The Full Tilt Online Poker Series is bigger than ever, with $17 million guaranteed to be won from some 27 different tournaments. Although the fifteenth series is now over halfway through, there is still plenty of action to be had and titles to be won.
The Main Event, hosted by Allen Cunningham, is a $500 + $35 No Limit Hold’em tournament and will be played on Sunday 21st February. There’s $2.5 million guaranteed to be in the prize pool and satellites of various sizes are running daily at Full Tilt. Other tournaments of note are the $300 + $22 No Limit Hold’em 6-max rebuy, with a guaranteed $1 million in the kitty and Peter Feldman as host, as well as the two day event hosted by former World Series of Poker champion Carlos Mortensen, a $2,500 + $120 buy-in, also in No Limit Hold’em, with $2 million guaranteed to won.
The largest amount won so far in FTOPS XV is the $331,315 scooped in Event 12 by “kinpin023”. The $1,000 + $60 NLH tournament drew 1,541 players, for a total prizepool of $1,540,100. The winner beat “grindtherail” into second place, the runner-up earning $209,576 by way of consolation.
The most recognisable name to land an FTOPS XV win so far is that of “jse81”, also known as “lilholdem954” or Chad Batista. He and “Lilly79” chopped when heads up in Event 10 for $210,000 each, leaving $15,000 to play for, with Batista eventually coming out on top in the $300 + $22 NLH tournament. Batista, who served a three and a half year jail term in his early twenties, has now earned over $2 million in tournament prize money, both online and offline.
In the last two events to be played, “Anna Rexic” took down the $500 + $35 HORSE, emerging from a field of 503 to scoop $69,570 and “Tazmaniapwnsyou” netted $121,800 for winning the NLH Turbo event, a $200 + $16 buy-in with 2,880 runners.
“UnoffensiveNick” currently heads the FTOPS XV leaderboard with 410 points, after finishing 12th in the HORSE and 5th in the Heads Up event. He sits 40 points clear of “chickface”, winner of event 13. Whoever has the most points come the end of the series will win themselves a custom avatar for use at Full Tilt, as well as a package valued in the region of $8,500 in tournament buy-ins for the next FTOPS.
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