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It was a highly competitive weekend at Full Tilt as the high stakes cash tables drew the most attention. Eight players broke the $100,000 profit mark, while some well known Full Tilt Poker Pros suffered the most losses. The largest victory goes to ‘howisitfeellike’, pocketing $432,272 on the weekend, while John Juanda was outmaneuver for a loss of $299,201.

The biggest winners were ‘howisitfeellike’, mentioned above, and ‘LoLiNa’. High stakes H.O.R.S.E. brought in the most wins for ‘howisitfeellike’, dominating the tables for $224,248. He earned another $116,488 at the FL Omaha Hi/Lo tables, and yet another $91,535 at PL Omaha. ‘LoLiNa’ nearly matched the winnings of ‘howisitfeellike’, taking down $200,293 in FL Omaha Hi/Lo and $200,952 at the H.O.R.S.E. tables, for a grand total of $401,245.

Another eight players were able to pull in more than $100,000 in profits at Full Tilt Poker’s high stakes tables this weekend:

‘charzard’ – $211k
‘SteveSung’ – $204k
‘IamSoSo’ – $157k
‘La Key U’ – $131k
Brian Hastings – $127k
‘luvtheWNBA’ – $101k

On the flip side of the coin, John Juanda suffered the biggest losses this weekend at Full Tilt Poker’s high stakes cash table. Junada lost nearly $300k ($299,201), followed by a few more big names in the professional pocker circuit. Gus Hansen dropped $189,858, Eli Elezra was bested for $121,006 and well known online poker player ‘durrrr’ gave up $105,069.

Less known but equally disappointed was ‘slaktarn’, losing $206k, ‘KobyTAPOUT’ lost $191k, ‘vandAAgnog’ fell by $$173k and ‘EazyPeazy’ was beaten for $142k.

Where there are winners, there must be losers. It is, however, less common to see so many of the losers holding pro status. Congratulations to everyone at www.FullTiltPoker.com who bested the best and walked away with considerably impressive chip stacks.

UltimateBet.com Pro Phil Hellmuth has been termed the “Poker Brat” because he simply can’t keep his mouth shut at the tables. Hellmuth is known for his loud, abrasive and frequently obnoxious berating of other players, and in this year’s WSOP Main Event, he was actually penalized for these actions – almost.

During the WSOP Main Event, while seated at the ESPN featured table, Phil Hellmuth fell victim to a bluff from a virtually unknown competitor, Cristian Dragomir. Hellmuth lost $400,000 chips to the Romanian’s bluff, and verbally let loose on the guy. For a period of several minutes, Hellmuth berated Dragomir, calling him the “worst player in history” and “an idiot”, among other things.

Hellmuth was assessed a one-orbit penalty from the tournament supervisor, meaning that when the next day’s play began, Hellmuth would be forced to sit out for one full turn around the tables, losing Antes and Blinds throughout.

After a meeting with executives of Harrah’s the following morning, the penalty was revoked, giving Phil Hellmuth only a warning for his rudely obstructive behavior. This action sparked a host of comments and boos from the poker community, which began appearing almost immediately on forums and blogs across the Internet.

The biggest concern was that Phil Hellmuth, because he is the record holding 11-time WSOP Bracelet winner, an UltimateBetPoker.net Pro and has celebrity status in the poker world, had received exceptionally favorable treatment from the casino. Would an unknown or even intermediate player have been let off with just a warning?

Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner of the WSOP, stated, “Warnings and penalties are intended to correct inappropriate behavior. Our rulings should be as fair as possible, given the circumstances.”

According to Commissioner, Hellmuth offered his apologies to the tournament director Jack Effel, Harrah’s VP Howard Greenbaum and Pollack himself. Pollack insisted “the punishment did not fit the crime. Phil has now been warned and put on notice in a way that he never has been.”

Though the poker community as a whole felt this to be utterly unfair treatment, the penalty removal stuck, and UltimateBetPoker’s Phil “Poker Brat” Hellmuth went on to finish 45th in the 2008 WSOP Main Event, collecting $154,400.

FullTiltPoker’s largest regularly scheduled online poker tournament – the $1,000,000 Monthly Guarantee – was an enormous success last weekend; at least for those who finished well into the money bubble. The eventual winner, “GulahPapyrus”, took home a mammoth prize of $219,773 after a heart-thumping victory over his heads-up opponent, “AJKHoosier1”.

A field of 2,396 converged on the tables; enough to bring the $1 million GP as high as $1,198,000, paying the top 351 positions. After nine breaks and nearly ten hours of brutal action, 2,394 players found themselves on the virtual rails to watch “GulahPapyrus” battle it out with Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis for the top spot.

The final hand dealt a tremendous blow on the River as GulahPapyrus made his Full House to pound the final nail into the coffin of AJKHoosier1’s Flush. Though monumentally disappointed at the bad beat result, Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis described the 2nd place finish as a “bitter sweet” accomplishment, this being his largest online poker tournament cash to date.

AJKHoosier1 ended with a 2nd place prize of $134,895. GulahPapyrus took home the largest purse of $219,773. View the FullTiltPoker.com final table results below to see how the remaining top 9 made out.

Full Tilt $1,000,000 Monthly Guarantee Final Table Results

1st – GulahPapyrus ($219,773)
2nd – AJKHoosier1 ($134,895)
3rd – hurikane3 ($88,293)
4th – A__theKevlar__2 ($70,442)
5th – SitAndStack ($53,311)
6th – Chipleader56 ($38,336)
7th – Nom Sayin ($28,153)
8th – acatlover ($22,043)
9th – ILIKEPONIES ($16,772)

There’s a lot of online poker rooms out there, each with their own shining nitch in the online poker industry; the truly successful ones, anyway. For PokerStars.com, it’s massive guaranteed prize pools each weekend. For FullTiltPoker.com, it’s the most impressive line-up of contracted poker pros. For BodogPoker.com, however, it seems to be the most in-depth poker tutorial guide in the industry.

Bodog Poker players are privileged to some of the most interesting, well thought-out and perfectly expressed poker guides on the Internet. Click over to Bodog Poker’s “How To Play Poker” section, and even if you’re not a member of the online poker room, you’ll discover not just how to play each poker game, but extremely detailed strategies and advice on how to win your way to professional status.

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With the modern technologies of online poker came the ability to actually take notes on your opposition while playing poker; something a poker player would be laughed out of the casino for in a land-based game! Can you imagine the Legend Doyle Brunson pulling out a little tablet, putting a star by Gus Hansen’s name every time he Raised on the Button, licking his fingers to flip through the pages before deciding whether to call an all-in? Certainly not! But such is the world of online poker.

Bodog Poker dedicated a complete chapter to observing the behavior of your opponents, along with these exceptional note taking abilities and how to use them to your advantage. Bodog Poker goes over what to look for and how to read online poker tells to make the most of each and every chip you toss into a pot.

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