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We need to take a look at last week’s weekly leaderboard winners first. Here were the winners when it was all over:

1. quietwinner - 1899 pts
2. willedtowin - 1897 pts
3. grewsum2sum - 1672 pts

For his efforts, quietwinner won the chance to play a [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-Bodog.php]Bodog[/url] pro heads-up for $1,000. It came down to the last day in this particular race. Although willedtowin held the top spot for half the week, he lost 1st place on the very last day to quietwinner. And quietwinner was anything but quiet on the last day when he took over 1st place - he stormed all the way from 18th to 1st in one day! That is truly a dramatic way to end the weekly leaderboard race. Grewsum2sum was in 2nd place when I wrote last week and he finished in 3rd to round out the top 10.

As for the week that’s happening now, here is the current top 10:

1. HerbTokyo - 1365 pts
2. willedtowin - 1262 pts
3. Troy111 - 1250 pts
4. bigtone52 - 1193 pts
5. ardie - 1140 pts
6. L Rocketz - 1135 pts
7. ParliGod - 1055 pts
8. manderbutt - 970 pts
9. papastacks - 938 pts
10. DARKHELMET13 - 929 pts

It looks like 2nd place wasn’t good enough for willedtowin last week, so he’s back to challenge for 1st place again. HerbTokyo, a player I am unfamiliar with, will try to hold willedtowin off. Troy111, an excellent player who finished 2nd for the September leaderboard race is currently in 3rd place to round out the top 3. There are a couple of other familiar names in that list including ParliGod and manderbutt. ParliGod, who won a weekly race back in July, is one of the most consistent tournament players on [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-Bodog.php]Bodog[/url] and is almost always found in the top 10 of these leaderboards. In fact, he is in the top 0.34% of all [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-Bodog.php]Bodog[/url] leaderboard players, which is undeniably impressive. This stat even beats that of Panicked, who currently sits in the top 0.82% of all leaderboard players. As for manderbutt, he hasn’t won a weekly leaderboard on my watch yet, but he did place second on the August leaderboard of this year. Oh and yes, I couldn’t help but bring up Panicked. If you’re wondering where he is on these leaderboards now, he currently sits 36th for the week and 32nd for the month.

Here is my seamless transition to the monthly standings:

1. willedtowin - 4115 pts
2. whatever877 - 3770 pts
3. quietwinner - 3767 pts
4. Troy111 - 3548 pts
5. shawncarter - 3290 pts
6. WillyNilly - 3269 pts
7. andyvanslyke - 3258 pts
8. Swany420 - 3164 pts
9. allornothing112 - 3162 pts
10. grewsum2sum - 3142 pts

It makes perfect sense that after almost two weeks of great results on the weekly leaderboards, willedtowin is still leading when it comes to the monthly leaderboard after increasing his point total by almost 600. Whatever877 also kept his spot in the standings, increasing his point total by 446 from last week. Quietwinner’s victory on the weekly leaderboard helped him a lot for the October leaderboard and he was able to move up 20 spots from last week to sit in 3rd place this week. Pretty much all of the other names in the top 10 are names we’ve all seen before in previous months. A little over a week remains in this race, so there is still time for some of the talented players a little lower in the standings to step it up and make a run for the top spot.

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This is how the monthly leaderboard currently stands:

1. shaundeeb - 7187 pts
2. nomorebeats - 6874 pts
3. Allanon85 - 6537 pts
4. WoodBrave - 5925 pts
5. Finn1991 - 5880 pts
6. PinkGeorgey - 5808 pts
7. Maniac4Life - 5704 pts
8. 1ofaKind420 - 5647 pts
9. Bdbeatslayer - 5495 pts
10. jeffbeesdat - 5175 pts

There’s yet again a new number one on the monthly leaderboard. The new leader is shaundeeb, who is one of the most consistent tournament grinders online. He was in 16th place last week with 4,409 points, and he had a very impressive week to vault himself to 1st place. Nomorebeats stood his ground this week, keeping the 2nd spot. Allanon85, the former number one, is down to 3rd, failing to increase his point total much since last Wednesday.

This week there were only three new players in the top 10 for the month. Aside from shaundeeb, the other two new arrivals were Maniac4Life in 7th and Bdbeatslayer in 9th. Time is running out in October for the rest of the players, and it looks like it might end up being a competition between shaundeeb, nomorebeats, and Allanon85 for 1st place.

