September 2026 edition AceGuardian research
The Poker Ecology Report
An independent, like-for-like comparison of the major online cash-poker rooms, from billions of hands, with the method published beside every number.
GGPoker · PokerStars · ACR/WPN · CoinPoker · WPT Global · WPT Gold
Differs by room; see coverage on every module
Explore the data
Live leaderboards and drilldowns built from the report's data. Each one pairs with a written analysis.
— - the biggest NLHE cash winners we can see across five rooms, and how each got there: volume, stake, heads-up or ring.
— hands / month. Where $25/$50 and above runs each month, where the nosebleeds ran, the biggest pots and days. WPT Global's ¥100+ pool alongside. Updated monthly.
Every seat tightens when a Straddle is added, but by wildly different amounts. Walk the table and find out who gets hit, and how hard.
The Report
Five questions, answered with the same definitions on every room. The first release is being finalised; here is its shape
How beatable are the games? Win-rate distributions for every stake.
Where is the loosest action at each stake?
How strong is the field, and what skill level breaks even?
Where is the liquidity, and who is sitting in it?
See where you stack up
Import your hands to QuintAce and get every decision scored. Compare your rank with the best at every stake, from the Hall of Fame down.
Your score and rank on every decision, by street- Where you stand against the field at your stake
- Your hands stay private. They are never used in this report.
Club WPT Gold
GGPokerWPT Global
CoinPoker
PokerStars
ACRRead the analysis
The written pieces behind the modules.
The Top 25 NLHE Cash Winners Across Five Online Rooms
This article ranks the 25 biggest No-Limit Hold’em cash game winners across five leading online poker rooms. It highlights the standout players, compares their results, and offers a snapshot of who dominated the virtual tables.
John Andress and Thanh Tran
Where the High Stakes Went
Where $25/$50 and above ran each month across five rooms, where the nosebleeds moved, and what the biggest pots and days of the year looked like.
AceGuardian Team
The Snowmen Walk Into A Heat Wave
QuintAce is the AI solver that broke down this exact hand. Full table with antes, a spot that goes way off tree. Most solvers can't model it. QuintAce can. It runs hands from your own session history.
John Andress