Linus Loeliger
- Linus Loeliger, better knowns as his PokerStars moniker LLinusLLove, is a Swiss professional poker player. His exact date of birth is not public, his Wikipedia page simply states he was born in either 1994 or 1995. LLinusLLove is known as one of the greatest online cash game players in the world.
- Linus Loeliger's Results, Stats. Date Country Place Prize GPI Points; 02-Aug-2019: England £ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - 8 Handed (Event #3) Triton Poker Super High Roller Series London, London.
1,920 Followers, 1,777 Following, 398 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Nicole Loeliger 🦋 (@nicoleloeliger).
If you’ve tuned into the Super High Roller Bowl Online (SHRBO) coverage, there’s a hangover coming.
It’s over.
Well, nearly.
The preliminary rounds are over, and going into the final day, it came down to a battle between a Swede and Russian for the $102,000 SHRBO seat.
Going into the final triumvirate of tournaments, Viktor Blom led the way, with Artur Martirosian in second place. If Blom could put in a better performance than Martirosian, then nothing the Russian could do would prevent the online legend from finishing on top of the podium.
It didn’t happen.
Blom failed to cash in any of the last three events.
In contrast, Martirosian put in another sterling performance, finishing runner-up to Linus Loeliger in the $25,500 No Limit Hold ’em event, and third and tenth in the final $10,300 No Limit Hold ’em events to generate an additional 351-points, sailing to the top of the leaderboard.
The Russian is one of the newest high rollers on the block, and it’s been quite the entrance, adding the $1.8m earned in the SHRBO preliminaries to the $1.3m accumulated during the Poker Masters Online Series a few weeks ago.
Martirosian will be one of the favourites competing in the $102,000 SHRBO, but who will join him?
Samuel Vousden crushed the 103-entrant field in Event #25: $10,300 No Limit Hold ’em. Vousden toppled the two-time SHRB winner, Timothy Adams, heads-up, to earn $252,350 – will he invest it in an SHRBO seat?
Linus Loeliger was the biggest earner of the Poker Masters Online Series ($1.5m), and he hasn’t done too poorly in this one. The Swiss star ended the series with $833,532 in gross profit, with $520,000 earned after he defeated Martirosian in the heads-up phase of Event #26: $25,500 No Limit Hold ’em – will he invest it in an SHRBO seat?
Finally, Michael Addamo overcame the 88-entrant field in Event #27: $10,300 No Limit Hold ’em to secure the $228,800 first prize after beating Mikita Badziakouski in heads-up action – will he invest it in an SHRBO seat?
Here are the results in full.
Event #25: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em
103-entrants
Results
- Samuel Vousden – $252,350
- Timothy Adams – $180,250
- Thomas Muehloecker – $128,750
- Lucas Reeves – $90,125
- Nick Schulman – $66,950
- Christian Rudolph – $51,500
- Kahle Burns – $41,200
- Nick Petrangelo – $33,475
Event #26: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em
64-entrants
Results
- Linus Loeliger – $520,000
- Artur Martirosian – $352,000
- Kristen Bicknell – $236,000
- William Foxen – $148,000
- Timothy Adams – $116,000
- George Wolff – $92,000
- Christoph Vogelsang – $76,000
- Isaac Haxton – $60,000
Event #27: $10,300 No LImit Hold’em
88-entrants
Results
- Michael Addamo – $228,800
- Mikita Badziakouski – $162,800
- Artur Martirosian – $114,400
- Kahle Burns – $79,200
- Dan Smith – $61,600
- Luuk Gieles – $44,000
- Ilya Anatski – $35,200
- Sam Greenwood – $30,800
Leaderboard Results
- Artur Martirosian – 1,288 points*
- Viktor Blom – 1,114
- Dan Smith – 780
- Matthias Eibinger – 735
- Kristen Bicknell – 649
*Wins a $102,000 seat into the SHRBO
Money Won Leaderboard
- Artur Martirosian – $1,795,395
- Viktor Blom – $1,552,025
- Dan Smith – $1,037,019
- Linus Loeliger – $833,532
- Matthias Eibinger – $821,391
Linus Loeliger Poker
ITM Finishes
- Mikita Badziakouski – 10
- Dan Smith – 9
- Kristen Bicknell – 9
- Artur Martirosian – 8
- Timothy Adams – 8
- Nick Petrangelo – 8
The $102,000 SHRBO starts Tuesday 2 June, as does the final event Event #29: $10,300 No Limit Hold ’em.
Ryan Riess had beaten 6,352 entrants to become the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event winner, Daniel Negreanu had won the WSOP Player of the Year award for an unprecedented second time, and a young poker enthusiast from Switzerland decided to open a thread on 2+2 and write this:
“I’m 19 years old living in Switzerland and been playing poker for a few months, and I’ve read a few books and tons of threads on this forum. I’m gonna start a challenge, where I update graphs, hands and other stuff. With this new challenge I switched to a new site, Pokerstars and I’m starting at NL10 6 max with a 15 BI – BRM. My goal is to get to 100NL by the end of the year 2013.”
His name?
“My stars-name is “llinusllove.”
A month later, and the 19-year old writes:
“Worst. Day. Ever. -200USD just today.”
A poster responds:
“Gl in this project, I’ll be following! You can make it to NL20 one day; I have faith!”
Over the weekend, LlinusLLove, topped a field of 105-entrants to win Event #43 (H) $25,000 Eight-Max No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller at the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) securing $587,747.32 in the process.
Whaddya know, the kid must have gotten out of 10NL.
LlinusLLove remained anonymous for the first three years of his bankroll challenge. Years later, when asked why he didn’t come out sooner, he would tell PokerStars’ Brad Willis usually there’s nothing good coming from it.
He has a point.
He was 22 when someone leaked his full name to HighStakesDatabase (HSDB), and fast forward to today, and in addition to the half a million dollars he has just put away playing an online tournament, Loeliger has won $807,000 pure profit in 2018 alone playing No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha cash games. All told, Loeliger is $1.4m in profit since depositing $240 on PokerStars to begin his bankroll challenge.
It couldn’t have been a smooth ride for Loeliger on the $25,000 High RollerFinal Table. Both Chris ‘Big Huni- Hunichen and Patrick ‘pads1161′ Leonard are former PocketFives World #1’s, not to mention the quality of the likes of Henrik “hhecklen’ Hecklen, Michael ‘mczhang’ Chi Zhang and Rachid ‘SkaiWalkurrr’ Ben Cherif.
But this lad is mustard.
Here are the final table results.
Final Table Results
Linus Love
- Linus “LLinusLLove” Loeliger – $587,747.32
- Henrik “hhecklen’ Hecklen – $451,251.38
- frozZy – $346,454.88
- Michael ‘mczhang’ Chi Zhang – $265,995.69
- Chris ‘Big Huni- Hunichen – $204,221.95
- Rachid ’SkaiWalkurrr’ Ben Cherif – $156,794.30
- Bartek901 – $120,391.17
- Patrick ‘pads1161’ Leonard – $92,424.30
Linus Loeliger Two Plus Two
See what can happen when you read a few books.