Is Huangyangliu the Biggest Online High-Stakes Crusher Today?

Over six years, 2.6 billion cash game hands from five major online poker rooms were analyzed. The biggest profit went to huangyangliu, who plays on WPT Global and won $5.31 million over more than 700,000 hands. One of the biggest surprises of the ranking is that WPT Global players finished ahead of the top winners from GGPoker and CoinPoker.

According to the QuintAce Hall of Fame ranking, huangyangliu, who plays on WPT Global, was the most successful online No Limit Hold’em cash game player of the period studied. The analysis processed a total of 2.6 billion hands from WPT Global, CoinPoker, GGPoker, PokerStars and WPN/ACR between September 2020 and September 2026, and found that he made a profit of $5.31 million.

The combined profit of the 25 biggest winners came close to $40 million. The results show winnings after rake, but do not include rakeback or other rewards.

Since April 2023, huangyangliu has played a total of 702,743 hands, the highest number among the 25 biggest winners. He sat at the tables on 817 different days, meaning he was active on roughly 65 percent of the days in the period.

His average profit was $7.55 per hand, while his win rate, calculated with the straddle taken into account, reached 11.57 bb/100.

Among the top 25 winners who played more than 50,000 hands, only three had a higher win rate: biglucky88, TyCobb7 and smallbear5, all of whom also played on WPT Global.

Huangyangliu focused mainly on CNY 50/100/200 cash games with a straddle, where he played nearly half of his hands.

His dominance is well illustrated by the fact that even if his five most profitable days were removed from the statistics, he would still lead the ranking with a profit of $3.33 million. By comparison, second-placed biglucky88’s total winnings were $2.46 million.

On his best day, huangyangliu won $422,560, which accounted for only 8 percent of his total profit.

During the period studied, he finished a day with at least $100,000 in profit on 43 occasions, more than twice as many times as any other player in the ranking.

His outstanding result is therefore not down to a handful of exceptionally successful days, but to a high win rate sustained over the long term combined with significant playing volume.

More than half of huangyangliu’s profit came from heads-up play, even though only about 20 percent of his hands were played at two-handed tables.

He won $2.89 million in heads-up games and a further $2.42 million at multi-handed cash tables.

The statistics show that heads-up play generally played a bigger role in the results of the most successful players than in those of the average player.

For example, among the hands played by WPT Global’s 25 biggest winners, the heads-up share was 7 percent, compared with just 2.2 percent for the player pool as a whole. 13.9 percent of the combined profit of the 25 most successful players came from heads-up play.

One of the biggest surprises in the results is that eight of the 25 most successful players played on WPT Global, including the top two in the ranking. The combined profit of these eight players exceeded $15 million.

This is especially interesting given that the biggest online high-stakes games were long associated with GGPoker, while more recently CoinPoker has become one of the most important venues for the highest publicly trackable stakes.

To understand WPT Global’s results, however, it is worth considering the site’s large Asian player base.

It is no coincidence that the platform’s busiest high-stakes tables run in Chinese yuan. At launch, WPT Global formed partnerships with poker rooms focused on the Asian market, through which it gained a significant Asian player pool. This background is still visible in its cash game offering today.

Yuan-denominated tables play a particularly important role in the site’s high-stakes traffic. In 2026, WPT Global recorded an average of 87,700 high-stakes hands per month, more than CoinPoker or ACR. The vast majority of this traffic came from CNY 50/100/200 games, which averaged 75,619 hands per month.

At these tables, the mandatory straddle and the ante mean a significant amount goes into the pot right at the start of each hand.

The large Asian player base also shapes the makeup of the player pool. According to industry sources analyzing WPT Global’s games, the relatively favorable player pool has also attracted high-stakes professionals from other countries. The big profits are therefore not necessarily driven by the highest blinds, but by high playing volume and finding the right opponents.

CoinPoker, by contrast, hosts games at considerably higher stakes. In January 2026, the platform was already running $2,500/$5,000 tables, and over the course of the year more than 9,000 hands were recorded at stakes above $200/$400. That is nearly twice the combined traffic of the other rooms studied in this category. The hand count, however, is low.

In GGPoker’s case, a different factor is at play. In November 2024, the site moved cash games above $10/$20 to a private, invitation-only system, which significantly limited the public trackability of games at the highest stakes.

When interpreting the ranking, the different data collection methods must also be taken into account. WPT Global’s results come from the site’s complete hand database, while for the other rooms, hand history samples obtained from external sources were used. Their coverage is not necessarily complete.

WPT Global’s dominance therefore does not prove that the world’s strongest high-stakes players play there. The large Asian player base, the distinctive table structure, the high playing volume and the differences in data collection may all contribute to the site’s players dominating the winnings ranking.

Second place in the overall ranking went to biglucky88, also a WPT Global player, with $2.46 million, while third place was taken by CoinPoker player KayhanMok with a profit of $2.31 million.

Fourth-placed TyCobb7 also played on WPT Global and won $2.06 million. In fifth place was GGPoker’s Finnish player Markus Leikkonen with $1.98 million.

KayhanMok also holds the record for the biggest single-day win in the entire database.

On January 16, 2026, he won $1,199,300 in just 47 hands in CoinPoker’s $2,500/$5,000 cash game.

CoinPoker’s results, however, depended far more on exceptionally successful days than those of WPT Global players. If the five best days were removed from the results of CoinPoker’s 25 biggest winners, 15 of them would be in the red. By contrast, all of WPT Global’s top 25 would remain profitable.

The statistics also reveal that the players with the most hands are not necessarily among the biggest winners. Of the ten most active players, only huangyangliu made it into the top 25 by profit.

The full ranking, the results for each poker room, and the players’ win rates and detailed statistics are available on the QuintAce website.