High Stakes Poker: Jedlicka Returns After 18-Month Absence, Wins $750,000
After taking an 18-month hiatus from the nosebleed stakes at Full Tilt Poker, Niki “Jedlicka” Jedlicka (pictured) made a big splash. One of the first sightings of Jedlicka was on Monday when he stepped up for action at the Eight-Game Mixed tables. Playing a 12-hour session over two tables, the Austrian was able to take down $120,000.
On the side of that marathon session, Jedlicka dabbled at another table where he scored $143,000. While he was able to make these big scores, some early morning losses brought his overall profit for the day down to $162,000, according to HighStakesDB.
After some rest, Jedlicka headed back to the virtual baize on Full Tilt on Tuesday morning, getting back into his wheelhouse: the Eight-Game Mixed tables. Powering up 11 of those tables, Jedlicka lost at six of them, but his wins at the other five tables would offset any losses he took. After playing for six hours in what is arguably considered one of the toughest formats of poker, Jedlicka took down a $206,400 profit.
In the past few days, Jedlicka has been able to virtually print money on the tables. For the year, Jedlicka has played nearly 10,500 hands, winning $745,792 over that span according to HighStakesDB, all of which has taken place in the last seven days. If you want to look at poker in the long-term, however, Jedlicka has been on the downside of the experience; over his entire online career, dating back to 2007 when HighStakesDB began following him, he is $3.8 million in the red.
Jedlicka had been absent from the tables at Full Tilt for quite some time prior to his reemergence earlier this week. During the middle of 2011, Jedlicka’s presence at the virtual tables became pretty much nonexistent. From June 2011 to February 2014, there was only marginal movement in Jedlicka’s overall results on the high-stakes tables. Beginning in February, Jedlicka made a small return at PokerStars, but his performance on the tables at Full Tilt have vastly outpaced what he has done at PokerStars in 2014.
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