http://www.liquidpoker.net/news/7939..._September_1st

High Stakes Online Poker Results (All sites, All Gametypes, 2009-01-01 to 2009-09-01), the winners :

* Patrik Antonius $3.600.418,17 - 115537 hands
* Cole South $2.889.242,25 - 28740 hands
* theASHMAN103 $2.369.059,09 - 34372 hands
* Ziigmund $2.319.792,88 - 60277 hands
* trex313 $2.039.564,62 - 76133 hands
* Mark Vos $2.029.544,30 - 12884 hands
* Richard Ashby $1.874.298,00 - 56797 hands
* POKERBLUFFS $1.194.406,90 - 11821 hands
* John Juanda $1.154.749,75 - 12183 hands
* Brian Townsend $1.091.340,15 - 21363 hands


Must be great being Patrik Antonius. After he won around $1.9 million last year, he's doing even better this year. Aqcuiring $3.6 million, he's well ahead of the other big winners. He has already played more than he did in the entire last year, and with that comes great reward.

On the second place we find Cole "CTS" South, who is working on quite a comeback after many months of absence from the highest stakes. He has not been playing as many hands as Antonius, but when he played, he played well regarding his much higher winrate. A winrate that is only beaten by Mark Vos, who cashed in over 2 million dollar in just 12,884 hands! That means he earns himself on average $155 for every hand he played! Other notable winning players include Ziigmund, Richard Ashby (a red pro on Full Tilt, not to be confused with Rick Astley...), John Juanda and Brian Townsend (sbrugby), who is also making a bit of a comeback this year.

Not making the top 10 list was a bit unusual for Phil Ivey. However, when we look one place further, on the 11th place we see him winning $1.076.164,78 in 77835 hands. Not as much as the $7.5 million he won last year, but still, winning a million dollars can't be bad.

Money like this doesn't fall out of the sky, it comes from the losers:

* LarsLuzak $-3.474.418,21 - 109889 hands
* Gus Hansen $-2.179.023,68 - 185009 hands
* DIN_FRU $-1.289.780,70 - 78110 hands
* papa ninja $-1.245.031,65 - 4766 hands
* KObyTAPOUT $-1.104.791,95 - 8595 hands
* ahtata $-971.744,05 - 7115 hands
* martonas $-782.664,24 - 36977 hands
* MR B 2 U SON $-731.128,76 - 26657 hands
* HarrisMP $-704.100,35 - 33052 hands
* world1969 $-674.313,10 - 5067 hands


Losing almost as much as Antonius is winning this year in about as much hands as Antonius, Sami "LarsLuzak" Kelopuro is trying to make sure the money coming in to Finland is about the same as the money going out. It doesn't look very good for Sami, as he's even losing more than Gus Hansen. Gus' story is a bit strange as he was up $2.8 million in January, yet he lost it all and more, and he's now down -$2.179.023,68!

The third biggest loser is DIN_FRU, who is said to be Erik Sagstrom (aka "Erik123", "The Salmon" or the "King of Ding"). Another interesting player in this list is martonas. He was one of the key players in (one of) the biggest session online this year, where he ended up experiencing the huge swings that come with playing at these high limits. In the end he's lost $782.664,24 so far and we'll have to wait and see how many more hands he's gonna play this year.

So where's Tom "durrrr" Dwan you might think? He's down $510.162,99 in 178,372 hands, which might sound bad, but actually is not that bad considering he was down almost $3.3 million in January! With durrrr you never know what the future is gonna bring, he might end up being one of the biggest winners, or as one of the biggest losers.