The Weekend Action
Benyamine and durrr dominate, Ziigmund starts to rebuild, Moorman1 gets a win
By Philip Tuck
The Tournaments.These are the top three finishers from the Sunday majors:
Bodog $100k Guaranteed $100 9
618 entrants
basebaldy - $23,600
fin2win - $13,600
favre4prez - $9,100
PartyPoker $300k Guaranteed $200 15
1,442 entrants
Drawn0ut - $60,000
emsig777 - $33,000
honigmelone_ - $20,700
Full Tilt Poker $750k Guaranteed $200 16
3,580 entrants
msmatrix - $132,788
mattyv - $80,250
stogyman - $52,500
PokerStars $1 Million Guaranteed $200 15
6,745 entrants
rythman - $193,986
tapatapa - $101,040
KtheKing - $72,711
PokerStars "Sunday Warm-Up" $500k Guaranteed $200 15
3,073 entrants
Telefonkiosk - $105,451
WhooooKidd - $53,794
n1stunnor - $38,651
PokerStars "Second Chance" $200k Guaranteed $200 15
1,139 entrants
HouseeLover - $41,004
fratboy247 - $29,614
mcnallyville - $22,780
UltimateBet $200k Guranteed $200 15
775 entrants
whatarunaa - $46,000
frozencanuck - $28,000
gptbigguy33 - $18,500
Chris “Moorman1" Moorman also had a big result, taking down the PartyPoker $500 15 buy in “high roller” tournament for $19,633.
The Cash Games.
The weekend belonged to David Benyamine, who made over $700,000 in only six or so hours of play on the $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha tables on friday night. This is probably the fastest and largest amount of money ever made in the six max games - it will be interesting to see if such a feet can ever be repeated.
Alahi “Ziigmund” Sahamies also had a good weekend, and is starting to pull back from the nearly two million dollar downswing that he had been having this year. After a $250k weekend he is up just over a million for this month.
Tom “durrr” Dwan had a $500k swing, losing nearly a quarter of a million to Ziigmund playing $300/$600 HA (a rotating mix of pot limit hold’em and pot limit Omaha, with ten hands of each), only to come back and win over $300k on Sunday on the six max Omaha tables. He added to this with a not insignificant $300k win last night - ending the bank holiday weekend with a profit of over $400,000.
The big loser was Eric Lieu, who continued his massive losing streak, dropping over $350k, and claiming in his blog here that his Full Tilt account is nearly busted. It would be a shame to see Eric drop out of the big games - he has been a consistent winner for many years now and plays an action packed and interesting game. Hopefully he can take a leaf out of Ziigmund’s book and start on the long road to recovery.
27/05/08
Tom Dwan is not afraid of the huge swings involved in the big PLO games