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By P5s Staff | Published Jan 22 2007, 03:46 AM
We followed him when he nearly made the top 100 in the WSOP Main Event last year, and this time, we followed him all the way to the finish line.  Vegan213 (right) took down the 

Full Tilt $750k Guaranteed on Sunday for $141k, an incredible score that puts him in an elite group of P5ers that have made a 6-figure score in a poker tournament.

Amazingly, four of the top five in that event were P5s members.  Cliff819 and IWEARGOGGLES were the 2nd and 3rd place finishers, taking home $87k and $60k respectively, and two-time WSOP bracelet winner Eric Froehlich, whose P5s name is efro, finished 5th for $35k.  Bubbagump22 was also at that final table, where he took 9th place.

In addition to all those big scores on Full Tilt, one very familiar name had a huge payday on PokerStars this week.  Long time online winner and original PocketFives.com #1 ranked player brsavage (left) took 3rd place in this week's Sunday Million, which was worth more than $67k!

Rizen pulled off a notable feat, finishing 2nd in the $200 rebuy for the second consecutive week.  Eric was disappointed in not closing it out, but he still received more than 25,000 reasons to be happy about the finish.  As usual, multiple P5ers were at that final table, including apestyles and ansky451, who finished 6th and 9th respectively.

Agriffrod (right) gave all his OT buddies reason to be proud this week as well, taking 4th place in the Second Chance $200.  P5er BOUJA finished 6th in the event.  The other $200 freezeout, the $250k Guaranteed Sunday Warm Up, also featured two P5ers at the final table, and those two were miamivice (2nd) and demosthen3s (6th).

Once again, a P5er took down the UltimateBet $200k Guaranteed this week, which has become a pretty frequent occurance.  This week it was stevie444 taking home the first prize of $45,000.  Readers here may recall that TheWacoKidd finished 2nd in this event last week, and he was featured on the front page of the Tournament Review.  This week, he finished just shy of his previous performance, taking 3rd place for more than $18k and completing an amazing back-to-back performance.

Three other well-known P5ers were at that final table on UB.  Atimos took 5th place, leggggggggggy took 8th, and Dave118 finished 10th.

One other P5er who made a Sunday major final table this week was gilbertology, who plays as "sportsmoney" on Bodog.  He ended up taking 10th in the $100k Guaranteed, which was back to its old ways with a substantial overlay of nearly $14k.

As always, congrats to all P5ers who cashed in the weekend events.  Here are the final table results:


Bodog $100k Guaranteed $100+9
801 entrants - $100,000 paid out to 81 spots

kingthehustler - $25,000
Melvin01 - $14,000
Poker Man3 - $9,000
hugedog - $6,500
Wayupinya - $5,400
fullpackage1 - $4,400
ongconoi - $3,400
smalltimer - $2,400
sportsmoney - $1,550


Full Tilt $750k Guaranteed $500+35
1,380 entrants - $750,000 paid out to 216 spots

vegan213 - $141,000
cliff819 - $87,375
IWEARGOGGLES - $60,375
badbeatme - $46,500
Eric Froehlich - $35,250
JayceMV10 - $ $25,200
Lopov - $18,375
jokerz76 - $14,250
Bubbagump29 - $10,950


PokerStars "Sunday Warm-Up" $250k Guaranteed $200+15
1,478 entrants - $295,600 paid out to 180 spots

bruno8469 - $62,933
taktloss47 - $31,629
MPetes - $22,170
bzola - $17,588
kamodadragon - $13,893
Demosthen3s - $10,493
chemeris - $7,390
Gambooooool - $4,581
CrackRaymer - $2,808


PokerStars "Sunday Million" $200+15
6,742 entrants - $1,348,400 paid out to 1,080 spots
(numbers based on two-way chop, leaving $30k for first)

Mazinho1977 - $164,009
UMTerp - $121,852
brsavage - $67,420
SUGAR5892 - $53,936
roni99 - $40,452
lberico - $29,664
Tango44 - $20,900
pokiQQ - $12,135


PokerStars "Second Chance" $200+15
1,061 entrants - $212,200 paid out to 153 spots

potstabber10 - $45,623
Evergrey - $25,103
duramax999 - $16,976
agriffrod - $13,580
DaFugginNuts - $10,928
smth0301 - $8,275
sundance9 - $6,153
ips.seri - $4,244
SC5137 - $2,440


PokerStars $200+15 with Rebuys
176 entrants - $128,000 paid out to 18 spots

BONCELA - $38,400
Rizen - $25,600
rockets23 - $15,232
William - $10,240
flukert - $8,320
apestyles - $6,400
Tomte123 - $4,480
supernova9 - $3,328
stolz - $2,176


UltimateBet $200k Guaranteed $200+15
862 entrants - $200,000 paid out to 90 spots

stevie444 - $45,000
stizzle22 - $27,000
TheWacoKidd - $18,500
bobw630 - $13,000
Shenk0 - $11,000
GfoukinBecks - $9,000
fatboy58 - $7,000
leggggggggggy - $5,000
Two7offsuit8 - $3,500
dave118 - $2,000