FTOPS XIV Wrap Up

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Sunday brought to close another successful FTOPS with 25 more events and over $18,000,000 dished out among the players. We had some big score by the top online and professional poker players such as David “The Dragon” Pham, Steven “UFman2″ Burkholder, Brian “badbeatninja” Devonshire and Thayer “THAY3R” Rassmussen. Brad “bd3109″ Albrinck came out of nowhere to claim the top of the FTOPS XIV leaderboard with one title and a runner-up result in back-to-back days (Event #16 and 18) collecting nearly $100,000. Gary Jones was your big money winner amongst the Full Tilt pros when he banked $193,462 with his 4th place finish in the $2,500 Two Day Event.

The series started off with a little controversy in Event #1 when the players decided to not pay attention when making a deal at the table. If you want to know what happened, feel free to check out the Full Tilt forums. Yesterday concluded the series by paying out $6,487,7000 across four huge tournaments and awarding 13 players with paydays in the six digit range. There were actually four events this series which fell just short of the guarantee which meant that Full Tilt kicked in an extra $200,000 to the players in the form of overlays bringing the final prizepool payout to $18,153,100 across the 25 events.

I spent most of the series sitting in Las Vegas covering the November Nine but that didn’t mean I wasn’t keeping an eye on the biggest set of online tournaments running at the same time. After spending my days with the live players I would return to see what I missed, or what was still going on after one particularly long day. I asked fellow blogger Brad Utz to help me out and here are some of things we witnessed. You can find the final table results of all events after the jump.

- Full Tilt pros have a tough time breaking through to win these major events. Before this series only Erick Lindgren, Berry Johnston, and Gavin Smith were able to accomplish that feat with Smith and Johnston doing it last series. FTOPS XIV saw two more red letter pros score victories with David “The Dragon” Pham and Greg “FBT” Mueller. Pham had several prior FTOPS final tables to his credit but no joy until Event #14. Mueller’s victory was previous documented as he joined Erick Lindgren as the only Full Tilt pros to actually capture a victory in the event they were “hosting”.

- Coming into FTOPS XIV there were only 10 players who have won multiple events across the near 240 tournaments prior to this series. csimmus and Yuvee “yuvee04″ Bronshtein lead the way with 3 FTOPS titles. This series added three more to that list with Steven “UFman2″ Burkholder, Deception Pt, and elheroe all earning their second “golden jersey”. Event #5 was the FTOPS stacked table of the series with three previous winner with Burkholder almost adding another, “yuvee04″ going for his FOURTH, and it was here that Deception Pt picked up his second. There were actually quite a few former winners who came close to adding another this series including Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire, David “Doc Sands”, and lilkimmer77 who all made final tables.

Live poker update: While finishing up this post I found out that “yuvee04″ just took down the H.O.R.S.E. event at the L.A. Poker Open. Congrats to a friend of the blog!

- Miscellaneous numbers from FTOPS XIV:

Number of events: 25
Guarantee Prizepool: $16,000,000
Actual Prizepool: $18,153,100
Largest Prizepool: $2,735,500 (Main Event)
Smallest Prizepool: $111,000 (Stud Hi/Lo)
Overlay (4 events): $221,300
Number of players: 54,823
Players with over $100,000 payout: 30 (thirty!)
Largest Payout: $539,350.00 (obiedman)
Largest FTP pro Payout: $193,462.50 (Gary Jones)
Total FTP pro cash (#): 79
Total FTP pro cash ($): $481,343.36

- I’m not sure anyone who hasn’t witnessed millions of online hands can appreciate some of the complete insanity the follows along with the big names on the site or when the tournaments get down to just a few tables. The regular Big Money Sunday events are crazy enough but FTOPS brings out the top shelf. The beggars are still there but practically drowned out by every nutball that’s ever posted on a forum or played a $1 SnG offering up their opinions on every move. It’s almost priceless when they start fighting amongst themselves. When the railbirds start challenge to play any for any stakes, it’s pure comedy. That’s why Craig “HU4ROLLZ” Bergeron has one of my favorite screennames. In a moment of weakness I decided to start a Railbird Hall of Shame Fame. I witnessed the following names on the rail who will join our inaugural class with nh83012001 getting special honors for challenging everyone “ill play you in any game any stakes”. It seems his apostrophe key was stuck that day also.

