{"id":3390,"date":"2014-04-24T11:20:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2014-04-24T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T18:01:11","slug":"is-patrik-antoius-online-pokers-biggest-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/is-patrik-antoius-online-pokers-biggest-winner","title":{"rendered":"Is Patrik Antonius Online Poker’s Biggest Winner?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Thanks to their numerous TV and online poker battles, Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius are two players whose careers are closely tied together. But these high stakes pros couldn’t be any further apart these days when considering their online results.<\/p>\n

Antonius is coming off a week where he made nearly $1 million under his ‘FinddaGrind’ name. Since Full Tilt relaunched back in November of 2012, Antonius has earned $2.65 million in profits. Not bad for playing in a continually tougher high stakes world!<\/p>\n

Ivey’s fortunes haven’t been quite as good. Maybe it’s the pressure of facing two baccarat “edge sorting” lawsuits, but Ivey has had the worst results of his career. He lost over $755k during the Easter weekend and is down $4.7 million on his ‘Polarizing’ account – the one he’s been using ever since Full Tilt relaunched.<\/p>\n

Given the two different directions that these stars are headed, we wonder if Antonius has now become online poker’s biggest winner. After accumulating $19.2 million on the old Full Tilt, Ivey was far and away the biggest winner. However, that could very well have changed now, based on data from HighStakesDB<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Patrik Antonius<\/strong>
\nPatrik Antonius screen name<\/em>: +$11.32 million
\nFinddaGrind screen name<\/em>: +$4.99 million
\nTotal = $15.31 million in profits<\/p>\n

Phil Ivey<\/strong>
\nPhil Ivey screen name<\/em>: +$19.24 million
\nPolarizing screen name<\/em>: -$4.7 million
\nTotal = $14.54 million in profits<\/p>\n

Okay, so based on these numbers, Antonius is definitely online poker’s biggest winner. But here’s the curveball: both players are also rumored to have names on PokerStars too. As HSDB writes, Ivey “almost certainly plays under ‘RaiseOnce'” while Antonius “almost certainly plays under ‘Fake Love888.'”<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that these names have never been 100% verified by either player. But if these are indeed Ivey and Antonius’ names on PokerStars, here’s how the lifetime profits would shake out:<\/p>\n

Antonius<\/strong>
\nKnown winnings<\/em>: +$15.31 million
\nRumored Fake Love888 name<\/em>: -$1.4 million
\nNew total = $13.91 in profits<\/p>\n

Ivey<\/strong>
\nKnown winnings<\/em>: +$14.54 million
\nRumored RaiseOnce name<\/em>: -$47.88k
\nNew total = $14.49 million in profits<\/p>\n

So as you can see, the matter of who’s the most profitable player in online poker history depends on rumors and speculation. But one thing’s for sure: if everything keeps going like it is, Antonius will undoubtedly become the internet game’s biggest winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to their numerous TV and online poker battles, Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius are two players whose careers are closely tied together. But these high stakes pros couldn’t be any further apart these days when considering their online results. Antonius is coming off a week where he made nearly $1 million under his ‘FinddaGrind’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[1629,1628,1627,1626,332,96,1630,1631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}