The Top Winners and Losers of 2009

January 1st, 2010 No Comments   Posted in PokerListings.com

Below are summaries of the top five money earners, and top five losers of the year, including a month-by-month graph of their results.

To see more stats and hand replays from throughout the year, head to MarketPulse.

Patrik Antonius

It only makes sense to have the year’s top earner at the top of the list, so without further ado, we bring you the 2009 story of Patrik Antonius.

Patrik Antonius

Patrik Antonius just might have hit the life jackpot. He was at one-time a model and tennis pro, before becoming one of the most respected, and feared, poker players in the world. He made the list of the top 10 top profit earners in 2007 under the username FinddaGrind with over $1.3 million earned.

In 2008, he made another $1.3 million, this time as part of Team Full Tilt.

This January Antonius made over $2 million and never dropped below that point. His year was filled with million dollar swings, but in the end, the Finnish pro always found a way to come out good.

On top of being the most profitable player on the year, Antonius was also busy breaking the records for the largest pots ever played online. Despite all of his profits, Antonius has fallen behind in the durrrr Challenge and needs to make close to $1 million in the second half to have a chance.

However, he finished 2009 as the top earner with a massive profit of over $8.9 million.

Phil Ivey

phil Ivey

This year Phil Ivey has done exactly what Phil Ivey does every year: Win. In 2008, Ivey was the top online earner with over $7.3 million in profit. In 2007 he was the third largest earner with $1.9 million and this year he ends in second place with $6.3 million.

His story is the same every year: Any players, any game, any stakes. He’ll sit, and most of the time he’ll win. But even Ivey isn’t immune to the swings, starting off the year in the red he had to spend a couple of months getting back to even.

After an $800k loss in May, it was pretty much profit from that point on. Add these winnings to his two WSOP bracelets, Main Event final table appearance and prop bets won, and you have one hell of a good looking year.

Brian Hastings

Brian Hastings

CardRunners pro Brian Hastings has had one of the most interesting years out of anyone online. He started the year with a backing deal for playing the nose-bleed stakes against Gus Hansen.

Even with Hansen bleeding chips for months, Hastings struggled to get even for the majority of the year, finally showing a profit come August.

Come the end of November, it started to look as though Hastings would be having a positive year, but nothing too spectacular, or worth talking about. That was until he sat down with Isildur1 for possibly the biggest session in online poker history.

By the end of the single session with the game’s most explosive player, Hastings had made $4.2 million in profit; effectively ending Isildur1’s run at Full Tilt’s high-stakes tables.

The win was steeped in controversy when information came to light that Hastings, along with two fellow CardRunners pros Brian Townsend and Cole South, merged their hand history databases together to allow for an in-depth study of Isildur1’s heads up game.

For the full scoop on this controversy, head to: Full Tilt Suspends Brian Townsend.

theASHMAN103

Ashton Griffin

Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin is only 20 years old, and began playing poker seriously in high-school. His downfall has always been bankroll management and tilt issues.

After a series of massive swings he went broke right at the beginning of the year, but Griffin finally got his head in the right spot coming in to April of 2009 when he was forced to get a stake to get back in the game.

Thanks to winning a prop bet for making $500k playing nothing higher than $25/$50 No-Limit immediately before the event was set to start, Griffin was able to enter into the $25k heads-up shootout, which he went on to win for another $500k.

Griffin’s heater continued over the next two months going from broke to the fifth most profitable player on the year. To read a full interview with Griffin about his heater, and life in poker, head to: Ashman103: The Interview Transcript.

Ilari Sahamies

Ziigmund

Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies is one of the most well-known and entertaining online players in the world. Above all else he seems to have a love for gambling with sick amounts of money.

For a few days, Sahamies had convinced a few of the nosebleed players to convert the $500/$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha tables into $3,000/$9,000. Along with all the massive flips Sahamies played over the year, it’s safe to say he is the biggest gambler at the tables.

But despite his love for gambling, Ziigmund is still one of the most profitable players in the world. The occasional swing aside, Ziigmund’s graph is mostly un-eventful, hovering around the $2-$3 million mark for the majority of the year.

It wasn’t until Ziigmund set his sights on Isildur1 that his graph took a violent swing upwards. After taking a few million from the unknown player, Ziigmund finished his year up an impressive $3.2 million.

Isildur1

isildur1

True identity still unknown, Isildur1 showed up on the poker scene Sept. 16. He splashed around in medium to high-stakes for about a month before starting to take shots in the nosebleed games.

