Linus Loeliger Net Worth 2026: $4M-$8M, LLinusLLove's Triton & Cash Game Record

Linus Loeliger is the Swiss pro who spent years as LLinusLLove, a name feared in online nosebleed cash games, before anyone knew his face. He is now Switzerland’s top live tournament earner, with close to $10 million recorded and the biggest score of his career coming at Triton.

We estimate his net worth at $4 million to $8 million, a range built on more than tournament results. Much of his poker income came from online cash games that no public database records in full.

Meta AI’s researchers picked him to test their Pluribus poker bot in 2019, alone against five copies of it. Few net worth profiles of poker’s biggest names rest on so little public data, which is why every figure below carries its source.

Loeliger has never discussed his finances in public, and the poker-media biographies that headline his net worth publish no methodology. What follows is our own estimate, built from public results and stated assumptions.

What is Linus Loeliger’s net worth?

Linus Loeliger’s net worth is an estimated $4 million to $8 million. The range starts from about $14.3 million in gross tournament prizes, live and online, less buy-ins we put at $8 million to $10 million since 2019.

Cash games add to that by an amount nobody can pin down. His PokerStars tracking stops in 2018, and his GG Network and CoinPoker years are only partly tracked.

We allow $1 million to $3 million for cash game profit and take off $1 million to $2 million for tax, travel and living costs. The upper end leaves room for untracked online winnings since 2018.

How much has Linus Loeliger won playing poker?

The Hendon Mob records $9,976,464 in live tournament earnings across 25 cashes, the most of any Swiss player. That total is live-only: the page also lists nine online results worth $2,612,944 by our count, which sit outside it.

Five of his ten biggest live cashes came in $200,000 invitationals, and four of them returned less than three times the buy-in, by our arithmetic from Hendon’s figures. That is why one $3.9 million result does so much of the work in his total.

Online tournament money is spread across more than one database. This is what each source records, gross and before any buy-ins.

The WSOP.com total and Hendon’s online list overlap on one result, the 2022 WSOP Online Main Event, so the rows cannot simply be added together.

The five things nobody outside his circle knows

Five gaps keep any outside estimate wide, ours included.

Very little about Loeliger’s life before poker is public: his childhood, schooling and hometown in Switzerland have never been covered.

A Two Plus Two challenge in 2013

His public record starts in 2013, when he posted a bankroll challenge on the Two Plus Two forums. By May 2016 he was playing high-stakes cash games on PokerStars, according to Wikipedia.

The month before, he won the £2,000 High Roller 8-Handed at UKIPT London for £55,650 ($79,271). It is the first title on his Hendon Mob record, after two small cashes in Malta in 2015.

Malta, Vienna and the climb to the highest stakes

He moved to Malta with just a laptop and a one-way ticket to grind $0.25/$0.50, an adventure he called “not really scary”. Vienna became home afterwards, and moving up to $25/$50 “was the most fun for me”, he said in 2019.

His first poker heroes came from television: Tom Dwan of High Stakes Poker fame, Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson. Asked what kept him at the top, he said: “I think I just work a bit harder than most people, especially online.”

He also admitted, in his rare 2019 interview at Triton Montenegro, that being “always a bit respectful of other people’s games” had held him back early on.

How LLinusLLove’s identity became public

For years LLinusLLove was only a screen name. His real name became public in 2017, when he was 22, and his first appearance under his own name at a major event came at the PokerStars Championship Barcelona Super High Roller that year.

He took the attention calmly. “I prefer to stay out of the spotlight,” he said at the time, and he has given few interviews since.

Cash games are where Loeliger made his name, mostly six-max and heads-up no-limit hold’em at the highest stakes online. They are also the part of his career that public data covers worst.

How much has LLinusLLove won online?

Publicly tracked data credits him with over $1.4 million in online profit on PokerStars by 2018, including $699,973 in no-limit cash games between January and April of that year. Tracking of that account then ended, and later third-party figures cover only some of his games.

In February 2018, poker player Andres “Educa-p0ker” Artinano ranked him alongside Timofey Kuznetsov and Jonas “OtB_RedBaron” Mols as the three best six-max no-limit players around.

From PokerStars to the GG Network nosebleeds

Kuznetsov and OtB_RedBaron were also among his regular opponents on PokerStars at the time. He later became a regular in GG Network’s biggest six-max game, where Wiktor “Limitless” Malinowski was another fixture.

