Hohoho and all that jazz loyal readers Welcome to the Christmas/Holiday/Kwanza/Festivus version of This Week in High Stakes Online Poker (or as we like to call it, TWIHSOP) This holiday week did not slow down last week's biggest winners and losers from putting in some long work weeks At the same time that Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond was recovering..

This week pretty much began and ended with Macau based high stakes gambler “samrostan”  When last week ended, he had just racked up an Elite Eight leading $358,238 win at the Eight Game tables  This week started with another big win and ended with the same including a ransacking of online legend Phil..

Much like the WSOP in the summer seems to ebb and flow between the “Year of the Pros” and “Year of the Joes”, the Sunday Majors seem to fluxuate between the known pros and the unknown aliases scoring wins and redonkulous amounts of cash  Well this week, it looks like a “Week of the Pros” as big names won..

It was not a quiet week on the virtual felt, despite the “real world” gearing up for holiday celebrations and poker’s best and brightest of the tournament circuit gathered in Las Vegas for the WPT Doyle Brunson 5 Diamond World Poker Classic; the titans of the keyboard gathered to have it out in some massive high stakes online..

PokerStars Kills the $5 Million Guarantee Sunday Million and $1 Million Guarantee Sunday Warm-Up, FTOPS Main Hands Barshak the Most Cash and “poksu pete” the Title, Shorr Wins Sunday 500 vs Elite Competition I’m not one to praise an already successful business I am not part of, but:  PokerStars is killing it  The week..

The poker world can be a lonely place as we approach the holidays  Sure, you may find yourself in a luxury hotel in an exotic location (or you could be in Atlantic City) but you really are away from most close family and friends surrounded by people you know, but with whom you are ultimately competing to avoid failing at your chosen..

“ragen70” Blasts Through The $5 Million Earnings Mark for 2013, “Isildur1” Donates Over ¾ Million…The Hard Way, “WCGRider” Takes Over $275k Back from the Swinging Swede Thanksgiving kicked off this week of high earnings featuring one big winner and one big looser (with a guest-starring role of a..

Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker closes on $5 million in 2013, Gus Hansen back in his old spot at the top of the Biggest Losers list, “Isildur1” drives the action but ends down This week wrapped up on Thanksgiving Eve so let’s take a look at what this week’s Elite Eight grouping might be most thankful for ..

Double Vision Double Taps Massive Winners, Stefan "mindgamer" Jedlicka takes down the biggest Sunday Prize, "Van Razor" cuts through the Second Million field PokerStars again changed the face of the Sunday Majors again this week with its Double Vision promotion that set up twin runnings of its biggest guaranteed tournaments including the Sunday..

“ragen70” rages scoring a million dollar week, Gus Hansen appears on the plus side, “Isildur1” Fuels the Action Once again, the big action this week followed Viktor “Isildur1” Blom as he headed to the highest stakes 2-7 Triple Draw and 8 Game tables on FTP to take on Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker, Phil..

Ulrich denied second Sunday Million Title, Mandavia leaves the HU tables to win the Sunday Rebuy and Rasmussen stands alone at the end of the Sunday Brawl If my regularly touted theory that high value tournaments drive up Sunday Major participation, then this week was set up to be a doozy  PokerStars kicked off its MicroMillions series over..

Blom falls to the dark side, Ben Tollerene breaks $3 million and climbs, no_Ola makes the Elite Eight in one session and Gus Hansen ALMOST makes it into the black with 3 of 4 winning days There is a reason I track TWiHISOP by the week  Because one or two big days can make headlines, but people can lose it back almost as fast  Well, this..

The poker world seemed a bit quieter after the end of the WSOP November 9  Unless, of course, your count the sides piling up in the Ryan Riess debate  And by debate I mean “He Is and Egotistical Punk” vs “He’s Just a Young Excited Kid”  But, that said, there was still a lot of fun out there on the old..

“Agrobot_388Z” Binks the Sunday Million after Chopping the Red Spade Open Last Week,  Nazari Returns to Win Stars’ 2nd Chance a 2nd Time in 2013, Van Fleet Double Final Tables It was a week for double-tapping achievements  No, not Call of Duty Ghost’s head shots (though, that has taken up a bit of my time), but..

It looks like it was a thin week in High Stakes Online Poker  Between Halloween and November 6th, the  total volume was down and our big winners were much smaller  Outside of our top 3 (I’m looking RIGHT at you Gus) the biggest losers were posting only 5 figure losses  Well, maybe the WSOP final table had some of them in..

Well, it was a pretty big week in poker  Sure, there was some online pokerments to keep us busy, and some million dollar swings at the virtual nosebleed seats but in the end, all eyes turned to the Rio in Las Vegas for the November 9 and the crowning of our new WSOP Main Event Champion!  I, for one, want to wish Ryan Riess  (@RyanRiess1) well..

Poker Stars’ Red Spade Open destroys its Guarantee; Scott “BigRiskky” Clements hits a 3fer Online while playing live in Canada; WSOPcom Online Championship Concludes On the heels of the 800 millionth tournament just a short time ago, PokerStars again brought amazing value to a million dollar guarantee tournament with it’s..

Frontpage photo: PokerNewscom #1 – “ragen70” – Topping the list with a $714,575 score over 20 session and 3641 hands was poker’s 16th biggest all time winner  Bringing his total above $32 million again, ragen70 is trending up, and the biggest benefactors to the grinder’s success were Gus Hansen and..

Finnish “kongolainen” takes home the Million’s big share, total prize pools down for the first time since WCOOP & the WSOPcom Online Championships kick off While the big tournaments we’re used to trended down outside of the Sunday Million, a new tournament series hit the block  Offering a virtual crown to its..

There was a lot of competition to get into the “Elite Eight” this week, but they were all playing for 2nd place as Viktor Blom went on an epic tear this week racking up well over $1,000,000 in winnings at the high stakes tables  But, being Blom, he still LOST enough over his tumultuous run to put Ike Haxton, Alex Millar, Douglas..