This weekend saw some fast a furious action on the highest stakes online poker tables with familiar faces posting familiar successes and a few famous faces spewing money all over the tables. In action this weekend were Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Cole South and the new durrrr challengers of Tom Dwan and Dan “jungleman12” Cates.

In the second instalment of the durrrr challenge on Full Tilt Poker following the slow demise of the first, jungelman12 has taken a huge lead over Tom Dwan in the last week. There have now been over 6,000 hands played in three separate sessions with Cates coming out on top by a wide margin already. The man from the jungle has won 61% of all the hands played and is now up by $692,400. The early signs are not good for Dwan as he puts up $1.5m to his opponent’s $500k. Some respite was found when he won the largest pot of the session yesterday with a set of 10s scooping $131k.

Elsewhere on the high stakes tables Danish pro Gus Hansen was having a horrible time. He lost $1.1m over the weekend against Phil Ivey and Cole South. Ivey finished up $678,760 whilst South pocketed nearly half a million. Hansen is now down by over $2.3m since the start of 2010.

In the big online poker multi table tournaments Preetoon smashed up the PokerStars Sunday Million for a bankroll boosting $232,362, whilst Leopold Chow cooped the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guarantee for $90,811 with Steve McNally coming second for $98,471 (that’s not a misprint – they chopped it up three way before Chow made a big move to win the tournament).

Zachary Clark reached the final three in the Absolute Poker $100k guarantee and pocketed $18,218 for his hours at the virtual tables. Joe Serock who cashed four times at the World Series of Poker outlasted 2,578 players to take down the Full Tilt Sunday Brawl for over $100k.