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FTOPS Main Event report
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2009-02-18 19:20
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FTOPS is over, but nobody can say that it went out without a bang at the end: the $500+$35 NL Holdem Main Event attracted a huge field of competitors (no fewer than 5,387 players) which gave birth to a sizeable prize-pool totaling $2,643,500. This way, the winner would be guaranteed a $456K prize, well enough for even the biggest ‘name’ pros to commit all resources for the cause.
Given the speed of the online play, the final table was reached in a fraction of the time it would’ve taken a similarly sized field to do it live, still it took nearly 13 hours of play. Jason Dewitt failed to reach the final table though, as he busted out in 44th. James Mackey hung on all the way to 35th, as did Steve Leonard who reached 19th. Steve Billirakis was one of the highest finishing pros: he clinched 13th for a payday of $18,372 and some small change.
The final table chip leader was KA1SERfknS0ZE who accumulated 8.6 million chips by that stage. Csimmsux (Adam Geyer) was second with 6.7 million. The other final table participants were: dump22, PartyPimp, CHOOK2120, supermanpunch, clubflush5, Luie Sojo and 23bigd23.
Luie Sojo was the first one to exit from the final table, as he tangled with clubflush5 who had a pair of 5s in his pocket. The flop did give Sojo’s A,8 a top pair, but it also gave clubflush a set which was enough to send Sojo to the rail in 9th.
supermanpunch was the next to leave, aided by KA1SERfknS0ZE. 23bigd23 finished 7th, followed by dump22 in 6th.
5th place went to CHOOK2120. The 4th place elimination of clubflush5 gave csimmsux the chip lead for the first time.
The short-stack going into 3-handed play, PartyPimp soon surrendered the rest of his chips to Adam Geyer too as he busted out in 3rd place with a $177k prize in his hands.
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heads-up play began with csimmsux holding a 2-1 chip lead over KA1SERfknS0ZE, but that would soon change as the latter doubled up. The tide would soon turn back csimmsux’s way though. The final hand of the event saw Adam’s full house make short work of KA1SERfknS0ZE’s straight draw which failed to fill up anyway.
