It was a weekend of big tournaments, and none of the tournaments were bigger than the Paradise Masters, which drew a crowd 2,730 entrants, with a prize pool of $1.638M! The tournament was paused when it reached final table status, and the following players will be flown out to a secret island to play out the rest: orkids, Durrrr, ravnemorfar, fuzzy6, DeadPhish, pfflyer, dwarfcar64, bonav, Bugzzz, DrSamir. Congrats to all of them on a great tournament. Several PocketFivers came close to the final, including brsavage, browerkid, and TheBeat, but none of them quite made it.

Paradise also had their usual $100K guaranteed, though it was on Saturday this time instead of Sunday. The barely missed their guarantee, so the prizepool was exactly $100K, and nopools finished 4th, bringing in a little more than $7K.

The other real big action this weekend was on PartyPoker, where in addition to the usual 3 big tourneys they have, they held a $1M guaranteed tourney on Saturday. The turnout was huge in this event, despite the $640 buy in, and a lot of ranked players were present. Gank made it pretty deep into the money in this event, but the highest ranked finisher was Who's Bad, who plays as pokerrobon PartyPoker. This is the younger brother of recent WPT winner, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, and he already has quite a few strong results on his own resume.

PokerStars and UltimateBet both generated impressive prizepools for their respective Sunday events, with the PokerStars tourney having a prizepool of more than 1/2 million dollars and the UltimateBet tournament making good on its $120K guarantee. The only big story for ranked players on either of these two was HighRoller48 (madhattter) making the final table on UltimateBet. He seems to win this thing about once a month, so making the final table probably wasn't even a big deal to him.

The rest of the $200 and up results from the weekend are below:

Mar. 4, 2005
PartyPoker $200+15
823 Entrants – $164,600 paid out to 90 spots

punketty – $36,212
young_kid – $20,575
BPWJR – $13,168
rocklinrock – $9,876
GambleItUp – $8,230
snitzo – $6,584
fat_baboon – $4,938
mitlok – $3,292
neZhdan – $2,469
Fireball737 – $1,646

Mar. 5, 2005
PartyPoker 1 Million Guaranteed $600+40
2,164 entrants – $1,298,400 paid out to 220 spots

ELIA18 – $272,664
LKBMorris – $137,630.40
sdahlberg – $103,872
browns82 – $77,904
pokerrob – $64,920
twoodsloans – $51,936
mict66 – $38,952
korunovski – $25,968
Klondyke – $19,476
Sprutluder – $12,984

Mar. 5, 2005
PartyPoker 200k Guaranteed $200+15
1,122 entrants – $224,400 paid out to 140 spots

db281081 – $47,124
qbjr711 – $26,254.80
SteveH442 – $17,952
yvphan – $13,464
Jimjpie – $11,220
mustang68_cp – $8,976
MindGames187 – $6,732
jeffadam – $4,488
America_One – $3,366
ginodog – $2,244

Mar. 5, 2005
Paradise 100K Guaranteed $300
328 entrants – $100,000 paid out to 40 spots

Kingfisher – $22,786
Encino Mann – $14,583.04
bajajim777 – $9,570.12
nopools – $7,291.52
PACOMAN – $6,380.08
Luckie 10562 – $5,012.92
mgb21 – $4,101.48
elpobre – $2,734.32
dubbeltomte – $1,595.02
PuppyAces – $1,139.30

Mar. 6, 2005
PartyPoker 1/4 Million Guaranteed $200+15
1840 entrants – $368,000 paid out to 220 spots

BEEMER4U $77,280
gdane – $39,008
pizda – $29,440
donkeykong – $22,080
bh09962 – $18,400
BTownchamps – $14,720
JennysChips – $11,040
angrave – $7,360
Limper2005 – $5,520
TheBoy1der – $3,680

Mar. 6, 2005
PokerStars 350K Guaranteed $200+15
2572 entrants – $514,400 paid out to 270 spots

morti – $102,880
scoopydo – $61,728
PimpingU2 – $38,065.60
tommyboy83 – $29,835.20
polly1 – $23,662.40
ragslumo – $19,547.20
Easy4you – $14,403.20
mchern02 – $9,773.60
irishdenis – $6,172.80

Mar. 6, 2005
UltimateBet 120K Guaranteed $200+15
628 entrants – $125,600 paid out to 60 spots

sonofred – $36,424
bp8499 – $23,361.60
bgizzel – $14,820.80
homer07 – $9,043.20
clinteroo – $5,526.40
marcben – $3,516.80
highroller48 – $2,260.80
Big Hustle21 – $1,758.40
ezer1242 – $1,507.20
sweetlou11 – $1,256