Scandinavians Dominate August Online High Stakes Cash Games

One thing was clear when evaluating the online high stakes cash games number from August, the top three winners went to three notable Scandinavian players; Sweden's Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, Norway's Andreas "Skjervoy" Tobergsen and Finland's Ilari ‘Ilari FIN’ Sahamies.

Top August Online Cash Game winners

1. Viktor “Isildur1” Blom $900k
2. Ilari ‘Ilari FIN’ Sahamies $767k
3. Andreas "Skjervoy" Tobergsen $510k
4. Ronny "1-ronnyr3" Kaiser $375k
5. tr1cky7 $325k
6. Phil "MrSweets28" Galfond $315k

Players with the biggest losses in August, all over $400k included Gavin "gavz101" Cochrane with $472k, Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky with $461k, Alexey "LuckyGump" Markov with $435k, mTw-DaviN with $435k, and Zypherin with $404k.

All the tracked and quoted numbers are from PokerStars by way of HighStakesDB.

Including August's numbers, the PokerStars 2011 leaderboard now shows yearly winners as Skjervøy leading with $1.95 million, PepperoniF second with $1.44 million, gavz101 third with $1.24 million and Isildur1 fourth with $1.2 million.