Let’s take a look at the top 10 players this year:

1. derek8 - 37,217 pts
2. shaundeeb - 35,896 pts
3. Pokerccini - 32,453 pts
4. QuasiFiction - 32,429 pts
5. ICuRaRook - 31,221 pts
6. bluntman82 - 30,719 pts
7. jeffbeesdat - 30,706 pts
8. BreakRibs - 30,323 pts
9. ender555 - 29,555 pts
10. Bruno GT - 29,545 pts

What an interesting week for the yearly leaderboard. Last week I mentioned that it looked like derek8 was running away with it for the year, but I just proved to myself that you should never assume victory before you have it. Enjoying an awesome week that put him in 1st place in the October Leaderboard, shaundeeb is creeping up on derek8 in the yearly race. Shaundeeb is well known for playing a massive volume when playing for the yearly leaderboard, sometimes playing over 24 tables at once! That being said, derek8 is no slouch himself, playing over 6,000 tournaments this year. One thing has become clear: this is going to be great race to the end! Perhaps our favourite [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-PokerStars.php]PokerStars[/url] players will stay home on New Years Eve to play tournaments … As for the rest of the pack, Pokerccini continues his ascent, moving up to 3rd this week and knocking QuasiFiction back to 4th. IcuRaRook kept his spot, while bluntman82 and jeffbeesdat switched places this week. BreakRibs and ender555 kept themselves in the top 10, placing 8th and 9th respectively. Bruno GT has returned to the top 10 kicking  jitterbug777 out in the process.

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First off, here were the top three of the weekly leaderboard from last week:

1. boondock11 - 1811 pts
2. shawncarter - 1595 pts
3. WillyNilly - 1563 pts

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Let’s move on to the current week. Here is the newest weekly leaderboard top ten:

1. willedtowin - 1690 pts
2. grewsum2sum - 1671 pts
3. thrtyftj - 1190 pts
4. RICHA63 - 1167 pts
5. papastacks - 1142 pts
6. andyvanslyke - 1074 pts
7. quietwinner - 1038 pts
8. Dannenmann - 1012 pts
9. scunyun - 990 pts
10. UFgator83 - 954 pts

willedtowin has a small lead over grewsum2sum and is currently in 1st place. I haven’t seen much of willedtowin on the top ten of these leaderboards, but I can tell you that he sits in the top 17% percent of all [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-Bodog.php]Bodog[/url] leaderboard players. He has been in the top ten for the week for 10 days out of the past month. grewsum2sum has yet to win a leaderboard on my watch, but he has showed up in the top ten a lot more the last few weeks. thrtyftj, the 3rd place player, has not been in the top ten of these standings very often and I have no idea who he is. He is almost 500 points behind grewsum2sum, so it is highly doubtful that he will crack the top 2 in these standings. He will have to work hard to keep 3rd place, too - less than 250 points separates him and 10th place!

As I said earlier, the monthly leaderboard is over halfway in, so the standings are becoming very interesting! Here is the current top ten:

1. willedtowin - 3542 pts
2. whatever877 - 3324 pts
3. Swany420 - 3164 pts
4. grewsum2sum - 3125 pts
5. Troy111 - 3091 pts
6. andyvanslyke - 2851 pts
7. papastacks - 2835 pts
8. WillyNilly - 2809 pts
9. RICHA63 - 2781 pts
10. CK3 - 2765 pts

willedtowin’s great past week has obviously done him very well - he is up 11 spots from last week’s 12th to 1st this week. whatever877 increased his point total by almost 1,000 and kept his 2nd place spot, and Swany420 moved down a couple spots from 1st to 3rd place. grewsum2sum had an awesome past week (also shown by this week’s weekly standings), moving up a whopping 48 points from 52nd last week to 4th this week! Troy111 made a slight move up from 6th to 5th. andyvanslyke, a good player who won a weekly leaderboard back in April this year, makes a reappearance on these leaderboards, cracking the top ten this time in 6th place. Then we have papastacks, WillyNilly, RICHA63, and CK3 to round out the top ten. WillyNilly and CK3 are both awesome tournament players and they have more than enough potential to climb to the top of these standings before the month is over.

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Here’s how the top ten for the month looks right now:

1. Allanon85 - 5988 pts
2. nomorebeats - 5548 pts
3. 1ofaKind420 - 5395 pts
4. Finn1991 - 5345 pts
5. PinkGeorgey - 5194 pts
6. pairDboard21 - 5035 pts
7. jeffbeesdat - 4946 pts
8. WoodBrave - 4845 pts
9. $-iTuG-$ - 4773 pts
10. derek8 - 4749 pts

We have five holdovers from last week: Allanon85, 1ofaKind420, PinkGeorgey, pairDboard21, and $-iTuG-$ all remain in the top ten for October. Allanon85 continues to hold the top position, though his lead has been whittled down a bit by the emerging nomorebeats, who has jumped up from 18th place and 3469 points, an increase of 16 spots and over 2,000 points! That is truly impressive. Nomorebeats seems to be quite hot right now and looks ready to put some pressure on Allanon85.

