[url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Andrew-Black.php]Andrew Black[/url] played host to this event and was joined by 18 other [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-FullTilt.php]Full Tilt[/url] Poker Pros, including [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Berry-Johnston.php]Berry Johnston[/url], David Pham, [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Huck-Seed.php]Huck Seed[/url], and Scott Fischman.  The last pro standing was Ram Vaswani, a member of the famed Hendon Mob and the only player to reach the final table of 3 European Poker Tour events.

With such a nice prize pool there’s no doubt most players had their mind on the $141,771 first place prize.  When play got down to the final table, there was mostly unknown players and a couple of very good players left, as is fairly typical for these large events.  The two most well-known players, at least in [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-FullTilt.php]Full Tilt[/url] tournament circles, were ProbBluffingYou (who also plays as ASPoker8 on [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-PokerStars.php]PokerStars[/url]) and Doc Sands.

The action at the final table was pretty hectic, as players seemed unafraid to put all the money in the middle.  Doc Sands was eliminated in 5th place, taking down  $39,564 for the effort and solidifying his spot as one of the most feared players on [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-FullTilt.php]Full Tilt[/url].  His wins this year include the $30 rebuy ($9,127), the $1K Monday ($89,250), the $50 rebuy ($19,857.25), and the Nightly Hundred Grand at [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-PokerStars.php]PokerStars[/url] ($19,514.40).  Oh, wait, that’s only since September!!  He also won the Sunday 500 on Stars in August ($90,097.20), FTOPS XII Event #10 for $259,440 in May, The Fifty-Fifty ($10,953.50) and Sunday Mulligan ($53,020) in April along with numerous other 1st place finishes and countless final tables.  In other words, he’s having a great year.

Outlasting them all though, was Kiv56, who played heads-up with archwatcher for the title.  Archwatcher was probably the most active player at the table, as he had built up a relatively large stack and seemed willing to use it to his advantage.

Final table standings and payouts:

1st - Kiv56 - $141,771

2nd - archwatcher - $89,678.40

3rd - Ballzdeepx - $66,599.40

4th - ProbBluffingYou - $52,752

5th - Doc Sands - $39,564

6th - nomaddman - $28,354.20

7th - YrrsiN - $18,463.20

8th - Cowboy3362 - $13,188

9th - GoCubsGo969 - $9,231.60

Joining professional players such as [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Chris-Moneymaker.html]Chris Moneymaker[/url], [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Greg-Raymer.html]Greg Raymer[/url], Joe Hachem, [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Peter-Eastgate.php]Peter Eastgate[/url], Chad Brown and Vanessa Rousso, were stars from other parts of the world with enough money to play poker with the big boys and the amateurs with a dream.  If you played in the Main Event you may have held a virtual seat next to the likes of Jason Alexander of Seinfeld fame, former pitching great Orel Hershiser, or former tennis superstar Boris Becker, as all three took their shot at the million dollar payday.

Unfortunately for the pros, Day 1 was not too kind, as all but one were among the 1,966 players eliminated by the end of the first day.  Only German [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-PokerStars.php]PokerStars[/url] Pro Jan Heitmann remained, in 47th place.  He would end up going out in 141st place, collecting $13,936 for the effort.

Here’s the top 10 leaders in chips at the end of day 1:

1. TheMasterJ33 - 925,921 chips
2. pakd650 - 776,413 chips
3. 5902838181 - 734,682 chips
4. SexSeen - 696,659 chips
5. HEMIpowerSWT - 695,540 chips
6. GIVE_IT2 - 654,843 chips
7. Jovial Gent - 632,010 chips
8. reddeevil - 611,559 chips
9. GtRealGtOut - 580,712 chips
10. djk123 - 555,410 chips

Many of the leaders found it tough to stay on top throughout the day though as even the chip leader at the start of the day was gone fairly quickly.  TheMasterJ33 couldn’t make it past 87th place, but still took home $17,152.

