This week, the top five finishers of iPoker network's most recent $2 million guaranteed online poker tournament walked off with outstanding winnings to the tune of six figures. The biggest winner get an amazing purse of $ 434,000.

The buy-insurance of the 1,380 poker players that this event brought on boosted the prize pool which is guaranteed, to $2 million, adding to it an additional $70 000. The competition went on for 14 hours. Because of the great turnout, the network was very satisfied and is planning additional $2 million events that will be guaranteed.

The manager of Titan Poker, Robin Steele says that the $2 Million tournament brought about remarkable interest among their players, who card out their competition for months for the opportunity to compete for the real money. Steele says that their players are new looking toward the even greater prize pool that will be made available through the ECOOP II tournaments which are next. The ECOOP II tournaments are scheduled for May, and will include a total of 10 tournaments. The guaranteed cash prizes amount to $3.5 Million in cash prizes.

Those top five players that made it to the final competition were rewarded with some outstanding payouts. 'sigge79,' the second placed player, won $227,700. 'dypwhuer' who came in third, walked off with $165,600 and 'florin 76' the fourth placed player, won $124,200.  The last of the six figure payouts was won by 'fishface1' who finished fifth and won $103,500. The stakes were so high that even the first player to be eliminated from the nine seat final table won $28,980.

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