A player with the nickname BTCdemon won over $1 million last night from Owen "Pr0digy" Messer at the $1k/$2k CoinPoker VIP Arena tables.
Spectators on 2+2 joined the match at the very end.
The unknown BTCDemon's next opponent was Chris "Lukabrate" Nguyen.
Chris won several big pots and built his stack to $1 million.
Spectators couldn't believe that this newcomer went from about $80,000 up to $1.2 million, wiping out Pr0digy along the way.
At one point, Nguyen had $1.2 million against BTCdemon's $500k, but in just half an hour, the demon was back to a million.
In the biggest pot of the evening, players went all-in pre-flop and played for $1.1 million.
"heart rate 200 bro," Chris tweeted. "He is a true demon."
After this hand, the daring newcomer's profit exceeded $1.5 million.
"$5k rake ok this hand is just retarded," Scooter pointed out.
"Their might be more games of this caliber on their site if they didn’t have this ridiculous rake. If this game last more than an hour, CoinPoker takes 50% of the money on the table lol."
But other users were equally quick to point out the rakeback, which is rumored to be up to 90% in some cases, and advertised as at least 50% profit share on VIP Arena tables.
Read ReadChris managed to recover some of his losses at the end of the match. But in the final hand, he made a fatal mistake.
On the turn, Chris used EV Cashout, after which BTCdemon immediately left.
"Whales like that hate when u cash out EQ," one of the regulars wrote to Chris. "No risk for pain."
"Yea learned the hard way didnt have funds to keep going if I would have lost so thought was good in the moment. next time wont 😆"
"Well then I understand your choice 🙂," the reg replied,
Demon's next client was Barak "iWasOnly17" Wisbrod.
But the match lasted only a couple of hands, as the table quickly filled up. After losing with the nut flush against a full house, BTCdemon retired.
CoinPoker tweeted the week's biggest hands. BTCdemon participated in four of them.
The second and third hands were played between Messere and BTCdemon.
In the first, Demon called a 3-bet and called all the streets.
Owen had .
In the second hand, Messer 5-bet all-in preflop and got called.
Chris Nguyen has been active on Twitter over the past couple of weeks .
"Truly insane session yesterday," he concluded the night's action. "Literally impossbile to stay fully sane while playing, even though I felt LOCKED IN. Feels like every experience like this gives you so much for future big spots you are taking. Thankful for being here and having these moments. 😍"
"What was session total PNL?" his readers asked. "Saw u clawed some back with 87 vs AJ hand. GL if u go again champ."
"My guy 🙏 slightly up in end"
Chris's first tweet was on August 9th. He posted a screenshot from the lobby of the $10,000 GGMillions tournament and wrote that he was ready to crossbook with 90% of players selling shares at odds.
"What do the color markings mean?" Aram Ohanyan asked.
– How much I like the person.
– Haha, I like it. I hope I'm purple.
Chris then reflected then reflected on what poker greatness is:
– I feel like a good way to categorize greatness in Poker is Money earned in Poker excluding:
– private cash games
– massive once in a lifetime binks like WSOP Main Event
– sold actionMaybe add rules that it has to be done in a 10 year time span to weed out the mega grinders who are obv legendary in their own way but just not the same as the true endbosses.
So just own Net Profit in Public Games accessible to everyone.
Make a 10M+ Club for the true bosses:
LL, C.Darwin who else?
Mario Mosbock listed Kayhan, Lena, Fedor, Jason, Jungleman, and Ivey.
"Imagine wanting to be on the list," Sam Soverel said, confused.
In a series of posts, Chris shared his most memorable hands.
– One of my biggest Hands played at 100/200, 3years ago, was up 140k this session, VIP playing 70vpip/30 3bet keeps reloading, Dream Spot.
My read on Villain MEGA NIT only there when very good VIP is playing and basically avoid all regs.
Basically on flop I thought to myself fuck this guy he will fold RANGE by river.
Classic jam river and stand up from pc walk away and come back 30sec later to 100bb stack.
Good times.
– It seems you need to reconsider what “mega-nit” is.
"Yeah, I was wrong there 😄 He always played for the better, he just selected his opponents very carefully. I don't blame him. Besides, we played that hand at the low point of his career, not at the peak."
One more epic from the vault.
Because of the straddles he does not have much Ax in range, and probably would not bluff a K and a J so gets less crazy but still one of my favorite hands.
There was also some advice for the young up-and-comers:
– One piece of advice I would give for upcoming Poker Players is
- Bet on yourself
- Take shots
- Play with your own money
Only way to learn what the next level is like is to experience it.
Also more incentiviced to study, put in work if you are taking all the consequencesWould rather play mid stakes with own money than high stakes staked
If youre good enough you will be there soon
Staking only worth it imo if a really good coach comes with it
For live mega high rollers can be different but in almost all cases bad for backer
– Why would you say staking live for high rollers can make sense?
Doesn't really make sense but happens a lot that players go deep in the hole and then get dropped, so are freerolling the backer pretty hard. Could work theoretically guess but just hard mentally surely.
– What kind of mark up can a person like you expect if staked in a 100k buy in?
Staked is different than selling action!!
Selling action ofc normal and necessary
Depends on the field