A few of the Day 1 leaders did continue their good fortune, however. The final table featured 3 players who battled through day 2 to make it to the last 9 standing.  The chip leader was djk123, with over 12 million in chips.  Next was another survivor, Jovial Gent, with over 10 million in chips.  The remaining 7 players and their chip counts were:

Udon Wannit - 4,549,346
reddeevil - 4,222,220
Chong94 - 3,857,482
PeachyMer - 3,617,956
Xaston - 2,150,576
Supa4real - 1,004,760
Mudvaynes - 700,486

Eventually, it would come down to the final two players, Jovial Gent and Udon Wannit, with Gent holding a commanding 3 to 1 chip lead going into heads-up play.  His lead would hold as the players didn’t take long to get it in.  The final hand saw Jovial Gent flop 2 pair with K6 and Udon Wannit playing very aggressive with his pair of sixes and that was the end of the tournament and the end of another great WCOOP series.

Final table finish and payouts:

1st place: Jovial Gent - $1,715,200.00
2nd place: Udon Wannit - $1,286,400.00
3rd place: reddeevil - $933,712.00
4th place: djk123 - $643,200.00
5th place: Xaston - $482,400.00
6th place: Chong94 - $375,200.00
7th place: Mudvaynes - $268,000.00
8th place: Supa4real - $182,240.00
9th place: PeachyMer - $96,480.00

There was little doubt that plenty of the [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-PokerStars.php]PokerStars[/url] Pros would make it for this one with a prize like that on the line.  The list of pros included [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Chris-Moneymaker.html]Chris Moneymaker[/url], Chad Brown, [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Jason-Mercier.php]Jason Mercier[/url], Vanessa Rousso, [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Bertrand-Grosspellier-ElkY.php]ElkY[/url] - Bertrand Grospellier and [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Humberto-Brenes.php]Humberto Brenes[/url].  The popular Costa Rican, Brenes, was the big winner of the pros.  However, he wont be retiring on his 239th place finish - a win of $474.50.

[url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-PokerStars.php]PokerStars[/url] tried to pump up the action and aggression in this tournament by collecting antes from the very first hand.  That meant that sitting around for the nuts would be tough, as the more aggressive players would just take pot after pot, building their stacks.  However, even with the “big antes”, it was over 14 hours until the final table bubble finally burst, sending the final nine to a very coveted position in a tournament such as this.  Even 9th place would be guaranteed over $5,800, but everyone was gunning for the 1st place prize of over $100k!

The top nine players held the following chip stacks heading into the final table:

Seat 1: 72good with 1,935,503 in chips
Seat 2: PokerProGG with 2,185,321 in chips
Seat 3: Raoeoiku with 866,555 in chips
Seat 4: JUNFI with 247,593 in chips
Seat 5: Artiecat with 859,772 in chips
Seat 6: vara33 with 3,227,438 in chips
Seat 7: Koln4ever with 4,886,063 in chips
Seat 8: Shark 00100 with 1,115,769 in chips
Seat 9: joeppiej with 2,925,986 in chips

After the long battle to get to the main stage, it only took about a half-hour for three players to be quickly eliminated.  Then things changed considerably, as the players slowed down a little.  This event started at 2:30 in the afternoon on Wednesday, but it wasn’t until early Thursday morning that play got down to three-handed.

When there were three, the players - Koln4ever, vara33, and PokerProGG, decided to discuss a deal.  The host of this tournament, [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-PokerStars.php]PokerStars[/url] Pro Tom McEvoy, moderated the discussion and announced the final deal numbers to which the players agreed.  [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-PokerStars.php]PokerStars[/url] had set a rule that $10,000 must be set aside for the eventual winner, but other than that, the players agreed that Koln4ever would get $98,282.70, vara33 would get $83,779.11, and PokerProGG would take $68,183.19.

vera33 would be the next eliminated, and thus probably most happy about the deal.  That put Koln4ever and PokerProGG heads-up, with Koln4ever have a dominating lead of over 16 million in chips to about 1.9 million for PokerProGG.  It didn’t take long for the final hand to come, as PokerProGG pushed with AK pre-flop and was called by the 33 of Koln4ever.  The board was no help to PokerProGG and he was eliminated in second place.  That left the $10,000 extra prize money as well as the title of WCOOP Champion to Koln4ever.

Final Table Results:

1st place: Koln4ever - $108,282.70 (after Final Table deal)
2nd place: PokerProGG - $68,183.19 (after FT deal)
3rd place: vara33 - $83,779.11 (after FT deal)
4th place: Shark 00100 - $41,975.00
5th place: joeppiej - $31,025.00
6th place: Raoeoiku - $23,725.00
7th place: Artiecat - $16,425.00
8th place: 72good - $9,125.00
9th place: JUNFI - $5,840.00

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Amazingly, despite so many players the action quickly eliminated a huge portion of the field.  Within 2 hours, the original 15,000 + entrants had been whittled down to less than 3,500 players.

