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Another round of guarantee-busting Sunday online poker tournaments went down this past weekend at PokerStars, and several players added six-figure scores to their bankrolls. The biggest winner of the day was Kipu, who earned $190k by placing first in the Sunday Million. The most notable win belonged to Jude “j.thaddeus” Ainsworth of Team PokerStars Pro, who won $46k with a first place finish in the Bigger $55.

The Sunday Million swelled in registration this past weekend, with 7,063 players paying $215 buy-ins to generate a $1.41 million prize pool. The aforementioned Kipu won the final hand with A-10, giving him a superior kicker to vonBaranow’s A-9. A four-handed deal had already been struck, with vonBaranow, EireAbu and Thostyle each winning $150k, $130k and $86k, respectively, for their runner-up finishes.

Pokerfred99 received a six-figure score of his own when he won the Sunday Warm-Up for $103k. He outlasted a field of 3,267 competitors, each of whom paid a $215 buy-in. No deal was struck at the final table. Runner-up akb1 was defeated in heads-up play with Q-6 offsuit and collected a tidy $76k.

The no-deal trend continued in the Sunday 500, in which 837 players paid $530 buy-ins to smash the $250k guarantee with a prize pool of $418.5k. Shuriken555 finished on top of the leaderboard to win $75k, while runners-up d-mon-d and Palau777 each earned $54k and $41k.

At the other end of the buy-in spectrum was the Sunday Storm, in which a typical field of 31,179 players paid $10 buy-ins to create a $312k prize pool. The final table ended up striking a five-handed deal that truly warped the payout schedule. Donno105 won the event to score just under $16k, virtually the same amount awarded to babbelz in 3rd place. Fourth and fifth place finishers A9Hearts and Tschangoasyl earned $12k and $13k, respectively, while second place finisher T0MyK came out with the largest money prize of $27k.

The fourth day of action at the World Poker Tour Foxwoods Main Event concluded after 27 players were whittled down to just 8. Due to the six-handed nature of the final table, Day 5 is expected be extremely brief as only two players will face elimination. Current runner-up Daniel Santoro is currently following chip leader Christian Harder, though a number of tough pros remain in the runnings for the $450k first-place prize as well.

Some of the early eliminations on Day 5 included Josh Bergman (19th), Cornel Cimpan (23rd and Allen Kessler (25th), all of whom received just under $20k. Once the field was cut down to two tables, the pace of play slowed considerably as everyone attempted to avoid the dreaded final table bubble boy position. Matt Glantz, Matt Stout and Bernard Lee hit the rail next in 12th, 14th and 16th places, respectively.

One of the key battles at WPT Foxwoods came in the form of a heads-up bout between Hoyt Corkins and Jonathan Little, both former WPT champions. Corkins pushed all-in with A-K before the flop against Little’s 9-8 suited. The board revealed an 8, giving Little the pair and sending Corkins to the rail in 10th place. Andy Rossi was then eliminated by Chris Klodnicki in 9th.

With just eight players remaining, Harder went to showdown with Santoro to win a major pot and take the chip lead. Harder scored top pair with Q-J offsuit over Santoro’s 9-7 suited.

A win for Harder would represent his very first WPT title. Meanwhile, Jonathan Little is hoping to make history by winning his third WPT title, a feat only previously accomplished by Carlos Mortensen and Gus Hansen.

Day 3 chip leader Andy Frankenberger remains in the runnings as well, along with Eli Berg, Steven Brackesy and Bob Carbone.

Here is reason #1,453,922 why you shouldn’t Tweet after being eliminated from the final table of a major poker tournament: After bowing out in 8^th place at the EPT San Remo, poker pro Kevin MacPhee decided to forego the customary celebratory drink most would imbibe after winning over $60k, and instead Tweeted about his frustrations with the way he was eliminated.

MacPhee tweeted the following after open-shoving from the SB with a 9BB stack only to get called by Boatman and his Q7s: “I fold 30 hands straight down to 530k then shove 9 bbs in the sb and @barnyboatman calls off with Q7s?!? Is this guy f***ing retarded?” followed up by “Don’t really care what people think about my Barney Boatman statement. I think its a retarded call. I spoke my mind. That is all.”

