A few days ago, Dan Cates (pictured), who is known as junglemanonline, posted the following on Twitter rather nonchalantly: “Sooo Manila didn’t go well, only lost about 38m hkd(5m usd)… Gonna play some 5/10 online and take another shot.” Yes, not going “well” meant losing $5 million in high-stakes cash games in Manila.

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The Tweet had been re-Tweeted 85 times and marked as a Favorite 143 times when we took a look at it on Monday. According to PokerNews, games in Manila were reportedly going as high as $2,500-$5,000-$10,000.

A few days prior to the news, Cates Tweeted that 2015 was not going so well for many players: “Pretty dark year for everyone I know in poker… Who is winning out there lol besides Rast and Robl?”

According to HighStakesDB, Cates played online on August 13, the same day he posted his Tweet, and dropped about $1 million. Since HighStakesDB began tracking Cates on PokerStarsunder the name w00ki3zin 2010, he is up about three-quarters of a million dollars. On Full Tilt, where he plays as jungleman12, he is up almost $10.3 million lifetime.

When asked by one poster whether he had “partners” to help finance him in Manila, Cates responded, “Probably.” Other well-known players who have been spotted in Manila recently include Phil Ivey (pictured) and Tom Dwan.

On Monday, one player wrote on 2+2 that he had spotted Cates over the weekend in a live game: “Saw w00ki3z… playing high-stakes games as usual in the Kings Rozvadov this weekend. He was laughing all day and doing this left/right freak look with his eyes as usual. He’s just fine, playing 100/200 live mixed games, 10k high-roller donkaments, and all this stuff.”

Back in 2013, Dwan, who has also been part of the high-stakes action in Manila recently, was rumored to have lost $4 million in a live game in Macau. He posted while in transit from Macau, “In Taiwan for the 1st time ever… Not leaving the airport tho. Maybe next trip. Had my biggest loss ever yesterday.” He didn’t give the exact amount of the loss at the time, but sources at the game said the damage was $4 million.

Also in Asia, Dwan, Ivey, and others have been high-rolling in a game called Six Plus Hold’em in which the deuces, threes, fours, and fives are removed from the deck. As Dwan put it, “In Six Plus, everybody needs to be gambling more and thinking more. [You] can’t just be lazy and wait for a good hand. It’s just fun. Everyone is in a lot of pots and there’s a lot of money in them.”

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