Full Tilt Poker Gets FTOPS XII Event 1 Winner
May 8, 2009
With the massive buzz surrounding the FTOPS tournaments every year, held by Full Tilt Poker.
With the tournament starting this week the first winner of the FTOPS series has been crowned as URBEHIND.
URBEHIND took the FTOPS first event beating Quietwinner to the first place position, winning $191,020 in prize money.
With the tournament carrying a $200 buy in, places were expected to be limited due to the sheer regard that the tournament is held within the online poker community.
The participation numbers for the tournament showed exactly why it was thought that places would be limited with 4,445 players buying into the first event that paid out 492 winning spots.
With the tournament taking a little over 12 hours to complete, the heads up competitors found themselves entering into the final stretch of the event with almost equal chips.
The battle was fought tiredlessly and finally after been able to take 2 million of Quietwinner’s chips, URBEHIND got what he had been waiting for.
With a pair of 3′s in the pocket, Quietwinner moved his 3 million in chips into the pot on his all in call.
URBEHIND thought for a moment and then made the call with king / seven, dealing out a coin flip that could either win the event for URBEHIND or place him into short stack.
As the cards looked to run dry the flop dealt Quietwinner a shattering blow, showing a 7 on the river.
URBEHIND took the victory on a rivered pair of sevens.
Quietwinner won’t be too heart broken though, with $117,000 been paid out to take away some of the pain.
The FTOPS event was only the first of 25 events that will take place in total and if this first event is anything to go by the remaining 24 are definately going to have alot of shocks and excitement.
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