FTOPS VIII

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series continued with event 19, which was a $216 buy-in and the name of the game was no-limit hold’em. The $200 no-limit tournaments online today are the standard for most high stake players, so I expected this event to crush the $350,000 guarantee. However, it wasn’t quite the […]

As you well know FTOPS VIIII hosted by Full Tilt Poker just got over and it rocked just as hard as the past events. Today we’re taking a look at Event 13 over at Full Tilt, and the action was just as excellent as could be expected. There were 607 players in this […]

Event 14 of the FTOPS VIII Tournament was a $200 + $16 NL Hold’em Turbo. It was hosted by Amanda Baker. It was a 200k Guarantee that had 2,140 players.
The chip counts going into the final table were as follows:
1. Pokah_Prinz 838,357
2. comhood 831,290
3. OneUponAStar 606,395
4. dud711 498,476
5. […]

FTOPS 8 Event 11 was a $1000+$60 No Limit Hold’Em tournament, the second largest buy-in in the FTOPS, with a guaranteed prize pool of $1,500,000.  The event, hosted by Nick Shulman, drew 1593 players creating an ending prize pool of $1,593,000 with a 1st place prize of $342,495.
The event drew a plethora of FullTilt sponsored […]

Full Tilt Poker has been quite creative this series, introducing all kinds of varieties of tournaments, with big-buyins and bigger payouts. Event #12 of FTOPS VIII fit that bill, as 961 players showed up for the $200+$16 No Limit Hold ‘Em tournament, with 1 rebuy and 1 add-on. Event #12 was hosted by Lee Watkinson, […]

Event 10 of the FTOPS 8 was the third pot-limit Omaha tournament on the schedule. However, this was the first one that was hi/lo, aka Omaha 8 or better. This was one of the smaller guarantees, with a $200 + $16 buy-in with the prize pool being at least $200,000. The loud […]

The FTOPS 8 continued with event 9 and it was a big one, $322 no-limit hold’em. This took place of their usual Sunday $750k and had a guaranteed prize pool of $1,500,000; making it at least double the standard. It was hosted by Gus Hansen, who is one of the most well known […]

The buy-in for this tournament was $500 + $35 and there was a total of 637 players. First place alone payed out over $68,000. Lets take a
look at the chip counts heading into the final table:
1. Kavin86 1,114,541
2. scatterbrain123 495,675
3. Care4Nature 465,801
4. MMMADD 424,767
5. LokoIsBack 361,264
6. bd3109 […]

Undoubtedly, one of the toughest tournaments online on a daily basis is the $100 rebuys. They are almost always filled with the best and brightest in the online tournament circuit. This was no different when Event #7 of FTOPS VIII went down just a few days ago, which was a $100 rebuy with a $500k […]

Big buy-in, big field online tournaments always seem to attract the best players in the game, which comes as no surprise. The fields are mixed with players taking shots, satellite winners, and of course the pros who frequent final tables amongst all the sites. So it comes as no surprise that the winner of the […]