Last week we speculated about whether farryboy was going to usurp the competition and come back to his usual first place spot. It looks like he’s done it earlier than last month because once again he’s in first place. Amidst the newbies there are still some of the usual suspects floating around in the top ten, so lets take a look at where they’re at!

In first as previously mentioned is farryboy. He has a solid lead on foxc7 who currently holds second place. In third is a new face with the name p0kerholic. P0kerholic is beating out another top ten veteran TheThimster and in fifth place we’ve got Vincanity15. Vincanity has moved up one seat this week and is making his approach to the top three where we often see him at the end of the month. Sixth place is currently held by TilKo who dropped one spot this week. Seventh place is another familiar player, 1potato2. We’re surprised he’s so far back in the lineup at this time of the month as they usually sit higher as time goes on. Eighth, ninth and tenth place are all held by unfamiliar players this week and their handles are KAZAOU, Panda and stitches99 respectively. It looks like they may start doing a little damage of their own and may have hopes to make it into the top three, but the seasoned vets here may have something to say about that. If you want to browse the whole list of players and see how everyone is doing take a peek at the entire list here: Today’s Full-Leaderboard.

At this time of the month it’s pretty surprising to see so many new faces in the top ten! Generally the players we see every month have pushed everyone else out by now, but who knows what will happen. We may even have an upset on our hands! Watch out farryboy, there’s some fresh faces gunning for ya! Stay tuned next week to see where things are headed! If you have a sudden urge to see how people are doing at any point during the week take a look at this page here: Leaderboard-Calendar to keep yourself updated.

Here’s the current top 25:

1 farryboy 17932.50
2 foxc7 17017.50
3 p0kerholic 13952.45
4 TheThimster 13930.95
5 Vincanity15 12213.10
6 TilKo 12143.35
7 1potato2 11948.45
8 KAZAOU 11906.85
9 Panda 11474.75
10 stiches99 11419.35
11 NathanTroy 10781.75
12 jAKobowski 10505.20
13 Hannelore 10429.30
14 deboite45 10406.85
15 Taxman1982 10293.55
16 yippee14 10200.65
17 ladzrls 10106.15
18 barcode1973 9983.70
19 Bella2008 9748.00
20 affman 9591.40
21 JonnyRocker 9345.55
22 Dospairos 9283.80
23 RiverEnglish 8870.10
24 flynndig 8789.00
25 zedsaces 8567.10

The bubble was also burst today and the last player to miss the cut was Steve Chung. After going all in and losing to pocket kings he walked away from the table with little to show. Not all is lost though, and Milwaukee’s Best Light is paying for his seat at the Main Event next year for being this year’s bubble boy! Even though he lost his chance this year, maybe he can come back and make a more notable mark with a second chance.

A 23 year old named Joseph found himself chip leader at the end of day three. Joseph was in and out of the top 20 for most of the day and nearing the end he managed to double up and take the lead.

“It definitely feels good, you can’t really ask for any more,” said Joseph. “I just kept chipping up and eventually I won a really big hand against a kid that had about 450,000 and that propelled me to chip leader.”

Brian Schaedlich started off the day as chip leader, but after a number of hands went afoul he ended with a meager 25,000 chips which is one of the lower stacks for the time being. That means nothing though and with a little bit of luck and skill he may still push ahead before the day is done.

Day 3 certainly turned out to be an exciting one. With over 600 players eliminated on Thursday things are starting to thin out over in Vegas. That means little because once we get down to the nitty gritty there’s even more competition than before. Watch out for more exciting news on the World Series of Poker right here on FTR!

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The beginning of the month is always interesting because new faces often pop up right away and we often wonder if they are going to stick around, or get pushed back to the bottom by the usual suspects in the top 10. Currently we have three new faces in the top three seats over at PRK. Coming in at first place is foxc7, TheThimster in second and JonnyRocker is sitting comfortably in third. The ever present farryboy is holding fourth place, but if prior months say anything he won’t stay there for long. In fifth place this week we have zedsaces, another new face for the top ten. Sixth place has a veteran in the form of Vincanity15, but barcode1973 is hot on his heels in seventh. 1potato2 is still gracing the top ten of the leader board in eighth place while stitches99 has moved up a steady 26 spots to hold out ninth place. Wrapping up the top ten we have SevenSeas, yet another new face.

