The biggest of the big winners in the latest Full Tilt Online Series of Poker (FTOPS)
The fifth edition of the "Full Tilt Online Poker Series" (aka FTOPS V) came to a big conclusion over the weekend with two $1 million+ tournaments. On Saturday, August 18th, 648 players put up $2,620 each to play in Full Tilt's first two-day FTOPS event. The overall prize pool of $1,620,000 was distributed to the top 63 finishers, with "Grndhg25" finishing on top for a big $396,900 payday (we'd bet that Sunday is a day that this groundhog wouldn't mind reliving). Full Tilt obviously never expected to get so many players, they only put the guarantee at $600,000. But that was only Event #12, the "Main Event" of FTOPS V was...
...Sunday's Event #14, with a $1 million guarantee and a $322 buy-in. That one 4,578 participants vying for a prize fund of $2,289,000. After a little more than 12 hours of play the victory - and $395,905.44 - went to "CrazyZachary".
Congratulations to all of this set of FTOPS winners!
Additional kudos go out to "gregior", the big winner in the "$1K Monday" tournament on August 20th. gregior greatly improved his overall results at FT by finishing atop a field of 316 for a $79,000 first prize.