Komijendo Victors at Full Tilt FTOPS XIX Main Event
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Find out who made the final cut at the Full Tilt FTOPS XIX main event, as well as how much money these great player made in 16 hours of play.
The Full Tilt Mini FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) XIX, $70+$5 buy in, main event rounded off the massive Full Tilt series of tournaments with a huge amount of players, intense action and most importantly a massive prize pool . The main event was the culmination of a huge number of tournaments representing almost every poker discipline imaginable. This no limit event was always going to be an showcase of the massive talent playing poker on the Full Tilt software. Although the main event had a guaranteed prize pool of one and a quarter million dollars it was rendered irrelevant by over forty five thousand players creating a prize pool of over three million dollars.
Among the thousands of players participating were some really well known pros and a whole load of hopeful poker players looking for the glory that comes from winning such a prestigious event. The event lasted for an incredible 16 hours of solid poker play that saw its fair share of bad beats, big bluffs and massive showdowns. In the end there was only one player standing, KOMIJENDO negotiated a deal with Demon1531 to gain a huge $400,000 addition to his bankroll as well as the prestige of winning the FTOPS XIX main event. Demon1531 can surely hold his head up high for rarely does coming second in a tournament ensure a prize pay out almost as high as that taken by the winner, with $361,000 in his pocket he has done very well indeed.
It wasnt just about the top 2 finishers though, manu_litas finished third after a great performance to take away $209,000. The fourth place finisher was Tschmidt who won himself the princely sum of $148,000 with luckbox168 coming fifth and taking $109,000 for his efforts. There were a fair share of pros taking part in the tournament, big names include Nick Maimone who was knocked out in 22nd place and Jonathan Fatal Error Aguair who made it as far as 39th place before getting knocked out by the classic AA versus KK all in.
After an astonishingly successful season of tournaments Full Tilt have already announced the calendar for the FTOPS XX events. The action packed schedule is likely to attract even more players than the 2011 series owing to the high level of competitors and the amount of hype so much action and so much cash has elicited from fish and sharks alike.