The true story of Isildur1 started on Nov. 7 when he began his first serious upswing by crushing well known players like Haseeb Qureshi and UgotaBanana. After these wins, Isildur1 seemed fearless, willing to play anyone at any stakes.

Soon Isildur1 set his sights on Tom “durrrr” Dwan and over the next three days he absolutely destroyed him for over $4 million. At his highest point on Nov. 15, Isildur1 sat with over $5 million in profit, only to lose it all, mostly to Ivey and Antonius, by the 21st.

After making another quick run back up to almost $3 million in just one week, Isildur1 began his largest downswing.

It was during the downswing where Isildur1 shattered all the records for the largest pots of all time. He first broke the record with an $878k pot versus Patrik Antonius, only to break that record a few days later losing the first pot worth over a million at $1,356,947

Mostly a result of losing over $4.2 million in a single session to Brian Hastings, Isildur1 saw his roll get almost entirely crushed, sitting down over $2 million for the remainder of the month.

With his only hands being played at the medium stakes tables, it appears at this point as if Isildur1’s run at the highest stakes games online is through.

David Benyamine

David Benyamine

In 2008, David Benyamine was the sixth most profitable online player in the world. He finished the year having made almost $3 million profit and had snagged himself one of the most beautiful girls in poker, Erica Schoenberg.

At the very end of 2008, Full Tilt Poker dropped Benyamine as a red-name pro. As a result, he began 2009 playing under the username “MR B 2 U SON”. He played under that username until July of 2009 when his Team Full Tilt status was re-instated.

At the time of the username switch, Benyamine was down $731,128 on the year. Things continued to get worse for the French pro as he struggled throughout 2009, finishing down $2.9 million. To top it all off, many sources have reported an end to his relationship with Schoenberg.

All in all, 2009 might just have been the worst year in Benyamine’s career.

LarsLuzak

LarsLuzak

Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro is a 22-year-old Finnish poker pro who showed up on the high-stakes scene in 2007. He made over a million dollars in both 2007 and 2008, plus a rumored large profit from $250/$500 No-Limit sessions played on Betfair poker.

Despite hopes of cementing his name as one of the top players in the world, 2009 turned out to be a complete disaster for Kelopuro.

Starting the year with an $810k loss, Kelopuro was almost able to grind his way back to even in February before beginning a landslide of losses.

At no point in 2009 did Kelopuro show a profit, despite his continued efforts at the games highest stakes. After reaching nearly $4 million in losses on the year, Kelopuro disappeared from the high-stakes games, sparking rumors of a busted bankroll.

With a laundry list of impressive results from both cash games and tournaments, it’s safe to assume the poker world will hear more from Kelopuro in 2010.

Tom “durrrr” Dwan

Tom Dwan

Tom Dwan has to be considerd one of the most entertaining poker players in the world. As a result, there has been more time spent talking about Dwan in 2009 than any other online player.

His year began by losing over $4 million in the first two months, only to grind back up to over $1.4 million in profit just four months later. However, the massive swings were only one of Dwan’s many stories on the year.

The first came with the introduction of the durrrr Challenge. After almost two months of speculation and rumors, Patrik Antonius stepped up as the first competitor, and the challenge was underway.

After a short period of consistent play between the two competitors, the Challenge took a hiatus as both players chose to focus on busting a new fish splashing around at the highest stake tables available.

It didn’t take Dwan, and the rest of the online regulars, long to bust a new fish calling himself Martonas, and the challenge seemed as if it would resume.

But it wasn’t long before another new face showed up on the scene and began stirring the pot. Luke “fullflush1” Schwartz proved to be as strong at the table as he was mouthy, focusing the majority of his insults at Dwan, including the now infamous “cork it durrrrballs”.

Schwartz successfully made over $700k at the tables before cashing out, and buying a house with his profits.

The next big story for Dwan came with the third unknown player to splash around in the big game. Unfortunately for Dwan, this player, Isildur1, would end up taking him for over $5 million, before giving it all away to everyone else.

Shortly after losing the majority of his online roll, Dwan became the newest member of Team Full Tilt, and began grinding his way back towards even. By the end of 2009 Dwan had brought himself back to -$4.3 million from his November low point of -$6.8 million.

On the bright side, he is ahead in the durrrr Challenge by over $937k.

