The Weekend Action

The Tournaments.

Here are the top three winners from the Sunday majors:

Bodog $100k Guaranteed $100 9
646 entrants

mattboom - $23,600
BadReception - $13,600
V00D00CHILE - $9,100

Full Tilt Poker FTOPS Event #9 $1.5 Million Guaranteed $300 22
5,090 entrants

_FlaXmarZ_ - $263,438
MK376 - $159,572
xqsays - $102,614

PartyPoker $300k Guaranteed $200 15
1,339 entrants

ACTPA - $61,000
cvtmWauzMaus - $33,000
prettypinkpony - $21,000

A shout out to Irish sensation Steve “allinstevie” Devlin who came 8th in this tournaments.

PokerStars $1 Million Guaranteed "Sunday Million" $200 15
6,856 entrants

PKerBL - $193,339
AQUA RAIDER - $97,355
Snitch24 - $68,560

UltimateBet $200k Guranteed $200 15
772 entrants

Wizards-Bet - $46,000
chicagocards1 - $28,000
bigdogpckt5s - $18,500

Monster volume player “shaundeeb” also took down first place in the PokerStars Sunday Warm Up - good for $102,500.

The Cash Games.

The story of the weekend in the cash games is all about two players. Alahi “Ziigmund” Sahamies, and Brian Hastings. Ziigmund has been on a massive downswing over the last two months, and was close to losing over two million dollars over this period. It finally seems that his luck has changed however, and he has stormed back over the last few days, winning close to $400,000 since Friday. It’s great to see him back in the big games, his incredibly loose aggressive style of play is always a joy to watch.

Brian Hastings went on a huge downswing over the weekend, only to be rescued by one of the largest pot ever won online - a whopping $354,000 pot played between him and SteveSong, with Brian Hasting’s middle set holding up against Steve’s monster draw. Even with the help of this pot, Brian downswing was bad enough that he still ended the weekend over $50k down.

Other big winners this weekend include Markus Golser ( $170k) and “Cogaz” ( $181k). The big losers came as a bit of a surprise, as they are two of the most consistent players on the net usually, but David Benyamine (-128k) and “IcallSoWhat” (-196k) both took big hits. All in all, it’s been yet another great week of action on the cash tables, hopefully next week we might finally get that elusive $500k pot.