The Midweek Briefing: Luque and Mathis Among Weekly Winners

December 23 2010, Mickey Doft

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-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$1,000+$60	332	$332,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Jorge "PITU_poker" Luque	$83,000
2	sfegurva	$53,120
3	eagleroo	$39,840
4	bp513	$30,710
5	Carter "cswidler" Swidler	$23,240
6	deaconskeeter	$16,600
7	DogGoneGood	$10,790
8	ekanes01	$8,300
9	Cesar "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-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$1,000+$50	378	$378,000

Place	Player	Prize
*1	AJSuited16	$56,511
*2	cambyman80	$59,087.59
*3	Arnie_D	$53,934.41
4	Tom "hitthehole" Middleton	$31,185
5	Bryan "theczar19" Piccioli	$21,546
6	Matt "schnizeltoe" Keikoan	$16,632
7	Thayer "THAY3R" Rasmussen	$12,852
8	wsopdude26	$9,072
9	trontrontron	$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-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$300+$20	834	$250,200

Place	Player	Prize
1	Marty "TheLipoFund" Mathis	$45,911.70
2	RoyalCrusher	$32,776.20
3	mjsa111	$24,769.80
4	babyshark33	$18,639.90
5	brainpowerss	$13,010.40
6	NICA-TUCUMAN	$10,508.40
7	pawil123	$8,006.40
8	Jo Momz	$5,504.40
9	duhos11	$3,252.60

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

UB $150K GTD

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$1,000+$50	132	$132,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	FTBG	$34,980
2	SUPERUSED	$21,120
3	Casey "BIGDOGPCKTS5S" Jarzebek	$15,510
4	A2STEAKSAUCE	$12,540
5	Mohsin "CHICAGOCARDS1" Charania	$9,570
6	Eric "BLIZAIR" Blair	$7,920
7	011POKERDR	$6,270
8	DRREWFUS81	$4,620
9	Jon "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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