Ponyo88 Wins FTOPS Main Event for $154,000 and Scores Double FTOPS Gold

Last night, Full Tilt Series of Online Poker has been officially concluded. The most anticipated tournament of the Series, $635 Main Event with $1,000,000 guarantee saw 1,500 entries, which meant an overlay of $100,000 even! That is a lot of added money for players to battle for.

If you have been following FTOPS and reading these reports, alias ponyo88 may sound familiar to you. It definitely should, as he emerged victorious in Event #2 earlier in the Series, taking home more than $33,000. What started as a good FTOPS turned into an excellent one after he secured the first place in the last night's Main Event.

The three final players made the deal, with all three getting the six figure payouts. ‘ponyo88’ was the one walking away with the biggest bounty, as he claimed the first place and $153,962 in cash. Second place finisher Espen ‘Sh4wshank' Sorlie earned $143,556 while $130,481 went to third place LuisFigo1014. ‘Sh4wshank’ had a great weekend overall, as was clear from his tweets.

Chopped milly hu got $168,270, aaaand chopped ftops main 3 ways for $143,556!!
— Espen Sørlie (@Sh4wshank) August 18, 2014

Total of 180 players got paid, with minimum payout being $1,100 and all players who made it to the final table were guaranteed at least $14,900.

ith conclusion of all the events, the FTOPS leaderboard has also been finalized. The winner, who is set to receive Black Card Pro Sponsorship contract for the duration of four months is Mark ‘dipthrong’ Herm. Herm is by no means stranger to success in online tournament arena, as his combined online cashes amount to more than $4.5 million, so this is just another small badge on his professional uniform. The Main Event winner ‘ponyo88’ finished in 4th place, but he probably has no regrets about this FTOPS.

Event #17, second of two multi-day events, was also played out on Sunday. I Visor I Triumphed in the $300K guaranteed tournament and banked $60,900. Second place for faryboy was good for $39,300 while third place finisher THAY3R pocketed $29,100.

vent #28, a $2,100 two-day tournament with cool $500,000 gathered 236 players, 76 of whom advanced to Day 2. In the end, it was Rhys ‘floppin_ell’ Jones who took the first place and $93,421 cash, bringing his total online cashes to $2.6 million. Brian ‘brianm15’ England, whose tournament scores amount to almost $3.8 million took second place and slightly more money (result of the deal) and walked away with $93,525. ‘Andras Nemeth’ finished in third and pocketed $88,053 for his efforts.

The last two events before the Main were $215 PLO Rush and $255 NL Hold’em 6-max KO. Omaha title and first place money of $9,626 went to PJShark who bested Bausi and sent him to the rail with $8,090 to his name.

Finally, it was hitthehole who triumphed over 1,077 strong field and took the first prize of $53,000. Runner-up veeea became $33,500 richer while Kask123 came in third, banking $23,750.

With no more events on the calendar remaining for the FTOPS, tournament grinders are now anxiously awaiting the start of WCOOP, which is scheduled to start soon!