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#663 – FTOPS XI Buzz
We’re about 10 minutes before the first event of FTOPS XI as I write this.
It was a couple Wednesdays ago that I won the $69 + $6 NLHE $40,000 Guarantee. The field seemed especially large that day, about 800. Today, there were 866 in the field as online tournament players swelled in anticipation of the first FTOPS event.
The surge is coming. The $150 + $13 NLHE $65,000 Guarantee, which started an hour before tonight’s FTOPS, drew over 1,000 starters, for a prize pool exceeding $150,000. At T-minus-14 minutes, Event #1, $200 + $16 NLHE hosted by Howard “Bub” Lederer, crossed the 5,000 threshhold and surpassed its $1 million guarantee.
On a Wednesday night.
Imagine how many people would be playing if poker wasn’t a passing fad.
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