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

Records aren't supposed to be broken like this. Last week, WoO's 392-point rating gain was the second-largest in TournyTrack history, behind nft's 409-point surge two weeks ago. This week, nft didn't just break the record—they obliterated it, posting a 1,305.80-point gain that makes every previous surge look like a rounding error. In just 7 tournaments, nft launched from a 2,161 rating to 3,467.51—a number so far above the field it might as well be a different leaderboard. On the cash game side, Thiago Macedo appeared from nowhere and stacked $163,472.21 in profit across 62 sessions at the Lunelle tables, sweeping five badges in two days. And in a development that connects Phenom's digital felt to poker's deepest history, HuckleberrySeed—who we believe to be Huck Seed, the 1996 WSOP Main Event champion—had the most productive tournament week of their career. Let's break down February 23rd through March 1st, 2026.

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The Headline: nft Rewrites the Record Book

There is no precedent for what just happened. Last week, nft went 0-for-10 in podium finishes and dropped 52 points. This week, 7 tournaments. A 1,305.80-point gain. The previous record—nft's own 409-point explosion three weeks ago—was shattered by more than three times.

Here's how the week unfolded:

The NLH 6max Diamond ship on February 23rd opened the week with a statement. Then came Sunday—a $3,000 haul in the Sunday Major and a $1,108 cash in the PLO Mix Diamond in the same session. Three cashes in Diamond-tier events in a single week, against the toughest fields on the platform, and the rating system rewarded every one of them.

The lead over #2 WoO is now a staggering 713.23 points. To put that in perspective: the gap between #2 WoO and #7 Sodasoccer (1,259 points) is barely larger than nft's gap over WoO alone. This isn't a leaderboard anymore. It's nft, then everyone else.

The 48.63% ROI across 209 career tournaments remains absurd. The 55 first-place finishes in that span are 20 more than the next closest player at a similar sample size. Three weeks ago we asked if nft could sustain a 2,214 rating. The answer? They tripled down.

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Cash Game Feature: Thiago Macedo's $163K Lunelle Conquest

A brand new name sits atop the cash game leaderboard, and it's not a nosebleed warrior or a known grinder—it's Thiago Macedo, who posted +$163,472.21 in profit across 62 sessions with a 51.6% win rate. Every major dollar came from the same place: the Lunelle tables at $100/$200.

The Numbers

Where the Money Was Made

Five sessions above $25K. Thirty-two winning sessions against fifteen losses. Thiago doesn't play the nosebleed Vanguard or Marseille tables—the $100/$200 Lunelle ring is the preferred arena, and the results were devastating. Even the $83,000 worst loss couldn't dent the overall profit.

The Badge Speedrun

On February 23rd, Thiago swept through the $1K, $10K, $25K, and $50K Cash Game badges in rapid succession. The $100K badge followed on February 24th. Five career milestones in two days. Last week it was Kaonashi running through four badges in one day. This week, Thiago one-upped it with five badges in 48 hours.

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The Old School Arrives: HuckleberrySeed's Breakout Week

Sometimes a nickname tells the whole story. HuckleberrySeed—who we believe to be Huck Seed, the 1996 World Series of Poker Main Event champion and Poker Hall of Famer—had the most prolific tournament week of their career on Phenom Poker.

In 45 career tournaments, HuckleberrySeed has accumulated $4,186.59 in profit at a stunning 95.65% ROI with 14 podium finishes (4 firsts, 9 seconds, 1 third). But it's this week's run that turned heads:

Eight cashes in one week across seven different game types. Big O. Super Circus Mix. 8-Game Mix. PLO Mix. NLH. PLO5. Badeucy. PLO DBBP. This isn't a NLH specialist logging volume—this is a mixed-game virtuoso doing what mixed-game virtuosos do: printing money across every variant the platform offers.

