Just for interest's sake, I'm crossposting this news item from PokerNews. There's really nothing unexpected here--the win/loss amounts are pretty staggering, though. Also, it's noteworthy that there's basically a single player (Guy Laliberte--the cirque de soliel guy), funding all these games. Without him, the 200/400 NL probably doesn't run at FT:

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The big winners and losers in 2008 on Full Tilt

We mentioned yesterday that the nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker must surely be less than a year away from a $1 million pot and now we have news on the big winners and losers from the biggest online games of 2008. Rather unsurprisingly, Phil Ivey is the biggest winner on the site, with over $7.5 million in winnings across all the biggest games online and every popular discipline of cash poker. Right behind him are Phil 'OMGClayAitken' Galfond and Thomas 'Durrrr' Dwan on just under $7 million and just over $5 million respectively.

David Benyamine and Patrik Antonius also made the top ten and a big result for the UK, as Richard 'CHUFTY' Ashby also broke into the top ten, with $2.36 million for his year at the big PLO tables.


Big Winners 2008
Phil Ivey +$7,54 million
OMGClayAiken +$6,97 million
durrrr +$5,36 million
Urindanger +$3,68 million
trex313 +$3,45 million
David Benyamine +$2,93 million
howisitfeellike +$2,66 million
CHUFTY +$2,36 million
La Key U +$2,14 million
Patrik Antonius +$1,90 million


The top ten biggest losers list is very intriguing indeed, as 5 of the accounts are rumoured to belong to the same person, billionaire Guy Laliberte. Over $17 million has been lost from the accounts named 'lady marmalade', 'patatino', 'elmariachimacho', 'Bleachbum' and 'noataima' and $24.8 million lost the year before it. Laliberte seems to be single handedly fuelling the high stakes games online and in many ways he is a bit of an unsung hero of Full Tilt Poker.

Big Losers 2008
lady marmelade -$6.6 million
patatino -$4.32 million
elmariachimacho -$4.16 million
Bleachbum -$1.09 million
SteveSung -$1.01 million
PostFlopAction -$999k
noataima -$990k
John Juanda -$988k
MSampoerna -$945k
ahtata -$926k