Your FTOPS XIV Railbird inductees, be sure to congratulate them:

chuckie247: you think im a fish, yet im the one in profit…
(ragging the rail, while on the rail)
Joey1029: go cry to your mom kid.
(overused the word “kid” when abusing)
nh83012001:ill play you in any game any stakes
(we have a winner!)
xMONSTERxDONGx: u guys dont know what ur talking about
(no-it-alls annoy me on the last day)
i8aNET15: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
(with a incredibly impolite message to “FBT” Mueller)

I’m always looking for something amusing on the rail, feel free to pass anything along if you see something worthy of notice.

After the jump you can find the results for all FTOPS final tables and other notables. You can also find the complete unofficial Full Tilt Poker Red Letter Pro Challenge.

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1st through 4th made a deal:

1st – s00tedj0kers89 – $120,000
2nd – Kevin “kev19 Tanner – $115,000
3rd – taaffey – $80,000
4th – nolez7 – $98,600
5th – Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire- $37,000
6th – Andicover – $23,000

Notables: Danny “The__D__RY” Ryan (54th), David “The Dragon” Pham (124th), Steven “UFman2″ Burkholder (134th)

1st – RymesWOrange – $35,782.60
2nd – Stephen “St3phenHendry” Hendry – $23,464.00
3rd – Randers – $16,760.00
4th – 7PRS – $12,737.60
5th – jnksauser – $9,050.40
6th – real-nic – $5,782.20

Notables: RNallin (14th), Scott Fischman (36th)

1st – chrispeace – $76,545.00
2nd – JonEeeWhite – $51,030.00
3rd – Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen – $36,450.00
4th – bastet2004 – $27,337.50
5th – buck99 – $20,047.50
6th – MuckCMuckC – $14,580.00
7th – GnightMoon – $10,206.00
8th – jt3013 – $6,925.00
9th – Laurrra – $4,920.75

Notables: VaShon “Julian Verse” Watkins (21st), Tuan “SuperTuan1″ Nguyen (39th)

1st – Kiv56 – $141,771.00
2nd – archwatcher – $89,678.40
3rd – Ballzdeepx – $66,599.40
4th – ProbBluffingYou – $52,752.00
5th – David “Doc Sands” – $39,564.00
6th – nomaddman – $28,354.20
7th – YrrsiN – $18,463.20
8th – Cowboy3362 – $13,188.00
9th – GoCubsGo969 – $9,231.60

Notables: Chris “boNeZee” Bonita (28th), Shaun “tedsfishfry” Deeb (39th), Ram Vaswani (44th), Alex “AJKHoosier1″ Kamberis (61st)Aaron Bartley (70th), Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen (83rd), Danny “The__D__RY” Ryan (105th), Steven “UFman2″ Burkholder (137th)

1st through 3rd made a deal -

1st – Deception Pt – $20,625.55
2nd – WB123456789 – $17,344.26
3rd – kobeallst – $17,974.19
4th – Steven “UFMan2″ Burkholder – $7,548.00
5th – dannymien – $4,662.00
6th – Shawn “Shawnzjones” Grant – $3,219.00
7th – Yuvee “yuvee04″ Bronshtein – $2,442.00
8th – pinishe45- $1,665.00

Notables: Ryan “HITTHEPANDA” Franklin (21st), Artie Cobb (44th)

1st – Auspicious – $79,872.50
2nd – MLH90 – $52,381.50
3rd – fuhrmanp1 – $37,632.95
4th – ihorKIM – $28,605.50
5th – JROBB – $20,432.50
6th – BADBOYNEL – $13,002.50

Notables: Thomas Bihl (67th)

1st through 4th made a deal:

1st – Toms2up – $98,674.77
2nd – Bbuddy4brkfst – $79,000.00
3rd – chessazhole1 – $97,737.42
4th – VeryEuropean – $64,000.00
5th – Chezebby – $34,746.40
6th – YanaSchv – $22,718.80
7th – thechad78 – $15,368.60
8th – AKTRE – $10,691.20
9th – crouts – $8,018.40

Notables: Stuart Paterson (34th), Marco Liesy (36th), David “GhettoFabolous” Randall (50th), Chris “Moormanl” Moorman (105th), Joe “JBlaze20″ Chaplin (141st)