Joining the top ten this week are two players who aren’t strangers to being atop leaderboards. Derek8 is in 10th right now, with 4,749 points, while jeffbeesdat is in 7th with 4,946 points. Both are in the yearly leaderboard’s top ten as well! So it comes as no surprise that these incredibly consistent players are in the top ten for October right now, especially since derek8 is currently number one in the yearly standings with a massive 37,180 points. As for others on the monthly leaderboard right now, pairDboard21 had a bit of a fall off this week, dropping down from 2nd to 7th place. Two players who passed him in the standings were 1ofaKind420 and PinkGeorgey.

Let’s take a look at the yearly standings:

1. derek8 - 37,180 pts
2. shaundeeb - 33,483 pts
3. QuasiFiction - 32,226 pts
4. Pokerccini - 31,708 pts
5. ICuRaRook - 31,104 pts
6. jeffbesdat - 30,625 pts
7. bluntman82 - 30,400 pts
8. BreakRibs - 30,047 pts
9. ender555 - 29,555 pts
10. jitterbug777 - 29,273 pts

The same ten players that were in the top 10 last week are still in this week. However, there was some small movement within these players. Derek8 didn’t gain too much in the past week, but it’s still going to be incredibly tough for anyone to catch him before the end of the year, even shaundeeb. QuasiFiction comes in once again at 3rd, keeping the top 3 the same this week. Perhaps the most important jump this week came from Pokerccini. He had a solid week, gaining over 1,300 points, finishing in 4th place this week.

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As always, though, we need to look at the weekly leaderboard from last week first. Here were the top three when the week was over:

1. UFPokerStar - 1863 pts
2. zubs1aa - 1735 pts
3. whatever877 - 1681 pts

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Here are the new weekly standings:

1. boondock11 - 1293 pts
2. shawncarter - 1207 pts
3. Swany420 - 1169 pts
4. Troy111 - 1157 pts
5. L Rocketz - 1129 pts
6. CK3 - 1115 pts
7. willedtowin - 1103 pts
8. papastacks - 1084 pts
9. WillyNilly - 1034 pts
10. deadmoney627 - 1027 pts

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Finally, let’s take a look at the October leaderboard. Here is the top 10 right now:

1. Swany420 - 2583 pts
2. whatever877 - 2458 pts
3. papastacks - 2366 pts
4. ParliGod - 2146 pts
5. UFPokerStar - 2122 pts
6. Troy111 - 2093 pts
7. Pdiddy100 - 1990 pts
8. SeeinFlops420 - 1984 pts
9. L Rocketz - 1903 pts
10. shawncarter - 1865 pts

Swany420’s good past week has done him well on the monthly leaderboard, too. He sits in 1st place right now, up an impressive 57 spots from last week’s 58th. whatever877, who I talked about during my weekly analysis, is in 2nd place. papastacks, a player I am unfamiliar with, rounds out the top 3. ParliGod, who was in 1st place on this leaderboard last Friday, slipped down to 4th place, and UFPokerStar, the winner of last week’s leaderboard, is in 5th place right now. A couple other players that I’ve already talked about, Troy111 and shawncarter, are also in the top 10 for this week. SeeinFlops420 and L Rocketz are in 8th and 9th place respectively.

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Here is how the top ten for October looks right now:

1. Allanon85 - 5272 pts
2. pairDboard21 - 4592 pts
3. AJinOK - 4330 pts
4. 1ofaKind420 - 4094 pts
5. bluntman82 - 4069 pts
6. JuntMonkey - 4012 pts
7. $-iTuG-$ - 3933 pts
8. bjolla - 3767 pts
9. Tizm - 3759 pts
10. PinkGeorgey - 3736 pts

As predicted, the point totals are much larger than last week’s and the standings have completely changed. The player in first place last week (jager1987) isn’t even in the top 100 for the October leaderboard anymore. We’ve got 10 new players here, and it will be a little harder to kick these 10 off the list because they’ve had an entire week to settle into their spots.

Allanon85 hasn’t been on the leaderboards at all this year on [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-PokerStars.php]PokerStars[/url] until around a month ago, in which time he’s shot up the standings. He sat in 59th place just a few days ago on October 5th, but he must have had a great day of tournaments because he was up 58 spots in 1st place by the 6th. He has the same point total two days later today, and we’ll see if he’s able to keep this top spot.

On the other hand, pairDboard21, has been on the leaderboards for months and months. He wasn’t in the top 10 last week when I wrote, but he didn’t waste much time and made sure he was there by October 3rd. Just yesterday he moved up 7 spots from 9th to where he is now in 2nd place.

