This week is huge and thought-provoking. Winners combined for ~$270,000, losers for -$152,000 (8 players).

Alex “Lotte Lenya/H2Olga” Timman and Olivier "Adonis112/livb112" Busquet (good friends) started sitting FTP tables just after relaunching. This week Serkules joined too, playing reasonable sample of 283 games.

Alex Timman crushed PS and FTP tables

He lost $50,000~ in Week #30-#31, but won ~$7,000 back last time. That was only a warm-up. This week he filled his pockets with $68,145 (PS: $55,247 after 850 games. FTP: $12,898 after 91 games). It's his second monster win lately: month ago he profited for $93,619.

Now he is in 11th place with $208.311, although 2 month before he was close to break-even.

Results by month (impressive comeback):

December: +64,627; November: +$28,538; October: +$55,134; September +$60,358; August: +$60,451.

Week‘s graph (PS)

Serkules is hardly reachable now

He won $48,658 (PS: $31,220 after 695 games; FTP:  $17,438 after 283 games), and due to SkaiWalkurrr‘s downswing (read further) now has $94 k advantage. Looks like we have this year's winner. Although, Skai still can surprise us. As an example, 5 weeks ago Serk had the $140,000 lead, but Skai reduced distance to $24,000 just in two weeks.

Serkules is up for $870,175 now (2012 Sharkscope list). If he could manage to reach $1,000,000 amount it could attract huge attention from media and make big difference to whole husng community.

So valuable would be to have one more public ambassador for this variation :-) (in lots of ways already is).

2012 graph

Fishenzon won some money back

Fishenzon very rarely wins huge amounts in 2012. This week is one of those pleasant exceptions: he won $32,052 after 566 games. Keep it up, man! :-)

2012 balance: -$15,000

All-time winnings: ~$700,000.

Olivier "livb112/Adonis112" Busquet – biggest winner in FTP

He won $31,713 after 191 games (in FTP), but had unsuccessfull run in PS: -$7,632 after 354 games.

New competition to Serk and Skai is growing

Eric2441989 – is the biggest surprise recently. He is showing unbelievable stability, growing as a player and as a star. He is in 6th place now with $304,221.

Report #33: $12,967 after 1004 games

Last 2 months:

Report #25: $11,371 after 408 games

Report #26: $20,252 after 394 games

Report #27: $11,700 after 436 games

Report #28: $12,410 after 570 games

Report #29: $32,743 after 943 games (showed up in 2012 leaderboard. Jumped straight to 15th)

Report #30: $8,238 after 1058 games

Report #31: $76,659 after 980 games (increased his yearly profit by 30% and moved up from 14th to 7th)

Report #32: $27,899 after 1146 games

We will definitely give him more attention next year, because he is one of those who can surprise poker community heavily. Who knows, maybe in 2013 he will be competing in the same level as Serkules and SkaiWalkurrr?

It should be noted that Eric is playing less games than them on average, but as you can see from his recent profits, when he plays similar sample, results increases significantly. Also, his average stake is 1.5x lower (yet?).

2012 graph

Bjorn "Bjoerni89" Schneider $14,460 after 238 games

Bjoerni89 set an impressive record earning 3,058,660 VPP’s throughout 2011. During 2012 he reduced his grinding time drastically - 78.2 games/week. Maybe next year he will play more often.

„Schneider lost around $90k playing online poker on the actual tables in 2011. However, the insane amount of VPP’s he earned ensured that the German made somewhere between $100k and $400k when these points were cashed in.

One thing that’s really inspiring about Schneider is that he was just another low stakes grinder a couple of years ago. But in a year’s time, he graduated from playing $5 SNG’s to $100 heads-up SNG’s. Just a year after this, he was competing at the highest level of PokerStars SNG’s by playing the $5k games. With his place on Team PokerStars the 22-year-old has gained even more respect and fame within the poker world.

In addition to playing online poker, Bjorn Schneider is also a German university student who studies philosophy and history.“

Source: aintluck.com

More winners

Zak "BOOMF/ ZakWray" Wray (@ZakWray on Twitter)

He won $17,734: $13,001 after 150 games in FTP and $4,733 after 350 games in PS.

Joel "JMPRODIGY" Micka

He won $5,786 after 137 games. His Av. Stake was only $244 and av. profit: $40,04-per-game.

Other winners

Martin “0Piggybank” Finger won $10,837 after 298 games; qihu00 won $9,553 after 212 games; Sifosis won $4,535 after 550 games; Eduardo "n00ki5" Carvalho (@n00ki5 on Twitter) won $3,937 after 247 games ($15.94/game); WhatIsICM won $2,062 after 407 games; Grayson “spacegravy” Physioc (@Grayson_Physioc) won $1,393 after 524 games;

caaaamel: $4,514 after 79 games only. (ROI: 28.1%); Matej "mtvdeuem" Cepon also played poor sample – 48 games. He won $1,539

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Sami "Lrslzk" Kelopuro lost the most

This week he played as much as never before - 743 games - but things didn‘t work out for him. He lost $38,081 (-$51.25/game). His 2012 winnings (husngs only) shrinked to $23,201 after 2159 games in total.



Rachid "SkaiWalkurrr" Ben Cherif

After first 11 games, he was up for ~$20,000, but then started to move down drastically: -$27,182 in Game 171. Then he has lots of ups and downs in somewhere between -$20k and break-even zone. He ended week losing $29,373 after 957 games (-$30,63/game, Av.buy-in: $1,017).

Monday and Saturday was terrible for him: -$36,338 after 225 games and -$25,849 after 119 games acordingly. However, he won reasonable amounts on Tuesday, Wendsday, Thursday and Friday and had break-even Sunday.

Loosing streaks: 1x12 games, 2x8, and 6x7

Winning streaks: 1x13, 3x10, 2x8.

More losers:

anthonyff: -$19,354 after 509 games; Ankush "pistons87' Mandavia: -$15,073 after 343 games; Leon "flippetyflop" Louis: -$13,192 after 882 games; Jonathan “Iftarii” Jaffe: -$13,335 after 25 games; Siervos: -$9,9256 after 425 games; Ryan "Moca Choca89" O'Donnell: -$5,876 after 458 games;

Last week's hand packs:

1) TILT from Matej "mtvdeuem" Cepon on Isaac "philivey2694" Haxton? $1,000 hypr-turbo hands. (+PHOTOS)

2) $5,000 Turbo hands: SkaiWalkurrr, Fishenzon, hasankiki, FisFarfar, EireAbu

3) Rachid "SkaiWalkurrr" Ben Cherif hand pack. $1,000 hyper turbo. (+PROPBET STORY)

4) Eric2441989: unsatisfying hands from $1,000 hyper-turbo. (+2012 GRAPH +2012 STATS)