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.


According to his blog on CardRunners.com, Townsend has been losing in PLO for the past 2.5 months. "Today my play fell apart for the first time during this downswing which made me realize I need to step down," Townsend wrote on his entry dated this Monday. So Townsend has decided he won't be playing the big bet games (NL and PLO) higher than 100/200 for the rest of February. In limit games he won't go above 500/1k. "I don't think I have ever had 2.5 months of this type of brutal losing. (Hopefully) dropping down for the rest of the month will help me refocus," he says.

While Townsend is stepping down in stakes, Patrik Antonius hopefully found his winning mode once again on the weekend. He won $779k putting an end to an unusually long downswing by his standards and taking his weekly result on the plus side by $227k. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to predict that it won't take long for the mighty Finn to turns his losses to profit once the deck starts acting normally again.

The week also saw two of the biggest pots this year, both won by Cole South against Coinflip pros:

South vs Ziigmund, 634k.
South vs Ziigmund vs LarsLuzak, 601k.

Top 3 (Feb 1 through 7):

PostflopAction (Aleksander Kostritsin) +1.010m
Cole South +1.005m
Phil Ivey +304k

Brian Townsend -1.165m
Ziigmund (Ilari Sahamies) -943k
world1969 (John Hennigan) -437k

Source: Highstakesdb.