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Another FTOPS event reaches a $1,500,000 prize-pool. Player “bmf283” wins event #12
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2008-08-12 14:39
The FTOPS is a perpetual source of high stakes online poker excitement. Event # 12, a $1,000+$60 NL Holdem event had no fewer than 1,405 participants, which is truly impressive considering the size of the buy-in.
Big names once again missed out on final table action, one of them though, Phil Gordon, only missed it by a hair.
Event #12 was a short-handed 6 player only one, so the final table only had 6 players and it looked like this: The chip lead was held by Kevin Saul (“GetPWN3d”) with 2,136,044 chips, followed up close by bigtonyk123 with 1,727,844, omalos with 1,080,300, Ram Vaswani with 818,266, Garbally with 702.859 and Ben Fineman (“bmf823”) with 559,687 chips.
Kevin Saul was in great shape going into final table play, and he sure enough managed to build up a loose enough table image to get called down on solid hands. This cost bigtonyk123 his tourney life as he went all in an a J,10 only to be called down by Saul with Q,A. The board gave the latter a pair of Aces and bigtonyk123 was sent packing.
Ram Vaswani got crippled by Ben Fineman on a hand in which he had hoped to trap the latter for all his chips. That hit was enough to set Vaswani up for elimination a few hands later.
He eventually fell to Kevin Saul, when he shoved the last of his chips in on an A,9 against Saul’s K,10. The flop gave Saul a pair of 10s, and that sealed Vaswani’s fate.
Despite the fact that he built up a sizeable chip lead, Kevin Saul would be the one eliminated in 4th place. He got his pocket aces cracked by omalos who held pocket 7s and got another 7 on the river.
Omalos would leave next, in 3rd, at the hands of Ben Fineman who had built up a nice chip-lead by then.
Ben Fineman would eventually go on to eliminate Garbally in heads-up play, when his A,10 bested the latter’s 4,4 on a board of A,3,J,J,5. The first prize was $300,000. Second place man earned $198,000.