Going into the final table, two players held a pretty sizable lead over the other 7 players.  Both vakAAttack and DonLeu had over 10 million in chips, while the next nearest player had just over 6.7 million.

At the final table, the action continued to be fast and furious as the 9th place player, Dwayno86, lasted just one orbit before being eliminated.  The all-ins didn’t slow down much from there, and when the dust settled, the final two players, vakAAttack and DHUSTLER15 went heads-up very close in chip counts.

The two battled for a couple of levels before the final hand.  It was a final hand that was about as sick as it gets to finish a tournament.

With blinds at 225k and 450k, DHUSTLER15 raises the button to 1 million and is called by vakAAttack.  The flop comes Kc, 8h, 7s, and both players check.  The turn brings the 7c, and again, both players check.  Then the river brings the Qh and things suddenly get interesting.  vakAAttack leads out for 5.4 million, which is more than twice the pot at this point.  DHUSTLER15 then shoves his remaining stack of just over 15 million and is snap called by vakAAttack.

DHUSTLER15 gladly shows QdQc for a rivered full boat.  His euphoria is short lived though, as vakAAttack turns over 7h7d for quads and the win in the largest WCOOP event ever.

Here’s your final table and payouts:

1st - vakAAttack - $183,334.81

2nd - DHUSTLER15 - $133,237.51

3rd - merkurstar - $101,887.51

4th - DonLeu - $70,537.51

5th - razorbite - $54,862.51

6th - THOR12345 - $39.187.51

7th - Rockkaholic - $26,647.51

8th - Percussion - $14,107.51

9th - Dwayno98 - $9,405.01

In all, 720 spots would get paid, with the minimum prize being $795.90.  Over $450k was set aside for the Main Event winner.  Although deals have been prevalent throughout this year’s FTOPS, the final two players, Poligraph and Inoriisss failed to negotiate a deal.

Just a few moments after play resumed, Inoriisss found himself all-in and in pretty good shape.  He shoved with the shorter stack, holding Ace-6 off-suit and was called by Poligraph, who held Queen-Jack off-suit.  The flop came 2, Ace, 3, giving Inoriisss top-pair.  The turn King gave Poligraph a straight draw, however, and Inoriisss would get the bad news as the river Ten eliminated him in second place.  Poligraph was the beneficiary of a very timely runner-runner suckout and took down the big payout as well as the title of FTOPS XIII Main Event Champion.

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This tournament was hosted by [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-FullTilt.php]Full Tilt[/url] Pro Steve Wong, who ranks 3rd on the Netherlands all-time money list for professional poker players.  He was of course joined by many other “Red Pros”, including [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Allen-Cunningham.php]Allen Cunningham[/url], David Pham, Scott Fischman and Vitaly Lunkin.  Several of them made it to the money, however, none were able to get very deep.  The biggest winner for the Pros was [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Aaron-Bartley.php]Aaron Bartley[/url] - out in 107th place for $521.73.

The final table of 6 came down to a mix of some very solid tournament players and a few relatively unknown players.  One of these mostly unknown players, thekellster89, would go on to take down the title of FTOPS Event 20 champion and the $96k+ payday that came with it!  There was no deal at the final table of Event 20.  The final table deals have been a great new feature of this year’s FTOPS, as [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-FullTilt.php]Full Tilt[/url] had rolled out their new software just before the start of the series.

Here’s how the final 2 tables finished out:

1st - thekellster89 - $96,057.20

2nd - thugmoneymkr - $60,930.50

3rd - croll103 - $42,177.40

4th - isenthaler - $32,181.60

5th - CantScareMEEE - $22,917.20

6th - SvetlaB - $15,359.40

7th - The_Worst24 - $9,776.38

8th - JaffaCake - $9,776.38

9th - UgottaBkiddin - $6,314.42

10th - Anna Rexic $6,314.42

11th - ZorroMP - $4,632.20

12th - xRIPCURLx - $4,632.20

Host Matt Hawrilenko was joined by over 30 other [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-FullTilt.php]Full Tilt[/url] Pros in this high-stakes event, including some of the biggest names in poker.  [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Huck-Seed.php]Huck Seed[/url], [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Eli-Elezra.php]Eli Elezra[/url], [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Erick-Lindgren.php]Erick Lindgren[/url], and [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Allen-Cunningham.php]Allen Cunningham[/url] all took their shots at the guaranteed $1.5 million prize pool.  Also taking part in this tournament was WSOP final tablist [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Phil-Ivey.html]Phil Ivey[/url].  The only 3 Red Pros to make the money were Ryan Daut, in 73rd place for $2,686.40, David Pham in 86th for $2,518.50, and Isaac Baron, who took in $2,350.60 for his finish in 107th place.

Another final table deal was made at the end of this event, but this one only included the final two players, hoodini10 and carter8080.  In the end hoodini10 won 1st place and took in $304,793.45 after the deal.  carter8080 won $284,535.55 for his second place finish.

1     hoodini10          $360,985 ($304,793.45 after deal)
2     carter8080        $228,344 ($284,535.55 after deal)
3     HUMZIE         $169,579.00
4     waiforgus         $134,320.00
5     AmplifiedSample     $100,740.00
6     Mike Kowal         $72,197.00
7     ScarJo             $47,012.00
8     Roxx Box         $33,580.00
9     drmanic         $23,506.00
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16     IWEARGOGGLES     $6,716.00
17     AllgoodBoss         $6,716.00
18     freddiewalli         $6,716.00
19     XeliOnTilt         $5,540.70
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The host for this event was Daniele Mazzia, an Italian professional with over $800k in career tournament winnings.  He was joined by 18 other [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-FullTilt.php]Full Tilt[/url] Red Pros, however only one of [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-FullTilt.php]Full Tilt[/url]’s finest was able to finish in the money in event 4.  That was Scott Clements, finishing in 156th place for $815.28.

Once all the rebuys and add-ons were complete, it came down to playing good tournament poker.  Coming out on top was TwistedEcho, who took down $102,382.28 after making a deal with the two other top 3 finishers.  The first place payout was set at $146,071, so TwistedEcho took home a little more than $40k less than if the players had stuck with the original payouts.

The second place finisher, YeslmaHick, actually was the biggest money winner, although not by a lot.  He took $103,811.37 after the deal.  And the last player and biggest beneficiary included in the deal was ELMO_MASK.  His piece of the deal was $100,895.15.  That’s a significant jump from the $68,619.40 that was set aside for third place.

There were 162 players paid in this event and a big congratulations goes out to all of them.  The final table is where everyone wants to be though - with a chance to win it all.  Here’s the final 9 and payouts:

1st - TwistedEcho - $146,071 ($102,382.28*)

2nd - YeslmaHick - $92,398.40 ($103,811.37*)

3rd - ELMO_MASK - $68,619.40 ($100,895.15*)

4th - kautabjo - $54,352

5th - OJ Limpsin - $40,764

6th - Gator93 - $29,214.20

7th - professor plum - $19,023.20

8th - KaPanY3 - $13,588

9th - My Brim Low  - $9,511.60

*payouts after final table deal

Menendez has been a strong supporter of Internet poker, often working closely with House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank to battle against the UIGEA.  Frank was set to introduce his own Internet gaming bill in July, but because of the ongoing financial crises in the U.S., that was delayed until September.

The bill being introduced by Menendez is different from Frank’s bill however.  This piece of legislation focuses completely and specifically on Internet poker, whereas Frank’s bill covers other forms of online gaming, such as online casinos.  The specifics of Menendez’s bill will not be completely known until it is released later today, although it is known that it will seek to legalize, regulate and tax online poker in the United States.

It is expected to establish the necessary framework to allow Internet poker companies to apply for license to operate within the U.S.  It would also focus on protecting American consumers by requiring proof of age and ensuring that state laws are followed.  There is no intent to overturn any state law already in place.  They would also be required to protect against compulsive gambling as well as provide fair games and guard against money laundering and fraud.

As far as taxation, it is reported that the bill will call for a 10% tax on all deposits made by U.S. players.  This tax would be split evenly between the federal government and the states.  It is not yet known if this would be shared among states that prohibit online gaming.  There is also a lot of speculation on how this will affect the players.  Hopefully more will be known later today, once the bill is public and all of the information can be analyzed.