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Weekly recaps, player rivalries, tournament highlights, and the stories behind the leaderboard.

Weekly Roundup: Volker's $228K One-Shot Miracle, Isildur1's $397K Worst Week Yet, and Brian Rast Hits the Felt

Volker turns one session into $158K, Isildur1's four-week losses push past $1.3M, NRG's $258K reversal stuns, and a poker legend quietly logs on.

TournyTrack Reporter18 min readMar 9, 2026

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Monthly Recap

Weekly Roundup: nft's 1,305-Point Rating Explosion, Thiago Macedo's $163K Cash Game Debut, and HuckleberrySeed Brings Old-School Power

nft shatters the all-time rating gain record by 3x, a new name drops $163K at the Lunelle tables, and a 1996 Main Event champion is grinding mixed games on Phenom.

19 min readMar 2

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Weekly Roundup: WoO Reclaims #1 with a 392-Point Surge, NRG's $240K Nosebleed Heater, and Isildur1 Hits 500 Sessions

WoO storms back to the top of TournyTrack with the second-largest rating gain in history, NRG drops $240K on the nosebleed tables, and Isildur1 earns the Cash Grinder badge.

18 min readFeb 23

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Weekly Roundup: nft Rockets to #1 on TournyTrack, Isildur1 Returns with $400K in Swings, and Icymorning's $122K Heater

nft vaults from #4 to #1 with a 409-point rating surge, Isildur1 brings legendary high-stakes action to Phenom, and Icymorning crosses the $100K milestone.

13 min readFeb 16

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Weekly Roundup: WoO Seizes the Throne, PHNM Migrates to Base, and lepu4ka's $20K Cash Heater

WoO overtakes JAR444 for #1 on TournyTrack, Phenom's token migrates to Base with a live DEX pool, and lepu4ka grinds 137 sessions to a $20K week.

12 min readFeb 9

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Weekly Roundup: WWSF53 Dominates Cash Games, kingIvey Ships $4K Diamond Event

Stefan Burakov's $23,870 cash game week, a $27K single-session heater, and the race for TournyTrack supremacy continues.

11 min readFeb 1

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Player Spotlight

Rising from the Ashes: Havuuuuc Becomes First Player to Hit $10K Profit

From pre-Black Friday online legend to Phenom's first $10K profit badge holder. Jon Turner proves the old guard still knows how to crush.

5 min readJan 17

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News

The Great Rug That Wasn't: PHNM's Wild Ride to the DEX

A treasury that couldn't keep up, angry grinders, and a token model nobody asked for. Here's what happened.

5 min readJan 7

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Rivalry

The Race for #1: JAR444 vs WoO

Only 6.76 ability rating points separate the #1 and #2 ranked players. This is a tale of two fundamentally different approaches to tournament poker - and one of the most dramatic comebacks in TournyTrack history.

6 min readJan 6

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