Biggest Poker Cash Pot Ever Recorded

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21, 2009, Antonius and Viktor “Isildur1' Blom played for what is still the largest cash game pot in online poker history.

The action over at the GGPoker network has been heating up over the last month, with the 2020 World Series of Poker Online at the halfway point of their 54 bracelet-offering throughout the summer. However, it's not all tournament poker that's drawing the eyeballs, as some of the highest cash games the online poker hasn't seen since the glory days of Full Tilt Poker are happening over there as well.

In a $500/$1,000 cash game with a $1,000 ante, Wiktor Malinowski — famed under his online moniker 'limitless' — and Michael Addamo played the biggest NLHE cash game pot on record. The massive clash happened over at Natural8, part of the GGPoker network, in an invitation-only VIP cash game. Alongside Malinowski, Chris Brewer, Tan '4321' Xuan', and 'UnderO', who resides in Malta, completed the line-up.

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The Actors: Wiktor Malinowski and Michael Addamo

The two players in the massive hand are familiar among railbirds that keep track of the nosebleeds. While Malinowski is a rare sight in tournaments — the Pole has just five tournament cashes with three coming from Super High Rollers — he's considered one of the all-time greats on the highest online cash stakes.

In fact, mere days ago, the 'High Stakes Poker End Boss' appeared on the popular Joe Ingram podcast where he issued a challenge to the poker world. In the podcast, the Pole dropped a few gems, such as offering to play opponents drunk and drink a whole bottle of wine on stream to entice any heads-up action he can get.

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Malinowski was slated to appear on the upcoming Run it Once Heads Up Legends Showdown but opted out of it due to the very high-stakes action going on right now, with this pot being a result of that.

While Addamo might be more notable for his tournament prowess, sporting two WSOP bracelets and $8M+ in lifetime winnings according to The Hendon Mob, he can certainly hold its own when it comes to the highest of stakes. 'imluckbox', as he's also known, is considered one of Australia's very best players alongside the likes of Kahle Burns and Jonathan Karamalikis.

Both of them had 400+ big blinds stacks in front of them when the fateful hand took place.

The Hand: Kings Against Aces

With 'UnderO' posting the small blind of $500 and Addamo the big blind of $1,000, the hand got underway. Malinowski raised to $2,000 from the cutoff, Addamo three-bet to $14,000, Malinowski four-bet to $43,500, Addamo five-bet to $108,000 and Malinowski called to create a pot already up over 200 big blinds before a flop was even seen.

The flop came down and Addamo bet $71,775, which Malinowski called. On the turn, Addamo bet $100,146.50, and once again, the Polish high roller called in position. On the river, Addamo shoved his remaining $140,547.80 in the middle and Malinowski called off the shove.

Addamo showed for a pair of kings, but Malinowski had him pipped with the blades and showed to claim the gigantic pot of $842,438.62. While Malinowski drew the headlines with this big pot, the pair has been tangling back and forth with Addamo winning most of it back in other sizable pots.

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READ MORE: Patrik Antonius and Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom play the biggest online cash game pot of all time.

Breaking a 12-year Record

According to HighStakesDB, which has been keeping track of high-stakes cash pots for over a decade, it's been the largest recorded online No-Limit Hold'em cash game pot of all time. The previous record in their database was a $723,941 pot played all the way back in 2008 on Full Tilt Poker between none other than Tom 'durrrr' Dwan and one of his famous high-stakes rivals at the time, Di 'urindanger' Dang.

Similar to Malinowski and Addamo, it also involved kings versus aces and deep stacks between two aggressive players. Click on the replayer below to see the hand in action.

While it's the biggest online No-Limit Hold'em pot on record, it still falls shy of some of the monstrous pots Pot-Limit Omaha has seen over the years. Especially during the wild early Full Tilt Poker days of the past decade, big six-, and even seven-figure pots kept railbirds glued to their screens.

The record for biggest online cash game pot of all time still stands between Patrik Antonius and Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom, who played a $1.35M pot back in 2009 with Antonius ending up as the victor.

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Moments ago, a few lucky railbirds witnessed Patrik Antonius win the largest pot in online poker history.

Fresh off his recent battering of Tom 'durrrr” Dwan, mystery Swede 'Isildur1' took to the virtual felt against Team Full Tilter Patrik Antonius. The two battled across four $500/$1,000 heads-up deep pot-limit Omaha tables and the action was furious. After playing a series of pots that reached six-figure proportions, Antonius and Isildur1 battled in what will, for now anyway, be known as the largest online pot of all time.

Antonius began the hand in the big blind with $439,479.50 and Isildur1 had the button with a slightly larger stack of $450,494.50.

Isildur1 opened the pot with a raise to $3,000, and Antonius ($439,479.50) made the call. First to act, Antonius checked the flop, allowing Isildur1 to fire a $5,000 continuation bet. Antonius then check-raised to $21,000, sending the action back to Isildur1 who called, opting to take it to the turn, which brought the .

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On 4th Street, Antonius led out with a pot-sized bet of $48,000 and Isildur1 re-potted, pushing the action to $192,000, committing nearly half of his remaining stack. Action then shifted back to Antonius who sent the railbirds into a tizzy, moving all-in for $415,479.50. After a slight pause, Isildur1 made the call, creating the largest pot in online poker history ($878,958.50).

The cards were then revealed and it looked as though Antonius and Isildur1 would get their money back, chopping the pot with top two pair:

Isildur1:
Antonius:

As you know, however, things don’t always work out the way you expect them to in this game. When the money hit the middle, Patrik had outs for a heart flush, or any eight for a straight, while Isildur1 could claim the pot with any non-heart king or jack.

On this day, fate sided with Antonius, who spiked the on the river completing a gutshot straight to rake the pot.

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The hand tops the former largest online pot-limit Omaha pot, played between Ilari Sahamies and Dwan ($702,925). It also surpasses the former largest online pot of all time (any game), which was a hold’em hand played between Dwan and Di 'Urindanger' Dang. In that hand, Dang's aces overtook Dwan's kings for $723,938.

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Don’t be surprised if the record gets broken again in a matter of minutes. Isildur1 and Antonius were still going at it on two tables at the time this article was written, 9:00 p.m. PST with Antonius sitting with over $1.575 million on ‘Royal Guard.’

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