The $1,750 cash in the Sunday Major—Phenom's flagship $10K GTD event—is the headliner, but the $704 in 8-Game Mix and $700 in Big O show the kind of cross-discipline mastery you'd expect from a player who won poker's most prestigious event three decades ago. Huck Seed was known as one of the most well-rounded players of his generation in live poker. On the digital felt, that versatility translates perfectly.

At rank #80 on TournyTrack with only 45 tournaments played, HuckleberrySeed is still early in their Phenom career. But a 95.65% ROI and a week like this suggest the climb is just getting started. Keep your eyes on this one.

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The Week's Big Cash Game Winners

garrigarri's Quiet $55K

garrigarri returns to the upper echelon with +$55,364.48 across 25 sessions at a 56% win rate. The money came from everywhere—$17,817 and $13,499 wins headlined the week, with $10/$20 grind sessions filling in the gaps. Fourteen winning sessions against eleven losses. Nothing flashy, just consistent high-mid stakes execution.

Volker's One-Bullet Miracle

Volker posted +$38,406.25 across 31 sessions with just a 19.4% win rate. The math doesn't work... until you see the $58,409.00 single-session heater. When you win that big in one session, you can afford to lose 25 others. Sometimes poker is about the magnitude of your wins, not the frequency.

NRG: From $240K to $30K—Still Winning

Last week, NRG dropped $240K on the nosebleed tables and we asked: "One-and-done, or the start of a nosebleed dynasty?" The answer is somewhere in between. NRG came back for 50 sessions this week—quadrupling their volume—and posted +$30,634.54. The $300/$600 tables produced $49K in profit, but a rough stretch at the $1,000/$2,000 Marseille tables (-$10K) and a $28K loss at the Lunelle $100/$200 tables kept the total modest. NRG also earned the Cash Grinder badge (500 sessions) and $100K Cash badge this week. The nosebleed dream continues—just at a steadier pace.

TonyG: 70.6% Win Rate, Mid-Stakes Mastery

A familiar name from poker's biggest stages: TonyG played 17 sessions across the $15/$30 to $40/$80 stakes and walked away with +$7,394.09 on a 70.6% win rate. Twelve winning sessions, four break-evens, one loss of -$469.50. The Honolulu ($30/$60) and Anchorage ($40/$80) tables were the hunting grounds—$2,165, $1,542, and $1,115 wins anchored the week. Whether or not this is THE Tony G (Antanas Guoga), it's one of the most efficient mid-stakes weeks we've tracked this year.

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The Reversals

Kaonashi: From Badge Speedrun to -$80K Nightmare

Last week, Kaonashi was the story of the badge section—sweeping through $1K, $10K, $25K, and $50K badges in a single day. This week? -$80,357.83 across 29 sessions. A brutal $28,550 loss at Lunelle VII and a $23,777 loss in a nosebleed session erased all of last week's goodwill. The $100/$200 tables alone cost Kaonashi -$71,882.35 across 9 sessions. That's a $130K+ swing in fortune from one week to the next. The high-stakes Lunelle ring giveth, and the high-stakes Lunelle ring taketh away.

PINATA: From +$57K to -$36K

Last week's #3 winner, PINATA (+$57,842), came crashing back to earth: -$36,786.11 across 27 sessions with an 18.5% win rate. That's a $94,628 reversal from last week. The high-stakes seesaw continues.

Thomas Bentham: The One-Session Wonder Goes Cold

Remember Thomas Bentham's $7,389 single-session week that earned three badges? This week: 12 sessions, 0 wins, -$29,668.94. Zero. Not a single winning session. The variance gods are cruel.

bendiebold: The Comeback

On the flip side, bendiebold went from -$117,578 last week to +$10,088.93 this week. A $37,102 session at the Lunelle $100/$200 tables did most of the heavy lifting, but a $127K swing in the right direction is a $127K swing in the right direction.

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Isildur1: Week 3 of the Grind

Three weeks in. The numbers keep stacking up in the wrong direction.