Boatman ended up replying to the slight, Tweeting in response: “Hi @KevinMacPhee You gave me a strong tell you were weak, though i may have called anyway. Retarded? If you say so. But no hard feelings eh?”

And after a short while MacPhee had apparently calmed down and decided he was out of line, and in a Mitt Romney-esque flip-flop fashion told Boatman: “Sorry for my outburst earlier… was steaming super hard Apologies to @BarnyBoatman too… sorry mate!”

The ever-classy Boatman, one of the UK’s top players and member of The Hendon Mob, put an end to any hostilities the two may have had by graciously accepting the apology: “No worries @KevinMacPhee You are a great player and ran super bad at the end. I know how that feels (the run bad part.) Let’s have a beer.”

The World Poker Tour Foxwoods World Poker Final is currently in its latter stages at the Foxwoods Casino. The Season X WPT tournament attracted 189 players to pay a buy-in of $10k, generating a prize pool worth nearly $1.8 million. When Day 3 came to a close, Andy Frankenberger was leading the charge towards the $450k first-place prize.

Frankenberger is currently on top of a leaderboard that includes 26 other players, each of whom are guaranteed just under $20k even if they’re eliminated immediately. Frankenberger’s stack is dominant at $658k in comparison to current second-place contender Jack Schanbacher, who holds $483k. Other notable contenders include Cornel Cimpan, Allen Kessler, Christian Harder, Larry Greenberg, Bernard Lee, Matt Glants, Hoyt Corkins and Jonathan Little.

One of the most notable events of Day 3 was the elimination of former WPT champion Alan Sternberg. The knockout came directly from Frankenberger, who actually led in chips throughout the day. On the key hand, the pot was worth 60,000 when the flop and turn came down Js-6h-2s-Jh. Sternberg checked, Frankenberger raised 40k, and Sternberg pushed all in. Frankbenberger showed K-J suited while Sternberg turned over pocket aces. A jack on the river meant quad jacks for Frankenberger and the rail for Sternberg, and the chip leader exited the hand with a total of 327k chips.

A huge list of well known pros also hit the rail on Day 3 of WPT Foxwoods, including 2010 champion Jeff Forest, Jason Mercier, Justin Zaki, David Sands, Dana Kellstrom, Chris Tryba, Erik Seidel and Dwyte Pilgrim.

The money bubble boy was Alistair Melville, who ran out of chips in 28th place. His demise came in the form of a four-handed showdown with Hoyt Corkins, Christian Harder and Dan Colman. Harder ended up drawing to a nut straight, leaving Melville’s J-3 offsuit in the dust.

Despite the glut of live poker tournaments currently dominating the European poker circuit, plenty of high stakes pros took to the virtual felt and PokerStars last week for another round of big-bet cash games. Ilari Sahamies followed up his stellar performance last week with another win worth $207k. The biggest winner of the week by far, however, was Phil “takechip” D’Auteuil, who played 58 sessions comprising 7,347 hands to earn just under $638k.

Benny “toweliestar” Spindler made good on his promise to stick to online cash games despite an incredibly successful year on the live tournament circuit, winning $150k. !P0krparty¡ rounded out the list of most successful players of the week with just over $139k in winnings.

On the other end of the earnings spectrum was Richard “nutsinho” Lyndaker, who played 32 sessions and 3,806 hands to lose a staggering $475k. Lyndaker is currently the year’s worst overall performer on PokerStars, and his Twitter feed indicates that he might be quitting for good. As of October 24, Lyndaker claims that November will be his final month of online poker. Time will tell whether an upswing will change his mind.

Lyndaker wasn’t alone in the red this past week. Phil Galfond took a rare dip into negative earnings territory, dropping a fairly substantial $174k. LiangYu was the third biggest loser of the week, dropping $146k mostly to D’Auteuil. The match included some incredible pots, the biggest of which was worth $347k and went straight to D’Auteuil on the strength of his A-K suited.

David “mTw-DaviN” Georgi, had an uncharacteristically poor online poker week as well, losing just under $109k. Most of the action came in the form of NLHE at the $200 / $400 stake level, making it more difficult for the PLO regulars to find much action.