TiltMeNot had a harsh word for Isaac Haxton:
I disliked everything about Ike.
His presence, his avatar, his glasses. All of it. Couldnt stand it.
Looking back, that's about the biggest compliment you can pay an opponent.
Wonder if anyone ever felt that way about me.
A boy can dream.
"Guys this isn't an Ike good guy bad guy thread lol," TiltMeNot clarified. "i barely knew the guy. I hated playing him. Thats the whole point. When you feel that strongly about someone, there's usually some jealousy mixed in there somewhere."
"Folded to Ike once with big hand and said probably a bad fold,'" Chris Brewer recalled. "He showed me the nuts and someone mentioned he never shows normally. He said “if they are going to make bad folds I want them to enjoy doing it” 😂"
Jared Bleznick and GucciNIKE played PLO $500/$1k on CoinPoker.
Moved up to 1k/2k !! https://t.co/4iMcGEnYHJ pic.twitter.com/YAUZczJrOv
— BobbyJamesPoker (@BobbyJamesPoker) August 31, 2026
For GucciNIKE, who is considered by many to be the strongest Omaha regular at the moment, the session ended unsuccessfully.
"So Gucci loses a million dollars today. What now?" laments a Swedish PLO specialist named Carl on Twitter. "Sit around waiting for a 100/200 game so he can win $20k and be down $980k instead?
This is why being king of the hill can be brutal sometimes. When you’re already at the top, there’s nowhere to chase your huge losses.
Now he basically has to pray for Blez to come back, or he’s just stuck that million for possibly a long period.
Urgh 🤢"
"I'm guessing business as usual for him," TiltMeNot suggested. "he probably has 30-50% of himself in the 500/1k, whereas at 100/200 id guess hes close to 100%."
u actually think he sells vs Blez? He must be overrolled for 500/1k.
— "I'm fairly sure he sells, ofc i dont know for sure. Blez is decent enough and v volatile. to battle 500/1k regularly id personally want like a 20m bankroll. yea I'm a bankroll nit ha. Gucci has been crushing what, 5 years? Given online poker economics id be pretty surprised if he's accumulated anywhere close to that entirely on his own. Cumicon was selling at 100/200 and 200/400 with almost a 10m roll. Think about that"
Gun to my head I would have easily thought Guccis NW is over $30m but maybe i’m totally overestimating that then.
I know O4rollz won $20m in the earlier hs action on coin. But I don’t know guccis history and how long he’s actually been active though
— "PLO4 is a different animal. Got into a ton of private 6max because of his style and bankroll wise I'm sure was way more willing to just run it up.
$30m for Gucci sounds wild to me. i just haven't seen that kind of money come out of the online economy. not even close.
Obvs I've been out 5 years and these are entirely my own guesses. very open to being wrong.
Theres a world where gucci has graphed 30m+ lifetime, which itself is a big if, but even then the amount that was actually his own action would be way under that."
Later on in the week, Blez was spotted again at the high-stakes CoinPoker tables, this time playing heads up against 1btc1btc.
1btc1btc eventually proposed to play four tables at $500/$1,000, but Blez counteroffered two tables at $1,000/$2,000.
Blez obliged, and the two ended up playing three tables at $500/$1,000. One of the notable hands is below:
Afterwards, TheBlez sat out on that table and continued on the other two. He may have been out of funds, because he chose to play severely short stacked on one of the tables, even sitting at $28,000 (well below the $100,000 max buy-in).
Then there were two tables. On the more short-stacked of the two tables, Blez went for it.
But the runout was not in his favor. After 1btc1btc took the rest of his stack on this table, the Blez sat out and left.
Recently, since CoinPoker got rid of their Battle Tables and opened up the VIP Arena completely, no longer requiring players to earn seats through Battle Tables. High-stakes action has been picking up.
There will be 20 bracelets up for grabs in the Bahamas in December.
"Really interesting direction that the brand is going," Patrick Leonard reflects on GG's strategy . "A lot of big buy in, small high roller turbos. We’re going to see a big change in who has a lot of bracelets moving forward. 40 man PLO 25k turbo (with I assume reentry? so 20ish projected runners? 40 man 50k PLO, 40 man PLO/NLH mix 25ks.
Negreanu is going to be all time bracelet leader very quickly which I assume the brand wants and then a lot of the wizards like Mararthur & Eelis will overtake the guys who have grinded during the summers over the last decade or so.
The majority are priced out now, the buy ins are just so high that without backing or sponsorship you just can’t really play, the same 25 or so guys will play these events reentering and basically guaranteeing bracelets between eachother. I’m not sure how great that is for poker and for the brand though? But I’m sure they’ve considered all of the above.
Really interesting."
"Try to guess the reg, his ABI, and his hourly rate," user IGTreal suggested to readers, posting a chart showing his million-dollar profit from 130,000 tournaments.
"It's ihaterivers," he wrote a little later. "True freak of nature. 119 hourly, 18 abi."
