07 Aug 09

Top 250 July Results: opal99 Snags First Place Away From MaximumShark

It's been an interesting month, with MaximumShark dominating our rankings until the final week. However, opal99 managed an impressive comeback and took the first place again.

The final results for July are finally here, so we now know the winners of the Top 250 and Top Ten Jackpot promotions.

Just like we previously mentioned, the best 10 PokerStrategists from our community will play to get a share of the $1,750 prize pool in July.

In case one of our community members has managed to be both amongst the best 250 players of the Top 250 promotion and the Top Ten Jackpot promotion, he or she will receive the higher prize of the two. The lower prize will go into our international jackpot.


It has been quite a race, with MaximumShark taking the lead early on and leaving the others way behind.

However, this was not enough for him to take the first place in the end, as opal99 worked his way up and eventually won the race in the last few days of the month.

opal99 finished the July race with 38,720 StrategyPoints, while MaximumShark ended up in second place with 38,663 StrategyPoints. Overall, they finished the race 41st and 42nd respectively.

Ranked third is smidlo, who managed to accumulate 22,024 StrategyPoints by the end of July, while TheLastNail has 18,386 StrategyPoints and thus takes the 4th place this month.

All in all, eight English PokerStrategists finished in the money this month, which is quite good - but we can do even better in August. Until the next results, let's look at our community's final standings for July:

Top 10 English Community
July Rankings
Rank Name Strategy
Points
Prize
1st
opal99 38,720
$500
2nd
MaximumShark 38,663
$500
3rd
smidlo 22,024
$300
4th
TheLastNail 18,386
$200
5th
kaplanovic82 16,604
$100
6th
sm112 16,566
$100
7th
klonoa 16,543
$100
8th
mcneil 16,502
$100
9th
johny02 15,871
$50
10th
xpopovicix 14,657
$50

Top 250: Overall Ranking

In the international ranking we also had one player dominating the others: Caber. He took an early lead and hanged on to it for the remainder of July, taking down the $10,000 prize with an impressive score of 154,004 StrategyPoints.

Ranked second was karlo123, who kept his spot since last week. With 86,136 StrategyPoints, he earns $6,000. chrissi30 finished in third place, which is why he will receive $4,000 in cash.

Here are the final standings in July:

Top 10 International Community
July Rankings
Rank Name Strategy
Points
Prize
1st
Caber 154,004
$10,000
2nd
karlo123 81,136
$6,000
3rd
chrissi30 75,445
$4,000
4th
diesereine 72,736
$4,000
5th
Oleg80 64,841
$3,000
6th
afrika1988 64,074
$3,000
7th
Spitzbuben 63,644
$3,000
8th
perpedes 63,163
$3,000
9th
trader 62,824
$2,000
10th
tomte999 58,943
$2,000

Since another month has come to an end, it's time to look at the new medal distribution:

PokerStrategy.com
Medal Distribution 2009
Rank
Name
1st
Caber 3
   
2nd
F3rt 2
1
2
3rd
DieHandGottes 1
   
  Loki 1
   
  DuneBuggy   1
 
  isodis   1
 
  stronghawk   1
 
  tomte999   1
 
  Nexby   1
 
  karlo123   1
 
  infinity1000     1
  Shagg     1
13th
gotthebigfish     1
14th
kirillkk     1
15th
chrissi30     1

2009: $100,000 Promotion Bonuses Each Month!

In this year as well, we will distribute at least $1,200,000 in bonuses within the TOP250 promotion alone. The top finisher of this month will, as usual, receive a $10,000 bonus. We wish all of our community members good luck and a successful August!

Those of you who have already gotten a bonus probably know already about the Top 250 payout box located on the home page. With it, you are able to cash out your bonus at any time on either Titan Poker or PartyPoker. The only requirement is to have at least 1 StrategyPoint there.

The current rankings can be found on the following link or by clicking on »Ranking« on the Home page: