Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
It’s been a busy week here at Full Tilt Poker, with our pros (now hovering somewhere around the 2,000 mark) winning about one out of every four World Series events. I’ve been handed the monumental task of taking over for Big Donkey this week, as he’s busy taking care of press releases for each of WSOP winners from the weekend, so let’s hope I don’t screw this one up too badly. Without further ado, let’s get this party started:
WSOP by the numbers…
Through 26 events at this year’s World Series of Poker, our 5,000 Full Tilt Poker pros have won seven brand new shiny gold bracelets, 27 of our pros have made final tables, and all together our pros have earned more than $6 million in prize money. Yes, its official, Full Tilt Poker rules the world! And I’m not getting paid to say that (well, actually I am, but my pay has been downgraded from the Peso to the Thai Baht, so I’ve got that going for me).
I’m predicting right now that by the end of the Series we’ll have won 73 bracelets, had at least 3,000 of our pros make final tables, and earned at least $50 million in prize money (which, non-coincidentally, is about 1.6 billion Thai Baht − or about enough money to buy a condo in North Hollywood). One more prediction: by the end of the Series, Full Tilt Poker will be home to at least 10,000 of the world’s finest poker players. That’s right, you heard it here first.
Congratulations on winning a bracelet, next stop Disneyland?
A hearty round of congrats are in order for three of our pros from this past weekend, as Jens Voertmann, Max Pescatori and Kenny Tran all won themselves one of those shiny bracelet thingies. Hooray for everyone!
Jens won his first bracelet in Event #22, the $3K HORSE donkament. Voertmann managed to fight his way through a star-studded final table, including Team Full Tilter Jen Harman and Full Tilt Poker pro Steve Zolotow, and take home nearly $300K for his first-place finish. Max “The Italian Pirate” Pescatori won his second career bracelet by besting a field of 457 players in Event #24, the $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold ‘em/Omaha tourney. This was another tough final table which included Allen “Clever Piggy” Cunningham, but it was “The Italian Pirate” for the win and just under $250K in prize money. Last but most certainly not least, we had Kenny “The Man” Tran taking down Event #25, the $10K No-Limit Hold ‘em Heads-Up Championship. Tran took down eight consecutive heads-up matches to claim the top prize of just over $539K, besting Alec Torelli in the final match for his first ever bracelet.
And now for something completely different…
Just a quick round-up of other Tilt related happenings:
Full Tilt Poker awarded 150 seats to this year’s Main Event yesterday − hooray for us! If you still dream of hitting the big time and making your way to the Big Dance, we’re running our final WSOP qualifiers over the next week or so – get all the details here.
The MSOP is still running and I’m still losing all of my money chasing that oh-so elusive winner’s watch. My bankroll is so decimated at this point that I have to satellite into even the smaller buy-in events. The lesson here is that playing a large donkament while shotgunning beer after beer might not be the best idea…
And finally, for those of you who haven’t heard yet, newly minted Team Full Tilter and uber-hunk Patrik Antonius has issued a challenge to all the high-stakes online players out there that he’s ready to start kicking ass and taking names. So if you’re feeling frisky and would like to donate some money to the Antonius fund, he’s waiting for you on the site even as we speak.
Hopefully Big Donkey will be back next week to bring you up to speed on all things Tilt (and save me from this horrible indignity). If not, don’t say I didn’t warn you…
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