The biggest online cash game in the world is now on CoinPoker — and a Norwegian won $1.2 million in 47 hands of it
When GGPoker moved its biggest cash games behind private hosts in November 2024, the public nosebleeds did not disappear — they moved. A dataset of 2.6 billion hands tracks where they went, and the answer is a room most recreational players have never opened.
For about fifteen years, if you wanted to watch the biggest online no-limit hold'em game in the world, you knew which lobby to open. That stopped being true in November 2024, when GGPoker moved cash games above $10/$20 behind private hosts. The games did not end. They stopped being public.
A dataset covering roughly 2.6 billion no-limit hold'em player-hands from September 2020 to September 2026, across WPT Global, PokerStars, GGPoker, WPN/ACR and CoinPoker, tracks where they reappeared. The short answer: CoinPoker, a room that barely registered at high stakes before 2025.
The timeline
CoinPoker's first high-stakes hand in the dataset is dated 31 December 2024 — seven weeks after GGPoker closed its public high-stakes lobby. From there the climb is steep and continuous. $300/$600 in January 2025. $500/$1,000 by June. By November 2025 the room was dealing more than 100,000 hands a month between $25/$50 and $200/$400, and had opened $1,000/$2,000. On 9 January 2026 it ran $1,250/$2,500 and $2,500/$5,000 at the same time — the highest public stakes anywhere online.
ACR grew too, roughly doubling its high-stakes volume year on year to about 61,200 hands a month, and ran $300/$600 and $500/$1,000 for the first time in August 2026 — though only briefly: 277 hands and 46 hands respectively. WPT Global reports around 87,700 hands a month at its equivalent levels and above, which it puts about 45 per cent below its own 2023 peak.
So the picture is not one of a booming high-stakes economy. It is one of a shrinking pool of players relocating.
The Norwegian in the middle of it
The name that stands out to us is KayhanMok on CoinPoker: $2.31 million in the dataset, and a single day — 16 January 2026, a week after those $2,500/$5,000 tables opened — worth $1,199,300 in 47 hands.
Forty-seven hands. That is perhaps ninety minutes of play.
Regular readers will recognise the name. Kayhan Mokri Roshanfekr tops [Norway's all-time live money list](/no/players/kayhan-mokri) with more than $24.3 million in tournament cashes. Worth keeping the two apart: his live record and this cash-game figure are different datasets measuring different games, and the online tournament number on his public tournament profile is smaller again. But it is the same player, and it is a useful reminder that the Norwegian money list — built in a country whose only legal festival caps a player's loss at 20,000 kr — is assembled somewhere else entirely.
The leaderboard, and how to read it
The top of the online cash leaderboard across those six years: huangyangliu on WPT Global at $5.31 million over 817 active days; biglucky88 at $2.46 million; KayhanMok at $2.31 million; TyCobb7 at $2.06 million; Kevin Paque on GGPoker at $1.75 million; iWasOnly17 on WPN/ACR at $857,925; milanov888 on PokerStars at $376,196.
Two numbers are worth more than the totals. huangyangliu won $3.2 million of that $5.31 million across 32,830 heads-up hands against a single opponent — one matchup, not a career. And between 43 and 47 per cent of the top 25 players' active days were losing days. These are the best online cash players in the world by results, and nearly half their sessions finish down.
That is the part worth carrying away if you are thinking about moving up. Volume at the top is brutal and the variance does not care who you are. M4D_T1LT on PokerStars played 1,062,026 hands for an average of $0.28 a hand.
The caveat this piece needs
This data reached us from WPT Global's affiliate team, and the methodology is not symmetrical. WPT Global's own numbers come from an operator-provided feed — complete, first-party. Every other room's numbers come from purchased hand samples starting at $0.50/$1. A first-party feed and a bought sample are not the same instrument, and the gap matters most for exactly the comparisons that flatter the supplier.
So when the same dataset reports that 33.7 per cent of WPT Global players finished profitable, that CoinPoker's top 25 hold more than half of that room's winnings while WPT Global's top 25 hold under 10 per cent — those are the numbers to hold most loosely. A room with complete data on itself and partial data on rivals will tend to look healthier. That is not an accusation of bad faith; it is how sampling works.
The structural findings are sturdier, because they do not depend on comparing rooms like for like: the public high-stakes games moved after November 2024, CoinPoker is where they moved, the stakes ceiling is now $2,500/$5,000, and the overall volume is well down on 2023.
Where to look yourself
The underlying data and further breakdowns are published at [the Ecology dashboard](https://quintace.ai/ecology).
One closing note on rake, which is where high-stakes economics actually live. On ACR the dataset puts $200/$400 at 0.07 big blinds per hundred hands against 0.52 at $25/$50 — roughly seven times cheaper, in big blinds, at the top. That gap is why the biggest games can survive on a handful of players while the mid-stakes grind gets harder every year, and it is a better explanation of where the nosebleeds went than any story about individual gamblers.