This week's Online Poker Rankings update features Costa Rican Felipe improved Montenegro (pictured), who jumps four spots to #11 worldwide following his final table chop for an even $72,000 in the Full Tilt Poker $750k Guaranteed weekly flagship tournament (4th place). Kevin ImaLuckSac MacPhee and D1rtyR1v3r both move up one to #8 and #9 respectively this week, as Joe ender555 Ebanks leaps six to #15 following his victory in the PokerStars $100 Sunday rebuy over the weekend for $77,700. Joe also had a 3rd place showing in the "Sunday 500" last month for another $48,000. PocketFiver daisyxoxo has been on a roll as of late. He's now ranked #16 worldwide after picking up a pair of ~$20k scores in Full Tilt freeze-out events in August. Ireland's j.thaddeus is up two to #18, jet5087 is up six to #25 thanks to his high-stakes FTOPS win, and rivermanl advances 15 to #26 worldwide upon taking down the "Sunday 500" for $88,800.
Travis TravestyFund Rice (pictured, currently ranked #27) finished 3rd in a recent Full Tilt $150 Sunday rebuy for $40,700 and also won the $50k Guaranteed for $24,700. Steven PiKappRaider Burkholder received a seven-spot boost to #35 as theczar19 and blizair move up to #35 and #43 in the world at online tournament play. THAY3R Rasmussen won the Full Tilt $100 Cubed (1 rebuy + 1 add-on) last month for $21,600 and moves up to #47 and pokerbrat19 climbs nine to #48. Denmark's mementmori is up ten to #49, Pipedream17 advances ten spots to #66, and Faraz The-Toilet Jaka continues to dominate both live and online tournament play; winning the Stars Sunday Second Chance event over the weekend for $50,100.99NvrLosez enters the rankings this week at #76 following his $63,200 cash in the Sunday Brawl, as Absolute Poker $100k Guaranteed winner philbort makes the move up to #78 worldwide with jadedjason up 15 to #82. Also new to the rankings this week are bparis (#90), Bdybldngpkrplyr (#93), kenn121 (#94) and rusostreet (#95).
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