{"id":3786,"date":"2014-08-29T18:55:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T22:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2014-08-29T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T23:39:11","slug":"dan-cates-up-phil-ivey-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/dan-cates-up-phil-ivey-down","title":{"rendered":"Dan Cates up $10.2m, Phil Ivey down $5.1m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/phil-ivey-interview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/phil-ivey-interview-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"phil-ivey-interview\" width=\"224\" height=\"253\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3200\" \/><\/a>Oh what a difference a couple of years can make in high stakes online poker. Coming into the relaunched Full Tilt Poker, Phil Ivey was the game&#8217;s biggest winner with $19.2 million in online profits. However, he&#8217;s since taken a big tumble over the nearly-two years since Full Tilt reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Switching to the name &#8220;Polarizing,&#8221; Ivey is now down $5.1 million. This still leaves him with about $14.1 million in career online poker winnings. And we certainly wouldn&#8217;t expect him to be in money trouble, given his multiple business endeavors and baccarat edge-sorting profits. Still, it&#8217;s strange to see the man whom many call the &#8220;world&#8217;s greatest all-around poker player&#8221; struggle so badly.<\/p>\n<p>On the other end of the spectrum is Dan &#8220;jungleman12&#8221; Cates, who is dominating the cyber felt this year. Cates had the prime of his poker career interrupted by Black Friday, as he&#8217;d earned $6.8 million in just a year before April 15th, 2011. Since resuming his high stakes career at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dan-jungleman12-cates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dan-jungleman12-cates-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dan-jungleman12-cates\" width=\"270\" height=\"176\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dan-jungleman12-cates-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dan-jungleman12-cates.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>Full Tilt, Cates hasn&#8217;t experienced any drop-off, and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highstakesdb.com\/profiles\/jungleman12.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">HighStakesDB graph<\/a> just keeps going up. At the time of this writing, Jungleman has made over $2.83 million in 2014, which leads everybody entering September.<\/p>\n<p>Cates also ranks third all-time with $10.23 million. He only trails Ivey and Patrik Antonius &#8211; the latter of whom is another interesting story. Like Cates, Antonius is crushing players this year and has earned $1.83 million. Overall, the Finn has collected $5.95 million in career profits through his &#8220;Finddagrind&#8221; name. Combine this with $11.2 million from his self-titled name and Antonius has over $17.1 million in career winnings.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the high stakes online poker world is a fickle place. So it&#8217;ll be interesting to see if Cates and Antonius continue dominating the big games at Full Tilt. But at this point, we have little reason to doubt their skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh what a difference a couple of years can make in high stakes online poker. Coming into the relaunched Full Tilt Poker, Phil Ivey was the game&#8217;s biggest winner with $19.2 million in online profits. However, he&#8217;s since taken a big tumble over the nearly-two years since Full Tilt reopened. 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