Online Tournament Results - Christmas Weekend 2006

Full Tilt, Party Poker and Ultimate Bet held big weekly guarantees this weekend. Despite the fact that many abandoned the online poker scene to spend time with their loved ones - how dare they? - each online site made their guarantee albeit with a bit of an overlay.Although Full Tilt lowered their weekly guarantee by $50,000 to $300,000 in anticipation of the reduction in entries, the site still had to shell out almost $25,000. The first prize winner received $56,400 and 216 made bank in the event. apestyles went into the final table with the chip lead. A few hands later, demartini777 would need the river card, a king, to push his big-slick over bmddd's pocket tens and push him out of the competition in tenth place. Ouch! demartini777 got lucky again on the river a few hands later. The five on fifth street completed his nine-high straight and sent Dunnowho with pocket hooks and TheWacoKidd with the computer hand, a Q,7 which snagged two-pair on the flop, home for the holidays. TheDustyMan, the eventual winner of the event, then dealt lucko21 a bad beat when his q,10 caught a three-out queen on the river. Whoa! lucko21's luck ran out. At least he had over 10k for a Christmas Bonus. About ten hands or so later, TheDustyMan knocked out another player. He connected on his open-ended straight draw on the river and sent SLYEYES35 careening into the rails in fifth place. SLY had the top pair and top kicker before the river dashed his Christmas dreams of winning the big one at FTP. Maybe, next year, SLY!Imper1um then ran into the freight train TheDustyMan had become. His K,9 got no help from the board. He went away in fourth place. apestyles was still doing pretty well for himself. He actually grabbed the lead by taking down some big pots. However, he got sent home in third after losing some serious pots against demartini777 and TheDustyMan. In his final hand, apestyles' A,2 ran head-first into TheDustyMan's pocket eights. The board brought a 4,7,7,3,3 which was no help to the apeman.Heads-up play began. TheDustyMan had a 9-to-1 lead over demartini777. At one point, demartini777 had pushed his way all-in enough to bring the chip stacks fairly close to even. However, he just couldn't convert that last bit. He lost when TheDustyMan made trip sixes on the final hand. Here are the final results: 1) TheDustyMan - $56,4002) demartini777 - $34,9503) apestyles - $24,1504) Imper1um - $18,6005) SLYEYES35 - $14,1006) lucko21 - $10,0807) Dunnowho - $7,3508) TheWacoKidd - $5,7009) bmdddd - $4,380 Party Poker's Sunday 200K Guaranteed brought 572 players. This meant the site had to pay out $85,600, which is almost 75% of the prize pool. Ouch for them, but good news for those who made it to the game. 80 players earned $600 or more. The fight for the final table was tough. However, mksnumberone entered as the chip leader. He had about 550k in chips. Dead Santa caught the first sleigh out of the final table when his naughty A,Q didn't improve over finolicious' pocket nines. kiprosoff888 was next. His K,4 proved to be no match for the A,J Pok3rCh1c held, especially when a second jack came on the flop. deleteyou was almost erased when his big slick hit nothing and Yabai's pocket jacks took the pot. To make things worse for deleteyou, Yabai caught a set on the flop. On the very next hand, Yabai took deleteyou's final 65 chips. With seven players left, XX_GALTEN_XX moved to the top of the heap. Pok3rCh1c ran into XX's aces and got sent home in seventh place. mksnumberone was the sixth place finisher when SERGE0476 turned up two pair. finolicous watched his hopes for a win dashed when he went all-in against XX, who made a flush on the river. He was eliminated in a disappointing fifth place. Of course, the 10k he took with him will provide some consolation.baby505050 dealt a bad beat to SERGE0476 which helped send SERGE home in fourth. The final three - Yabai, baby505050 and XX_GALTEN_XX - made a deal which gave Yabai a slight advantage in the end. Here are the final standings of the event:1) Yabai - $37,8002) baby505050 - $28,0003) XX_GALTEN_XX - $24,0004) SERGE0476 - $12,2005) finolicious - $10,2006) mksnumberone - $8,2007) Pok3rCh1c - $6,2008) deleteyou - $4,4009) kiprosoff888 - $3,20010) Dead_Santa - $2,400 Here are the final results:On Christmas Eve only 624 anted up to play at UltimateBet's $200,000 Weekly Guarantee. The site had to dole out over $75,000 to meet the guarantee. 70 players cashed with first place taking home $49,000. Kip88, the eventual winner, walked into the final table with a 2:1 chip lead over his nearest competitor. Only a few hands into the final table, caligurl22 knocked tmay_420 out. the 'gurl' had pocket kings which held up against tmay's pocket nines. olegus was the eighth place finisher ($3,500) when his A,K caught nada from the board. Kip88's pocket sevens were good enough. On the very next hand, creekhouse had to go all-in with his Q,2 (he was short-stacked). xizent flopped trip kings and creekhouse was up a creek without a paddle. On three consecutive hands, three players were knocked out. supameng, Ianaba and UNIKORN went out seventh, sixth and fifth respectively. caligurl, who had recently knocked out UNIKORN with her pocket nines, pushed all-in with top pair and top kicker with a board of 2,5,4,6. Unfortunately, she was drawing dead. Kip88 had made his straight with a K,3. Ouch! xizent lost with his pocket tens when bryguy136 flopped a set. bryguy had a bit o' a lead when he and Kip began heads-up play. However, his lead would not last. After a monster pot, Kip had about 90% of the chips in play. bryguy's day ended when he went all-in with a pair of ducks. Kip won the event with his pocket fives. Here are the final results: 1) Kip88 - $47,0002) bryguy136 - $29,5003) xizent - $19,5004) caligurl22 - $13,5005) UNIKORN - $11,0006) Ianaba - $9,0007) supameng - $7,0008) creekhouse - $5,0009) olegus - $3,50010) tmay_420 - $2,000 There's only one more weekend left in 2006. You can ring in the New Year with an incredible payoff at Party Poker, Full Tilt or Ultimate Bet. Enter the satellite events this week and maximize your earning potential for only a few dollars down.