Event #20 kicked off this Friday at 2pm eastern. The $200 buy-in event saw 2,360 entrants vying for their share of the $472,000 prize pool ($72,000 more than the guarantee). Adam Noone was the Red Pro host and unfortunately for him, was also the first Red Pro of the 22 that entered to be eliminated, in 1925th place. Other Full Tilt Pros included Huck Seed, Lee Watkinson, Mike Matusow, Andy Bloch and David Pham.
This six-max tournament began with a “super stack” for each participant, 5,000 in chips. The action was fast and furious thanks to the six-max structure. The Red Pro to make it the deepest in this one was Huck Seed, who had a very nice run, finishing in 11th place, for a win of $4,484. However, it was weshcousin who was able to outlast the rest and take down the top prize of $92,984. The final table started out like this:
doezz with 3,163,147 in chips
wesh cousin with 2,159,514 in chips
Doctor_Fun with 2,118,310 in chips
JBlaze20 with 1,822,555 in chips
lilfishy897 with 1,275,157 in chips
and bankrollme87 with 1,261,317 in chips
JBlaze went out in 6th place and took $14,868 for the effort. In 5th place, and winning $22,184, was bankrollme87. 4th place was taken by doezz, the chip leader going into the final table ($31,152). The third place finisher was Doctor_Fun, who won $40,828 for a nice run in this tournament.
Once things got down to the final table, it looked like it was not going to be a long battle. lilfishy897 held an incredible chip lead of 10,930,137 to wesh cousin’s 869,863. However, wesh was fortunate enough to double up several times. His big break came during heads up play when he was down more than 2 to 1 in chips and got it all in, hoping his 57% equity would hold up.
Full Tilt Poker Game #10617412935: FTOPS Event #20 (73897807), Table 226 – 30000/60000 Ante 7500 – No Limit Hold’em – 23:47:38 ET – 2009/02/13
Seat 2: wesh cousin (3,390,226)
Seat 3: lilfishy897 (8,409,774)
wesh cousin antes 7,500
lilfishy897 antes 7,500
wesh cousin posts the small blind of 30,000
lilfishy897 posts the big blind of 60,000
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
wesh cousin raises to 180,000
lilfishy897 raises to 540,500
wesh cousin has been disconnected
wesh cousin has 15 seconds left to act
wesh cousin has reconnected
wesh cousin raises to 3,382,726, and is all in
lilfishy897 calls 2,842,226
wesh cousin shows [6s Ah]
lilfishy897 shows [Ks Qd]
*** FLOP *** [7c 2h 2c]
*** TURN *** [7c 2h 2c] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [7c 2h 2c Jh] [Js]
wesh cousin shows two pair, Jacks and Twos
lilfishy897 shows two pair, Jacks and Twos
wesh cousin wins the pot (6,780,452) with two pair, Jacks and Twos
The blinds are now 40,000/80,000 with an ante of 10,000
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6,780,452 | Rake 0
Board: [7c 2h 2c Jh Js]
Seat 2: wesh cousin (small blind) showed [6s Ah] and won (6,780,452) with two pair, Jacks and Twos
Seat 3: lilfishy897 (big blind) showed [Ks Qd] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Twos
This gave him the chip lead for the first time and it did not take long for him to take control and take down this tournament. The final hand saw a pre-flop all in when lilfishy897 called with TT, ahead of wesh cousin’s A8 of clubs. However, wesh cousin was able to spike an Ace on the river to take the pot and the match.
For the runner up finish, lilfishy897 won $58,981.12 and wesh cousin took down $92,984 for first place.
Here’s the final table outcome: