Mikael 'ChaoRen160' Thuritz Tops February High Stakes Winners
Every chip has been counted, every session has been accounted for, and Mikael ‘ChaoRen160’ Thurtiz came out on top of the online high stakes cash games in February.
His number of sessions: 33. His number of hands: 7,107. His total winnings: $158,633, or $4,807 per session and $22 per hand. All in one month. Thuritz was in the negative in January by about $60,000. His year-to-date profit at the high stakes cash game tables is $97,914, good for the fifth highest.
Sitting just $1,500 behind Thuritz in profit in February was well known high stakes pro Alexander ‘Kanu7’ Millar. The Brit amassed $157,173 in winnings in the 29 days of February across 40 sessions and 3,240 hands, or $3,939 in profit per session and $48 per hand. Despite the strong month, Millar is down $563,782 for 2016, making February’s comeback very well-timed.
Third place on the high stakes leaderboard in February went to Mike ‘gordo16’ Gorodinsky, who piled up $136,563 in profit through 89 sessions and 8,859 hands. His solid month put him $75,411 in the green for 2016, the ninth best tally of anyone.
Only one pot grew to larger than $200,000 in February. Its winner was ‘Ravenswood13‘, who scooped $200,639 in a $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha game. He committed his chips on a flop of 
in a hand against ‘Chilax Chuck‘ and the turn and river were the 
and 
, respectively. ‘Chilax Chuck’ showed 
for top pair while ‘Ravenswood13’ turned over 
for top pair with top kicker to scoop the largest pot of the month.
Andres ‘Educa-p0ker’ Artinano leads the overall standings through the first two months of 2016 with $800,821 in profit, over three times the next closest person. He has 103 sessions and 20,613 hands recorded so far this year.
Behind Artinano is ‘Cobus83‘, with $257,285 in profit for the year. He lost about $50,000 in February. Other players over $100,000 in profit for 2016 are Ben ‘Sauce123’ Sulsky and ‘hhecklen‘, who have $174,712 and $116,312 in profit, respectively.
Here were the top 10 on the high stakes cash game leaderboard in February:
- ChaoRen160 (33 sessions, 7,107 hands) – $158,633
- Kanu7 (40 sessions, 3,240 hands) – $157,173
- gordo16 (89 sessions, 8,859 hands) – $136,563
- hhecklen (34 sessions, 3,488 hands) – $133,040
- omaha4rollz (25 sessions, 627 hands) – $128,674
- TILTMENOT (9 sessions, 755 hands) – $51,636
- Zazano (3 sessions, 600 hands) – $47,619
- Tochminator (23 sessions, 565 hands) – $46,334
- jama-dharma (20 sessions, 1,004 hands) – $32,412
- Fake Love888 (5 sessions, 283 hands) – $31,040
*All data courtesy HighStakesDB.