AJinOK, the player in 3rd place, could very well be the best player out of the top 3. At the very least, he’s the player with the best results on the [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-PokerStars.php]PokerStars[/url] leaderboard the last year out of the top 3 right now. He’s ranked 28th on the yearly leaderboard at the moment with 22,808 points, and he’s currently in the top 1.27% of all leaderboard players. Impressive!

Now let’s take a look at my favorite standings, the ones for the year:

1. derek8 - 37,112 pts
2. shaundeeb - 32,569 pts
3. QuasiFiction - 32,154 pts
4. ICuRaRook - 30,905 pts
5. bluntman82 - 30,401 pts
6. Pokerccini - 30,392 pts
7. BreakRibs - 29,851 pts
8. jeffbeesdat - 29,651 pts
9. ender555 - 29,438 pts
10. jitterbug777 - 29,274 pts

Comparing the standings from last week’s, there was one entrance and one exit for the top 10. Bruno GT was in 10th last week, but he fell one spot to 11th this week, not quite earning enough points to stay in the top 10. The player who moved into the standings this week was ender555. We’ll see if he can keep his place there by next Wednesday. Other than those two moves, not much is different. The top 3 are identical to last week’s aside from some point increases. Derek8 actually had quite a large point increase, gaining over 1,500 points to increase his lead even further over shaundeeb. Outside the top 3, a few players traded spots, some going up and some going down, but nothing drastic happened.

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Here were the stacks at the start of the final table:

1. Johan Storakers - 2,027,000 chips
2. Matt Brady - 1,776,000 chips
3. Brandon Terry - 1,211,000 chips
4. Jeff Papola - 1,163,000 chips
5. Allie Prescott - 770,000 chips
6. Jason Pohl - 685,000 chips
7. Brian Malczewski - 366,000 chips

Pohl, one of the table’s smaller stacks, was the first to bust. He got it all-in on a 6d4d3c flop with Td9d, thinking that he had both flush cards and overs as outs. Unfortunately for him Papola called him with 3h3s for bottom set, which meant that only 8 of the remaining 9 diamonds in the deck would help him. The diamonds didn’t come and Pohl went home, taking $58,500 with him as his prize.

Pocket 3s eliminated the 6th place player, as well. Malczewski, the other short stack at the table, was pleased to see AK of clubs and went all-in preflop, and he was called by Prescott who held the the 3s. The board came 9 high and only one club, so Malczewski was sent packing in 6th place. He received $83,120 for his efforts.

Terry was the next player in trouble, losing most of his stack with the nut flush on an 83332 board. He was finally eliminated in 5th place after he pushed over what he was hoping was a button steal with Ad9d. Brady, the player who had originally raised on the button, snapped called and flipped over AA. Not so much a steal but rather a raise for value! The diamonds that Terry needed did not come and he busted for $116,400.

In the next elimination hand, Prescott ended up reraising his hand out of turn after Brady’s open. Storakers, who was in between Brady and Prescott, chose to call despite knowing Prescott’s intention to reraise, and Prescott was forced to make his 3 bet despite the call. It turned out that it didn’t matter too much due to the cards these players held. Brady got out of the way, Storakers pushed, Prescott called, and the players showed JJ and AKs respectively. Prescott couldn’t win the pivotal race and he went out in 4th place with $150,000 as his consolation prize.

The event was now at the stage that every tournament player dreams of reaching: 3-handed where the big money is. Papola hand a chance to make it heads-up after getting it in with Storakers on a Th7d3h flop holding Jh9h versus QcTd. Although Storakers held the made hand with top pair, Papola was actually slightly ahead with a flush draw, inside straight draw, and even an overcard. Storakers dodged all these bullets, however, and he was not eliminated. Papola became short stacked and eventually, he was the one to bust in 3rd. In his last hand he was pleased to look down at KsKd preflop and was still fine when the flop came down Ts6s4s, but unfortunately Brady held 9s7s for the unlikely flopped flush. Papola was unable to hit another spade and he was eliminated in 3rd for $250,000.

Thanks to a couple nice pots, Brady was the chip leader going into heads-up play by almost 4 times. In the final hand, the two players got it in on a JTT flop. Brady, after limp/calling preflop, bet the flop holding T7, and Storakers pushed over with AJ. Brady snapped called, and Storakers was drawing to jacks or running clubs in order to stay alive. Alas none of these cards came and Storakers busted in 2nd place for a handsome $486,000 in prize money.

Congratulations to Brady for winning the Aruba Poker Classic and a very impressive $1,000,000 first prize! While Brady was a very well known tournament professional even before this event, he did not have a major win on his resume yet. With this latest victory in Aruba, his lifetime cashes now amount to almost $2 million, and now there can be no doubt at all that he is an extremely talented poker player.