It looked like the high stakes games on Full Tilt Poker were picking up pace again by the end of July when the Big Game at Bellagio had gone back to hiatus. The CardRunners trio of Brian Townsend, Brian Hastings and Cole South all had big winning days in the last week of the month, and this put them near the top of the month's results. However, first place belongs to the British pro Richard Ashby (pictured), formerly known as CHUFTY, who played the most hands in July (over 28,000) and recorded a very healthy profit of $1.82 million.

Tom "durrrr" Dwan was the only player to lose more than a million (-$1.2m) though David Benyamine came close with -$969k.

Of the Coinflip pros, Sami "LarsLuzak" Kelopuro just can't put an end to his downswing and July was another month in the red, this time to the tune of -$447k. For his part, Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies was content partying and playing in Vegas and put up only 1,037 hands online, winning $43k. Ilari commented his recent online games to Coinflip, saying he's happy he's been playing only when he really feels like it and he can keep his concentration.

Top 6 winners and losers in July:

Richard Ashby +1.824m
Cole South +1.269m
Phil Ivey +704k
howisitfeellike (Rafi Amit) +669k
Brian Hastings +636k
Brian Townsend +615k

durrrr (Tom Dwan) -1.196m
David Benyamine -969k
KObyTAPOUT -717k
trex313 (Hac Dang) -647k
LarsLuzak (Sami Kelopuro) -447k
andrewkirk -388k

Looking at the results since January 1, it's Patrik Antonius who still has a dominating lead over the rest of the field with nearly 5 million in profit. Hac "trex313" Dang and Ziigmund are also enjoying a good run, while LarsLuzak is down almost exactly -$3.4 million.

Patrik Antonius +4.697m
trex313 +2.355m
Ziigmund +2.262m
Mark Vos +1.821m
Richard Ashby +1.703m

LarsLuzak -3.399m
MR B 2 U SON + David Benyamine -1.700m
papa ninja -1.245m
ahtata (Guy Laliberte) -971k
KObyTAPOUT -825k

Source: Highstakesdb.