At the beginning of this article, we have to mention that everything is "allegedly", because such information from VIP cash games, even if true, will never be officially published. Let's take a closer look at the whole situation.

What's going on outside the tournament tables

Last week, an unbelievable situation was supposed to take place in a special room during one of the VIP cash games at the Triton Montenegro stop. Unbelievable especially in the amount of losses in one single night but also in the amount of stakes that were played. It is not confirmed, but it is alleged that blinds as high as $100,000/$200,000 were played!

If you're a regular reader of ours, you'll know that the Maestral Resort & Casino in Budva is the current stop of the Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro. During Triton it is quite common for the best players from all over the world to come here, as well as wealthy businessmen.

One of the participants in the VIP cash game, which is said to have included Chinese billionaires, various Hollywood stars and the world's best poker players, was to be British aristocrat and former advisor to British politician Nigel Farage, George Cottrell.

George Cottrell, 30, once worked for banks such as JP Morgan and Credit Suisse before moving into politics, where he was chief of staff and adviser to Nigel Farrage. He played a key role during the Brexit campaign and was arrested in the US just weeks after the Brexit vote. He was caught offering money laundering services to undercover federal agents. He was originally charged with 21 counts, but the prosecution later dropped all but one of the counts, to which he pleaded guilty and served 8 months.

Is Cottrell a "whale"?

There are rumours behind the scenes that it was George who was the big loser in the aforementioned private cash game. In one single night, he is said to have lost a whopping $20 million. Sources involved in the game said that his performance was disastrous, and despite the huge losses, George enjoyed it and had no plans to leave the game. He reportedly only quit the game at around 7:00am, when he was down the aforementioned $20 million (€18.4 million).

Rob Yong was also reportedly in the game, who originally tweeted/X: "Crazy cash game, the hands were so big they were too big even for me. At least 200k was just to see the flop." This tweet of his, which he later deleted, only confirms that a huge cash game did indeed take place in Montenegro.

Source - dailymail.co.uk, triton-series.com, ibt.com, booking.com, telegraph.co.uk, pokernews, twitter/x