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Bursting clear of the field, Full Tilt Poker Review star Dan “jungleman12″ Cates has topped the money list of online poker pros in 2010, with earnings of $5.5 million throughout the year.

Cates was already leading the rest of the field leading into the New Year’s holiday when he nabbed over $500,000 in one long session of $300/$600 half No-Limit Texas Hold’em/half pot-Limit Omaha cash games.

In a big year for Full Tilt Referral Code, Cates bested three other members of the leading online poker room for the money title, with Norwegian Andreas “Skjerboy” Torbergsen hitting $3.7 mil, Tom “durrrr” Dwan $3.6 mil and big name Phil Ivey recording $3 mil to round out the top four.

Following his runner-up finish at the 2010 Aussie Million 100k event Ivey soared to the top of the all-time money earnings list for poker pros. Negreanu’s high-performing partners made considerably less than the best of Full Tilt in 2010. Vanessa Selbst took $2.87 mil in live winning for the year, followed by Liv Boeree with $1.83mil.