Gus Hansen

Gus Hansen

This year’s story for Gus Hansen is simple: He made $3 million in the first month, mostly off Tom Dwan, then proceeded to lose almost exclusively for the remainder of the year. Although there were months in which he showed a profit, Hansen’s graph on the year is anything but encouraging.

Due to his consistent negative results, Hansen has become one of the most popular online players amongst the other regular high-stakes grinders. As he explained in an interview with PokerListings, the high-stakes games on Full Tilt simply follow him from table to table.

As a result, Hansen chose to play almost exclusively 7-Game for the remainder of the year, at times killing absolutely all high-stakes action for all other variants.

For a look into high-stakes, and how some of the other players in the game view Hansen, head to: State of the High Stakes Poker Nation.



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Top 5 of 2009: The Emergence of Luke Schwartz

December 23rd, 2009 No Comments   Posted in PokerListings.com

With an eye on the great poker personalities that have made the scene and the interesting fodder they’ve provided for us over the past 12 months, we’ve come up with our very own Top Five Poker News Stories of 2009.

The plan is to present them to you every other day from now until New Year’s Eve and we will start today with No. 5: The Emergence of Luke Schwartz.

By March of this year, the name __FullFlush1__ was on the tip of the entire poker world’s tongues.

The ever brash and always outspoken UK based player had jumped up to the highest stakes games online and was posting massive profits against the likes of Tom "durrrr" Dwan, David "Raptor" Benefield and Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond.

But it was the way he was doing it that had him dominating poker headlines. Coming seemingly out of nowhere, the unknown Brit challenged poker’s best and brightest not just on the virtual felt, but in the chatbox as well.

Calling Dwan things like "durrrr-balls" and the rest "OMGweNerds," FullFlush’s visceral brand of chat provided endless entertainment for railbirds and an image for himself as poker’s next bad boy.

When PokerListings finally talked to the man behind it all for an exclusive interview at the end of March, his real life persona was far from disappointing.

A 25-year-old Londoner by the name of Luke Schwartz who had built a massive roll on Euro sites like Betfair before taking a shot at the nosebleed stakes on Full Tilt, he called durrrr a “nonce-cake,” trashed-talked high stakes mainstays like the Dang brothers and threatened to send the lot of them broke.

An interview with Schwartz read just like some of his best chatbox rants and the public, who either loved him or hated him, lapped it up.

"Poker needed a new kind of bad boy and Luke fit the bill," said noted author and the voice of poker in Europe Jesse May. "I can't even remember now how we could talk about poker without using terms like 'railtard', 'woteva', and 'got the jakey on.' His mouth and style got him his first five minutes of fame, but what will ensure that Luke stays around is the fact, surprising to some, that he is clearly one of the top poker players in the game."

By September, Schwartz had pulled seven figures numbers out of Full Tilt and bought himself some property in London, stepping away from the high stakes online games – But not the headlines.

Barred from playing at the World Series of Poker Europe for an incident at London’s Victoria Grosvenor Casino where he’d refused to remove his hat, PokerListings found Schwartz on the rail at the event.

It took all of one minute before he launched into a tirade against his online nemesis Dwan.

“I just can't stand durrrr,” he said. “I can't stand durrrr's face, durrrr's voice, and durrrr's eyes. I can't stand anything about durrrr.

“I'm sending him broke before the end of 2010. That's my goal.”

With a little help from some friends in the industry, Schwartz got the ban lifted just weeks later, in time to play at PokerStars EPT London, where he made headlines once again for something other than playing cards.

This time it was a sandwich he refused to pay for after busting out of the event, claiming he’d paid enough in tournament fees to cover it, was a VIP and should be treated as such.

The result was another ban from UK casinos and one of the most talked about events of the poker world’s annual fall pilgrimage to London.

But those who thought “Sandwichgate” would be the last they’d hear from Schwartz were sorely mistaken.

By the end of the year his poker playing skills were back on display as he managed to final table both the Full Tilt Poker Million and PartyPoker World Open, two of the biggest televised tournaments in Europe.

Plus, although he hasn’t stepped back into the high stakes games yet, a little advice from him helped an unknown Swede going by the name Isildur1 take a huge chunk out of Dwan’s online roll.

"Luke has shown that he has the walk to back up the talk," added May. "And in a feat of true deception, behind all the bluff and bluster, Luke Schwartz happens to be a very good guy. He is an Ali G of poker for the decade to come."

Poker fans love a winner, but they love a character even more.

