While most of the online poker world may have been watching the
$2 million-guaranteed World Championship of Online Poker event being held at PokerStars, Full Tilt was also holding a huge event, its monthly $1 million guarantee. UltimateBet and Bodog held their regularly scheduled major Sunday events, as well, making for a full plate of poker this weekend.
This weekend also saw the top spot of the
Card Player Online Player of the Year (OPOY) leader board switch hands and a newcomer vault into the top 10. Both
Chad "lilholdem954" Batista and
Isaac "westmenloAA" Baron made some modest progress this weekend as they accumulated a few OPOY points. Batista earned 572 points on Sunday, 480 of which were from a win in the Full Tilt
Sunday Mulligan. His first-place finish there earned him more than $37,000. He currently sits in fifth place on the leader board. Baron earned 72 points for finishing in 19th place ($10,544) in the massive, $2 million-guaranteed fifth event of the
WCOOP. He is currently in third in the standings.
It was
Matt "ch0ppy" Kay, however, that made the most significant movement on the leader board. Kay finished in second in the PokerStars $100 rebuy tournament last night as well as 18th in the UltimateBet $200,000-guaranteed tournament.
His combined winnings for those two finishes earned him 224 points and almost $27,000. Those points pushed him into first place in the standings with 6,374 points. He edged ahead of longtime leader
Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi, who currently has 6,240 points in second place.
Full Tilt $1 Million Guarantee
The
Full Tilt $1 million-guaranteed tournament had 2,228 entrants last night, generating a total prize pool of $1,114,000. The final table of the event had quite a few notable players, including
Jcarver (aka Taknapotin),
TenthPlanet, and
jalla79. All three players have considerable results in online poker tournaments so far this year. Jalla79 had taken down event No. 3 of the
WCOOP, the sixhanded pot-limit Omaha event, the previous night, earning $73,738. He finished in sixth place here, for $35,648, meaning he had a weekend worth almost $110,000. TenthPlanet eventually busted out right behind jalla79 in fifth place, earning $49,573. Jcarver wound up taking the entire tournament down, earning himself $204,363 and 1,440 in OPOY points. Those points pushed him into the top 10 on the OPOY leader board. He currently sits in eighth place with 3,906 points.
The final results were:
- Jcarver - $204,363
- Lucky1223 - $125,436
- BIGFLOPPER01 - $82,102
- Fishbones11 - $65,503
- TenthPlanet - $49,573
- jalla79 - $35,648
- cashious - $26,179
- menah_menah_ - $20,498
- richisnic - $15,596
UltimateBet $200,000 Guarantee
The
UltimateBet $200,000-guaranteed tournament had 871 entrants last night, meaning UltimateBet came out of pocket for $25,800 to match the guarantee. Notable Internet player Randal Flowers made the final table of the event under his eponymous screen name (he is more recognizable as
RandALLin online on all sites, but he recently changed his screen names on both Full Tilt and UltimateBet, making his new scores ineligible for OPOY points). RandalFlowers eventually busted in eighth place, earning $5,000. Sixhigh1 took down the event, pocketing $45,000 for his finish.
The final results were:
- sixhigh1 - $45,000
- Gangsta46 - $27,000
- Cunningham - $18,500
- Commodore23 - $13,000
- MrQuietStrm - $9,000
- vandiesel - $7,000
- m0ledaddy - $5,000
- RandalFlowers - $3,500
- Ottawa Mike - $2,000
Bodog $100,000 Guarantee
The
Bodog $100,000-guaranteed tournament had just 729 entrants last night, for a user-generated prize pool of $72,900. Bodog put up the extra $27,100 to match its posted guarantee for the tournament. Notable Internet player
Josh "pesto" Prager bubbled the final table of the event last night, finishing in 10th place, for $1,100. Pesto has made the final table of this event numerous times before; he took the tournament down on Feb. 11, 2007, and finished in fifth place on Aug. 5, 2007. Tonight's event was eventually won by cmizzles3687 after he defeated johnny_vegas heads up. cmizzles3687 won $25,000 for first place.
The final results were:
- cmizzles3687 - $25,000
- johnny_vegas - $14,300
- Rossy - $9,200
- pokerarg - $6,900
- Wild Duck - $5,500
- StoffeT - $4,500
- jkron1 - $3,500
- rbrown14 - $2,500
- DAKKE13 - $1,600
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