The Midweek Briefing: Luque and Mathis Among Weekly Winners

The Midweek Briefing: Luque and Mathis Among Weekly Winners 0001

Several players have had an exceptional week so far in the online tournament scene. The biggest individual score went to Jorge "PITU_poker" Luque, for winning the Full Tilt Poker $1K Monday for $83,000. Meanwhile, Marty "TheLipoFund" Mathis notched a first-place finish in the PokerStars Wednesday 1/4 Million for $45,911.70.

Full Tilt $1K Monday

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$1,000+$60332$332,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Jorge "PITU_poker" Luque$83,000
2sfegurva$53,120
3eagleroo$39,840
4bp513$30,710
5Carter "cswidler" Swidler$23,240
6deaconskeeter$16,600
7DogGoneGood$10,790
8ekanes01$8,300
9Cesar "makavelyces" Fuentes$6,640

Notable Finishes: Amit "amak316" Makhija (15th - $3,320), Chris "Moormanl" Moorman (24th - $1,826), Tristan "Cre8ive" Wade (25th - $1,826), Luke "__FullFlush1__" Schwartz (27th - $1,826)

PokerStars $1,050 Super Tuesday

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$1,000+$50378$378,000
PlacePlayerPrize
*1AJSuited16$56,511
*2cambyman80$59,087.59
*3Arnie_D$53,934.41
4Tom "hitthehole" Middleton$31,185
5Bryan "theczar19" Piccioli$21,546
6Matt "schnizeltoe" Keikoan$16,632
7Thayer "THAY3R" Rasmussen$12,852
8wsopdude26$9,072
9trontrontron$6,615

*denotes three-handed deal

Notable Finishes: Greg "gregior" Howard (10th - $5,670), Dan "WiLDmAn75" Buzgon (11th - $5,670), Aaron "JeanGrae" McCready (12th - $5,670), Josh "JBT449" Bergman (14th - $4,725), Tristan "Cre8ive" Wade (22nd - $2,835), Johnny Lodden (23rd - $2,835), Stu "thedonator" Paterson (24th - $2,835)

PokerStars $320 Wednesday 1/4 Million

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$300+$20834$250,200
PlacePlayerPrize
1Marty "TheLipoFund" Mathis$45,911.70
2RoyalCrusher$32,776.20
3mjsa111$24,769.80
4babyshark33$18,639.90
5brainpowerss$13,010.40
6NICA-TUCUMAN$10,508.40
7pawil123$8,006.40
8Jo Momz$5,504.40
9duhos11$3,252.60

Notable Finishes: David "dpeters17" Peters (12th - $2,752.20), Luis "spxdes" Medina (13th - $2,251.80)

UB $150K GTD

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$1,000+$50132$132,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1FTBG$34,980
2SUPERUSED$21,120
3Casey "BIGDOGPCKTS5S" Jarzebek$15,510
4A2STEAKSAUCE$12,540
5Mohsin "CHICAGOCARDS1" Charania$9,570
6Eric "BLIZAIR" Blair$7,920
7011POKERDR$6,270
8DRREWFUS81$4,620
9Jon "APESTYLES" Van Fleet$3,300

Notable Finishes: Jeremy "THECHEMIST83" Gaubert (12th - $1,980), Zach "CRAZYZACHARY" Clark (14th - $1,650), Cliff "JOHNNYBAX" Josephy (15th - $1,650)

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