His full record against that field has never been published, which is the core problem with any number attached to his online career.

CoinPoker and the Cash Game World Championships

Since 2024 his most visible online games have been on CoinPoker, where he plays as LLinusLL0ve, including nosebleed heads-up battles with SeaLlama at $100/$200. Those games are reported in detail, which makes CoinPoker the best-documented part of his recent cash record.

He finished third in the first Cash Game World Championship, which ran from December 2024 to January 2025 with zero rake. Two editions are summarised below.

Swings at these stakes run to six figures in both directions, which is why elite players still suffer huge downswings even over tens of thousands of hands. His place among other legends of the online poker era rests on the tracked years and on what rivals have said since.

Loeliger’s tournament record is short and expensive. Twenty-two of his 25 live cashes are Triton Super High Roller events, and every live cash since 2019 has come at a buy-in of $15,000 or more.

How the Triton Super High Roller Series works explains the format: invitational events, re-entries and prize pools that run into eight figures.

What is Linus Loeliger’s biggest win?

His biggest cash is $3,900,000 for second place in the $200,000 Coin Rivet Invitational at Triton Cyprus in September 2022. His biggest title is the 2020 Poker Masters Online Main Event, worth $1,097,250.

The Coin Rivet drew 90 players and 25 re-entries for a $23,000,000 prize pool. He started fast, eliminating 11-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey in Level 1, and reached the final table second in chips.

The Coin Rivet tops his ten biggest live cashes, per The Hendon Mob:

German high roller Fedor Holz went out fourth and Karl Chappe-Gatien third, leaving Loeliger heads-up against Sam Grafton with roughly 16 big blinds to Grafton’s 70. He won two all-ins on the river before Grafton’s ace-seven held against his king-six.

Grafton called him “probably the best in the world in the heads up format”. Both finalists earned more from that one result than from every documented cash before it, according to Triton.

A first Triton title in London

His first major title came less than three months after his first Triton cash. In London in July 2019 he won the £25,000 Six-Max Turbo, a 117-entry event with a £2,749,500 prize pool, for £690,000, more than three times his previous live earnings.

The decisive hand came three-handed. He called Luc Greenwood’s raise with 5♠ 5♦ against A♥ A♦, flopped an open-ended draw on 6♥ 4♠ 3♠, and the 2♣ turn gave him a straight to double through.

Heads-up lasted one hand, J♦ 7♥ against Greenwood’s 10♠ 7♠. He had busted the £50,000 8-Handed in third for £594,000 at 4am the same morning, and still got “seven-and-a-half hours sleep”, he told Triton.

Online titles: WCOOP, Poker Masters and SHRB Online

He won a WCOOP High Roller title worth around $587,000 in 2018. Then, during the 2020 lockdown, he won four partypoker titles in six weeks.

Those wins put him third on the Poker Masters Online leaderboard and fifth in the SHRB Online series standings, according to the PokerGO Tour.

Does Linus Loeliger have a WSOP bracelet?

No. Both of his WSOP.com profiles, one for live results and one for his online account, show zero bracelets and zero Circuit rings, and his WSOP results all come from online events on GGPoker.

Loeliger is a theory-driven, aggressive no-limit player whose game was built in six-max and heads-up cash games. Those formats reward constant pressure, and the same traits come up again and again in coverage of his play.

The fundamentals behind that pressure, from ranges to bet sizing, are set out in our no-limit hold’em cash game strategy guide.

Is Linus Loeliger a GTO player?

Our view is yes, in the sense that matters at his stakes. His game was formed in the solver era, and the strongest public evidence of a theory-sound strategy is his Pluribus result, covered below.

That does not make him passive, because theory-sound play at the top is aggressive. Solvers are the tools behind that style, and our guide explains how GTO solvers changed high-stakes study.

What top players say about him

“Obviously Linus is remarkable,” Sam Grafton said after beating him heads-up in 2022. Henri “Buttonclickr” Puustinen, a top heads-up player himself, ranks Loeliger first among heads-up players.

A hand that shows the style

Against Malinowski on GG Network he three-bet Q♣ 10♣ to five times the open and fired a queen-high triple barrel against Limitless, running into trips and a flush draw that called him down.

Some of the most telling moments in Loeliger’s career happened away from the results tables: in a research lab, on a forum and in a Triton cash game.

