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Other recent cashes include a second-place finish in the $215 Sunday Warm-up $750,000 guaranteed event on PokerStars. He pocketed $75,000 for that finish back on October 5. He also won the $109+R No Limit Hold’em, again on PokerStars, for another $36,245 on November 18. In fact, since June 2008 he’s had 15 online cashes of over $10,000.

Fineman’s live-event career is doing well too. He’s had 12 cashes in live events over the last two years, including a second-place finish in the $5,150 No Limit Hold’em Championship at the WSOP Circuit Event. That was held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and he walked away with a $257,585 payday. He also made the final table at the 2007 WSOP in the $3000 No Limit Hold’em event, but finished fifth and had to settle for a cool $100,431.

His rise from 82nd place on the pocketfives.com online poker ranking (where he debuted in August) has been fueled by 15 solid finishes in the last three months, elevating him to his current ranking of 43rd. At the pace he’s going he could crack the top ten online players by June of 2009, if his luck can hold up until then.

Fineman goes by the name of “bfineman” at several online poker rooms, but he’s called “bmf823” on others. He has also used the alias of “CherryWaves” and “RaeCarruth” at some other online poker rooms. So if you come across any of these names at Pinnacle Sports Poker you should watch out; you’ll be sitting across from one of the hottest online multi-table tournament hold’em players in the world.

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Online he’s known as both “Sbrugby” and “Aba20”. Townsend continues to be successful in cash games online, once reporting winning over $1.2m in one day’s grinding. He prefers online play, mainly for the convenience, but he’s been showing up at some live events of late. His live tournament earnings were only around $35,000 until he finished 15th in the main event of the World Series of Poker Europe on Oct 1. He pocketed just under $90,000 for his efforts.

Townsend plays an aggressive style that’s based on sound mathematical decisions. The money doesn’t seem to matter to him anymore, but he continues to play his best game every time he sits down. He even got a shot at a High Stakes Poker appearance last season, where he lost $100,000 over three episodes.

Townsend also got a lot of press when he admitted to cheating online when he was younger. It was discovered that he had multiple user accounts, and he was suspended from play for six months and later offered a public apology for his actions. All of that seems to have faded away, now that he’s established himself as a world-class player who’s comfortable at any table anywhere.

If you don’t know who Brian Townsend is, you will soon enough. He’s only 26, and unless he gives up on playing live poker, you’ll see him on your television for decades to come.

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