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FTOPS XIV – Mohsin Charania, Craig Bergeron rule
Posted by: James Carter. - Sat, 2009-11-14 10:46
The 14th edition of the
Full Tilt Online Poker Series is back, complete with the usual high prize-pools, scores of Full Tilt pros and six-figure cashes. The 17 events that have thus far been played, awarded no less than $10 million in prizes. The biggest winner of the series so far is “OmadJoped”, who won $300,000 in event #12. Professional players have been busy at work too. Kory Kilpatrick, David Pham and Don Boivin have all etched their names onto the winners’ list. Kilpatrick won $120,000 in event #1, Pham scored $69,570 in event #14 and Boivin took down $114,654 in event #15.
Mohsin Charania, known at the online tables as “chicagocards1”, is so far one of the most successful players of the series. Despite his low number of entries, he’s finished in the money twice. His latest cash came in event #17, where he pocketed a prize of $58,035. He’s recently finished 14th in the
PokerStars World Poker Tour Foxwoods World Poker Finals too, where he took home $36,535.
Craig Bergeron is another player who’s on fire in the FTOPS XIV. So far he’s had no fewer than 4 cash finishes, including a 2nd place in event #16. Known online as “HU4ROLLZ”, Bergeron took home close to $40k on that 2nd place alone.
Bryan Devonshire (his online poker nickname is “badbeatninja”), started the series by reaching the final table of event #1. He came back with a vengeance in event #12 and almost managed to reach the final table again.
Eventually, he finished 13th. Other 6-figure winners were player Kiv56 ($141,771 in event #4), elheroe ($143,827 in event #8), Jakivi ($222,137 in event #10) and gametime1111 ($191,301 in event #17).
With the last big test, the 2-day $2,500 +$120 event drawing near, the eyes of the online poker community are on Amit Makhija, who won this event in the FTOPS X, and who currently boasts a 3rd place finish in event #12. Kevin Saul is another player to follow. He is after all at the top of the all-time FTOPS leader board, and he’s been doing pretty well this time around too.
Steve Gross and Michael Moorman were two other players ho used to do well in the FTOPS, so far though their runs have been fairly disappointing.
