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The high stakes online poker scene was booming this past week as players prepared for the World Cup of Online Poker. The WCOOP, which kicked off September 4, contains 62 events and over $30 million in guaranteed prize cash, making it the online equivalent of the WSOP.

With so much at stake, it’s easy to see why big name pros including Phil “MrSweets28″ Galfond, Gavin “gavz101″ Cochrane, Andreas “Skjervoy” Torbergsen and Viktor “Isidur1″ Blom were so active. After winning a staggering $1 million last weekend only to lose some back to the field, Blom emerged as the biggest winner of the past week once again with a score of over $630k. It only took 4,400 hands spread over the course of 43 sessions for the Swede to earn that sum.

The aforementioned Torbergsen also managed to book a highly successful week. He played 24 sessions comprising just under 2,500 hands to earn $334k. Torbergsen’s win was enough to push him past Dan “Jungleman12″ Cates on the 2011 overall earnings list. Gus Hansen remains on top of that leaderboard by nearly $2 million despite being almost entirely absent from online poker since Black Friday.

Ilari “FIN” Sahamies, perhaps better known by his Full Tilt handle Ziigmund, was the biggest loser of the week. He lost a staggering $1.06 million, much of which went directly to Isildur1. Phil Galfond, who has been one of the biggest post-Black Friday success stories in the game, had a chink in his armor exposed when he lost $347k across 63 sessions. Extreme volume (he played well over 9,000 hands in one week) may not be his strength.

Gavz101 had a negative week as well, losing $204k over the course of 21 sessions. Cochrane was wise to keep his volume relatively low (1,245 hands) before he lost even more.