FTOPS IX: Successful Start for Full Tilt

Filed in archive Internet Poker on August 9, 2008

The ninth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series is starting off strong three events in the books and a fourth going off right now. All events have made their guarantees including the massive Event #1 $200+$15 No Limit Hold Em' tournament that saw 5,779 players shoot for a tank of gas less then $200,000. The loveable orange cat GARFIELD25 managed to avoid every Odie and Jon on the tables and retain the chip lead for most of the final table clawing out a $199,382.62 payday by winning the first event.

Event #2 was my favorite form of poker, PLO8 (although there are some choice words I have for the poker gods lately). The $240+$16 event had the bonus edition of knockout bounties awarded for each player you stacked. Teledonk phoned in a winning combination good for $51,210 in taking first place.

If you go to the Full Tilt poker's recaps of the events there's a very cool addition to the listing of the money winners. Event #1's final table is commentated by TV poker announcer Ali Nejad along with a video of the big hands from the final nine.