Isildur1's 179 sessions accounted for 15.5% of the platform's entire $21.8M weekly volume—$3.39 million in buy-ins from one player. Four winning sessions cracked $50K (topped by $65,685 at the Lunelle VI tables), but a $100,000 loss at the Dusseldorf $1,000/$2,000 tables and an $80,000 loss at Marseille dragged the bottom line down.

The $1,000/$2,000 Dusseldorf and Marseille tables were the worst: -$227,045 across 7 sessions. Meanwhile, Isildur1 was actually up $100,850 across 59 sessions with unnamed stakes—suggesting profitability at certain table types—but the nosebleed losses overwhelmed everything else.

Three consecutive losing weeks. Nearly $1 million in losses. And still 179 sessions this week. Viktor Blom doesn't stop. He earned the Last Place badge on February 23rd—the biggest all-time loser on the platform. It's a distinction, if not the one most players would want.

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TournyTrack Leaderboard Update

The entire top of TournyTrack has been rearranged. nft's 1,305-point surge is the story, but the secondary movements are just as compelling:

kingIvey quietly posted the week's second-largest rating gain: +494.65 points, jumping from #4 to #3 and overtaking JAR444. The Triple PLO Diamond ship (+$1,010) was the highlight of a busy 35-tournament week. kingIvey's 48.40% ROI across 437 tournaments now mirrors nft's 48.63%—and with three times the sample size, it might be even more impressive.

Sodasoccer fell off a cliff: -339.57 points, dropping from #5 to #7 in a single week. Just 14 tournaments with minimal results. After three consecutive weeks of growth, the regression hit hard.

havuuuuc enters the visible top 5 at #6 with a 1,706.13 rating. The legend played 20 tournaments this week with a mixed bag—a NLH 6max cash (+$450), a Fun Fridays ship (+$600), and a Triple PLO cash (+$395) were the highlights, but the Sunday Major and 8-Game Mix both went sideways. At 44.70% ROI across 166 tournaments, havuuuuc remains one of the most profitable per-tournament players on the platform.

WoO had a relatively quiet week by their standards—+330.07 rating points despite a tough run of results. The Triple PLO cash (+$160) and a Freeroll cash (+$48.75) were the only positives, with bustouts in the Sunday Major (-$500) and Bomb Pot Thursdays (-$150) dragging down the profit line. But the rating system still found gains somewhere in those 13 tournaments.

JAR444 crossed the 600-tournament milestone at 644 career events—the highest total on the platform, now slightly ahead of WoO's 611. The steady 46-tournament week included freeroll cashes, NLH Hyper ships, and the usual mixed-game grind. At +179.07 rating points, JAR444 is keeping pace in the race, even if kingIvey just jumped ahead.

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The Sunday Major: nft Dominates the $10K GTD

The ♦ NLH 250 ♦ Sunday Major—Phenom's flagship weekly event—saw nft take down a massive score, banking +$3,000 in profit. HuckleberrySeed also cashed for +$1,750, marking the old-school legend's first Sunday Major cash.

Last week's champion Dwigt couldn't defend the title, busting for -$250. WoO's -$500 suggests a re-entry that didn't pan out. nft, meanwhile, added another Sunday Major cash to a resume that's becoming the most decorated in Phenom tournament history.

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Player Spotlight: Process — The 61.5% Machine

While the big names battle at the nosebleeds, Process is quietly putting together one of the most efficient cash game stretches we've seen. 39 sessions, +$22,691.11 in profit, 61.5% win rate. That's 24 winning sessions against 15 losses.

The top win was a $11,968.94 session—meaningful but not a moonshot. What makes Process stand out is the consistency: win after win after win at the mid-stakes tables. No six-figure swings. No nosebleed gambles. Just a steady churn of profitable sessions. At $581 profit per session, Process is printing money without ever making a headline. Until now.

