FTOPS Continues: Second Half of the Series Underway

Five more FTOPS events have been concluded since our last report, and few more players pocketed some serious money for their efforts. Let's see how things panned out in chronological order.

First of all, Event #2, which is an event with multiple first day flights, gathered some more entries. The $55 buyin tournament with guaranteed prize pool of $200,000 has already seen 1,818 registrations. There are few more first days scheduled for the upcoming week, but as not even 50% of the guarantee has been reached, it should pick up some momentum to avoid the overlay.

Event #7 was the $320 Razz tournament, and, expectedly, it did not attract too big number of players. Still, 104 players created the prize pool of $31,200 to be split amongst top twelve players and the winner, brat-bubba, took home $9,828. Runner up Arcus Cosinus pocketed $6,427.

Later on Wednesday, the first heads up event of the Series took place. With the buyin of $109, it gathered 324 players to compete for the first place of $7,938. That money went to Spel4_R0LL who defeated sordhok in the final match of the tournament. Second place of $4,536 was still nothing to complain about.

Event #9 was the first to cater to Pot Limit Omaha players. Staging the $215 buyin and guarantee of $40,000, it attracted total of 297 players who shattered the guarantee by nearly $20,000. RiggadFisk came out as the eventual winner, claiming $12,251 in the process, while the runner-up Guadro walked away $11,211 richer. The small gap between the first and second place money was a result of the deal the players made.

It was no surprise that the $215 6-max No Limit Hold’em event created quite an interest. The registration capped at 579 players and the guarantee of 100K was exceeded by more than $15,000. It was a really good day for BigBadP who outlived the other 578 players and claimed the victory together with $25,476 and, of course, FTOPS jersey and special avatar to reflect his achievement. I Am Ari took home $16,791 – but no jersey for him, as they are reserved for all the FTOPS events winners only!

Mixed game specialists had their day on Friday. $215 event gathered 164 players and well exceeded the guaranteed $25K. Winner, Elia001, pocketed $8,839, while second place went to CHADda2ND whose take was $5,904.

Finally, we conclude this report with Event #12, $109 NLHE event with one rebuy and one add-on (the format widely known as cubed tournaments in poker community) and it gathered 343 players and formed a sweet first place prize of $21,000 that went to Paradisus777. Second place finisher prrrak claimed $13,440.

The first $1K event with guaranteed prize pool of $250,000 is scheduled to take place today and this one should create a very serious final table both in terms of money and participating players, as many well known live and online players will probably be looking to take their seats.

The Series has now entered its second halftime and the $1,000,000 Main Event is slowly approaching. But before that, some more jerseys have to be handed out!