1st and 2nd made a deal:

1st – elheroe – $143,827.82
2nd – nrivanakc – $141,953.14
3rd – Egitai – $75,337.36
4th – lolli82 – $55,668.00
5th – yeza – $40,823.20
6th – LilPokerGirlie – $27,834.00

Notables: Michael Tureniec (38th), Shaun “tedsfishfry” Deeb (47th)

1st – willb77 – $89,088.00
2nd – cczzarr – $53,248.00
3rd – biftaraf – $27,136.00
4th – DuckU – $27,136.00
5th – glogow – $14,336.00
6th – whatariver1 – $14,336.00
7th – Joe “JBlaze20″ Chaplin – $14,336.00
8th – KevboyStar – $14,336.00

Notables: Brian Hastings (38th), Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers (65th), Jeff Madsen (81st)

1st and 2nd made a deal:

1st – Jakivi – $222,137.99
2nd – rakeinfools – $228,000.01
3rd – KAFFEPUNCH – $131,937.00
4th – rjmgrace – $99,340.80
5th – LucaG – $74,427.99
6th – Jeff1515 – $51,222.60
7th – lilkimmer77 – $33,372.30
8th – harliee – $23,283.00
9th – bryn2 – $16,298.10

Notables: Aaron Bartley (21st), Kevin “GETPWN3D” Saul (36th), Simon “tedlogan19″ Charette (43rd), Somyung Sim (48th), Nick “FU_15″ Maimone (79th), Lee Watkinson (107th)

1st and 2nd made a deal:

1st – legblch – $42,767.12
2nd – Julian Gardner – $41,760.88
3rd – Zuludogg – $23,773.50
4th – Pointer2 – $19,077.50
5th – Beef_Curtains – $14,393.24
6th – dfunks222 – $10,566.00
7th – JoeSewok – $6,809.20
8th – rover454 – $4,930.80
9th – ILoveClOCKS – $3,522.00

Notables: Roy Winston (14th), Karina Jett (58th), Chris “Moormanl” Moorman (74th)

1st – OmaJoped – $300,000
2nd – neverbluff67 – $198,000
3rd – amak316 – $138,300
4th – Shannon “BLUFFforRENT” Shorr – $105,000
5th – Dan “Wretchy” Martin – $72,750
6th – hikkespett – $49,500

Notables: Kevin “GETPWN3D” Saul (8th), Peter “Nordberg” Feldman (9th), Brian “badbeatninja” Devonshire (13th), Matt “NoBadBeatsPlz” Kay (34th), Chris “boNeZee” Bonita (95th)

1st – AbdullahOchalan – $54,486.00
2nd – Steve Zolotow – $34,810.50
3rd – endzeit – $22,702.50
4th – MSUsWorst – $15,740,40
5th – CTAPblU KA3EJI – $10,594.50
6th – aiMfoRtheEheAd – $7,264.80

Notables: Austin “The Quietwinner” McCormick (28th), Ram Vaswani (38th), Peter “Nordberg” Feldman (101st)

1st – David “The Dragon” Pham – $69,570
2nd – rumprammer – $45,750
3rd – Smokinokun – $31,800
4th – Zack “Zacpacker” Fellows – $20,400
5th – POCKET FIVE – $12,600
6th – Grippolio – $8,700
7th – FatsoFat6969 – $6,600
8th – nuttynutt – $4,500

Notables: Justin “Boosted J” Smith (11th), Brandon Adams (17th), Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen (19th), Josh “pbdrunks” VanDuyn (28th), Marco Traniello (29th), David “Doc Sands” (38th), Yuvee “yuvee04″ Bronshtein (40th)

1st – charder30fanobv – $114,654.40
2nd – skinijimi – $73,988.80
3rd – bobboufl11 – $54,785.60
4th – fan4mizzou – $41,230.40
5th – brin1285 – $28,804.80
6th – DE KID – $19,203.20
7th – FresnoDull – $12,990.40
8th – Big Bear Hills – $9,036.80
9th – overbe777 – $6,777.60

Notables: Mario “Pwnasaurus” Silvestri (11th), Dan “USCswimmer” White (90th), Simon “tedlogan19″ Charette (104th)

