The first entirely eight-or-better tournament of the
Full Tilt Online Poker Series (
FTOPS)
V played out last night with a good deal of success. The $200 buy-in limit Omaha eight-or-better tournament, event No. 8 in the 14-event
FTOPS series, had 1,073 entrants to generate a prize pool of $214,600. The guaranteed prize pool for the event was $150,000, which meant that the tournament beat out its guarantee by more than 43 percent.
Plenty of notable players made it deep in the tournament. Among those in the top 20 were
Jonathan "HoosierAlum" Depa (13th, for $1,459),
Eric "Rizen" Lynch (14th, for $1,459), and Team Full Tilt pro
Chris Ferguson (20th, $815). Of those at the final table, only
muckmehard has had a previous cash in an Online Player of the Year-qualified event. (He finished in seventh place in a Full Tilt $500,000-guaranteed tournament on June 24 this year, for $14,573.)
Muckmehard and Kiajessie were the last two standing in the event, and Kiajessie bested muckmehard in the heads-up match to snag the $48,285 first-place prize. Kiajessie was also awarded an exclusive gold
FTOPS jersey avatar for winning the event.
The final results were:
1) Kiajessie - $48,285
2) muckmehard - $31,117
3) AD_Stars22 - $23,069.50
4) Adar - $17,704.50
5) SDLARRY - $13,412.50
6) Gunslinger3 - $9,657
7) Ditka89 - $6,438
8) cashnotax - $4,828.50
9) bayne_s - $3,433.60
Today's event is a $300 buy-in (with $22 entry fee) shorthanded no-limit hold'em event (with rebuys). The event has a $450,000 guarantee and starts at 9 p.m. ET. Those interested in signing up with Full Tilt to take part in this event or any of the upcoming events in the
FTOPS series can do so by
clicking here.
