on Full Tilt is still up the $286k he won earlier this year before Amaya's 2nd tier site removed their high stakes tables.
There were no other six-figure winners yesterday, with London pro Luke "lb6121" Schwartz taking second on the daily leaderboard after winning $51.7k in total. Schwartz lost a little in the mixed-games but won c.$65k at the $50/$100 PLO tables after heads-up wins over bazzzzzzz and Doug "WCGRider" Polk.
Although it didn't end up with a big winner, Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky and Timofey "Trueteller" Kuznetsov played another long match at the 8-Game tables yesterday, with Sauce ending their 8.5hr session with a mere $7.8k profit. He did manage to win the biggest pot of the day however:
Trueteller shoved on the turn with his overpair. Unfortunately for him Sauce had just made top set and he takes this $74.3k pot
Yesterday's Biggest Winners
ChaoRen160 +$151.5k
lb6121 +$51.7k
1-ronnyr3 +$51.3k
Ravenswood13 +$28.4k
For all yesterday's results go to our results page, or for current action check out the live results section.