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No doubt affected by the WSOP, this weeks $5K buy-in Winner-takes-all freezeout on PokerStars was attended by just 10 players.  Boykee won through, in a tourney lasting 3 hours 23 mins

1st Boykee $50,000
2nd arbianight
3rd Danny98765
4th quzzo
5th barryg1 (Barry Greenstein)
6th nordlending
7th westmenloAA (Isaac Baron)
8th muchbetter
9th EIMastermind
10th ahh_snap

The main benefit of this tourney is that it is relatvely easily to say you’ve final tabled a major

MrSmokey1, won this weeks $5,200 buy-in winner takes all event on PokerStars.  Just 10 entrants played this week and MrSmokey1 picked up the $50,000 prize, trailed by Boykee, nitbuster, and DSavo in 2nd, 3rd and 4th respecetively.

mrsmokey1 has plenty of fame already.  He is Steve Billirakis who won a WSOP bracelet in 2007 in the $5000 buy in Mixed Hold’em Event, winning $536,287 

Steamraise took down Sunday’s $5,200 Buy-in, 20 entrant, $100K Guaranteed Freezeout on PokerStars

1st - streamraise

2nd - busto-soon

3rd - holdplz

4th - Charon

5th - djk123

steamraise is a low volume highroller who you wont see in that many online MTTs