Eric Wasserson made history and is now the king of televised cash games – CodigoPoker

Eric Wasserson made history and is now the king of televised cash games - CodigoPoker
Eric Wasserson hizo historia y ya es el rey de los cash games televisados

The last weekend of High Stakes Poker brought so many crazinesses that one of the most important stories almost got buried under millions of dollars in chips. Eric Wasserson

Estados Unidos
closed four consecutive sessions with winnings of US$3,262,500 and, in the process, became the most winning player in the history of televised and streamed cash games.

Wasserson came to these games with approximately US$6.7 million accumulated in broadcasts, according to the HighRollPoker database. After his spectacular week, his record should be close to US$10 million.

The detail has a small fine print. Dan “Jungleman” Cates

Estados Unidos
leads overall livestream winnings with about US$14.3 million, but much of that result comes from his heads-up matches against Ossi “Monarch” Ketola
Finlandia
. If we talk exclusively about ring games, Wasserson has just taken the crown.

Until now, that spot belonged to Andrew Robl

Estados Unidos
, who started the recent sessions with US$7.9 million in historical winnings. However, he lost US$779,000 during the four days and ended up giving up the lead.

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“Wass”’s week also had a hand destined for the archives. Against Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek

Estados Unidos
he won a pot of US$4,260,000, the largest recorded in the history of High Stakes Poker. Moncek attempted a gigantic bluff with ten-high, but was unlucky to face Wasserson completing a flush on the river.

He was not the only notable winner. The Argentine Alejandro “Papo MC” Lococo

Argentina
started losing more than US$1 million, but made a spectacular comeback to finish US$624,000 up.

At the opposite end appeared the ex of model Pamela Anderson

Estados Unidos
, Rick Salomon
Estados Unidos
, who lost his three sessions and accumulated a loss of US$2,252,000.

But the cameras seem to have a new protagonist. Adding these sessions and his participation in the Million Dollar Game of Hustler Casino Live in June, Wasserson accumulates around US$5.9 million in winnings in just a few months. And while everyone was watching the giant pots, he quietly changed the owner of the throne.

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