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Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS XVII – in hindsight
Posted by: Randy Williams - Wed, 2010-08-18 04:06
The 17th edition of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS is in the books, and as always, it has yielded a bunch of heroes, zeros and weirdos and that’s ok, because that’s exactly what we like to see. Poker pros and amateurs have battled it out during this series, and there were plenty of overachievers on both sides.
Quite probably the best red Full Tilt pro to take part in the hostilities, was Brandon Adams. Adams won the $200 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo event, confirming his status as one of the best Omaha Hi/Lo players. The win made him the only red
Full Tilt Poker pro to win a FTOPS event this time around. Having made a final table, Chris Ferguson also came close, and so did Jeff Madsen.
The
best poker tournament player award will have to go to a cash game player. Brent Roberts had already secured titles in WCOOP, FTOPS and SCOOP tournaments, but he one-upped himself by taking down a second FTOPS title in event #1, the
NL Holdem poker tournament in which he bested a starting field of 4,590 players on his way to a $164,357 prize.
Roberts wasn’t the only one to secure his second career FTOPS win though. Altogether, there were 3 more players who picked up their second jersey: Mark Radoja, Mickey Petersen and Mike Chappus.
As always, the FTOPS has seen some weird twists too. A player appropriately named FTOPS XVII HERO, made a deep run in Event #3, to finish 6th and to pick up a $9,331 prize. This guy had probably just created his Full Tilt account before the FTOPS kicked off and he sure enough showed quite a bit of confidence to call himself that, knowing that he may not end up anywhere close to the money in any of the events.
