One of the most exciting types of tournaments are shootout tournaments. Full Tilt Poker chose this type of tournament for their 19th Event of this season’s MiniFTOPS. Full Tilt Poker guaranteed a prize pool of at least $125,000 and 2,544 players paid the $50 + $5 buy-in to try and win a piece of the pie. Players would start the tournament off with a double stack which made for a long tournament.

The host of the tournament was none other than Queens, New York native, Cyndy Violette. She moved to Las Vegas when she was 12-years old and began playing card games with her uncle on the kitchen table. When she was old enough to do so, Cyndy worked at a casino as a blackjack and poker dealer. In 1984, she would turn pro with money that she won from a Lake Tahoe poker tournament. Soon after, she won a Seven-Card Stud tournament for $74,000 — the largest sum of money ever won by a woman at the time. In 2004, she won a World Series of Poker bracelet fulfilling a dream of hers. She wasn’t able to recreate the same success in Event 19 and finished in 923rd place.

The Silver Jersey and $20,988 cash prize was finally awarded to 25baseball25 after six hours and 43 minutes of tournament play. THE__D__RY would have to settle for runner-up and a $12,592.80 prize. The rest of the final table panned out as follows:

1st – 25baseball25 – $20,998
2nd – THE__D__RY – $12,592.80
3rd – vicmoney214 – $8,522.40
4th – candi2679 – $6,741.60
5th – BIGOne_FFM – $5,088
6th – daydreaminboy – $3,816
7th – Tyresias – $2,798.40
8th – LOL – WP – $1,908
9th – crackuup – $1,208.40