The Midweek Briefing: Leonard and Koon Capture Weekly Majors

Mickey Doft
Live Reporter
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It isn't Sunday yet, but the online tournament scene has been very kind to a few players during the week so far. Mark "uuhhhicall" Leonard and Jason "jakoon1985" Koon were victorious in Full Tilt Poker's $1K Monday and PokerStars Super Tuesday, respectively. Also collecting first-place prizes this week were Steve "mcnallyville" McNally and "DATTEBAYO16".

Full Tilt $1K Monday

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$1,000+$60303$303,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Mark "uuhhhicall" Leonard$75,750
2yipb$48,480
3mararios62$36,360
4CHADda2ND$28,027.50
5vvirtue$21,210
6Bbuddy4brkfst$15,150
7Mario "Pwnasaurus" Silvestri$9,847.50
8nick papa1$7,575
9Joe "hoodini10" Udine$6,060

Notable Finishes: Sam "aaajack" Chartier (10th - $3,787.50), Tim "BegsClutch" Begley (19th - $1,666.50), Caio Pimenta (20th - $1,666.50)

PokerStars $1,050 Super Tuesday

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$1,000+$50410$410,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Jason "jakoon1985" Koon$78,679
2Nick "I Spew Chips" Phillips$58,425
3PITU_poker$43,050
4Brandon78$32,800
5marcolina$22,960
6Jossel2008$17,425
7Tim "BillChapel" Begley$13,325
8Greg "gregior" Howard$9,225
9Sida "supfoolio" Yuen$6,806

Notable Finishes: Raj "BadcardsAA" Vohra (12th - $5,330), Jim "BreakRibs" Kilarjian (13th - $4,510), Jamie "pokerjamers" Armstrong (16th - $3,690)

PokerStars $320 Wednesday 1/4 Million

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$300+$20945$283,500
PlacePlayerPrize
1Steve "mcnallyville" McNally$51,313.50
2JimDarnaby35$36,855
3Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy$27,641.25
4Schildy1984$20,695.50
5shawry5$14,600.25
6SouthcJay7$11,765.25
7pacmanned$8,930.25
8Laurence "rivermanl" Houghton$6,265.35
9oaktree50$3,628.80

Notable Finishes: Eric "psuNYY51" Ladny (15th - $2,494.80)

UB $150K GTD

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$1,000+$50159$159,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1DATTEBAYO16$42,135
2Chris "INYOUREYE111" Moorman$25,440
3Laurence "DONT_RIVER_ME" Houghton$18,682.50
4Shyam "S_DOT111" Srinivasan$15,105
5NOCTUS$11,527.50
6ENIGMA4U4ME$9,540
7Chris "GETTINDAIZEY" Oliver$7,552.50
8Zach "HUSTLERGRUNE" Gruneberg$5,565
9SCHINJA$3,975

Notable Finishes: Bradley "FATSOFAT6969" Craig (10th - $2,385)

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