Sunday is traditionally a huge day for the online tournament player, but the three last FTOPS events meant that yesterday was bigger than usual. The highly anticipated Event 33 was yesterday’s 2nd FTOPS tournament, and it featured Rush NL Hold’em with rebuys. An impressive 1,589 players paid the $150+$13 buy-in, and with 3,810 rebuys and 964 add-ons, the total prize pool ended up at $954,450 with $205,206.75 for 1st place. Let’s take a look at some final table action.

The first big hand at the final table came with eight players remaining. cdbr3799, a previous FTOPS winner, 3-bet an UTG min raise on the CO with QK and saw a flop 3-way with slaskovic, another previous FTOPS winner, and wheelguy. The flop came K84 and cdbr3799, with top pair, called wheelguy’s donk bet. The turn brought a Q giving cdbr3799 two pairs, and he was happy to call when wheelguy made another donk bet, this time pushing his entire stack. wheelguy flipped over AK and missed his 3-outer on the river, busting him in 8th place for just over $19k.

Let’s fast forward to 6-handed action. Dalbaiyob made a small raise on the button with KTs, and slaskovic decided to call in the BB with KJo and 30bb behind. Unfortunately for slaskovic the flop came KT4 giving him top pair but giving Dalbaiyob top two pair. Dalbaiyob made a continuation bet of less than half the pot, and slaskovic check/called. On the turn slaskovic checked again, but this time it was to check/raise all-in. Dalbaiyob quickly called and slaskovic was down to just a few outs on the river. He didn’t catch and instead of winning another FTOPS jersey, he received $41k for 6th place.

Dalbaiyob’s next victim would be whatariver1, yet another previous FTOPS champion. With just four players remaining, Dalbaiyob opened with ATo and whatariver1 made a suspicious 3-bet with just a 20BB stack. Dalbaiyob didn’t see the warning signs though, and his all-in push was quickly called by whatariver who held KK. It was Dalbaiyob’s night to shine, though. He made winning look easy as an Ace fell on the flop, and whatariver busted in 4th place after failing to find one of two remaining Kings on the turn or river.

This meant that only one previous FTOPS winner remained, but soon he, too, fell victim to Dalbaiyob’s hot streak. After a flurry of raising that saw a 4-bet and then a 5-bet push, Dalbaiyob got it in preflop with 44 versus cdbr3799’s AQs. It’s safe to say that this was the equity flip of the night, with an absolutely huge pot at stake. The board came KJ936, however, and Dalbaiyob continued his roll while cdbr3799 was sent to the rail. cdbr3799 received over $96k for his 3rd place finish, a pretty decent consolation prize for a night of work.

This left Dalbaiyob and davidp18 to play heads-up for 1st place. The two players ended up making a deal based on chip count, leaving $7.5k and the jersey for the winner. Dalbaiyob had started with a considerable chip lead, but he got it all-in with JJ versus davidp18’s AKs and couldn’t win the coin flip. The biggest hand heads-up came when the two players were about even in chips. davidp18 3-bet preflop with AA and Dalbaiyob called with QJs. Dalbaiyob continued to run good by flopping top two pair on a QJ3 flop, and the two players eventually got all their chips in by the river. This left davidp18 with just 3BB, and he went on to bust in 2nd place the very next hand.

Congratulations to Dalbaiyob for eliminating three past FTOPS winners and winning the golden jersey! After his chip chop, he took home a healthy $182,798.

The highest finishing Red Pro in this event was Damian Salas, who placed 37th for $2,290.68, followed by Nordberg and Eli Elezra who finished 71st and 74th respectively. Please see below for the final table payouts. Thank you for reading and be sure check back soon the last of our FTOPS coverage!

1- Dalbaiyob – $182,798.90
2- Davidp18 – $152,213.05
3- cdbr3799 – $96,399.45
4 – whatariver1 – $76,356.00
5 – colenel decker – $57,267.00
6 – slaskovic – $41,041.35
7 – TakeItBack – $26,724.60
8 – Wheelguy – $19,089.00
9 – meireles23 – $13,362.30