"Yes, that's me," confirmed ihaterivers. "Not retired—just focused on coaching and content these days. I’m helping others follow the same path I did behind the scenes at GTOLAB, the training site I co-founded 3 years ago with some of the greatest minds in poker."
"Any regrets over not doubling the Abi or tripling?" someone asked in the comments.
– Yes and no.
In hindsight I would have definitely made more money but with more variance
I saw many people overextend themselves and burn out or go broke. Consistency and having money while young was more valuable than having excess with exponentially more risk of failure
For reference, of my 130,000 games played, only 734 were $200+ and most of those were sun mill
Beriuzy revealed the secret to winning expensive online MTTs:
– You want to crush in big MAIN EVENTS?
Well it's all about DISCIPLINE.
You need to be able to make very good folds & avoid.... shut the fuck up you fucking idiot liar.RIP $5,000🤣🤣
Being a redliner can be a painful experience, I would not recommend
Matt Berkey named three things that players miss when evaluating win rates:
When estimating win rates 3 things are clear:
1. Ppl often mistake ideal conditions as a representation of the avg.
2. Ppl conflate timespan (months/years etc) with actual hand volume
3. There's minimal understanding of how negative sum games work, particularly the impact winners & rake have on the stability of an ecosystem.
Doug Polk reminisced about his youth and grinds a lot of heads-up online:
Heads up poker is the sickest. I went on a 700k downswing almost entirely at 25/50 for over the last 1.5 months mainly at PLO on ClubWPTGold.
Won about 300k back but it makes you question everything when you lose that many buyins in a row. I have my sights set on getting back to even 💪
“You aren’t a real PLO player until you go on a 100 buyin downswing in a month,” Joe Ingram suggested .
Things aren't going very well for Doug.
It's been a busy week for streams of the expensive game.
At High Stakes Poker on PokerGO, Andrew Robl and Erik Wasserson played for a pot of more than $2.4 million, an all-time record in the show's history.
In the first session at $500/$1k, amateurs put experienced regulars to shame.
Eric Wasserson performed solo in the second.
But in the third, things didn't go so well for Rick Salomon and Elton Tsang.
All episodes are available on YouTube.
Daniel Negreanu made his debut at Hustler Casino last Friday.
They played there for significantly less ($100/$200), and Daniel ended up with a small loss.
He also played the most exciting hand of the evening, pulling off a successful check-raise bluff on the river.
OMG!! CHECK RAISE RIVER BLUFF!! 😱
— Hustler Casino Live (@HCLPokerShow) August 29, 2026
Can @RealKidPoker actually get @senortilt to fold top 2 pair?!? 👀 pic.twitter.com/hlxXwqyNnP
"What a day for streams," Shaun Deeb concluded after a busy weekend . "TexasMike, EWass, and company were playing for millions, Negreanu and Airball were playing for hundreds of thousands, and the world's best player was playing for tens of dollars with a group of girls."
We're talking about Phil Hellmuth, who won $2k at $5/$10 on the Queens and Cards show.
$215 was won by Molly Hellmuth, Phil's sister.
Las Vegas news channel VitalVegas surprised readers with its aggressive tone:
Congrats to this monumental dipshit who hit for $100,000 and didn’t tip anyone a dime. Don’t drive behind any logging trucks on the way home, douchebag!
"How much do you tip the customer when he loses $40,000?" someone asked in the comments.
What other stupid questions do you plan to post today?
— Lol at tipping a machine…
Machines don’t pay $100,000 jackpots, genius. They also don’t bring drinks.
One Reddit user posted his favorite screenshot:
So I'm cleaning up my hard drive and found some old screenshots. Took this one on March 16th 2016.
Never change, PokerStars.
"This happened every hour on Stars," the commentators were unimpressed.
– And on GG – every second.
PokerClips revisited a classic hand between Ben Zamani and Ryan D'Angelo from the final table of the 2010 PCA Main Event.
Ryan D'Angelo tilts after calling with Queen high against Ben Zamani 😂
— Poker Clips (@pokerclipsx) August 30, 2026
"You're so bad what are you doing?"
(via PokerStars)pic.twitter.com/YDQ6rg6Jfj
On the river, Ben bluffed with A-high and got called by Q-high.
“Yours,” Zamani sadly admitted, seeing the call, but he was in no hurry to throw away his cards.
“Oh my god, I called you with Q-high,” Ryan realized.
“I suspected I had the best hand, but I didn’t think he would call,” Zamani, considerably more cheerful, admitted to his neighbors.
"You're such a bad player. What are you even doing? You actually called preflop with A5o, that's terrible. You're so bad."
“One of the best hands in the history of TV poker,” the commentators reminisced.
"Damn, I guess they'll never forget that hand," Ryan said, less pleased with the clip. "But it would have been cooler if I'd been stronger or he'd mucked."
Tournament winner Harrison Gimbel earned more than $2 million.