Luke Schwartz appears to be both and as a result, his emergence as poker’s next bad boy is No. 5 on PokerListings’ Top Five Poker News Stories of 2009.

PokerListings has criss-crossed the planet this year bringing you the biggest and best poker news from every corner of the globe.
 
Now that 2009 is coming to a close, we’ve decided to sift through the literally thousands of headlines searching for the year’s top stories.
 
With an eye on the great poker personalities that have made the scene and the interesting fodder they’ve provided for us over the past 12 months, we’ve come up with our very own Top Five Poker News Stories of 2009.
 
The plan is to present them to you every other day from now until New Year’s Eve and we will start today with No. 5: The Emergence of Luke Schwartz.
 
By March of this year, the name __FullFlush1__ was on the tip of the entire poker world’s tongues.
 
The ever brash and always outspoken UK based player had jumped up to the highest stakes games online and was posting massive profits against the likes of Tom "durrrr" Dwan, David "Raptor" Benefield and Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond.
 
But it was the way he was doing it that had him dominating poker headlines.
 
Coming seemingly out of nowhere, the unknown Brit challenged poker’s best and brightest not just on the virtual felt, but in the chatbox as well.
 
Calling Dwan things like "durrrr-balls" and the rest of his crew as "OMGweNerds," FullFlush’s visceral brand of chat provided endless entertainment for railbirds and an image for himself as poker’s next bad boy.
 
When PokerListings finally talked to the man behind it all for an exclusive interview at the end of March, his real life persona was far from disappointing.
 
A 25-year-old Londoner by the name of Luke Schwartz who had built a massive roll on Euro sites like Betfair before taking a shot at the nosebleed stakes on Full Tilt, he called durrrr a “nonce-cake,” trashed-talked high stakes mainstays like the Dang brothers and threatened to send the lot of them broke.
 
An Interview with Schwartz read just like some of his best chatbox rants and the public, who either loved him or hated him, lapped it up.
 
By September, Schwartz had pulled seven figures numbers out of Full Tilt and bought himself some property in London, stepping away from the high stakes online games – But not the headlines.
 
Barred from playing at the World Series of Poker Europe for an incident at London’s Victoria Grosvenor Casino where he’d refused to remove his hat, PokerListings found Schwartz on the rail at the event.
 
It took all of one minute before he launched into a tirade against his online nemesis Dwan.
 
“I just can't stand durrrr,” he said. “I can't stand durrrr's face, durrrr's voice, and durrrr's eyes. I can't stand anything about durrrr.
 
“I'm sending him broke before the end of 2010. That's my goal.”
 
With a little help from some friends in the industry, Schwartz got the ban lifted just weeks later, in time to play at PokerStars EPT London, where he made headlines once again for something other than playing cards.
 
This time it was a sandwich he refused to pay for after busting out of the event, claiming he’d paid enough in tournament fees to cover it, was a VIP and should be treated as such.
 
The result was another ban from UK casinos and one of the most talked about events of the poker world’s annual fall pilgrimage to London.
 
But those who thought “Sandwichgate” would be the last they’d hear from Schwartz were sorely mistaken.
 
By the end of the year his poker playing skills were back on display as he managed to final table both the Full Tilt Poker Million and PartyPoker World Open, two of the biggest televised tournaments in Europe.
 
Plus, although he hasn’t stepped back into the high stakes games yet, a little advice from him helped an unknown Swede going by the name Isildur1 take a huge chunk out of Dwan’s online roll.    
 
Poker fans love a winner, but they love a character even more.
 
Luke Schwartz appears to be both and as a result, his emergence as poker’s next bad boy is No. 5 on PokerListings’ Top Five Poker News Stories of 2009.


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durrrr Challenge changeup: $500/$1,000 action

October 5th, 2009 No Comments   Posted in PokerListings.com
Apparently the only player to accept the invitation and take a seat was high-stakes regular POKERBLUFFS.

In what has become his familiar style, POKERBLUFFS sat for only 21 hands, but that was still long enough to pull a hit-and-run on Dwan.

After catching a lucky river card to win a $110k pot, POKERBLUFFS immediately logged off, taking his fresh profit with him and calling it a night.

The hit-and-run is a technically-legal-yet-frowned-upon practice in cash-game poker. But when you sit across from the best players in the world for long enough, there's a good chance you'll end up broke.

So although POKERBLUFFS is becoming known as a hit-and-run artist, his strategy appears to be an effective one as he's consistently growing his online roll while some of the players who stick it out at the nosebleeds for longer end up with million-dollar deficits.

