Online Poker Weekend Tourney Review 24th Dec

Thursday, December 27, 2007 | Francis Lee

Poker Stars Million

A total of 6,680 players entered the Poker Stars Million event this Christmas eve, of which 900 cashed in sharing the $1,336,000 prize pool. When we reached the final table stage Romanoff11 started out best of all taking the chip lead by eliminating two of the first four players. Snider gained back to back knockout wins before going out in 3rd place loosing to Romanoff11. This win put Romanoff11 into the chip lead by almost treble of the chip stack of littlepotato, and this was enough to take down the win collecting $192,116 in 1st place.

Final Standings:

• 1st Romanoff11 $192,116
• 2nd littlepotato $100,066
• 3rd snider $72,010
• 4th andy914 $56,112
• 5th Bluffman9000 $42,885
• 6th TheSlyOldFox $30,728
• 7th Farcry $22,044
• 8th benmar $13,360
• 9th bark1976 $8,283

Full Tilt $750,000 Guaranteed

3,695 players entered this event which did not reach the guaranteed amount so Full Tilt added $11,000 to make up the prize pool to $750,000. 522 players cashed in with 1st place set to win $132,787. The most notable player to make the final table Eric “Rizen” Lynch managed to finish 4th going out to the eventual winner Claw1980. Claw1980 entered he head up showdown with boon8 as a massive underdog as boon8 had a much larger chip stack. It only took Claw1980 just under 20 minutes to come back from this deficit and take down the win collecting $132,787.

Final Standings:

• 1st Claw1980 $132,787
• 2nd boon8 $80,250
• 3rd tedsfishfry $52,500
• 4th Rizen $41,400
• 5th OoICEMANoO $31,050
• 6th energy99 $23,025
• 7th BERBAH $17,250
• 8th megjoey $13,500
• 9th Hoolbert $10,050

Party Poker $300,000 Guaranteed

1,563 players entered this weeks big event at Party Poker which created a total prize pool of $312,600. This was shared between the top 200 finishers with 1st place set at $62,520. On the final table bankable and AliAllIn knocked seven of the ten finalists to set up the heads up show down between the two. They played around two hands before splitting the prize with bankable collecting $8,000 more with a larger chip stack.

Final Standings:

• 1st bankable $52,589
• 2nd AliAllIn $44,316
• 3rd KARHOBBIT60 $21,569
• 4th PP_superuser $17,036
• 5th Swiss Skier $14,379
• 6th lind159 $10,784
• 7th Litleearth $8,283
• 8th bola144 $5,470
• 9th Kasper19 $4,220
• 10th freiberlin $2,969

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