Steve Paul-Ambrose(credit: WPT)
Now that the WCOOP is over and there’s about a month until Full Tilt’s next Online Poker Series (FTOPS VI), it was business as usual with the weekend tournaments. At PokerStars, Steve Paul-Ambrose, winner of the 2006 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), bubbled the final table, finishing in tenth place. He was just one of 6,330 entrants in the tournament.
The total prize pool was $1,266,000 with $182,000 set aside for the champ. That is until a four-way deal was struck.
These are the final results:
1) Haligon — $132,182
2) TeamWispy — $93,831
3) hansou — $85,875
4) dh3684 — $86,396
5) PkrHolic — $40,638
6) bb55 — $29,118
7) fladfisk111 — $20,889
8) zoomboy — $12,660
9) Urlings — $7,849
Isaac “mjorgenson13” Baron was the winner of the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guarantee on Sunday. Baron, who also goes by the moniker “westmenloAA” on other poker sites, is a top internet player. He also fared well at the WPT’s recent Turks & Caicos tournament. He defeated 3,708 other players en route to the championship, securing over $130,000 in prize money along the way. Earlier this year on January 28, 2007, he took down the Sunday Million at PokerStars.
Here are the results:
1) Isaac "mjorgenson13" Baron (aka "westmenloAA") — $132,787
2) jeppg1111 — $80,250
3) ATM4Life — $52,500
4) jas225 — $41,400
5) jim5432 — $31,050
6) odky0201 — $23,025
7) Filip Demuinck — $17,250
8) rubbersoul — $13,500
9) Batman Wins — $10,050
Ultimate Bet saw a spike in its weekly attendance for the $200,000 Guarantee. 937 folks paid to play there, which meant that the site had to pay out a mere $12,600 to make the 200k guarantee. Jared “WacoKidd” Hamby, one of the ‘net’s best players and now a Full Tilt Poker pro, almost sat down at the final table. His tenth place finish was good for $1,600.
Jeff “UliKunkel” Garza made it all the way to three-handed play but couldn’t pull out the win. In the end, mnsprout was victorious.
These are the final results:
1) mnsprout — $45,000
2) Tool_Triad — $26,500
3) Uli Kunkel — $18,000
4) Trifecta07 — $13,100
5) Ruprikkt — $10,500
6) Tha_karas1212 — $8,500
7) IDoUrDaughter — $6,500
8) ELMO_MASK — $4,500
9) WOOT WOOT — $3,400
10) runarsson — $2,000
744 entrants played at Bodog. The site paid out $25,600 to meet its $100,000 Guarantee. Kirk50, the event’s eventual champ, made his second appearance at the final table in ‘07. The first time was back in mid-June. That time, he finished in third place.
Here are the results:
1) Kirk50 — $25,000
2) BIANCHI — $14,300
3) daisyxoxo — $9,200
4) Sweet Cakes — $6,900
5) magpe — $5,500
6) Dyzalot — $4,500
7) CrocHunter_SI — $3,500
8) crltruth — $2,500
9) BATS — $1,600