The Full Tilt Online Poker Series neared a close this past Sunday with Event #24. This tournament was a $129 buy-in Knockout tournament with a guaranteed $500k prize pool. The combination of the popular Knockout format and the relatively low buy-in attracted a huge field. Full Tilt Pro Erich Kollmann hosted as the number of [...]

Countless quality players fall at the final hurdle in big tournaments, failing to adjust their game for heads up and missing out on the top spot. Those players would not have made it past the first round in FTOPS X Event #21, the $500 + $35 No Limit Hold ‘em Heads Up tournament. Eight hundred [...]

This past Sunday saw the climax of the FTOPS X series.  The $500 + $35 NL Hold’em Main Event attracted 5,225 players, beating out the guaranteed $2,500,000 prize pool to $2,612,500.  Of the 5,225, 63 were red pros, all vying for their chance at the Main Event victory.  Only a fraction of the hopefuls, 728 [...]

The biggest buy-in FTOPS tourney took place over the past two days on Full Tilt.  Event #22 was a $5200, $2,000,000 Guaranteed 6-max event hosted by Full Tilt Pro and WSOP ME Final Table participant Craig Marquis.  An event with such a large buy-in was sure to only attract the biggest names in online and [...]

FTOPS X event #19, a $216 NL Hold’em event with $400k guaranteed, ran today. It was hosted by Kelly Kim who is fresh off his 8th place finish at the WSOP main event. With 2526 entries, the tournament far exceeded its guarantee, topping out at just over $500k. Almost 30 of Full Tilt’s red pros [...]

The FTOPS X series continues in full swing, as event #16 is now in the books. A $300 + $22 buy-in 6MAX NLHE  event, it had a guaranteed prize pool of the magical amount of $1,000,000. The guaranteed money was met, however, when 1,032 hopefuls  entered and re-bought their way to poker glory. This event [...]

Event #17 on Full Tilt’s FTOPS X calendar was a NL Hold ‘em 4 x shootout 6-max affair with a $200 + $16 buy-in and a $250,000 guarantee.  1,094 entrants shelled out their entry fee, which wasn’t enough to break the guaranteed prize pool but formed a deep field nevertheless, with the bonus of a [...]

FTOPS X continued Tuesday with Event #14, the $216 no limit hold’em turbo event. Almost 40 sponsored Full Tilt pros showed up for the event and with 2583 entrants the event cleared its $500k guarantee by a little over $16k. Players started with only 2000 chips, and with the blinds going up every five minutes [...]

FTOPS X continued last night with its largest buy-in tournament so far this year.  The $1000 + $60 no-limit event was hosted by FTP pro David Singer.  This tournament matched the largest guarantee to this point of $1.5 million.  Competitors in this event started with Full Tilt’s “super stack” of 5,000 in chips. There were [...]

Event #7 began November 8th, in the continuous line of events making up Full Tilt’s FTOPS X.  This time around, 1,893 players were attracted by the $600,000 guarantee of the $100 + $9 No Limit Hold’em Rebuy tournament.  Unfortunately, 68 players less than last season turned out. A total of 2,658 rebuys and 1,083 add-ons [...]