It's official: internet poker is still on the rise following the 2005 WSOP. The prize pools in the big weekend tournaments showed an overwhelming amount of growth this week, with PokerStars getting $686k in the pot for their $200 tournament and PartyPoker getting $816,900 in their $350 buy in event. Paradise and UltimateBet also both showed some growth, hitting $124,500 and $132,800 respectively, and even Bodog came much closer than ever to hitting their guarantee, only having to fork up $24k to fill out their $100k prize pool.

The player of the week had to be colson10, who won a WPT seat on Paradise while fighting through the final few tables of the $100k guaranteed on UltimateBet. After securing the seat, he went on to take first on UB as well, which gave him an extra $31k in spending money for his trip.

In addition to colson10, that tournament on UB had a fine showing of pocketfivers at the final table, including jgarza (2nd), SHERBANG (5th), one o clock (6th), jcgoheels (7th), and River-King (10th).

Some pocketfivers to narrowly miss final tables this weekend included 4check, who got 12th in the $100k guaranteed on Bodog, and SamENole, who finished 11th in the big one on Stars. Paushtero and JJProdigy both made the second to last table on UB.

thehatter (HATJR) made the final table of the $200k guaranteed on Party, getting a nice $4k payday for 9th place. brsavage also pulled off a 9th place finish in a major, getting about $2k for his efforts in the $100k guaranteed on Paradise.

Here are your final table results for this past weekend:

July 15, 2005
PartyPoker $200+15 "Friday Special"
927 entrants - $185,400 paid out to 100 spots

richnsingle2 - $40,788
Jints91 - $22,248
savsams - $14,832
The_North - $11,124
ArcticRock - $9,270
vh420 - $7,416
chaserdown - $5,562
riverrat369 - $3,708
Edeocles - $2,781
merkinman - $1,854

July 16, 2005
PartyPoker 200k Guaranteed $200+15
1,418 entrants - $283,600 paid out to 180 spots

davidross - $59,556
Hibbs08 - $30,345.20
chipper_3 - $22,668
FL_Osprey - $17,016
Inland_Taipa - $14,180
mitben - $11,334
elephant_shu - $8,508
reddawg814 - $5,672
thehatter - $4,254
Bootarin - $2,836

July 17, 2005
Bodog 100k Guaranteed $100+9
760 entrants - $100,000 paid out to 63 spots

tbthanx - $25,000
crazyeyeskilla - $14,300
BIANCHI - $9,200
tree hugger - $6,900
PokerChick5 - $5,500
tmurderer - $4,500
gamble24x7 - $3,500
Lederer23 - $2,500
T Dog - $1,600

July 17, 2005
Paradise 100K Guaranteed $300
415 entrants - $124,500 paid out to 50 spots

MonkeyGuy - $28,323.75
$$$money$$$ - $16,994.25
youngpoker84 - $11,329.50
Pokerator - $8,497.12
1,000,000 - $7,364.18
Romper - $6,231.23
renzy - $5,098.27
hottie4u - $3,398.85
brsavage - $1,982.66
tileman111 - $1,416.19

July 17, 2005
PokerStars 500K Guaranteed $200+15
3,430 entrants - $686,000 paid out to 270 spots

saturnalia - $137,200
BENSON - $82,320
Contortion - $50,764
MattZman69 - $39,788
BFJersey - $31,556
OldMan1214 - $26,068
cocobrain - $19,208
bicks24 - $13,034
Triplegnyc - $8,232

July 17, 2005
UltimateBet 100K Guaranteed $200+15
664 entrants - $132,800 paid out to 70 spots

colson10 - $31,208
jgarza - $19,588
PokerForMath - $12,948
turdy61 - $8,964
SHERBANG - $7,304
one o clock - $5,976
jcgoheels - $4,648
polofitted007 - $3,320
Bungalow8 - $2,324
River-King - $1,328