FTOPS XII Week 1 update

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The first seven FTOPS and MiniFTOPS XII events are in the books and it’s been a remarkable start to the series. MiniFTOPS is making it’s debut and destroying expectations with participants and prizepools. The big events are seeing the Full Tilt pros do some serious damage which is a change from the norm.

Leading the pack and making good for all us overindulging, fun loving, gambling oafs, Gavin Smith won FTOPS XII Event #7. He cashed in for over $123,000 in the $100 rebuy event and his first major online tournament win. In the twittered words of the immortal degenerate “wow my firstever online tourny win! kinda sweet!” Congrats Gavin.

Other Full Tilt pros making waves in the first few days: Bruno Steffaneli was the first pro with win a MiniFTOPS event taking down Event #4. Event #5 saw four big names hit it big with Jon “Pearljammed” Turner (3rd), Esther Rossi (12th), Gavin Smith (13th), and David “The Dragon” Pham (19th). Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis continues on his recent heater with a 6th place finish in #3.

Perhaps the player on the biggest heater would be US player “torden” who had one heck of a Friday night/Saturday morning with FTOPS and MiniFTOPS #5. He/she managed quite a feat by not only final tabling both events but bringing home a win in the smaller buyin tournament.

ftops FTOPS XII Week 1 update The MiniFTOPS events have gone well and above the guaranteed prizepool for every event so far. There is plenty of chances for the lower rolled player to score big. MiniFTOPS XII Event #7 for instance was a $10 rebuy tournaments, traditionally an interesting exercise in estimating the pool size, had enough players in buyins alone to go over the guarantee by $7,000 before a single rebuy was purchased. I think MiniFTOPS will go down as one of the best innovations on Full Tilt (trailing as distant second to the much beloved synchronized breaks).

One interesting twist in the FTOPS/MiniFTOPS events was #3. The always popular shootout format drew exactly the same number of entrants in both events. Seems statiscally impropable that both tournaments would have exactly 729 players. Never a dull or boring moment.

Details of the first 7 tournaments after the jump:

1st – masp797 – $55,000
2nd – TheWhtWhale – $35,000
3rd – Alex “AJKHoosier1″ Kamberis – $25,312
4th – sirscoopalot – $20,312
5th – FingerWeg – $15,325
6th – Laleh4ever87 – $11,250
7th – On Tilt 1012 – $7,250
8th – Akaperion – $5,250
9th – hard_mule – $3,750

1st – StefanSchmitz – $15,036
2nd – kobeallst – $9,471
3rd – StefanoC87 – $6,916
4th – alena_magan – $5,187
5th – paradee – $3,608
6th – dyates345 – $2,405
7th – AlvinRobertson – $1,575
8th – Bot-TOX – $1,052
9th – CutUrHeadOff – $751

1st – nypitbull24 – $76,545
2nd – horryclutch – $51,030
3rd – WILLY-RUGS – $36,450
4th – ptopeth – $27,337
5th – nickyluvshu – $20,047
6th – Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis – $14,580
7th – Bhanks11 – $10,206
8th – kudos1017 – $6,925
9th – tiltstars – $4,920

1st – Rounder63 – $7,654
2nd – hwgdf – $5,103
3rd – MookieBlaylock1 – $3,645
4th – udv2005 – $2,733
5th – Mary van King – $2,004
6th – tarkyy – $1,458
7th – dabonz the donk – $1,020
8th – youdo – $692
9th – PokerCzar – $492

1st – Leopard18 – $127,688
2nd – tuna_fish_tank – $81,256
3rd – tuff_fish – $58,765
4th – Dudeoflife – $47,157
5th – alain456 – $35,578
6th – ITrashYou – $26,118
7th – achen – $16,831
8th – Mammola – $12,188
9th – miAmihAns – $8,706

1st – BrunoStefanelli – $37,917
2nd – DeanoDeano – $23,363
3rd – hamir – $16,852
4th – LEEN MACHINE – $11,873
5th – Corona8309 – $8,617
6th – GarethChantler – $5,745
7th – Raganja – $3,830
8th – 76unsoootz – $2,681
9th – RussFallis – $1,915

Other notable finishers: Brian “SN8WMAN” Hawkins (13th), Mark “dipthrong” Herm (14th)

1st – 67ofspades – $24,079
2nd – AK_47_JAZZ – $15,951
3rd – Jon Turner – $11,176
4th – darkknyt – $6,908
5th – torden – $4,267
6th – zoeprincess – $2,946
7th – ThefatFISH – $2,235
8th – Single Malt 111 – $1,524

Other notable finishers: Esther Rossi (12th), Gavin Smith (13th), David Pham (19th)

1st – torden – $6,036
2nd – Two Stroke – $3,955
3rd – Northerngent – $2,739
4th – amyscroggs – $1,769
5th – 1nsane luckbox – $1,185
6th – tHeFlOpSaYsFoLd – $831
7th – softseventeen – $554
8th – MrFnlTbl – $384

1st – michaelsc – $86,000
2nd – Magic_ip – $56,400
3rd – fablaseyne – $40,520
4th – 1Mastermind – $30,800
5th – MarcolinoDK – $22,000
6th – nsinger – $14,000

Other notable finishers: Chris Wolters (18th)

1st – tots2000 – $21,092
2nd – Doc Sands – $13,421
3rd – Mr Papa Assman – $9,389
4th – Black9ines – $7,055
5th – KingGorn – $5,039
6th – First_Talosian – $3,395

1st – Gavin Smith – $123,600
2nd – UVV14 – $81,600
3rd – supercool2mafia – $60,600
4th – Blastergv – $47,400
5th – KRANGU – $35,400
6th – donivan31 – $24,600
7th – TBaller247 – $15,000
8th – p2ryan2003 – $10,200
9th – Yeshaya – $7,200

1st – birdibel – $41,366
2nd – MacChow – $25,306
3rd – Shinerbock83 – $17,863
4th – Chad Eveslage – $12,759
5th – whatever767 – $9,144
6th – ZENFUL – $6,167
7th – templers – $4,253
8th – dontmiss2577 – $2,977
9th – DepositPoint – $2,126

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