Just three minutes after getting hit-and-run, Dwan reloaded to get it all in on the flop with pocket nines against Antonius's top pair of eights, resulting in the largest pot of the night worth over $186k.

Unfortunately for Dwan, just eight minutes later Antonius won an almost identical $178k pot with pocket nines against his top pair of sixes.

At the end of the night Dwan had won just $50,000 off of Antonius, almost exactly what he lost to the hit-and-run of POKERBLUFFS.

POKERBLUFFS finished his night with just over $60,000 in profits making him the largest winner in all No-Limit and Pot-Limit games.

Here are the three largest pots of the session, all of which happened within 11 minutes of each other. If you want to see any more hands from the night, click over to MarketPulse.

Wayne Gretzky always wins.

The hit before the run.

Dwan missed a bet.


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High-stakes pros return to No-Limit Hold’em

August 13th, 2009 No Comments   Posted in PokerListings.com
The night started off just as any other, with stars like Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Phil Galfond, and David Benyamine swapping $100k PLO pots before they traded in four cards for two and hit the No Limit Hold'em tables.

It was martonas, a player who only recently returned to the nose-bleed stakes, who caused the shift in games after asking Antonius to play him heads up on a six-max $500/$1,000 NLHE table.

After the other players on the site caught wind of the action, the remaining $500/$1,000 NLHE tables began to fill up.

For the first time in months, four tables of the highest stakes No-Limit Hold'em available online filled up with familiar faces.

Action was extremely high with gigantic pots being played regularly. There were three pots worth over $300k and another three just short. There were also 17 pots worth over $200,000 and even more worth over $100,000.

Online pro and respected LeggoPoker high-stakes instructor Aaron "aejones" Jones began dominating from his first hand; booking a $600k profit over 900 hands.

However, online favorite Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond trumped Jones' profit, shipping a massive $780k into his online roll.

With two players making a combined profit of over $1.3 million, there was little room for anyone else to book a win.

In fact, three of the largest names in the game, Dwan, Antonius and Ivey, all posted losses for the session.

However, Ivey managed to cover his $260k loss grinding a $480k profit playing PLO.

You can watch the two pots worth over $300k here, or head to our MarketPulse section to see all the action.

The largest pot of the night.

$300k for Galfond


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Ashton Griffin: From bust to Bobby’s Room

August 10th, 2009 No Comments   Posted in PokerListings.com
When Ashton Griffin got his, he did something completely different.

Otherwise known as Ashman103 on Full Tilt Poker, Griffin went straight to the Bellagio and found himself a seat in Bobby's Room surrounded by the best poker players on the planet.

At just 20, Griffin is playing against poker's best on a regular basis, for sums of money your average American twice his age doesn't make in a year.

"I wouldn't think it's too out of the ordinary," Griffin told PokerListings, despite the fact playing for so much at such a young age would be unfathomable for most.

Apparently nothing seems too out of the ordinary when you've been a millionaire, near broke and back, all in under a year - and all before you're legally allowed to drink.

Griffin's path to Bobby's Room and the highest stakes online has certainly been a turbulent one.

With self professed "tilt and money issues," Griffin has repeated a vicious cycle, running up huge sums of money only to bust in a single night.

He first found the game playing 5¢/10¢ with his Mom and Sister, but didn't take it seriously until he played with friends in high school.

That's when he realized the game could be both fun and competitive.

It didn't take long for Griffin to take that love of competition online. He was almost immediately "mass multi-tabling $60 SNGs and small-stakes six-max," and continued that routine throughout high school.

Although with his studies and the high school wrestling team, he never had enough time to take the game too seriously, Griffin always knew he had a knack for poker.

"I told my dad my sophomore year that I was going to be a millionaire in two or three years," he said. "He half believed me and I only half believed myself because I knew I was too erratic with my bankroll."

The summer after high school Griffin was on the downswing of one of his now infamous build-up-and-busts.

With just $200 to his name he knew he needed to get serious. He took a landscaping job, but quickly decided it wasn't for him.

"I told myself that I was going to take poker seriously and be rich," he said. "I had a lot of time to think and focus on what my plan was. I turned the $200 into about $10k around the end of August and decided to quit school."

But that isn't the end of the story. Those "tilt and money issues" were doomed to rear their ugly head again.

In just a year's time, Griffin grew that $200 nub into a roll that was big enough to play $25/$50 full time "with stellar results."

