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The online poker tournament action at Full Tilt was as energetic as ever last Sunday as the weekly $750,000 Guarantee tournament got underway. Kudos to “acatlover” who outlasted the sizeable field to claim the top prize of $132,788.

To the elation of its tournament participants, Full Tilt Poker experienced yet another overlay in its most lucrative weekly event, collecting the $200 buy-in from a field of 3,643, which translates to $728,600 of the guaranteed $750k prize pool. The online poker room has not seen the required numbers to boost its purse over the guarantee in quite some time now.

Scheduled for 6:00 pm ET as always, the action kicked off at 2 minutes past the hour. The rails filled up quickly as players fell to the way side, one-by-one, until a final table of 9 was reached. Online poker fans looked on expectantly while the numbers further dwindled.

“RonJovi7” was eliminated in 4th, followed soon after by the exit of “absolute6” in 3rd position, earning $41,400 and $52,500 respectively. This left “nounet” of Belgium to go heads-up against “acatlover” in an all-out battle to the finish.

The blinds reached an impressive $80k/$160k after 9 hours of play when the final hand came down. It was anyone’s game at this point, but favor suited “acatlover” this day, ousting “nounet” to pocket the 1st place prize of $132,788. For the 2nd place victory, “nounet” was awarded a well deserved $80,250.

Full Tilt Poker Sunday $750k GTD Final Table Results

1st – acatlover ($132,788)
2nd – nounet ($80,250)
3rd – absolute6 ($52,500)
4th – RonJovi7 ($41,400)
5th – bighorn1973 ($31,050)
6th – gingabreadman ($23,025)
7th – Nicolak ($17,250)
8th – mirasol ($13,500)
9th – gcnmoo ($10,050)

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BodogPoker held a WSOPE “Euro Main Event Semi-Final” Qualifier Sunday that guaranteed at least 2 seats in the upcoming WSOPE Main Event with prize packages worth $24,000. The top two finishers, Cory “Ozone23” Albertson and “syzygy3732”, will both be on their way to London later this month.

With a $500+$40 buy-in, it comes with some surprise that only 53 players took part in the WSOPE Main Event Semi-Final as BodogPoker.com continues to struggle with player participation. Those low numbers only brought in $26,500 for BodogPoker, barely enough to cover a single WSOPE Main Event prize package of $24,000, let alone two of them.

The WSOPE Main Event Prize Package from Bodog Poker includes the £10,000 buy-in (nearly $20,000 USD), airfare, luxury hotel accommodations with first-class transportation to/from the airport, Bodog branded player gear to wear throughout the tournament and extra spending cash.

Last year, Bodog.net awarded many seats the WSOP Europe Main Event, including the noteworthy seat of Matt McCullough, who went on to finish in 3rd position for $715,967, going down in the history books as the last American standing in the first annual WSOP Europe Main Event.

Relative newcomer Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad, at the ripe age of 19 years old, went on to win the 2007 WSOPE, outlasting experienced pros like Jamie Gold, Gus Hansen, Erick Lindgren, Patrik Antonius, Annie Duke, Ian Frazier and Marco Traniello.

PKRPoker.com, reputed as the “next generation” of the online poker industry for its innovative 3D design, reached a historic landmark last week by registering its two-millionth customer.

PKRPoker.com is still considered one of the newer online poker rooms, having launched in 2006. Now, less than one year from announcing its one-millionth registrant, the company is extremely pleased to pronounce the landmark number of 2,000,000 members.

For any site to achieve such a large client base is a feat in and of itself, claimed only by the most popular online poker rooms; but to have reached such a milestone so quickly is truly outstanding. Considering the current state of the economy and legalities of online poker in certain jurisdictions, industry analysts are as shocked as anyone.

The rapid growth rate and overall success of PKR Poker is being greatly attributed to the online poker rooms sophisticated software and three dimensional environment. Instead of the typical aerial view of a 2D table, depicting the cards, maybe some chairs and sometimes even avatars, members of PKR are privileged to the most realistic atmosphere, from the true-to-life avatars right down to the plants and other décor that make up the background scenery.

