Mystery Poker Player Retires $7.4M Richer after 5 Years Online

A player known only as “cumicon” has been a regular on the online poker scene since January 1, 2013 and by this month his cash game earnings had risen to an incredible $7.4 million. Even his winnings stayed unknown over the years, though, and the only reason we now know how prolific a player he has been is because this week he decided to release his incredible results via a graph posted on the TwoPlusTwo forum.
Having chosen to keep such details secret in the past, the player believed to be a 30-year-old New York man finally chose to share his success with the community after announcing his retirement from the game. As “cumicon” subsequently posted:
“I am quitting poker and want to share my graph now that I don’t need to worry about killing any potential action I might get. I always enjoyed seeing inspiring graphs posted on 2p2, so I’m happy to contribute mine.”
Since appearing online, “cumicon” has played against some of the game’s top talent, and on occasions even topped the weekly list of online money winners, such as in the first week of April 2016 when he won $132,810 over 3,549 hands. Nevertheless, most of his action has been against regulars at medium stake games, with his profits including $1.4 million at $5/$10, $1.5 million at $10/$20, and $3 million at $25/$50. Overall, the player managed to achieve an unbelievable average bb/100 winrate of 25.3bb, which Joe Ingram described as being “so ridiculous, can’t even put it into words properly.”
Unlike most other pros who spend countless hours working on their game and reviewing past hands, “cumicon” also claims to have accomplished the feat through minimal effort, and as he wrote:
“I did this without ever really working on my game away from the tables, so it’s still possible to be a lazy poker player and make money in today’s games.”
Counted amongst the players other accolades is winning a further $400,000 or so playing nosebleed games, although he didn’t include the figure in his graph as he said that he had sold a significant part of his action, and that they also scewed the results. According to pocketfives, “cumicon” won a further $170,000 playing online tournaments, including winning $128,000 at the 2010 PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up after agreeing to split the prize money with four other players.