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clockwyze rocks short handed games at Full Tilt

With the World Series of Poker now a memory, the high stakes poker world is finally back on center stage as players are back to earning their bread and butter money. Naturally, the most popular stories center around Tom Dwan aka durrrr and his Million Dollar Challenge but in the last couple of months, Cole South has been the big winner with over $2.8 Million in winnings.
Many of the usual suspects are among the top 10 in earnings in the last couple of months. Chau Giang has won over $500,000 over the course of 3.600 hands. John Juanda has won over $848,000 since July. Brian Townsend just fell shy of the Million dollar mark winning “only” $949,000.
The top four in earnings in the last couple of months have posted some impressive numbers. Richard Ashby has raked in over $1.8 Million over 42,186 hands since the start of July. Brian Hastings is up over $2 Million in only 4,900 hands. Ashton Griffin is also up over $2 Million over 17,952 hands. Cole South has been the biggest winner since July with $2.849 Million in earnings over 24,976 hands.
For the year, Patrik Antonius is still top dog with over $2.8 Million in earnings. Those that are dropping a ton at the table include Gus Hansen, down over $2 Million and LarsLuzak, who is down a staggering $3.35 Million this year. David “MR B 2 U SON” Benyamine continues his down year at the cash games, so far down $731,000.

A player that isn’t among the top of the leaderboards this year, but is making a splash amongst posters on 2+2 is a player that goes by the screen name “clockwyze” on Full Tilt Poker. A thread was posted about this player and upon looking at his stats, this player has taken down an impressive $1.29 Million in earnings over 319,220 hands. That is an average win of $4 per hand. While that doesn’t sound like much money per hand, as you can see, this really adds up.

His bread and butter appears to be the $25-$50 CAP NL Short-handed games on Full Tilt. He has taken down over $755,000 of his winnings from that game. He has also posted a nice profit of $126,553 in the $50-$100 NL Heads-up games.
Some speculation has went into whom this player is. Some clues as to the identity was revealed on LeggoPoker.com in a blog post that revealed that clockwyze was a player named Andrew from around the Toronto area. Early Friday morning, a poster on 2+2 posted that they suspect that the player is Andrew Pantling from Ontario Canada. If this is indeed the case, players are facing both a strong cash game player and tournament professional. Pantling has a couple APPT Main Event cashes in 2008 and finished 3rd in the Main Event of the 2009 Irish Open in April. He has over $358,000 in live tournament earnings.
From the looks of things, the online high stakes games are bigger and better than ever. There also appears to be a new face beginning to rise through the ranks on Full Tilt. As we head into the later part of the year, expect action to heat up as many of the major tournaments have completed and players are left to grind it out at the tables.

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