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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Final four FTOPS VIII events find winners

Phil Ivey

By Sarah Polson

Another round of Full Tilt Poker's Online Poker Series wrapped up over the weekend with the final four events playing out.

Event 21

First up was Event 21, a two-day No-Limit Hold'em event hosted by Phil Ivey. It turns out 899 players at Full Tilt Poker were willing to put up the $2,500+$120 buy-in to try their luck in Ivey's event.

That boosted the $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool up over $2.2 million. The person who benefited most from that boost was Halfrek, who took down the tournament and a $516,925 top prize.

A few pros made waves in the tournament as well, although they missed out on the final table. Erich Kollman came in 12th. Behind him was PearlJammed in 22nd place, Bruce Buffer in 30th and Thomas Bihl in 63rd.

The final-table results for Event 21 were:

Place Name Prize
1st Halfrek $516,925
2nd JRShaffy $325,887.50
3rd IfHeDiesHeDies $241,606.25
4th philivey567 $185,418.75
5th binrich $140,468.75
6th ckingusc $101,137.50
7th TheStein $67,425
8th lilfishy897 $52,591.50
9th Hoss_TBF $38,207.50

Event 22

Also shuffling up on Saturday was Event 22, the $100+$9 Pot Limit Omaha tournament with rebuys. Hosted by Sigi Stockinger, the event drew 939 players to boost the guaranteed prize pool from $350,000 to $370,200.

Nenad Medic got a piece of that for finishing in 20th place, along with Berry Johnston cashing in 30th place, Ross Boatman in 44th and MrSmokey1 in 58th. The winner, however, was theASHMAN103, taking home an $85,146 prize.

The final-table results for Event 22 were:

Place Name Prize
1st theASHMAN103 $85,146
2nd Frooodo $53,679
3rd callURmum $39,796.50
4th Rollover2k $30,541.50
5th Dr44gzGn0k $23,137.50
6th SplitOpenAndMel $16,659
7th slobadon75 $11,106
8th mcmarkrazz $8,662.68
9th XR8 $6,293.40

Event 23

More than 3,000 Full Tilt Poker players headed back to the virtual felt on Sunday to try their hands at Roland De Wolfe's $240+$16 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max Knockout event. With a $500,000 prize pool on the line, it was elheroe who took down the event to earn $124,020.22.

Pros were pretty scarce in this tournament when it got down to the money. The only pro to cash in the event was David Pham in 235th place.

The Event 23 final-table results were:

Place Name Prize
1st elheroe $124,020.22
2nd Panamatony $78,221.16
3rd MrGreaseFire $53,658.96
4th I R Teh Donk $40,937
5th TheAdam8 $28,970.80
6th princetendee $19,523.80

Main Event

Last, but certainly not least with its $2 million guaranteed prize pool, was the Full Tilt Online Poker Series Main Event hosted by Jennifer Harman. The $500+$35 buy-in event drew 4,750 players looking to score big in this eighth installment of the series.

A few pros made a good run for the big money, with Huck Seed cashing in 282nd place followed by Stuart Paterson, Andy Block, Marco Liesy and Robert Mizrachi further down the cash ranks. It was cheesemonster who ended up taking the biggest piece of the prize pool, which had been boosted up to $2,375,000.

The final-table results were:

Place Name Prize
1st cheesemonster $410,780
2nd MarMoss $249,375
3rd SLmelonman $161,500
4th frostey $125,875
5th Dwarf $95,000
6th R3dL0bster $71,250
7th kiwid10 $54,625
8th awriver $41,562.50
9th strassa2 $30,875

There's still plenty of online poker action to be had at Full Tilt Poker. Head to the poker site to check out the upcoming $25k Heads-Up event as well as the many qualifiers to live events, including the 2008 World Series of Poker.

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