This week we tracked results from 17 players: 10 gained in profit, 6 had losses and 1 ended up break-even. The winners combined for about $140,000, losers for about $93,000. The players played 535.5 games on average. SkaiWalkurrr had the biggest sample: 1,347 games.

Battle between the two greatest: Serkules and SkaiWalkurrr

3 weeks ago Rachid Ben "SkaiWalkurrr" Cherif become new profit leader for the first time in our weekly reports history, ending Serkules continuous dominance. However Serkules was not going to give up easily. He proved that in the very next week when he retook his leade back, creating a seemingly safe distance of $30k.

SkaiWalkurrr surprised nobody by removing that deficit in just seven days - that was last week - and winning the top spot again, despite the fact that Serkules profited for $11,000. SkaiWalkurrr achieved that by winning impressive amount of $59,260. So at that moment Serkules had to chase back a $17,000 deficit.

And he removed that gap, successfully becoming this week's top winner: $30,584 after 818 games.

Biggest SkaiWalkurrr‘s downswing since reports started

He had brutal week. The worst since the beginning of our reports. He lost -$50,939 after 1,347 games. That result could be even worse, because he was down for $90,000 after first 814 games.

What happened? Was it the reality of cruel variance? Or maybe Skai got used to his long-term successes, and became confused when things did not go his way? Can the player of his caliber tilt heavily and make lots of bad plays in short-run?

I can bet all my copywriter‘s salary that Martin “0Piggybank” Finger could believe that bad plays were highly involved.

Last month he played against Skai and – in my assumption - was owned. Ultimately Martin lost his self-control and wrote:

"0PIGGYBANK" said, "are you serious?"
"0PIGGYBANK" said, "your ****ing luck"
"0PIGGYBANK" said, "tilt me so hard"
"0PIGGYBANK" said, "playing like a fish"
"0PIGGYBANK" said, "and win every ****ing hu"

Skai didn‘t reply with anything. That's why I would like to be brave enough and reply to 0Piggy on SkaiWalkurrr‘s behalf. Not in words but in facts.

All SkaiWalkurrr’s performances:

Report #1: $29,983 after 631 games (winner of the week);
Report #2: $3,508 after 457 games;
Report #3: -$4,346. after 1155 games;
Report #4: $59,020  after 1401 games (winner of the week);
Report #5: $79,714 after 788 games (winner of the week);
Report #6: $9,559 after 222 games;
Report #7: $91,682 887 games (winner of the week);
Report #8: $21,382 after 756 games (week’s second result);
Report #9: $46,567 after 1038 games (winner of the week);
Report #10: $26,689 after 274 games (winner of the week);
Report #11: $5,597 after 30 games;
Report #12: $10,525 after 1,578 games (week’s second result);
Report #13: $37,534 after 827 games;
Report #14:  $37,445 after 600 games (winner of the week);
Report #15: $106,771 after 1,530 games (profit record);
Report #16: $19,272 after 1,050;
Report #17: $18,273 after 905 games (winner of the week);
Report #18: -$13,359 after 1,222 games‘
Report #19: $59,260 after 1,297 games (winner of the week);

Any thoughts about that, Martin? :-)

What does the future hold?

The battle between Serkules and SkaiWalkurrr reached a most interesting stage. Now Serkules is up for $624,103 and Skai for $555,877 profit.

Will Skai be able to remove new gap again? Was that just his temporary slump or maybe it is the beginning of the long downswing?

I am glad, that we do not have to wait long to find out the answers.

More winners

Jonathan “Iftarii” Jaffe won $28,744 after 153 games; Olivier "Adonis112" Busquet won $18,794 after 375 games; Viktor "Isildur1" Blom won $16,008 after 58 games; Fishenzon won $14,384 after 296 games;  qihu00 won $13,011 after 1,071 games; Sifosis won $6,598 after 617 games. That was his eighth straight winning week in a row; pistons87 won $6,577 after 909 games; B4d3m3!st3r won $1,360 after 71 games; Xereles won $1,322 after 1,051 games.

Losers

anthonyff lost $14,005 after 207 games; Siervos lost $12,935 after 335 games; spacegravy lost $8,421 after 882 games; Eric2441989 lost $5,501after 468 games; Ryan "Moca Choca89" O'Donnell lost $1,859 after 128 games.

Hand packs which was posted last week:

1) $5,000 turbo: reg war between Isildur1 and Helio TYF (big pots)
2) Interesting hands with anthonyff from $1,000 hyper turbo (+graph)
3) Rachid Ben "SkaiWalkurrr" Cherif's hands from $1,000 hyper turbo (+2p2 thread: photo from NL5 and 3 jokes)
4) Reg war: Isaac "philivey2694" Haxton vs. FisFarfar (+WSOP video, +photos, +thoughts)