Who Were the Biggest Winners of 2013?
2013 was quite a year for members of the PocketFives community. As we reported last week, PocketFives raked in nearly $1 billion combined, but how was it broken down? Who were the biggest winners on each online poker site? In this article, we’ll take a look at the top money-earners on the largest worldwide sites in 2013. The following cash totals only include tournaments PocketFives tracks for our Rankings, not cash games, sit and gos, or satellites.
PokerStars
Lithuania’s benislovas was the biggest winner on PokerStars in 2013, generating a healthy $1.28 million in just 99 tracked scores, an average of $13,000 apiece. His big haul came in March, when he won the PokerStars Seventh Anniversary Sunday Million for $1.24 million officially, a tournament whose prize pool nearly lapped $10 million. Here were the top three money-winners on PokerStars in 2013:
benislovas: $1,289,517.41 in 99 cashes
bparis (pictured) $1,276,283.96 in 1,802 cashes
rounder63: $1,269,860.61 in 2,189 cashes
Brazil’s pessagno (pictured) was the biggest winner on Full Tilt Poker in 2013 at $574,000. He won about one-fifth of that by virtue of capturing the top spot in the MiniFTOPS Main Event in January for $120,000. Two months later, he took down the site’s Super Sized Sunday for another $55,000. In addition to those two cashes, he had another 336 in the money finishes on Full Tilt in the year that was. Here were the top three money-winners on Full Tilt Poker in 2013:
pessagno: $574,375.42 in 338 cashes
decay: $489,741.73 in 137 cashes
Illini213: $450,011.95 in 120 cashes
American transplant buckguy 2200, who now lives in Mexico, was the big winner on PartyPoker in 2013. He finished second in the site’s $100,000 Guaranteed High Roller three times in 2013 (April, June, and August) for $52,000 total. Although it didn’t take place on PartyPoker, we should point out that buckguy 2200 won a WCOOP Challenge event on PokerStars at the end of last year for $198,000 officially. Here were the top three money-winners on PartyPoker in 2013:
buckguy 2200: $269,684.67 in 306 cashes
o11pokerdr: $250,468.38 in 835 cashes
Jonny7: $244,393.50 in 766 cashes
One of the newest sites to be added to the PocketFives Rankings, 888 saw a lot of activity in 2013 from PocketFivers, including tedSTRETCH, who logged 241 tracked in the money finishes there for $140,000 total. In February 2013, he final tabled the 888 Whale and Mega Deep for nearly $50,000 combined. Here were the top three money-winners on 888 Poker in 2013:
tedSTRETCH: $140,204.40 in 241 cashes
luckierno7: $136,024.82 in 89 cashes
tuna_fish_tank: $130,086.71 in 86 cashes
Winamax is the most recent site to be added to our Rankings and has north of 200 qualifying MTTs per day. Malta’s FISCOU was the big winner on Winamax last year at nearly $200,000 and won the site’s Grand in October for $31,000. The previous month, he final tabled a W Series event for $43,000, his largest cash on Winamax in 2013. Here were the top three money-winners on Winamax in 2013:
FISCOU: $196,901.34 in 138 cashes
macqueen56: $170,105.59 in 209 cashes
Doobs: $167,791.67 in 86 cashes
Congrats to everyone who cashed in a tracked MTT last year!
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