Five copies of Pluribus

In 2019, Carnegie Mellon and Facebook AI tested their six-player poker bot, Pluribus, against elite professionals. Meta AI said Loeliger is “considered by many to be the best player in the world” at six-player cash games.

He played 5,000 hands alone against five copies of the bot and finished 0.5 big blinds per 100 hands behind it, with a standard error of 1.0. Darren Elias lost 4.0 and Chris Ferguson 2.5 in the same format.

The best human result in that format was his, and close to break-even. His session finished after the paper was submitted, so the paper does not report it.

The Upswing name-use debate

In a Two Plus Two thread, users argued that Upswing Poker, the training site co-founded by high-stakes heads-up pro Doug Polk, had used his name, image and hand histories to promote a course.

Loeliger never commented on the forum debate over Upswing using his name, and no lawsuit is on the public record.

Triton’s cash game hot seat

In August 2024 he was the first professional in the hot seat at Triton’s first cash game invitational in Montenegro, facing Paul Phua and the Hustler Casino Live regular Handz.

He was down $268,000 in the reported tally from the opening days, a partial snapshot of a game that ran from 4 to 10 August.

Loeliger keeps his private life out of public view, and nothing on the record covers a partner or family.

How old is Linus Loeliger?

Linus Loeliger is 31 years old, born on 4 January 1995 according to poker databases. He has never confirmed the date himself, but it fits his age of 22 when his name became public in 2017, and Wikipedia gives his birth year as 1994 or 1995.

Where does Linus Loeliger live?

He is Swiss, and The Hendon Mob lists his residence as Switzerland. He was based in Vienna by 2019, and his WSOP.com online account is registered in Austria.

Pokémon and life away from the tables

Pokémon is a personal interest he has talked about publicly: in his 2019 Triton interview he explained why it is part of his life. For years his online avatar was the Pokémon Chansey.

Beyond that he leaves his results to speak for him.

The $130,037 he won for second place in the WCOOP $25,000 Super High Roller in late September is his biggest score since Triton Montenegro in May.

September online: WCOOP and WSOP Online

He lost heads-up to Alex “Pwndidi” Theologis, who already has a GGMillion$ super high roller title of his own. Theologis took $216,504 from a $416,925 prize pool in the final days of a series that ran from 6 to 30 September.

The same month he cashed twice in WSOP Online events on GGPoker, including the $5,000 Main Event, per WSOP.com. His 2026 cashes so far, with live figures from The Hendon Mob:

Three cashes at Triton Montenegro

Montenegro in May produced all three of his live cashes in 2026. He finished 11th in the $200,000 Triton Invitational, which Spanish tournament star Adrian Mateos won for $6,370,000 from 137 entries.

Three days later he was second in the $50,000 Turbo Bounty Quattro to Mike Watson, who took $621,000 including bounties. Both events appear in the full 2026 Triton results and payouts, which also cover Jeju II in September, where he has no recorded cash.

The 2026 heads-up championship on CoinPoker

In April he was the headline name in the 20-player 2026 heads-up championship field on CoinPoker, a $10,000 buy-in, rake-free event with $100,000 and a Rolex for each format’s winner.

The NLHE bracket also included heads-up specialist Dan Jungleman Cates and Henri Puustinen, and SeaLlama won the NLHE title, according to CoinPoker.

For results from Triton North Cyprus in November and beyond, follow the latest poker news from VIP-Grinders.

This player profile separates verifiable facts from estimates and public claims. We cannot accurately calculate any player’s net worth, but we aim to publish transparent, verifiable information.

How we handle ‘net worth’

We do not treat any net worth figure as fact. Third-party estimates are reported with their source and caveats, and where no credible methodology is disclosed, we say so.

Loeliger’s range is our own, built in October 2026 from live and online tournament prizes, tracked cash results and stated assumptions about buy-ins and costs.

How we report earnings

Tournament earnings figures come from The Hendon Mob, which tracks live results only. All figures are gross payouts before buy-ins, staking splits, taxes and expenses.

Hendon lists nine online results for Loeliger that sit outside its total. We report those, WSOP.com’s online figures and tracked cash results separately rather than blending them.

How we cover controversies

We report what was alleged, what the player said in response, and where the matter stands. We do not take sides.

No allegation against Loeliger’s own conduct is on the record. The Upswing debate above is reported as a dispute about the use of his name, and his silence on it is stated.

The sources below were used in researching this profile.