Even with the new faces popping up all over the leader board it really says little about how the month will turn out. Often times the top ten veterans don’t come out of the woodwork until the end of the month, while the newbies get pushed back to the lesser seats. It’s not surprising farryboy is again in the top ten, he has become a personal favorite of ours here at FTR just because it is so impressive to hold that seat month after month! If you have a sudden urge to see how people are doing at any point during the week take a look at this page here: Leaderboard-Calendar to keep yourself updated.

So keep your eyes peeled for the usual suspects in the PRK leader boards and root for the underdogs if that’s your thing. Things always get pretty interesting in the next couple of weeks so watch farryboy and see what he manages to do, maybe this month one of our avid readers will unseat him and take first place!

Here’s your top 25:

1 foxc7 10626.10
2 TheThimster 8627.30
3 JonnyRocker 8126.75
4 farryboy 7162.75
5 zedsaces 6917.60
6 Vincanity15 6878.30
7 barcode1973 6774.80
8 1potato2 6636.80
9 stiches99 6627.30
10 SevenSeas 6470.60
11 p0kerholic 6072.55
12 FireBladeRR 6027.40
13 Aron78 5985.60
14 GusHandsome22 5749.50
15 Panda 5685.60
16 marcos2aces 5617.05
17 PaTrickTonFion 5520.00
18 managyal 5516.90
19 DRFrever 5491.90
20 yippee14 5384.50
21 protection 5360.80
22 ladzrls 5240.20
23 TilKo 5156.60
24 66face99 5048.90
25 TheGrouch 5025.20

With $256,412 in prize money for first place being allotted to Schaff it’s clear that this was an important tournament for him and his poker career. Schaff is a database programmer when he’s not playing poker and it’s likely his skills on the computer and in mathematics helped him with his brand new WSOP bracelet.

Schaff considered himself lucky with his win, and mentioned that he drew his opponents out to luck out and take the win in the end. Whether Schaff is right in the fact that he out drew his opponents, or if it was just skill, it’s clear that he is a talented player and certainly earned his seat. Luck alone can’t bring a player that far in such a large tournament and we’re clearly impressed over here at FTR.

Impressively enough Schaff went from being short stacked at 200 chips early in the tournament to being the big stack in the end, but had a good hand and tripled up to push him in the direction of his impressive win. There were some good hands in this tournament and with a little luck and some impressive skill Schaff moved into the first spot to bring home that bracelet that many seek but few manage to grab.

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It’s all part of the new FAME program which allows players to earn credits for the real money games they participate in. The more credits you earn, the higher your status level rises. At the end of the month the number of credits you have accumulated determines the benefits you will receive, including the fabled diamond giveaway. Some of the other benefits include opportunities to buy gas, merchandise among other exciting prizes. Another exciting facet of this is the higher your status is, the faster a player can earn their prizes. All the more incentive to play more!

In total Absolute Poker is giving away 23 diamonds ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 in value. To earn these a player must either earn the most points in a month that the event is running or be one of the first five to earn 10,000 credits in any of the given months.  Finally, the first five players to hit a diamond straight flush will also win a diamond.

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By this time of the month we are all accustomed to seeing farryboy at the top of the leader board, but things have gotten surprising. 1potato2 and Taxman1982 have taken the first and second place seats respectively which pushes farryboy down to third place. We haven’t seen farryboy so low this late in the month before so it will be interesting to see where he ends up. Vincanity15 hasn’t moved anywhere and resides in fourth place while starscreammm moves up one seat to fifth. DELAMOYA has moved down one seat to sixth but interestingly enough Osteomat, fonzy1225 and CallmeTheNuts and day20000 have all stayed in their exact same positions clinching seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth places with little excitement of swapping places. If you want to browse the whole list of players and see how everyone is doing take a peek at the entire list here: Today’s Full-Leaderboard.

