Biggest Online Poker Pot In History

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The action over at the GGPoker network has been heating up over the last month, with the 2020 World Series of Poker Online at the halfway point of their 54 bracelet-offering throughout the summer. However, it's not all tournament poker that's drawing the eyeballs, as some of the highest cash games the online poker hasn't seen since the glory days of Full Tilt Poker are happening over there as well.

In a $500/$1,000 cash game with a $1,000 ante, Wiktor Malinowski — famed under his online moniker 'limitless' — and Michael Addamo played the biggest NLHE cash game pot on record. The massive clash happened over at Natural8, part of the GGPoker network, in an invitation-only VIP cash game. Alongside Malinowski, Chris Brewer, Tan '4321' Xuan', and 'UnderO', who resides in Malta, completed the line-up.

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The Actors: Wiktor Malinowski and Michael Addamo

The two players in the massive hand are familiar among railbirds that keep track of the nosebleeds. While Malinowski is a rare sight in tournaments — the Pole has just five tournament cashes with three coming from Super High Rollers — he's considered one of the all-time greats on the highest online cash stakes.

In fact, mere days ago, the 'High Stakes Poker End Boss' appeared on the popular Joe Ingram podcast where he issued a challenge to the poker world. In the podcast, the Pole dropped a few gems, such as offering to play opponents drunk and drink a whole bottle of wine on stream to entice any heads-up action he can get.

Malinowski was slated to appear on the upcoming Run it Once Heads Up Legends Showdown but opted out of it due to the very high-stakes action going on right now, with this pot being a result of that.

While Addamo might be more notable for his tournament prowess, sporting two WSOP bracelets and $8M+ in lifetime winnings according to The Hendon Mob, he can certainly hold its own when it comes to the highest of stakes. 'imluckbox', as he's also known, is considered one of Australia's very best players alongside the likes of Kahle Burns and Jonathan Karamalikis.

Both of them had 400+ big blinds stacks in front of them when the fateful hand took place.

The Hand: Kings Against Aces

With 'UnderO' posting the small blind of $500 and Addamo the big blind of $1,000, the hand got underway. Malinowski raised to $2,000 from the cutoff, Addamo three-bet to $14,000, Malinowski four-bet to $43,500, Addamo five-bet to $108,000 and Malinowski called to create a pot already up over 200 big blinds before a flop was even seen.

The flop came down and Addamo bet $71,775, which Malinowski called. On the turn, Addamo bet $100,146.50, and once again, the Polish high roller called in position. On the river, Addamo shoved his remaining $140,547.80 in the middle and Malinowski called off the shove.

Addamo showed for a pair of kings, but Malinowski had him pipped with the blades and showed to claim the gigantic pot of $842,438.62. While Malinowski drew the headlines with this big pot, the pair has been tangling back and forth with Addamo winning most of it back in other sizable pots.

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READ MORE: Patrik Antonius and Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom play the biggest online cash game pot of all time.

Breaking a 12-year Record

According to HighStakesDB, which has been keeping track of high-stakes cash pots for over a decade, it's been the largest recorded online No-Limit Hold'em cash game pot of all time. The previous record in their database was a $723,941 pot played all the way back in 2008 on Full Tilt Poker between none other than Tom 'durrrr' Dwan and one of his famous high-stakes rivals at the time, Di 'urindanger' Dang.

Similar to Malinowski and Addamo, it also involved kings versus aces and deep stacks between two aggressive players. Click on the replayer below to see the hand in action.

While it's the biggest online No-Limit Hold'em pot on record, it still falls shy of some of the monstrous pots Pot-Limit Omaha has seen over the years. Especially during the wild early Full Tilt Poker days of the past decade, big six-, and even seven-figure pots kept railbirds glued to their screens.

The record for biggest online cash game pot of all time still stands between Patrik Antonius and Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom, who played a $1.35M pot back in 2009 with Antonius ending up as the victor.

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The highest big bet game stakes are $200/$400 on PokerStars and $500/$1000 on Full Tilt Poker (fixed limit has higher stakes, but pots can't grow beyond a certain number of bets).

It was at the latter that the biggest poker pot ever was played, on November 21, 2009, deep into the European winter.

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Unknown Swede Viktor Blom, at the height of his epic burst onto the high stakes scene as 'Isildur1', logged onto Full Tilt and challenged Finnish pro Patrik Antonius to a multitable session of $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha.

Hand History

PTR caught the hand action, Full Tilt hand 16204298185 at cash table 'Royal Guard'.

Rail chat exploded, and the High Stakes Thread for that month on the TwoPlusTwo forums saw 3.9m views.

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The Action

Blom began the hand with $677,000 in chips, Antonius $1,258,000. Action was raised to $9,000 preflop, a '3x9x game' where the two players had agreed to pot and re-pot preflop regardless of their hole cards.

  • Blom, effectively now looking at his hole cards, 4b to $27,000
  • Antonius 5b to $81,000
  • Blom requested time, then called for a $162k pot
  • Antonius bet a little over half pot, $91k on 4♠5♣2♥
  • Blom made a pot sized 3b to $435k, effectively all-in, Antonius raised the remainder of Blom's stack
  • Blom called, turning over 6♦9♠7♦8♥ versus Antonius' A♥3♠K♠K♥
  • The board ran out 5♥9♣ and Antonius won the biggest poker pot ever, $1.35m, with a straight

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Hand with Commentary

Youtube user and railbird Pawel Nazarewicz expertly broke down the action with context from previous pots.

Equities

At first glance, Blom's play appears reckless committing all his chips with no pair, no backdoor flush draw.

However PLO is a funny game, and in fact he still had 45.4% equity in the pot with so many outs and two cards to come.

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He also had a chance to fold out worse hands in Antonius' range with his large flop raise, and take down the pot there with 9 high and a wrap straight draw.

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As it happened Antonius wasn't folding, flopping the second nuts with two backdoor flush draws against an aggressive opponent.

Antonius beat his own record for the largest online pot, set a few days earlier when he won a $878k hand, also against Blom.

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Viktor Blom later took down $1,254,400 in a single event at the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and landed a Full Tilt Poker sponsorship thanks to his online escapades.