Sunday, July 26th. One of the most feared PLO players on the internet loads up CoinPoker's $500/$1,000 5-card PLO tables with a $200 ante and doesn't log off until he's over a million dollars in profit. Exact number: $1,048,405. More than $800,000 of it came from a single heads-up match against yolof1, a Lithuanian high roller who has been a fixture in CoinPoker's nosebleed streets all year.
CoinPoker's marketing calls DogeCoinMaximaliste "an unknown player." Nobody who follows the high-stakes scene is buying that. This is a screen name that has been terrorizing the site's 5-card PLO games for months, widely regarded as one of the best PLO5 players in the world. What made July 26th different wasn't the player. It was the deck.
Five Hands, Half a Million
Gary Blackwood broke down the session on CoinPoker's YouTube channel, and the opening stretch is genuinely absurd. Doge won the first five significant pots of the match, and none of them were small.
A nut straight got paid off for close to $58,000. Then aces beat kings in a five-bet preflop war worth nearly $200,000, run twice, won twice. Then top two pair jammed on the flop and held. Then another preflop all-in went his way. Then he made quads with pocket fours against a pair-plus-combo-draw. Five hands in, Doge was up almost half a million dollars, and yolof1 was staring at a hole most bankrolls never climb out of.
Aces on Repeat
The theme of the day was aces, and Doge could not stop finding them. Aces all-in preflop that made a straight anyway. Aces flat-called as a trap that flopped top set, rivered a full house, and check-raised for an $80,000 payoff. When the aces finally got cracked by a flush late in the session, Doge was already sitting on winnings north of $900,000, which is roughly the point where you stop caring.
Yolof1 did fight. He held bottom two pair against a combo draw in a big all-in, doubled through more than once, and briefly built a stack that actually covered his opponent. But the coolers only ran one direction. The gut punch was a pot worth roughly half a million where Doge turned a big draw, spiked an offsuit nine on the river for the nut straight, led out into yolof1's set, and got paid. Straight over set, full house over full house, the whole catalogue.
The $519,846 Pot
The biggest hand of the day was a preflop war with $260,000 effective stacks. Yolof1 opened to $3,000, Doge three-bet to $9,000, yolof1 four-bet to $27,000, and the escalation didn't stop until everything was in the middle. Doge tabled AA776 with a suit, yolof1 showed a double-suited AQ943, and when the smoke cleared the aces held for a pot of $519,846.
Analysts reviewing the hand afterwards mostly agreed yolof1's four-bet was the leak. A double-suited ace-high hand plays beautifully in position with deep stacks and plays terribly as hot-and-cold equity against a range stuffed with aces. Bloating the pot preflop threw away everything the hand was good at. In 5-card PLO with antes, though, restraint is a rare commodity, and on this day it cost half a million.
Final tally: $1,048,405 in one day. Was it luck? Partly, obviously. Nobody books seven figures in a session without the deck cooperating. But Doge is also the kind of player who extracts maximum value when the cards do cooperate, and the trappy aces line alone showed why he sits where he sits in the PLO5 food chain.
How It Ended
The way these sessions always end. Yolof1, stuck seven figures and five-betting light, bricked a flop, floated, turned a pair of nines, and jammed into a made straight. One short rebuy later, the nut flush draw ran into yet another Doge straight, and the match was over.
The Bigger Picture
CoinPoker's VIP Arena has become the undisputed home of nosebleed online PLO, with regulars like yolof1, Giselle54, and firmino999 clashing daily and the site's history including a record $7.7 million pot. For anyone whose bankroll runs a few zeros shorter, the Global Online Poker Championship kicks off August 23rd and runs through September 28th, with $50 million guaranteed across 700+ events, three regional schedules, and everything from 8-max to PKO and turbos.
