Sat, 01/29/2011 – 00:09 – PokerPages Staff

#5 – Tyron Krost, Aussie Millions Main Event
Last year, no fewer than 746 players from around the world took part in the Aussie Millions Main Event.  Until January 24th 2010, Tyron’s biggest win had been $35,283 back in 2008.  Then along came the Aussie Millions, and he returned home with $1,845,921.
 
#4 – Harrison Gimbel, PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event
At just 19 years of age, Harrison became the youngest person ever to win the PCA Main Event.  He went home town a life-changing $2,200,200 richer.  His poker prowess shone through in the Bahamas but he’s still too young to play in the U.S!

#3 – Nicolas Chouity, EPT Monte Carlo Grand Finale
“Nicky” has been playing poker since he was 18 years old, but his spectacular first place finish at the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Finale put his earlier wins into the shade.  He faced one hell of a challenge – Europe’s best players as well as top pros from all over the world converge on the EPT.  But he met it admirably, and left $2,263,166 better off.

#2 – Tyson Marks, PokerStars WCOOP Main Event
Tyson blew open the record books when he took down the biggest prize ever awarded in the history of online poker tournaments.  But when you consider that he was playing a field of 2,443 players, each of whom had paid $5,200 to play; you can see how the staggering prize pool of $12,215,000 was made.  Tyson made off with $2,278,097 of it.

#1 – Jonathan Duhamel, WSOP 2010 Main Event
The 23-year-old from Boucherville, Quebec, earned his first WSOP bracelet in 2010 – and a stunning $8,944,138 in prize money to go with it.  He became the first Canadian ever to win the event, and ploughed his way unerringly through 7,310 rival players to get to the final table.

Sat, 01/29/2011 – 00:02 – PokerPages Staff

Online poker player ‘Ilvdnfl’ was the big winner on PokerStars in mid week after taking down $173,000 in various high stakes cash games.

‘Ilvdnfl’, who is rumored to nosebleed regular Di Dang, benefitted from several lucrative $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha sessions against ‘MauriceSch’ and ‘Also11′ on the world’s biggest online poker site on Wednesday.

Those figures pushed his profits for the week past the $350,000 mark. The PLO specialist is now on an upswing of $741,000 for the calendar year.

Cash games on rival sites have been quiet this week as the likes of Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius are competing in the Aussie Millions in Melbourne.

David Benefield posted the best figures on Full Tilt Poker. Benefield won $91,000 in lengthy PLO exchanges. Van Marcus (+$45,000) also prospered.

Dang, who plays under the ‘Urindanger’ alias on Full Tilt, failed to generate any heat despite his alleged successes at PokerStars. He ended the evening with losses of $106,000.

However, Dang has been one of the front runners during the early stages of 2011 and if the rumors are to be believed, is now on an upswing of around $1.5 million for both of his online accounts.

There were several big losers on PokerStars as ‘MauriceSch’ (-$104,000) and ‘Sauce123′ (-$104,000) dropped six figure sums. ‘Also11′ (-$77,000) and ‘Looney Gerbil’ (-$73,000) rounded out the top four.