Online Poker — The $1K Roundup, Week of May 4, 2009

May 2, 2009

With the next FTOPS looming, all the $1K events but the Super Tuesday made their respective guarantees, and a few Online Player of the Year candidates added to their point totals with deep finishes.

Nick "Grippolio" Grippo maintained his third-place standing with a small cash at Full Tilt, and Nick "FU_15" Maimone closed the gap behind him in fourth place with his fourth-place finish in the same tournament.

Thayer "UCF_THAYER" Rasmussen moved back into the top 10 with a final table appearance at the Absolute $150,000 guarantee.

Read the results for the $1,000 events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, and Absolute Poker below.

Full Tilt — $1K Monday

Buy-In: $1,000+$60
Prize Pool: $372,000
Entrants: 372
Places Paid: 36

Final Table Results:

Brendooor — $93,000
eLquA — $59,520
Nicolas "PokerKaiser" Fierro aka PKaiser — $44,640
Nick "FU_15" Maimone (pictured right) — $34,410
Bobby "SantaBarbaraBob" Firestone aka BobbyFi — $26,040
Ben "NeverScaredB" Wilinofsky — $18,600
Ozenc "the aviator1" Demir — $12,090
nyr1317 — $9,300
Matt "Mattutaylor" Taylor — $7,440

Other Notable Cashes: Matt "Claw1980" Holtzclaw (10th), Bryan "Bry23" Barille (14th), Nick "Grippolio" Grippo (15th), Wesley "snoringbeagl" Whybrew (19th), Scott Fischman (21st), Matthias "goodvibe" Neu (23rd), Jamie "LeoEleven" Rosen (29th), Jason "OUEmoKid" Potter (33rd), and Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet (36th).

PokerStars — Super Tuesday

Buy-In: $1,000+$50
Prize Pool: $350,000
Entrants: 339
Places Paid: 45

Final Table Results:

Caio Cesar "caio_pimenta" Pimenta — $68,250
pokerhahntas — $51,625
Ryan "justgivithere" Fisler aka eatschips — $38,500
Cesar "makavelyces" Fuentes — $29,400
edoiler — $20,125
The Blond — $15,750
Chris "The Universe" Leveroni — $12,250
Kyle "bluffdeez503" Zartman — $8,750
Peter "PJSNEAKS" Jacobson — $6,125

Other Notable Cashes: Paul "Paolo69" Foltyn (10th), Benjamin "xthesteinx" Zamani (17th, pictured above right), Aditya "intervntion" Agarwal (19th), Shane "shaniac" Schleger (20th), Aaron "NDGrinder59" Steury (21st), mendieta19 (31st), Darren Elias (32nd), Evan "PURPLE"K"99" Parkes (36th), and Matt "cwp394" Ross (40th).

Absolute Poker –$150,000 Guarantee

Buy-In: $1,000+$50
Prize Pool: $165,000
Entrants: 165
Places Paid: 18

Final Table Results:

EL_PIBE10 aka villus — $43,725*
ADOMIP — $26,400*
Johnny "_BABYGRAND_" Josephy — $19,387*
TRIGGATHREE — $15,675*
Thayer "UCF_THAYER" Rasmussen (pictured right) — $11,962*
Ryan "RYANBLUF" Karp — $9,900
Josh "BBBBB33" Weizer — $7,837
Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy — $5,775
Frank "Gator93" Hernandez — $4,125

*There was a five-way chop at the final table, but the exact details were unknown. The prizes shown reflect the original prize pool payout structure.

Other Notable Cashes: John "JRD_312" Dolan (10th), Juan "VIETCONG01" Maceiras Barros (14th), Nicholas "BLUMESIUSX" Blumenthal (17th) and Alex "AJKHOOSIER1" Kamberis (18th).