First week of February at the high stakes games on Full Tilt Poker belonged to Alexander "Postflopaction" Kostritsyn and Cole South, who both recorded wins of just over 1 million dollars in the 7 day period. Likewise on the losers list two players stand apart from the rest, unfortunately one of them being Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies with -$943k. The other one is Brian Townsend, who lost another $1.17 million on top of his previous losses and promptly decided he'd had enough for the time being.

New Orleans Saints' surprise win at the Super Bowl may have proven costly to a lot of high stakes gamblers, as it seems most of the Las Vegas big bettors' money was going on Indianapolis Colts. According to rumors, Phil Ivey placed a mega bet of $2 million on the Colts at the MGM Mirage sports book.

Life got a bit harder for the American online players last week when it became clear that two of the largest credit card companies, Visa and Mastercard had started blocking transactions to online gambling sites. The reason behind the decision is the upcoming implementation of UIGEA on June 1.

Coinflip.com blogger Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies was the action man at the nosebleed-stakes tables on Full Tilt Poker in January. Ziigmund was involved in nine out of ten biggest pots played and ended up winning majority of them. Sahamies ended the month with $1.103.891 profit.

2+2 nick name "bigbrennan" recently posted a message on the forum saying the iPoker network have unfairly denied him a jackpot win of $160,000. It started when the British player was playing at the network's $50+$9 Fort Knox SNG Jackpot tables, managed to win 6 in a row and thought he had won the Jackpot. However, iPoker accused him of collusion and refused to pay the money.

Coinflip.com blogger Sami "LarsLuzak" Kelopuro is back on Full Tilt Poker. LarsLuzak writes to his blog that this year has started very well, and that he has been able to win even on Full Tilt Poker. Yesterday Kelopuro sat down with Isildur1 and OnTheRize on 100/200 cap NLHE tables and ended up with $153.789 profit.

Doyle Brunson says he has to withdraw from the PartyPoker Premier League and a number of other upcoming tournaments. "My gut feeling is just chill out until the WSOP and try to have a big series," the veteran says on his blog on Doyle's Room.

WSOP Player of the Year 2006, Jeff Madsen got a taste of tournament success once again taking down the Borgata Winter Poker Open for $625,006 on Saturday. The tournament, which used to be part of the World Poker Tour, lowered its' buy-in to $3,500 and as a result attracted a field of 766.