Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007

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Latest Full Tilt Poker series begins today

Lee Watkinson will host the FTOPS VI main event.

By Sarah Polson

After a Full Tilt Online Poker Series in August that surpassed all expectations, Full Tilt Poker is hosting another round of tournaments for its players. The FTOPS VI begins today with a $200+$16 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Max event at 9 p.m. (EST).

This time around the FTOPS will have 16 events and more than $9 million in guaranteed prize money.

Those guaranteed prize pools include a $2 million guarantee for the main event as well as a $1.5 million guarantee for a two-day No-Limit Hold'em event. There are also two different events with $1 million guaranteed.

Hosting the FTOPS VI main event will be Lee Watkinson, who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2006 and has cashed in several other WSOP events in the past few years.

One of his accomplishments during the 2007 WSOP was making the final table of the Main Event after qualifying for the tournament through Full Tilt Poker.

As the host of the FTOPS VI $500+$31 No-Limit Hold'em main event, he'll be taking to the felt to try for a piece of the $2 million guaranteed prize pool as well.

Hosts for all FTOPS VI events are as follows:

• Event 1: Brad Booth
• Event 2: David Oppenheim
• Event 3: PearlJammed
• Event 4: David Benyamine
• Event 5: Andy Black
• Event 6: John Cernuto
• Event 7: Paul Wolfe
• Event 8: TheWacoKidd
• Event 9: Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
• Event 10: iMsoLucky0
• Event 11: Jennifer Harman
• Event 12: Kenny Tran
• Event 13: John Juanda
• Event 14: Eddy Scharf
• Event 15: Erik Seidel
• Event 16: Lee Watkinson

Not only will they be hosting events, the pros will also be playing in them. During the last series, several pros made it into the money in events including Max Pescatori, Huck Seed, Paul Wasicka, Erick Lindgren, JJ Liu, Clonie Gowen and more.

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