July 25, 2020 Poker News, Poker Gossip Petr Černý

What are the highest stakes poker pros have ever played?

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We’ve all seen the videos of Dwan, Ivey and Brunson playing high stakes poker, and heard tales of Macau nosebleed stakes that boast big blinds equal to ordinary folks’ salaries.

What are the highest stakes poker pros have ever played?

But what about all the other pros we follow on social media and poker news reports week in and week out? How big have they played? Let’s take a look…

First out of the trap was Joey Ingram, the PLO fanatic and poker podcaster-turned-investigative journalist.

Joey recalls a Bobby’s Room waiting list to join back-to-back WSOP Main Event winner and all-round legend Johnny Chan among others. The stakes? $200/$300.

Joey Ingram poker

Johnny Chan poker

Matt Berkey, who along with Ingram was one of the main detectives in the recent Mike Postle cheating saga, took a half buy-in to a $200/$400 Short Deck game and ran it up more than 30-fold in an impressive two-day hit-and-run.

Partypoker pro Ludovic Geilich didn’t state his stakes, but it certainly wasn’t a nickel and dime home game as he managed to punt $100,000 (or possibly worse, £ or €) while blind drunk – a strange cross-mixing of two stereotypes by the Scotsman.

Ludovic Geilich poker

English pro Max Silver recalled a few highstakes punts that went awry, and as with many it may not have been the biggest they’ve ever played, but was certainly the scariest…

In case you’re thinking it’s only testosterone-fuelled males who have the gamble to go big, two of poker’s most successful female players chimed in with highstakes tales.

What are the highest stakes poker pros have ever played?

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