FTOPS XIII Sunday (replacing Big Money Sunday)

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$3,138,800

That’s how much prize money was available over 3 tournaments on Sunday alone with the latest FTOPS putting another temporary hold on the normal Big Money Sunday events. With the promise of $2,750,000 already out there in the form of guaranteed money, I knew it would be one of the biggest days of the year.

Thinking Sunday would be I decided to run away early in the weekend to spend a little family time. Little did I know I should make myself available in the early morning hours of Saturday when a big gun would make a run at an FTOPS title. 544 players put down there money for some Friday night Seven Card Stud action reaffirming my belief that I could prepare myself for the long weekend. Then I started getting twitter updates from Andy Bloch.

“Chip leader at final table of FTOPS #4, 7 card stud, on Full Tilt Poker.” – Andy_Bloch (we will just go ahead and ignore the fact it was actually Event #5. It was pretty late at the timeaf all.)

Naturally I soon found myself firing up the idle laptop to rail the charter member of Team Full Tilt. Watching Stud tournaments live is only slightly less dry than watching online only because I have other distractions around me. Bloch battled through the final table but came one spot short of taking down a FTOPS title for the team. I wonder if his custom avatar would have been fitted with the customary FTOPS jersey.

He continued his hot run, as well as my streak of sleep deprivation, when he went on a heater during Event #10. He hit a few big hands, made some good moves, then found some amazingly interesting players who were willing to throw chips into his stack drawing nearly dead. I took a quick 60 minutes nap around 2:30am waking in time to watch him crash out in 42nd. He outlasted the majorirty of the 5,660 players in the biggest tournament of the night.

Speaking of avatars, it was great to see newly added team member James Akenhead playing this weekend. The 2009 November Nine participant had his first cash during FTOPS XIII but I am hoping he gets his custom avatar soon. He’s rocking the puppy pic at the moment which doesn’t quite convey his status as one of the best young players in the world.

Other making noise on Sunday were Scott Clements who made into the 7th round of the Heads Up event and Isaac Baron with a final table finish in the 6-max KO event which replaced the Sunday Brawl. Both players also cashed in the $1.5Million Guarantee Event #$10.

All told it was a very successful night and weekend for the members of Team Full Tilt with 14 cashes and two final tables. They continue to rack up the money but waiting for the first victory. The Red Letter pro leaderboard as well as results from Events 4 through 10 after the jump. Comments and questions always welcome.

On a humorous side note, while Andy Bloch was playing this weekend I jokingly asked for someone to grab a picture of him while playing in the FTOPS events. He replied on his own, his expression of confusement (made up word for confused amusement) at some of the more “interesting” plays. Watch a few events and you’ll see of what we speak.

Here is your completely unofficial Full Tilt red letter pro leaderboard (number of cashes in parenthesis). Cardrunner Isaac Baron’s big day jumped him to the top with 3 cashes and $28,761.82 in tournament earnings during FTOPS XIII. Scott Clement’s two big cashes yesterday pushed him over $10,000 for the series.

1 – Isaac Baron – $28,761.82 (3)
2 – Andy Bloch – $20,477.60 (2)
3 – Scott Clements – $10,135.63 (3)
4 – Johan Storakers – $4,914.70 (1)
5 – Soren Kongsgaard – $2,290.75 (1)
6 – David Pham – $2,119.95 (2)
7 – Svetlana Gromenkova – $1,954.98 (3)
8 – Jon Turner – $1,952.70 (1)
9 – Christian Kruel – $1,658.46 (3)
10 – Leandro Brasa – $1,253.34 (1)
11 – Artie Cobb – $1,185.24 (2)
12 – Eddy Scharf – $1,151.71 (1)
13 – Eric Froehlich – $1,151.71 (1)
14 – Scott Fischman – $961.05 (2)
15 – Ryan Daut – $947.38 (1)
16 – James Akenhead – $849.00 (1)
17 – Jeremiah Smith – $826.63 (1)
18 – “TheWacoKid” Hamby – $800.74 (1)
19 – Stuart Paterson – $696.18 (1)
20 – Peter “Nordberg” Feldman – $572.64 (1)
21 – Alan Boston – $544.00 (1)
22 – Roy Winston – $509.40 (1)
23 – Thomas Bihl – $434.40 (1)
24 – Brandon Adams – $388.42 (1)
25 – Eli Elezra – $388.41 (1)
26 – Kelly Kim – $380.81 (1)

Places 1st through 3rd played “let’s make a deal“:

1st – TwistedEcho – $102,382.28
2nd – YesImaHick – $103,811.37
3rd – ELMO_Mask – $100,895.15
4th – kautabjo – $54,352.00
5th – OJ Limpsin – $40,764.00
6th – Gator93 – $29,241.20
7th – professor plum – $19,023.20
8th – KaPanY3 – $13,588.00
9th – My Brim Low – $9,511.60

1st – Xsoprean- $25,785.60
2nd – Andy Bloch – $17,081.60
3rd – I Intent – $11,968.00
4th – electron78 – $7,398.40
5th – The Quietwinner – $4,569.60
6th – bobboufl11 – $3,155.20
7th – fishhawker – $2,393.60
8th – PPLL99 – $1,632.00

Places 1st and 2nd played “let’s make a deal“:

1st – Smouse156 – $76,232.75
2nd – zelik – $71,000.00
3rd – countrymac – $41,650.00
4th – thewood503 – $31,654.00
5th – NoPasaran – $22,491.00
6th – blend84 – $14,369.28

Places 1st and 2nd played “let’s make a deal“:

1st – guilhermosa – $126,632.27
2nd – mralan2950 – $107,289.72
3rd – blackjack9 – $68,237.40
4th – hmiester – $51,526.20
5th – g0lfa – $36,207.60
6th – BeanzMcGriff – $23,674.20
7th – 37ofhearts – $16,014.90
8th – pracaka – $11,140.80
9th – SteveyMoney – $8,355.60

1st – mikeyG16 – $177,419.38
2nd – Capax Infinti – $108,669.60
3rd – animalcraka – $75,418.56
4th – bob2bob – $55,728.00
5th – pokermatt01 – $40,867.20
6th – Isaac Baron – $27,864.00

Places 1st and 2nd played “let’s make a deal“:

1st – NNNobodYYY – $72,721.09
2nd – MrsESPN – $69,614.91
3rd – GeoffRas22 – $27,136.00
4th – elymint – $27,136.00
5th – Donkey Balboa – $14,336.00
6th – DDBeast – $14,336.00
7th – SakiSaki – $14,336.00
8th – AJKHoosier1 – $14,336.00

Places 1st through 4th played “let’s make a deal“:

1st – t1ger heat – $189,318.58
2nd – conslice – $219,772.04
3rd – POSITIV_NEGATIV – $160,330.60
4th – BacoPride – $176,000.78
5th – tiltslowplayer – $81,419.10
6th – mrob00 – $56,034.00
7th – CWTREFEREE04 – $36,507.00
8th – Mike Daciuk – $25,470.00
9th – HevvyDevvy – $17,829.00