1st – Brad “bd3109″ Albrinck – $35,036.41
2nd – Craig “HU4ROLLZ” Bergeron – $39,538.75
3rd – Hudzzzzz – $32,962.70
4th – Andrew “bigpimping777″ Malott – $38,828.64
5th – icecreamboy – $16,538.74
6th – charly3005 – $12,141.00
7th – roo_400 – $7,824.20
8th – JollyJoker1971 – $5,665.80
9th – acehole60 – $4,047.00

Sigi Stockinger (22nd), Ross Boatman (39th)

1st and 2nd made a deal:

1st – gametime1111 – $191,301.00
2nd – ambiguosity – $189,211.50
3rd – driverseati – $10,8405.00
4th – MichahJ – $81,030.00
5th – chicagocards1 – $58,035.00
6th – rumprammer – $37,230.00

Alex “AJKHoosier1″ Kamberis (16th), Craig “HU4ROLLZ” Bergeron (33rd), Brent “Bhanks11″ Hanks (36th), Mario “Pwnasaurus” Silvestri (40th), Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger (44th), Halfrek (60th), Isaac Baron (64th), Martin Klaeser (71st), Kevin “GetPWN3D” Saul (76th), Danny “The__D__RY” Ryan (86th), Dan “Wretchy” Martin (91st), Beth Shak (102nd), Lee “acumen53″ Childs (112th)

1st and 2nd made a deal:

1st – m_hawk_1 – $32,793.63
2nd – Brad “bd3109″ Albrinck – $30,271.17
3rd – MagicGog – $18,624.40
4th – MarleyGroup – $14,567.60
5th – HustlerGrune – $10,879.60
6th – Insky_Bros – $7,560.40
7th – Hyperbaric – $4,610.00
8th – fnnwizard – $3,134.80
9th – Nesby – $2,212.80

Danny “The__D__RY” Ryan (46th), Matt “All In At 420″ Stout (68th)

1st – Greg “FBT” Mueller – $36,081.50
2nd – James “P0KERPR0″ Campbell – $23,660.00
3rd – Vito Roma – $16,900.00
4th – Sect6G – $12,844.00
5th – OmadJoped – $9,126.00
6th – SENORSCOOP – $5,830.50

Ryan “ryanbluf” Karp (43rd)

1st and 2nd made a deal:

1st – Steven “UFman2″ Burkholder – $102,240.40
2nd – SaulGood – $85,000.00
3rd – SmokeChoke – $54,378.20
4th – TIGR778 – $40,923.80
5th – David “muckducks” Cairns – $28,590.60
6th – LuckyLukeKK – $19,060.40
7th – 007-2053 – $12,893.80
8th – S_Dot111 – $8,969.60
9th – Tarsis – $6,727.20

Johan Brolenius (45th), Michael “michaelsc” Schwartz (39th), Simon “tedlogan19″ Charette (97th)

1st through 5th made a deal:

1st – BaDnEwS216 – $18,060.17
2nd – fulltiltok – $19,217.17
3rd – NES_Pro – $17,277.09
4th – Moleon – $19,240.48
5th – Sensor – $16,655.09
6th – Gator93 – $5,400.00

“Miami” John Cernuto (11th), Luis Velador 7 (17th), Yuvee “yuvee04″ Bronshtein (19th), Thomas Bihl (45th), Chris Ferguson (47th), Dutch “Dutchalicious” Boyd (50th)

1st – obiedman – $539,350.00
2nd – Supa4real – $340,025.00
3rd – Timvd20 – $252,087.50
4th – Gary Jones – $193,462.50
5th – the_real_magic – $146,562.50
6th – TheAlligatorNo1 – $105,525.00
7th – Ahvall – $70,350.00
8th – DanOBrien – $54,873.00
9th – Rabbit_hunterSA – $39,865.00

Jake “psutennis11″ Toole (15th), Shannon “BLUFFforRENT” Shorr (40th), Dan “Wretchy” Martin (56th), Shawn “jordankickz” Busse (67th), Ryan “ryanbluf” Karp (77th), Taylor Caby (78th), David “Doc Sands” (87th)

1st – Genius28 – $93,302.00
2nd – Snake8484 – $59,374.00
3rd – aviator0925 – $42,940.13
4th – krazylouie – $34,458.13
5th – bearbuck – $25,997.33
6th – portblair – $19,084.50
7th – borromias – $12,298.90
8th – TheBjerre – $8,906.10
9th – BigDawg427 – $6,361.50

