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posted on February 3rd, 2012
When Alan Meltzer passed away last October, he left behind $1 million in his will to his chauffeur and another $500,000 to the doorman of his building. An entrepreneurial success story, Meltzer built his fortune in the music business and gained fame in the poker world when he appeared on Season 5 of High Stakes [...]
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Following the conclusion of FTOPS XII on Sunday, here is a round-up of all the events big winners. Event #1 – NL Hold ‘em 6-max Players: 4,445 Buy-In: $200 + $16 Guarantee: $1,000,000 Prize Pool: $1,255,000 1 URBEHIND $191,020.00 2 The Quietwinner $117,000.00 3 ChasingIdiot $81,200.00 4 flopjunkie19 $60,000.00 5 PXFACTOR $44,000.00 6 Tomsk400 $30,000.00 [...]
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The 12th FTOPS ended this weekend with the conclusion of the Main Event. The Main Event was a $500+35 NLHE tournament. There was a $2,500,000 guarantee and 4581 entrants. The chip count on the final table was as follows: Pocketownage420 – 6,355,367 azzabentonaces – 5,587,683 -NinG- – 4,796,044 nickeltwenty –3,860,832 oiltrader – 3,823,366 iDubDeuce – [...]
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Here are the results for the Full Tilt Poker FTOPS XII Event#13: NL Hold’em Knockout with Superstack. Basically, you will get a $20 bounty for every player you knock out of the tournament. It is also a superstack event, which means that there is a ton of play here. Tonight’s event was hosted by Russian [...]
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If you missed Event 22 of Full Tilt’s FTOPS XII, you missed a pretty major tournament. Boasting a $2,000,000 guaranteed prize pool, which is second only to the Main Event, and played over a 2-day period, Event 22 was set up to be big. More than 30 Red Pros played in this one along with [...]
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With only two days and 6 events left in FTOPS XII, players are buckling down for a huge weekend of big buy-in, large guarantee tournaments. Event 20, a $200+$16, $400,000 guaranteed NL Hold’em Event saw 2,206 entrants create a prize pool of $441,200. This was one of the rare times FullTilt did not have to [...]
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Last night saw the return of a staple FTOPS event, the 6-max rebuy. The buy-in was set at $300, with a sizable $1,000,000 guaranteed ensuring the prize pool was well stocked. Although only 961 players opted to compete it seems they weren’t shy about reloading when their chips got low. A total of 1795 rebuys, [...]
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j__thaddeus Takes Down FTOPS XII Event#13 — Double stacked 6-MAX NLHE Shoot Out Another great FTOPS event is in the books, and we have another big-money winner. Today was a particularly special one, because it was a double stacked 6-max shootout event; essentially a deepstacked sit-n-go, 6-max, with the winner advancing to the next 6-max [...]
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FTOPS XII could be getting a little expensive for the folks over at Full Tilt. Yesterday’s Event 12 drew a decent crowd of 1,349 players to pay the $1,000 + $60 entry fee. However, that still left an overlay of $151,000 in the $1.5 million guaranteed tournament. Event 12 was a 6-max, no-limit Hold’em event [...]
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Sunday was a big day for FTOPS XII. Three tournaments (8,9,10) ran simultaneously throughout the day, the biggest of which was the $1,500,000 guaranteed Event #10. The tournament failed to reach its guarantee, an alarming trend so far in FTOPS XII. Yesterday only 4,145 players signed up for the $300+$22 buy-in event, which created [...]
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Event #8 of the FTOPS XI was $240+16 NL Hold’em Knockout 6-max, guaranteeing $600,000. A massive 4,411 players registered, creating a huge prize pool of $882,200 with first place a cool $168,527.84. The chip counts at the start of the final table were the following: Chancew – 4,547,803 Phil “USCphildo” Collins – 4,297,144 Michael “Michael1123″ [...]
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