In August 2008, just a year after the initial run, Griffin made $1.2 million in the first 29 days of the month. He lost just under a million the very next week.

"I was playing a mix of $500/$1,000, $200/$400, $300/$600, and $2,000/$4,000 Limit O8," he said. "Most of my losses were to [Phil] Ivey and [Hac] trex [Dang]."

Tilt manifests itself in many different ways, and in Griffin's case, it came in the form of bad game selection.

Ivey at Rail Heaven, trex in the mixed games, and Benyamine at his best game: Omaha Eight or Better.

Left to rebuild once again, Griffin put his nose to the grindstone and made back $600,000 over the next four months.

He also made a prop bet with the HSNL forum on 2+2 that he wouldn't play stakes any higher than $25/$50 until he made $500k in a one-year span.

He lost that $20k bet in February 2008 when he dropped $400,000 in a single night.

"It was more about the embarrassment for me," he said. "I felt pathetic."

Determined to fight back once again, he restarted the bet the next day. He lost a little over the next two months and by April was looking for a stake.

Once staked, Griffin found some marginal success right away; eventually he paid off his backers and began rebuilding with $8,000 in his online roll. He hit the tables starting at $1/$2.

"I had a good day and by the end of the week was short stacking $5/$10," he said. "By the end of the month I was short stacking $25/$50 and the following month I won $600k playing $25/$50."

To cap off the rebuild, Griffin booked a $23k prop bet win by passing the $500k mark at $25/$50 or lower and won the $25,000 Heads-Up tournament on Full Tilt Poker for $551,250 the very same day.

"It all happened pretty fast and one thing that made it a little more awesome was that I won the prop bet like hours before the $25k heads-up started," he said. "Otherwise I couldn't have played."

Griffin has also had some success in live poker, final-tabling the San Jose, Costa Rica leg of the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour.

However, his bread and butter has always been heads-up online.

"I have never had as much success at a game as I have with heads-up," he explained.

Though he's back on top these days, the question remains: Is history doomed to repeat itself?

Griffin doesn't think so. He's come to terms with the volatility of the game and hopes to minimize it the best he can by exercising good game selection at all times.

"I'd like to be playing $100/$200 or $50/$100, but the $200/$400 games have been wild," he said.

"I'm taking some calculated shots in those games. Things have been going phenomenal and I've only been playing when I feel like the players in the game are tilting, tired or not playing their best.

"It doesn't happen too often because these are the world's best, but it does happen."

And about that under-aged trip to Bobby's room? While Griffin was successful, it probably won't be a regular thing.

"I don't see myself playing in Bobby's Room too often," he said. "Unless it's heads-up."

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__FullFlush1__ back to challenge durrrr

March 25th, 2009 No Comments   Posted in PokerListings.com
The most wanted man in online poker - Luke "__FullFlush1__" Schwartz - returned to the high-stakes games on Full Tilt over the past few days.

Schwartz, almost better-known for his trash-talking ability than for his poker skills, managed to run his online roll up to $1.3 million over the past year by playing top players like Di "Urindanger" Dang, David "Raptor" Benefield and Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

It was rumored that he took most of his money off the site a few weeks ago, because he hadn't logged on in a significant amount of time.

Apparently he left enough to play $200/$400 because he's been playing Dwan and several others over the last few days. He's up approximately $50,000 this week, with most of that coming against durrrr.

As always in a __FullFlush1__ session, the highlight was the endless tirade of trash talk and insults. Just a few of the quips Schwartz traded with his fellow players:

Talking about who the greatest player is

"__FullFlush1__: dif between me and heltmuth is helmuth
thinks hes good but hes not . i knwo im the greatest"

Referencing Phil Galfond and his crew:

"__FullFlush1__: team OMGweNerds"

About getting his chat unbanned on FTP

"durrrr: want me to ask ftp to do it?
__FullFlush1__: il let u know soon
__FullFlush1__: ye ask them actually
durrrr: ok i will when i land
__FullFlush1__: ok eyeballs"

On durrrr profits

"__FullFlush1__: tell durr again i like the money hes
been donating
Urindanger: take the durrr challenge
__FullFlush1__: juicy 500 thousand dollars
__FullFlush1__: i will"

On No-Limit Hold'em dominance

"__FullFlush1__: i got such a huge egde on him and
the rest of the world at nl hu its a joke"

Check below for visual representation of the biggest __FullFlush1__ hand of the past week:

The biggest hand of the session

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