The Weekend Report

By Philip Tuck

Phil Ivey takes on all comers as the action gets big

The Tournaments.

These are the top three finishers from the Sunday majors:

Bodog $100k Guaranteed $100 9
558 entrants

Dahotshot - $25,000

aletheia - $15,000
Jadenali - $9,500

PartyPoker $300k Guaranteed $300 20
1,465 entrants

Telefonkiosk - $60,000

Skat579 - $33,000
zmeyga - $20,700

PokerStars $1.5 Million Guaranteed "Sunday Million" $200 15
7,212 entrants

diegoaiz - $184,500
TheRodGuy - $124,950
FlopeDeNuts - $84,000

PokerStars "Sunday Warm-Up" $1 Million Guaranteed $200 15
3,627 entrants

AWice - $135,000

lrdvoldemort - $95,000

Rivvie - $65,000

PokerStars $250k Guaranteed $500 30
998 entrants - $500,000 paid out to 144 spots

Titantom32 - $91,250

thugmoneymkr - $66,450

Moorman1 - $50,000

A quick shout out to Chris 'Moorman1' Moorman, who is not only now number one in the world on the PocketFives.com rankings system, but also took down a not insignificant $50,000 for his third place finish in the PokerStars $250k Guaranteed yesterday.

The Cash Games.

David Benyamine quickly reversed his downswing through turning his attention to a game that he is often considered weak in - no limit hold'em. He has won just over half a million dollars in the last few days at the $200/$400 hold'em tables - mostly at the expense of Eric Lieu and ‘theASHMAN103'. He also played some pretty sick hands against a tilting ‘slaktarn', including this incredible call which truly shows Benyamine's class.

Phil Ivey has also been putting in an massive number of hours over the weekend, and is by far the biggest winner of the last few days, netting over $600,000 playing a variety of nosebleed stakes games. Other big winners include ‘slaktarn' ( $184,000), Tom ‘durrr' Dwan ( 178,000) and Eli Elezra ( $108,000).

The two big losers this weekend were strangely two of the very best players - Ziigmund and Steve Sung. Both lost over $300,000 over the last few days, and both seem to have been on substantial downswings over the last few months. Although Steve Sung had one of the biggest winning days in online history recently, over the last few weeks he has been losing a lot of money in nearly all the different high stakes games. Ziigmund seemed to be recovering in the last few weeks, although yet another massive loss could cause him problems in the future.

With the WPT over, it seems the high stakes online games are back to their very best - lets just hope it continues.