GTOWarrior tweeted the results of the top winners and losers of January on CoinPoker:
– You Keep Fighting, Then You Win... 🔥
Congrats to KayhanMok for his $2.3M heater, and a great start of the year! 👏
GucciNIKE is feared by many and clutched 2nd place with a nearly $1M score on the final day of the month. 🤡
LLinusLL0ve (Linus Loeliger) had an awful CGWC and a wonderful January! ❤️🚀 Biggest Winners High Stakes CoinPoker Games January 2026:
🥇 KayhanMok: +$2,359,687
🥈 GucciNIKE: +$1,302,685
🥉 LLinusLLove: +$921,075
Slumdiggity, another high-stakes player on CoinPoker, also reported a successful start to the year:
In one of the sessions he won a big pot from Dejan Kaladjurdjevic:
Moral of the story: float the flop too wide so you can backdoor a boat and win a 150K pot
Andrew Barber asked for public opinion on the controversial situation with a friend:
– This is so unimportant in the grand scheme, but…
Played CCR with 5 other people for a dinner at Nobu last night and the person that lost texted everyone this morning to say that it wasn’t in his budget and his wife is mad at him, so how would I like to pay him?
I would appreciate serious responses to this.
"Don’t send him money," Tony Dunst is confident. "He won’t learn and will probably keep pulling this kind of shit in the future."
"Gladly take a conversation with the wife. Try to think of an analogy she would understand," Joshua Arie suggested. "Be glad you’ve only known him 2 days! Prolly about a 1% chance I give him the $…. >0% he’s scamming, he may not even be married"
“Give the money from your side for sure imo, it’s a relatively cheap lesson to understand a lot,” wrote Patrick Leonard.
"Just for fun ask him if you had lost would he be emailing you today asking where he could pay his share as he would not have been able to afford losing?" RBKriverboatking pondered. "Guessing that will provide some additional amusement."
"Great minds..." Barber said, posting a screenshot.
Leo Wolpert recalled how he once lost a similar game:
"Maybe gambling ain't for him. I lost a CCR at Atlantis Nobu ~15 years ago with a couple people who are now in the Hendon Top 10 there. I was spiraling toward bustoville, but never considered asking for a rebate or letting em know how much it stung (unless they read this tweet)."
"I went busto playing CCR with Shaun Deeb and John Aguiar In Reno, March of 2008," Brian Devonshire chimed in with the nostalgia. "Took a beat on the turn for the chip lead with 18 left and quit poker. But then I rivered a boat and walked out days later with a quarter million cash in a sack from the gift shop."
"Very nice. Since my story took place at PCA," Leo admitted. "You better believe i walked out days later with nothing but sand in my pockets and a bad head cold."
The Kaggle AI Poker Showdown ends with GPT 5.2 victory.
"It's fun watching Doug try to contain his exasperation with the bots' "logic" and actions in the replays. Clearly we still have a long way to go until LLMs master poker," Noam Brown, creator of the Libratus and Pluribus poker bots, commented on the tournament results . "Happy to see GPT-5.2 is the champion though!"
Read ReadSpraggy came up with a new format:
"Hey! Anybody wanna play poker for 4 hours and then just go all in every hand to see who wins most of the prize pool? Mystery, indeed."
One of the tweets from little-known grinder Michael Faulkner got 115,000 views (his posts usually get 500-2,000):
– Just happened at 5/10
Straddle 20 is on. Rec player opens to 90.
Pro looks at him and says "the standard raise is 60"
Rec player loses the pot, says "this game is ass" and picks up
Perfect interaction 10/10 no notes
At the Cyprus Onyx YoH series, ViraL asked Adrian Mateos:
– You’ve won $54 million in tournaments, how much of it is real profit?
“More than Chidwick,” Adrian replied, to laughter from the entire table.
Seth Davis doesn't like the modern approach to teaching:
– I don't like how there's a push in poker coaching to simplify things. It's ok if things are complicated. It's a complicated game.
Sam Greenwood agreed.
I'll also add that small errors add up. A simple c-bet range strategy might lose 0.05bbs over an optimal one. That doesn't sound like much, but could easily add up to 1bb/100. In tough or high raked games 5bb/100 is a nice win rate. Simplifying could cost you 20% of your WR.
