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Weekly High Stakes Report: Big Weeks for Dwan, Ivey

The top of the food chain had a big week at Full Tilt’s high-stakes tables, as both Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey had nearly $1 million in profits.

Durrrrr and Ivey had their way their opponents on the virtual felt, as Dwan racked up $969K over the course of just over 7,000 hands. And Ivey logged similar profits, despite playing about half as many hands. He was up $930K for the week.

Volume was down week over week at Full Tilt’s cash games, but that didn’t stop what’s been a monster month for both players. Dwan is up almost $1.9 million for August, while Ivey is up about $1.5 million. The next closest player, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, is just over $500K in profit for the month.

Galfond, who hasn’t been playing that much this summer, was back at it with more than $200K in profit. Cole South, who’s been having a pretty miserable run of late, checked in at No. 4. Jungleman12 and harrington25 continued grinding their way up the leaderboards with tidy profits this week. And Brandon Adams, a red pro who won an FTOPS event this week, made a cameo at No. 10.

Here are the top 10 players for the last week (click on any player for more information):
durrrr $969,145
Phil Ivey $931,555
David Benefield $363,640
Cole South $343,742
jungleman12 $285,628
OMGClayAiken $234,866
harrington25 $202,646
trex313 $152,732
skjervoy $132,877
Brandon Adams $120,144

The big surprise at the top of the loss leaderboards was Russian player NEKOTYAN, who has been No. 2 for 2010 with $2.5 million in profits. But in just the last week, over the course of just over 6K hands, he gave half of that back. His bad week results in $1.1 million in losses.

Right behind him was Gus Hansen, who had a bad week with over $700K in losses. It was his second bad week in a row — Hansen lost more than $700K the previous week, as well. Other notables with down weeks included LokoIsBack (fifth) and Patrik Antonius (eighth)

Here were the bottom 10 players for the week:
NEKOTYAN -$1,129,510
Gus Hansen -$738,875
Esvedra -$416,951
gamblegambel -$210,682
LokoIsBack -$209,911
La Key U -$173,179
chipchip -$167,866
Patrik Antonius -$134,265
Observer84 -$133,513
Vaga_Lion -$127,683

Dwan continued to have a stranglehold on the 2010 leaderboard, as he neared $5 million in profit for the year. On the back of his strong week, Ivey moved up to No. 2 and passed the $3 million mark.

NEKOTYAN took a big dive after his down week, falling from No. 2 down to No. 8. Everyone else in the top 10 held steady at their spots.

Here are the top 10 players for all of 2010:
durrrr $4,896,677
Phil Ivey $3,239,673
jungleman12 $2,535,924
harrington25 $1,877,337
LokoIsBack $1,836,058
PostflopAction $1,631,581
Urindanger $1,392,632
NEKOTYAN $1,384,381
David Oppenheim $1,255,358
theASHMAN103 $1,243,066

Not much change at the top of the loss leaderboard for the year, as the dormant Brian Townsend is still down $2.5 million. Gus Hansen’s bad week pushed him from break even for the year into the top 10 in losses at -$794K.

Here are the top 10 losers for 2010:
Brian Townsend -$2,534,059
Matatuk -$1,539,661
ZeeJustin -$1,442,585
Richard Ashby -$1,296,365
howisitfeellike -$1,139,282
PixKim -$1,046,294
Triko -$988,699
LarsLuzak -$907,368
DrPill -$883,764
Gus Hansen -$794,667

Source: highstakesdb.com

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