It’s strange to see such excitement in the first half of the leader board while the second half had absolutely no player lineup changes. That’s something new over at [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-PKR.php]PKR[/url] and when you couple that with farryboy no longer having first place this close to the end of the month this has certainly made for a unique update. Everyone should keep their eyes peeled and focused on the PRK leader boards simply because it will be exciting to see where farryboy and the rest of the current top three seats end up. It’s easy to sit back and watch the fun, but when it comes down to it farryboy may be sweating a little with these guys breathing down his neck! If you have a sudden urge to see how people are doing at any point during the week take a look at this page here: Leaderboard-Calendar to keep yourself updated.

Here’s your top 25 for the day:

1 1potato2 33181.00
2 Taxman1982 31521.10
3 farryboy 29849.45
4 Vincanity15 27296.70
5 starscreammm 25117.35
6 DELAMOYA 23595.90
7 osteomat 22620.25
8 fonzy1225 21839.70
9 CallmeTheNuts 20730.55
10 dav20000 20230.10
11 deboite45 20194.25
12 PKRDream 19295.35
13 eupremio 18404.95
14 ThrowOnD 18386.20
15 PaTrickTonFion 17715.70
16 Panda 17546.90
17 pokerfreak013 17315.25
18 FlyingLure 16538.60
19 17043400 16242.65
20 4KINGDONKEY 16057.80
21 finnpokerman 15831.40
22 FretKiller 15513.10
23 PirateNation 14858.15
24 Treluche 14693.65
25 highheeledhotty 14585.20

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“They said ‘I don’t think you can play tournaments, you can only play cash games, that’s all you can do.’ So I said, okay, I’m going to try for one year and then let’s see at the end of the year what I will do.”

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Sunday is the big day here for [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-PKR.php]PKR[/url], it’s when the updates are made and the list is finalized for the FTR readers. That’s nothing new so without further adieu here is the top ten over at PRK. In first place is farryboy one again. He was missed from the very top of the leader board for most of the month but he has once again secured a place at the top, at least for the time being. Coming in at second place is the somewhat newer face of 1potato2. Taxman1982 has dropped two spots to third place and Vincanity15 has moved up a seat to fourth. In fifth we have DELAMOYA who has dropped a single seat to their position and starscreammm hasn’t moved a seat and still perches in sixth. In seventh we have the familiar face of osteomat who moved up one seat and eighth place is held by CallMeTheNuts who also moved up a single seat. Ninth place is fonzy1225 and in tenth we have ThrowOnD who is a new face to the top ten, but still has time to make their mark by the end of the month!

It’s great to see both new and old faces floating around the leader board by this time of the month. It’s hard not to come back to the ever present farryboy who is once again at the top of the rankings. It’s easy to wonder if he ever goes outside! There are of course some new faces as mentioned before, but they haven’t been able to claim that top prize at the end of the month. Who will be able to push farryboy out of his throne in first place? Pop in next week and take a look. If you have a sudden urge to see how people are doing at any point during the week take a look at this page here: Leaderboard-Calendar to keep yourself updated.

Here’s the top 25:

1 farryboy 29021.85
2 1potato2 27921.60
3 Taxman1982 27093.45
4 Vincanity15 24046.40
5 DELAMOYA 23083.40
6 starscreammm 21732.85
7 osteomat 20966.45
8 CallmeTheNuts 20597.25
9 fonzy1225 19864.10
10 ThrowOnD 18267.60
11 eupremio 17863.75
12 dav20000 17850.30
13 PKRDream 17829.35
14 deboite45 16808.45
15 17043400 16236.15
16 Panda 16064.40
17 4KINGDONKEY 16006.80
18 PaTrickTonFion 15912.00
19 finnpokerman 15496.30
20 FretKiller 15231.10
21 PirateNation 14858.15
22 FlyingLure 14723.10
23 pokerfreak013 14458.75
24 kraftwerk71 14316.10
25 Joshtron 13553.20