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Weekly High Stakes Report: Dwan Up Almost a Million

The slumbering high-stakes games at Full Tilt Poker awoke in a hurry, as Tom “durrrr” Dwan leads all players with almost a million dollars in profits of this week.

Ever since the start of the World Series of Poker in May, the action on the virtual felt at the highest levels has been pretty slow. Even with increased volume last week, there still wasn’t a whole lot of volatility. But Dwan found the good side of variance this week, posting a profit of $911,000 over the course of just under 20K hands.

Last week’s profit leader, harrington25 was third, with $438K over just 7,000 hands. And Phil Ivey bounced back with a solid week, with $344K in profit over about 2,600 hands.

Here are the top 10 for the week (click on any player for detailed information):
durrrr $911,148
harrington25 $438,860
Phil Ivey $344,216
OMGClayAiken $321,441
Doesburg $230,154
NEKOTYAN $228,778
La Key U $184,876
buck99 $159,606
MUSTAFABET $143,077
FakeSky $142,305

A couple of big names topped the loss leaders for the week, as Gus Hansen dropped about $750K over the course of over 12,000 hands. Behind him was Ilari “ziigmund” Sahamies, who was down about $590K despite playing less than 2,500 hands for the week.

Here were the top 10 in losses for the week:
Gus Hansen -$735,140
Ziigmund -$590,079
Luukie21 -$426,314
URnotINdanger2 -$407,240
Vaga_Lion -$406,592
Urindanger -$262,935
Markus Golser -$247,285
Justin Smith -$216,609
DrugsOrMe -$202,257
Esvedra -$166,005

Martonas, who was a famed “mystery” player before Isildur1 came on the scene, made his return to the high-stakes tables after a hiatus. He was down about $100K for the week.

URnotINdanger2 drove the action for the week, with more than 23,000 hands played, followed by Dwan. Hansen, Urindanger and Niki Jedlicka (-$30K) were other players over 10,000 hands for the week.

There wasn’t a whole lot of movement in the yearly leaderboards, as Dwan padded his lead for all of 2010. He was almost up $4 million for the year, at $3,927,531. NEKOTYAN held steady at number two, while Phil Ivey moved up to No. 3 from No. 5 for 2010. There are now five players with more than $2 million in profit, with LokoIsBack joining the crowd at the top.

Here’s the top 10 for the year:
durrrr $3,927,531
NEKOTYAN $2,513,891
Phil Ivey $2,308,118
jungleman12 $2,250,295
LokoIsBack $2,045,969
harrington25 $1,674,691
PostflopAction $1,631,581
Urindanger $1,293,683
theASHMAN103 $1,271,141
David Oppenheim $1,143,068

The bottom 10 for 2010 remained unchanged, with Brian Townsend still stuck $2.5 million for the year:
Brian Townsend -$2,534,059
Matatuk -$1,539,661
ZeeJustin -$1,442,585
Richard Ashby -$1,296,365
howisitfeellike -$1,139,282
Triko -$988,699
PixKim -$974,180
DrPill -$883,764
LarsLuzak -$879,614
Browndog19 -$767,582,30

Source: highstakesdb.com

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