Vitaly Lunkin (10th), Justin Smith (40th), Julian Gardner (48th), Kevin “GetPWN3D” Saul, Mario “Pwnasaurus” Silvestri (72nd), Trond Eidsvig (76th), Brian “badbeatninja” Devonshire (83rd), Craig “HU4ROLLZ” Bergeron (92nd), Jon “Pearljammer” Turner (93rd), Erica Schoenberg (94th), Shaun “tedsfishfry” Deeb (96th)

1st throught 3rd made a deal:

1st – little chief17 – $125,959.96
2nd – cristinalindley – $106,460.01
3rd – SNG Ninja – $95,968.83
4th – Dinhjo – $52,306.24
5th – Alcatraz27278 – $38,344.80
6th – bethwolf22 – $27,529.60
7th – BikStik8585 – $19,664.00
8th – boltsva – $14,059.76
9th – Al-Extrem1 – $9,940.15

Scott “kickyourace” Neuman (56th)

1st through 3rd made a deal:

1st – zhivago2 – $418,839.16
2nd – Itstime2Win – $316,554.40
3rd – Adam Junglen – $290418.94
4th – dfunks222 – $175,072.00
5th – kinheim – $131,167.23
6th – bankrollme – $90,271.50
7th – nuts7878 – $58,813.25
8th – Valuechecking – $41,032.50
9th – Dr Fill Good – $28,722.75

Here’s how your favorite Full Tilt pros made out:

	Player	# Cash	$Cash

1	Gary Jones	2	$194,283.15
2	David “The Dragon” Pham	2	$70,780.40
3	Julian Gardner	2	$42,736.31
4	Greg “FBT” Mueller	1	$36,081.50
5	Steve Zolotow	1	$34,810.50
6	Peter “Nordberg” Feldman	3	$21,300.81
7	Aaron Bartley	3	$5,732.37
8	Taylor Caby	1	$4,690.00
9	Thomas Bihl	4	$4,360.18
10	Justin Smith	2	$4,252.66
11	Vitaly Lunkin	1	$3,604.85
12	Brandon Adams	2	$3,281.55
13	Ram Vaswani	3	$3,169.76
14	Josh Arieh	2	$2,726.10
15	Jon “Pearljammer” Turner	2	$2,586.15
16	Isaac Baron	1	$2,518.50
17	Martin Klaeser	2	$2,484.96
18	Somyung Sim	1	$2,328.30
19	Michael Tureniec	1	$2,124.66
20	Johan Brolenius	2	$2,075.94
21	Brian Hastings	1	$2,048.00
22	“Miami” John Cernuto	1	$2,025.00
23	Jeff Madsen	2	$1,954.07
24	Luis Velador 7	2	$1,884.58
25	Beth Shak	1	$1,861.50
26	Marco Traniello	1	$1,860.00
27	Marco Liesy	1	$1,737.32
28	Stuart Paterson	1	$1,737.32
29	Roy Winston	1	$1,455.76
30	Dave Colclough	1	$1,367.75
31	Lee Watkinson	1	$1,319.37
32	Sigi Stockinger	2	$1,318.23
33	Scott Fischman	2	$1,110.30
34	Steve Yea	1	$1,024.00
35	Chip Jett	1	$1,008.93
36	Erica Schoenberg	2	$1,000.38
37	Huck Seed	2	$898.81
38	Soren Kongsgaard	1	$820.65
39	David Chui	2	$790.38
40	Michael Craig	1	$776.10
41	Bill Gazes	1	$701.61
42	Ross Boatman	1	$701.48
43	Trond Eidsvig	1	$699.76
44	Yongsuk Chang	1	$640.00
45	Artie Cobb	1	$610.50
46	Billy The Croc	1	$564.80
47	Christian Kruel	1	$500.00
48	Karina Jett	1	$481.34
49	Maxi Mueller	1	$480.08
50	Hans Vogt	1	$465.66
51	Berry Johnston	1	$423.60
52	Daniele Mazzia	1	$417.51
53	Ali Sarkeshik	1	$377.72
54	Chris Wolters	1	$352.20