“Only a handful of poker brands have ever reached this milestone, and none have done it so quickly and without taking US players,” relayed PKR marketing director Simon Prodger. “We are delighted with our progress and look forward to making our third year even better.”

PKR is ranked as the second fastest expanding poker network in the industry, but when you remove US-accepting poker sites from the equation, PKR easily overtakes the number one spot. Without accepting US player deposits, it’s monumentally more difficult to attract players at such a rate.

PKR also recently launched its own poker television series, PKR TV, which runs for one hour and has a potential audience of 15 million viewers across Europe. This could certainly have helped to increase the growth of the PKR online poker room.

The long awaited Poker Stars.com 2008 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) kicked off Friday, September 5th with Events #1 and #2, followed by Event #3 and #4 on Saturday. The results are in, so let’s take a brief look at the winners of each PokerStars WCOOP Event.

PokerStars.com WCOOP Event #1: $200+$15 6-Max NL Hold’em, $1m GTD
A field of 7,217 started off the opener is stellar fashion, upping the $1m guaranteed prize pool to $1,443,400. It was an exhausting 17-1/2 hours before a winner was revealed, but in the end, “shane147” eliminated “pffwhatever” in heads-up to claim the 1st place win.

Final Table Results
1st – shane147 ($212,179.81)
2nd – pffwhatever ($148,670.21)
3rd – SilverSocks ($106,089.91)
4th – – DoV – ($76,500.21)
5th – CURDOG1KCK ($49,075.61)
6th – scarface_79 ($23,686.20)

www.PokerStar.net WCOOP Event #2: $200+$15 PL 5 Card Draw, $100k GTD
Another 1,024 players joined in the action for WCOOP Event #2, which got underway at 4:30pm ET. With a much lower guaranteed prize than the previous event, the high entry rate boosted the prize pool by more than double to pay the top 156 finishers their share of $204,800. As the final cards fell, “ImBillMcNeal” took the WCOOP title for ousting “wedlowjones” in heads-up.

Final Table Results
1st – ImBillMcNeal ($34,201.60)
2nd – wedlowjones ($25,395.20)
3rd – Isidor3 ($18,739.20)
4th – Yamzit ($14,848.00)
5th – nathalie111 ($11,038.72)
6th – xoxol73 ($7,680.00)
7th – RaiNKhAN ($4,096.00)
8th – Crispy86 ($4,096.00)
9th – lasker ($4,096.00)

www.PokerStars.net WCOOP Event #3: $200+$15 Limit Hold’em, $300k GTD
Again, the prize pool was bolstered by excessive player participation as 2,258 entries jumped the guaranteed prize pool to $451,600, paying 324 positions. The relentless competition brought about another nearly 18 hour battle that came to an end when “cwp394” eliminated “#1PEN” for the 1st place victory.

Final Table Results
1st – cwp394 ($73,385.00)
2nd – #1PEN ($54,192.00)
3rd – Teacher G ($38,927.92)
4th – Bdbeatslayer ($26,192.80)
5th – edwinv070 ($21,676.80)
6th – skizer ($17,160.800
7th – Perumov ($12,644.80)
8th – BadcardsAA ($8,128.80)
9th – lucky_aces08 ($5,012.76)

PokerStars WCOOP Event #4: $200+$15 2-7 Triple Draw, $100k GTD
One more time, PokerStars saw enough entries to hike the prize pool to $146,800 as 734 players converged on the WCOOP Event #4 tables. This time it took not quite 15 hours for a victor to emerge as “mardene” fell victim to “playitsafe” in the final hand of heads-up action.

Final Table Results
1st – playitsafe ($24,809.20)
2nd – mardene ($18,555.52)
3rd – thevoice72 ($13,579.00)
4th – jordan999 ($11,010.00)
5th – Mills23 ($8,074.00)
6th – gudfaren ($5,505.00)
7th – GymZQuirk ($3,009.40)
8th – SgtKyle ($3,009.40)
9th – thetinkerman ($3,009.40)