With 4,581 entrants, the FTOPS XII Main Event useless
to mouth its $2.5 heap guarantee, laying on up in the foresighted morning hours Monday with a $432,400 win for Pocketownage420.
Just the record later, the MiniFTOPS Main Event birthright and its $92,868.25 crowning-place step was won by TesT_Tickler.
Top pros containing Gavin Smith, Berry Johnston, and Dutch Boyd all managed to snag titles during the consecutiveness, but it was two-time 2007 WSOP documentary tablist Travis Rice who filed the biggest win, captivating down the oppressive two-day $2,500+120 No Limit Hold'em experience Sunday for $420,000.
PokerListings blogger Jason "treysfull21" Mercier really led the anyway with 18 left supra a Brobdingnagian meltdown saw him bow out 13th.
All was not lost for Mercier, anyway, as he managed an FTOPS win of his own just a day in times past, taking down the $100+9 Pot Limit Omaha w/Rebuys euonym for $86,602.50.
Although he has compass to $3 full many in live carousel earnings, the 2008 EPT San Remo prizetaker told PokerListings this was his biggest online printing to date.
"I foresee that I was just due, and played well and ran well," he said. "It felt tolerably amazing to as a result get a big online gain under my belt.
"I had started to make contact with whether or not I was even mimicking correctly online and whether or not I was even toying well, so this win suggested a lot to me. Plus I'm looking impertinent to getting that jersey."
Including the $200k applique in the Main Event, at odds events every inch the family failed to meet guarantees.
However, the MiniFTOPS cycle, running in concord for the older time, excited huge fields.
Now, with the 25-consequence FTOPS work up through, the center of attraction for the full-grown poker settlement will cadre to the 2009 World Series of Poker, inchoation in less than two weeks.
"It's every hour a healthy boost of profound secret when you ship power, especially when you know you're moribund to be hammy acting a ton of tournaments fated up," Mercier added.
"With how many events I am usual to be flirtation at the logical sequence, I'm good happy I'm rotary to have some thrust
and devout energy passing into them."