FTOPS XVII has been running for over a week now and we are halfway through another exciting event. Highlights from the popular tournament series includes Event 3 which saw Full Tilt Pro Jeff Madsen come so close to a win with a 3rd place finish that pocketed him a nice payday of $28,000. Coming in 2nd place was “professor plum” who got $42,000 and the event’s winner “chapmoney” won just over $68,000.
Event 13 was an awesome run for the famous Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson who finished 5th out of 4,684 entrants. Ferguson pocketed over $68,000 for his final table run. Fourth place was taken by “shipthemula” for $92,000 and third place went to “maseandlou” who took home $124,000. The runner up was “93Tilnfinity” who got $174,000 and the event’s winner ended up being “andinista” who won just over $251,000.
Event 14 ended up being significant, as it was the first event won by a Full Tilt Pro. Brandon Adams outlasted 865 players to win the Omaha Hi/Low event and won a modest $39,000. This event paid the top 90 places with a large handful of Full Tilt Pros to make it into the money, such as James Dempsey (11th), “Miami” John Cernuto (51st), John DAgostino (56th) and Steve Wong (74th). Overall this event ended up being a great representation by the Full Tilt Pros.
So far no event’s prize pool has exceeded Event 16, which ended up at an impressive $1.37 million. The No Limit Hold’em event drew 1,370 players who all spent $1,060 to compete. Event 16 was won by “yahoo33” who got $301,000 for first place.
There are a total of 34 events in FTOPS XVII and we still have some big tournaments to come, including Event 22, a $322 buy-in, 6-max Rebuy No Limit Holdem tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million. There is also Event 29, a $2,100 buy-in, 6-max No Limit Holdem tournament which will run over 2 days. Unlike most normal tournament structures this event will have antes starting from level 1. This event has a guaranteed prize pool of $2 million. Two more tournaments of significance are Event 32, a $256 buy-in, 6-max No Limit Holdem tournament with knockouts that has a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million and Event 34, the Main Event, that has a buy-in of $640 and a massive guaranteed prize pool of $3 million.
Poker News Daily will be covering FTOPS XVII and all the action as it takes place.
great article!! $301k for first place….i could use some of that :)