Poker players can wager at online poker sites in relative
anonymity revealing only their aliases. Their real names, faces
and persona remain hidden, usually till they start playing live
poker as well. In fact Viktor Blom played at online poker sites
with the best of players as Isildur1 without them realizing who
he was. The latest mystery player at online poker sites is
XWINK. It is known that he is a Canadian who earlier played at
UB.com under the alias XBLINK. When he switched to
FullTiltPoker.com he assumed the alias XWINK.
XWINK started his foray at the online poker site
FullTiltPoker.com with a bang. He started with a bankroll of
$4,000 and within four days he turned it to $2 million. He
attributed this to his “excellent bankroll management skills”.
This was not the first time XWINK made a pile in a short time
playing at online poker sites. He claimed to have done it
earlier, but that time he had started with $11,000. At
FullTiltPoker.com he promptly lost a million dollars and then
recovered about half a million. In fact, XWINK emerged as the
midweek’s biggest winner with $532,438 in profit over 1,797
hands. So at the moment he is sitting pretty with about $1.5
million.
The great thing about the achievement of XWINK was that he was
not playing against unrated players that are often found at
online poker sites. The recent half a million win came against
some of the best online poker players, who have made the high
stakes tables at FullTiltPoker.com their very own. XWIN was
playing $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha against Phil Ivey (in
picture), Patrik Antonius and Andreas “Skjervoy” Torbergsen.
During the midweek, which was from March 8 to March 10, Antonius
was also up, whereas Ivey and Torbergsen were on the losing
side.
There are several well known professional players at the
FullTiltPoker.com online site. Their
earnings are tracked on a continuous basis. Since January 2011
Gus Hansen is up almost $3 million, Ivey and XWINK are up about
$1.5 million and Torbergsen is up just under $1 million. Among
the prominent losers is Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, who is down
about $1 million.