Fans of PokerGO’s High Stakes Poker are in store for a record-setting performance when the new season debuts in April.
PokerGO officials leaked some information about the 16th season of the historic show. According to PokerGO CEO Brent Hanks, MonkeyTilt founder and CEO Sam “Señor Tilt” Kiki fared well on the felt. He set two all-time show records.
“Sam now holds the record for the most ever won across a full season of High Stakes Poker, as well as the largest single-day win in the show’s history,” Hanks told Sports Illustrated. “Alan Keating was at the table. Andrew Robl was at the table. That’s the caliber of competition we’re talking about, and Sam still came out on top.”
Kiki Won Big During Last Year’s Debut
Along with running the online gaming and sports betting company, Kiki has been a regular on high-stake cash game streams, including “Hustler Casino Live,” “WPT Cash,” and others. Prior to the new season, he had dropped about $1.8 million during that time, according to High Roll Poker.
The previous largest single pot in show history was just over $1.4 million, won by Keating against Peter Wang in Season 14. Santhosh Suvarna held the honor before that after taking down a $992,000 pot in Season 12.
Tom Dwan had previously been considered the biggest all-time winner from the show’s early days with $1.8 million in winnings over 270 hands. Hanks now says Kiki has passed all of them.
Kiki first appeared on the show last season and won the second-largest pot in history in a hand against Rick Salomon for $1 million. In the same season, he also won a pot of $1.3 million.
“High Stakes Poker” debuted in 2006 and has featured some of the biggest names in the game through the years, including Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, and others.
The show originally appeared on the Game Show Network but was acquired by PokerGO in 2020. Last year, the company also purchased the rights to the “NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship” brand. Then, they revived the tournament and Sam Soverel won the 2025 edition of the tournament.
