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The weekend tournaments were exciting as always, with loads of cash being paid out to the winners of the biggest tournaments on all four major sites.

PocketFives.com blogger jsup came very close to the top prize on UltimateBet, finishing 7th and winning just under 2 grand for his efforts.  A key hand that propelled jsup to the final table was won against another highly ranked player, gator93.  The flop came A Q x and gator93 bet out about the size of the pot.  Jsup then raised all in and after going into the tank, gator93 folded, showing AJ.  Jsup flashed his AQ as a sign of respect, and used his rejuvenateved 50k stack to push into the final table. 

Westtexasman, PocketFives.com third ranked player,  finished 5th in the $250,000 guaranteed tournament at Party, and won 13.5k for his efforts. Fourth-ranked P0ker H0 was the runner-up in the UltimateBet $500 tournament, netting over 8k.  Not a bad day's work for the Top 5.

The rest of the top 10 results are as follows for all $200+ buy in tournaments on the four major sites:

1/14: PartyPoker $200
    Prize pool: $135,600
    Num Entrants: 678; 70 spots paid

    Pist2000 – $29832
    MARKBEARD9 – $20340
    Ningpo – $12204
    Maccherone – $8136
    Sixpiece24 – $6780
    Sirio11 – $5424
    Swarbucks – $4068
    ALERIK – $2712
    VanKennyR – $2034
    WldBJG – $1356


1/15: PartyPoker 200k guaranteed $200
     Pool: $217400
     Num entrants: 1087; 120 spots paid

     JERE2000 – $45654
     Kys2000 – $25653.20
     Paze1 – $17392
     Jas_boston – $13044
     Dysxelic – $10870
     COCOWS – $8696
     Gordyboy – $6522
     Googster23 – $4348
     Rock3147 – $3261
     JeppeM - $2174


1/16: PartyPoker ¼ million guaranteed $200
     Prize Pool: $270,600
     Number of Entrants: 1353; 140 spots paid

     JohnHol - $56826
     Ollie357 - $31660.20
     Corso - $21648
     ChosenKid - $16236
     Westtexasman - $13530
     GivingCash - $10824
     Kasper_Dylan – $8118
     GREEK711 – $5412
     Huskermully - $4059
     AustinLewis - $2706


1/16: UltimateBet $500
       Pool: $40,500
     Num Entrants: 81; 10 spots paid

     Knotworkin - $12150
     P0ker H0 - $8100
     --YumYum-- - $5670
     whowill - $4050
     shararaises - $2835
     Legato - $2227.50
     Fates_eye - $1822.50
     Hazerock - $1417.50
     Dmmoose - $1215
     Raiderman77 - $1012.50


1/16: UltimateBet $200 – 65k guaranteed
       Pool: $67,800
     Entrants: 339; 40 spots paid

     Darkhorse007 – $20346.78
     Nopools – $13146.42
     The_Gashouse – $8475
     Lime Kellogg – $4949.40
     Epokermann – $3254.40
     Julie5 – $2373
     Jsup – $1695
     Reno-Kid – $1356
     Mr Cash – $1017
     Chinooksal – $678


1/16: PokerStars $200 -- 350k guaranteed
       Pool: $446,200
     Entrants: 2231; 225 spots paid

     Goedang - $93702
     Stevestar – $55328.80
     MADPLAYER – $35249.80
     Javel – $26772
     Notrealy – $21417.60
     JoAnne – $17401.80
     Anor77 – $12939.80
     Mungy – $8924
     Eninga – $5800.60
     TerryDee – $3346.50

     Noteables: Gator93 – 65th place – 892.40


1/16: Paradise $300 – 100k guaranteed
     Pool: $138,300
     Entrants: 461; 60 spots paid

     MC Big Foot - $31,463
     bobcards - $18,877
     DoDrugs! - $12,585
     AKTUR - $9,438
     DrSamir - $8,180
     cardreader - $6,921
     tytyatl - $5,663
     mjusty - $3,778
     thefenos - $2,002
     Sage Grouse - $1,573