BodogPoker hosted its regular $100,000 Guarantee last Sunday, attracting a field of 656 players who satellite their way in or paid the direct $100 + $9 buy-in. Marshall “Balla686” Trauernicht proved his skills that night by routing the competition to earn his largest online poker tournament cash to date of $23,600.

As the action dwindled to the final table, then further into heads-up play, it came down to the obvious skills of “Balla686” and “splisner” to battle it out for the top position. It didn’t take long for the cards to fall in Marshall “Balla686” Trauernicht’s favor, sending “spilsner” to the rails to claim the 1st place prize.

From the comfort of his computer in Springfield, Massachusetts, Marshall “Balla686” Trauernicht has pocketed a multitude of online poker tournament cashes, many in the 4-digit range and most at Bodog Poker, though this most recent victory is largest by far.

BodogPoker.com Sunday $100k Guarantee Final Table Results

1st - Balla686 ($23,600)
2nd - spilsner ($13,600)
3rd - syzygy3732 ($9,100)
4th - soggyvag2 ($7,000)
5th - Ugotdonedirty ($5,700)
6th - TimKansas ($4,500)
7th - TripleNet ($3,300)
8th - Hapa Haoli ($2,200)
9th - PwnasaurusX ($1,300)

It’s pretty easy math to figure out that the field of 656, at a $100 buy-in, only brought in $65,600 of the guaranteed prize pool, resulting in an overlay that forced BodogPoker to toss in the remaining $34,400 to cover the purse. BodogPoker has launched several promotional campaigns to bolster its poker tournament popularity - including a recent $250k GP to replace its regular weekly $100k, and the upcoming BodogPoker Open II in October 2008 - but the online poker room continues to struggle in the participation department.

If you want to practice first, you can always work on your game at the freepoker tables at BodogPoker.net

Esteemed congratulations go out to “dubbeemin” for routing the enormously skilled field of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS IX Main Event (Full Tilt Online Poker Series). The action unfolded Sunday evening as the FTOPS Main Event got underway at 6pm ET.

Team Full Tilt’s Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson hosted the final event, a $500+$35 No Limit Hold’em tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $2.5 million. A field of 4,880 converged on the FTOPS IX Main Event tables to take a shot at the highest GP in the FTOPS IX series, and the prestigious title of FTOPS IX Champion.

Lasting 10 hours and 44 blind levels that escalated to $140k/$280k and $35k Antes, 1st place would pay a heavenly prize of $432,400.

As the final table was set, ‘TiltinShoes’ of the United States would be the first finalist to view the outcome from the rails, earning $32,500 for a 9th place finish. Soon joining would be ‘aaaFRANCESCOzzz’, taking the 8th place prize of $43,750.

In 7th, ‘tvcsa’ pocketed a cool $57,500, followed by ‘hemlock1313’ in 6th for $75,000. The next to fall was ‘sckilla’, taking the impressive 5th place purse of $100,000. ‘Pokerguru19’ finished in 4th, worth $132,500. Eventually, ‘TheTotalPkg’ would fall from the competition in 3rd place, earning $170,000.

Heads-up play came down to ‘valleyho’ and ‘dubbeemin’ as the two chip-jousted for the ultimate victory. In the end, it was ‘valleyho’ eliminated in 2nd place, taking home an awesome reward of $262,500.

‘dubbeemin’ was crowned the Champion of FTOPS IX, outlasting a field of nearly 5k to pocket a whopping $432,400.

FTOPS IX Main Event Final Table Results
1st – dubbeemin - $432,400
2nd – valleyho - $262,500
3rd – TheTotalPkg - $170,000
4th – Pokerguru19 - $132,000
5th – sckilla - $100,000
6th – hemlock1313 - $75,000
7th – tvcsa - $57,500
8th – aaaFRANCESCOzzz - $43,750
9th – TiltinShoes - $32,500

Practice for the next FTOPs event at FullTilt Poker.net and FullTilt Poker.com!

FullTiltPoker’s impressive weekend tournament line-up was jam packed with prize pools exceeding their expected value as once again the online poker room saw enough entries to heighten the guaranteed prizes in all three of its most lucrative online poker tournaments – the FullTiltPoker.com Sunday $750k GTD, Sunday Brawl and Sunday Mulligan.

Starting with the most rewarding online poker tournament this week, FullTilt Poker.com hosted it’s $750k GTD that drew 3,843 – just enough to boost the prize pool to $768,600, paying the top 522 positions. It was a fearsome final table that came down to heads-up action between ‘HosniMubarak’ and ‘CountTilt’. In the end, it was ‘HosniMubarak’ out-maneuvering his foe for the 1st place prize and Full Tilt Poker’s largest tournament cash of the weekend, $136,081. ‘CountTilt’ took home the 2nd place prize of $82,240.

FullTilt Poker Sunday $750k GTD Final Table Results

1st - HosniMubarak ($136,081)
2nd - CountTilt ($82,240)
3rd - theman2892 ($53,802)
4th - Reletrom ($42,427)
5th - theoneone ($31,820)
6th - potbuilder1881 ($23,596)
7th - lemac1980 ($17,678)
8th - LWALKER ($13,835)
9th - MajorPayne11 ($10,299)

The Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl, with a buy-in of $240+$16 and a guaranteed prize pool of $250,000, was kicked off with a field of 1,782, jumping the prize pool by more than $100k to $356,400. The last 189 players standing would see a piece of the purse, but the largest bankroll would go to ‘johnny3600’, earning 1st place and $73,418 for defeating ‘torowe’ in heads-up.

Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl Final Table Results

1st - johnny3600 ($73,418)
2nd - torowe ($48,470)
3rd - REDCRUSHER1 ($35,996)
4th - eatschips ($28,156)
5th - robert07 ($21,028)
6th - ship hamilton ($14,612)
7th - Max Strength ($8,910)
8th - Pokerccini ($6,059)
9th - nicolecutie888 ($4,277)

Rounding out the weekend of impressive online poker tournaments at Full Tilt Poker was the $150k GTD Sunday Mulligan, where 1,101 players converged on the tables to trump the guaranteed prize pool to $220,200. 107 other top finishers would share the prize with 1st place winner ‘mrvogt’, who claimed $49,545 for his skilled victory. Coming in second was ‘breeth’, pocketing an impressive cash of $31,379.

FullTilt.net Sunday Mulligan Final Table Results

1st - mrvogt ($49,545)
2nd - breeth ($31,379)
3rd - djlizard66 ($23,231)
4th - sketchy1 ($18,167)
5th - ersherman ($13,763)
6th - fslexcduck ($9,909)
7th - Woolley ($6,606)
8th - Bsd80 ($4,955)
9th - benba ($3,523)