The 10 biggest winners and losers at the online high stakes in 2016

In today’s article we are going to take a look back into 2016 as we talk about the 10 biggest winners and losers at the online high stakes in 2016.

Overview

Ever since PokerStars decided that they will no longer offer bonus points for playing at the highest stakes, the traffic at those games decreased considerably. Nevertheless there still was some high stakes action taking place in 2016.

There have been 1,419 players playing the highest stakes on PokerStars in 2016. Together they have raked over 3.5 million dollars.

The year has produced 491 high stakes winners, with one player, Alexander Kostritsyn, winning more than a million dollars while the rest lost money. Among the 928 players that lost money, 50 lost $100,000 or more.

Alexander Kostritsyn – The biggest high stakes winner in 2016

The year started off quite rough for Alexander Kostritsyn. After loosing $150,000 at the 8-Game, Triple Draw, and PLO tables in the start of the year he had some work to do in order to get out of the hole.

In March he ended up winning over 1.2 million dollars. For the rest of the year Kostritsyn’s winnings stayed around the 1.5 million dollar mark.

As of end of December his high stakes profit was $1.585.145 setting him on top of the PokerStars high stakes leaderboard.

10 Biggest Winners

The 10 biggest high stakes winners in 2016 collectively made just under 7 million dollars and played over 500,000 hands. You can take a look at the individual results in the following table.

10 Biggest Losers

The following ten players probably did not enjoy their time at the high stakes tables as much as the ten biggest winners. In 457,242 hands their combined losses summed up to just over $5 million.