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July High Stakes Report: Red Pros in the Black

It was a good month to be a “red” Full Tilt Poker pro playing high-stakes cash games in August.

The top three money makers in FTP cash games were all pros at the site, with Richard Ashby, Cole South and Phil Ivey all earning big hauls at the tables last month.

The first two of those three banked more than a million dollars, while Ivey had a nice month with about a quarter of a million in profit.

But the big winner was Ashby, who was up about $1.8M, all of his play coming in pot-limit Omaha over the course of more than 28K hands. The Englishman and cash game specialist, also known as “chufty,” had about $600K more profit than South.

South’s accomplishment, however, might be more impressive for the money. He was up about $1.2M, also playing PLO, but he played less than half the hands that Ashby did (about 13K) and raked in 2/3 of his profit. The team Cardrunners pro had played little in the high-stakes area at FTP prior to this month, losing about $300K in about 3,500 hands in the previous six months.

Wrapping up the best performances of the month is Ivey, fresh off reaching the final table of the main event of the World Series of Poker. Ivey played just over 5,000 hands but still took in about $700K.

Also taking in more than a half a million at the tables: “howisitfeellike” ($669K), Brian Hastings ($636K), Brian Townsend ($615K) and John Juanda ($514K). Hastings played just over 1,500 hands for his profit.

On the losing end in July: Tom “durrrr” Dwan posted a bad month, down $1.2M over about 12,000 hands. Despite the bad month, Dwan has had a lot of great months in 2009 as well and is still up $1.5M for the year.

No one else posted a million-dollar loss, but David Benyamine ($969K), “KObyTAPOUT” ($717K) and “trex313″ ($647K) all had poor months as well.

Despite the loss on the month, Hac “trex313″ Dan is still up $3M for the year. Patrik Antonius, who didn’t play much in July (-$80K) is still the leader for the year with about $4.7M in profit.

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