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More Tournament Highlights

kingIvey Ships the Triple PLO Diamond

kingIvey's headline result was the ♦ Triple PLO ♦ Diamond on February 27th for +$1,010. Combined with a steady diet of Super Circus Mix, NL Hold'em, and PLO DBBP Turbo entries, kingIvey ground out 35 tournaments this week. The 494-point rating gain and jump to #3 on the leaderboard speak for themselves.

king153246: The Mixed-Game Assassin Returns

king153246 didn't play a single tournament last week. This week? Not much more volume-wise, but the cash tables told a story: +$9,693.01 across 9 sessions with a 66.7% win rate and a $7,846 biggest win. At #10 on TournyTrack with a 55.41% ROI and 74 podiums in 136 tournaments, king153246 remains one of the most efficient multi-game players on the platform.

havuuuuc: Still Grinding, Still Profiting

The legend havuuuuc played 20 tournaments this week with a net positive result. The Fun Fridays ship (+$600), NLH 6max cash (+$450), and Triple PLO cash (+$395) were the highlights. At $11,696.13 career profit and a 44.70% ROI across 166 tournaments, havuuuuc has now climbed to #6 on TournyTrack—the highest we've tracked them in these roundups.

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The High-Stakes Battlefield

The nosebleed tables produced another week of carnage:

22322 emerged as the week's second-biggest loser at -$94,657.07 across 19 sessions. Four winning sessions totaling $179K couldn't overcome fourteen losses worth -$274K. The Dusseldorf and Marseille $1,000/$2,000 tables accounted for -$53,800 of the damage. When you play at those stakes, the swings are merciless.

The high-stakes Lunelle ring ($100/$200) was the week's central battlefield. Thiago Macedo won $146K there. Kaonashi lost $71K. Isildur1 lost $63K. The same tables. The same stakes. Wildly different outcomes.

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Badges Awarded This Week

Three $100K Badges in One Week

Three players crossed the $100K career cash profit milestone in a single week—Thiago Macedo, NRG, and Mogging. That ties the record for most $100K badges in a single weekly roundup. The platform's high-stakes ecosystem continues to produce six-figure careers at an accelerating pace.

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Weekly Stats Snapshot

Cash Games (Feb 23 - Mar 1)

After three consecutive weeks of growth, volume pulled back slightly—$21.8M versus last week's $25.3M. Player count dropped from 754 to 705, but session count actually ticked up by 418 to 11,749. Isildur1's volume share dipped from 20.1% to 15.5% as Thiago Macedo's Lunelle presence added a new high-volume contributor to the ecosystem.

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Looking Ahead

Another week of shattered records, new faces, and legends both old and new. nft's rating lead is so commanding it's hard to imagine anyone closing the gap—but we've said that before, and the throne has changed hands four times in six weeks.

Questions to watch:

• nft's 3,467 rating is 713 points clear of WoO. Is this the permanent separation, or will a cold week bring it back to earth?
• Thiago Macedo appeared from nowhere with $163K. Is this Lunelle domination repeatable, or was it a one-week heater?
• HuckleberrySeed is sitting on a 95.65% ROI with 14 podiums in 45 tournaments. How high can the 1996 Main Event champion climb on TournyTrack?
• kingIvey's 494-point surge pushed them to #3. Can they challenge WoO's #2 spot with sustained volume?
• Isildur1 is approaching $1 million in losses over three weeks. Does the volume machine keep running?
• Sodasoccer's 339-point drop is alarming. Is this a temporary slump or the start of a longer slide?
• JAR444 and WoO have both crossed 600 career tournaments. Who hits 700 first?
• Will Kaonashi recover from the $80K nightmare, or has the high-stakes Lunelle ring claimed another casualty?
• TonyG posted a 70.6% win rate. If the mid-stakes grind continues, this could become a recurring storyline.

The rating record has been shattered. A Main Event champion is grinding mixed games. And the cash tables keep producing six-figure swings. See you at the tables.

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Stats current as of March 2, 2026 | Source: TournyTrack & CashTrack Database