One more point here: learning more complex strategies will make you better equipped to play vs opponents who play complex strategies.
Ben Lamb is considering a bet:
Discussion of an interesting prop bet today. For the next 365 days the only thing I can drink is water from a camelbak. The water backpack thing.
John Aguiar:
– "Does the backpack have to be on your back to drink from it? Seems important."
– "Hrmm. Yes? Unless you’re in bed can be on table side I think."
Daniel Negreanu found himself in Epstein's files:
– Welp, looks like I made it into the Epstein files, but they butchered my last name.
Didn’t have this on my bingo card! 😂
In 2017, Epstein was advised to learn the basics of poker from one of Daniel's videos.
"I was wondering when a poker player would pop up," Adam Levy wrote. "Unexpected way."
Another poker player who appeared in the “files” is Vladimir Geshkenbein.
In 2015, Vladimir applied for a job with Epstein and prepared a video presentation. The letter of recommendation described Geshkenbein as "a man who was able to apply mathematical concepts to poker and reach a championship level."
As a reminder, in 2013, Vladimir sold his buy-in to the World Series of Poker on the PokerStrategy forum. On the day of the Main Event, he informed his shareholders that he couldn't play the tournament as part of his package, as he only had $500 left. He ended up playing a friend's Main Event and finished in 62nd place ($123,000).
The forum shareholders received a refund of their buy-in, but with double the odds—Vladimir had originally sold his buy-ins at odds of 1.6, but returned them at odds of 2.2.
Josh Arieh recalled one of the first sessions:
– At the poker table yesterday Kristen Foxen asked"What’s the oldest hand you remember?"
Well I found it….have a seat and enjoy.
December 1994, I’m 20 yo.
Game: $5-$10 LHE
My friend Ray opens utg, I 3b AK, Late pool legend, Tony Ellin, 4b. My friend calls. I 5b and bet all three streets, failing to make a pair. Tony calls on river and my friend is in the tank. He asks me if I have it. “Ray I have a really good hand, you should prolly fold”. Ray takes my advice. Before we turn our hands up I ask Tony “you wanna chop it?” He says “sure” as he flips up AK for no pair. I sheepishly try to slide my hand into the muck before rays huge mit is smothering my hand and flipping over my no pair.
Within 3 seconds I took a right hook to the nose and blood splattered every where!
Ray was a big guy and didn’t need the baseball bat that he returned with 15 min later. I was able to sneak out the back, avoiding any further injury.
There’s a lesson in here somewhere, just not sure what it is.
Jungleman spoke about Dan Heimiller's long-standing debt.
In 2009, Heimiller and Phil Gordon participated in an auction held at the Wynn Casino for gamblers. Details of the event are unclear, but Heimiller ended up $8,000 in debt. Apparently, the gamblers were participating in a charity auction and agreed to split the cost of one of the items. Gordon paid on the spot, and Heimiller was supposed to pay him back later, but that never happened.
Apparently Dan Heimiller has, after 15 years and loads of excuses decided not to pay Phil Gordon back for 15k to help him with a flimsy excuse that he was a Full Tilt owner.
Full Tilt.. *Did* pay everyone back...
Some screenshots:
Phil Gordon:
Thank you Jungleman
I’ve tried everything. Facts:
I fronted all the money for the contest.
We won and he picked up the proceeds – total freeroll.
He’s owed me ~8k for 15 years and refuses to pay or arbitrate as you’ve seen despite acknowledging the debt.So one last shot:
Dan Heimiller save your reputation and pay $4000 to me directly – 1/2 of what you owe.If you don’t want to do that because you don’t want me to have the money, make an $8k contribution to a great charity in Seattle called Islandwood and we will call it even.
Dan Heimiller:
Nope, I'm right, he's wrong.
Full tilt owners decided to hold players money in their own pockets; illegal in the US. Then they made a deal with the devil to stay out of jail that included stiffing the players. DOJ and lawyers kept $45 Million of $160 Million owed players.
Jungleman:
You can arbitrate but you can't decide you're right especially when a common opinion disagrees.
Idk why didn't Full Tilt payout 45m?
Dan Heimiller:
Money wasn't borrowed. It was a contest that we won. Phil went into hiding and contacted me after the deadline to get Full Tilt money back was over. I attempted to pay him immediately after the contest. He had left the country. It was about $3500.