Tournament coverage: FTOPS $2.500 event

• Author: Andrew
• Filed under: Erich Kollman, FTOPS, High Stakes News, Online poker, Poker, Tony G, Uncategorized, hAAydon
• Date: Aug 19,2008

Full Tilt’s $2.500 buy-in tournament was a very popular event with 942 players taking it to the virtual felt to compete in the 2 day event.

Only 3 red pros cashed in the star filled field with Kristy Gazes cashing in 81st place for $4.7k, David Benyamine in a well respected 63rd place for $5.6k and Erich Kollmann bubbled the final table for $22.3k after playing most of the second day as a short stack. Erich also finished in the top 20 in last years 2 day event.

Triathlon4 was the chip leader at the start of the final table and used his chips well, as continuous re-raises forced opponents to fold and he quickly built up an even bigger chiplead.

ClockWyze was the first player out when he was trapped by Bootysmooth’s Queens. Clockwyze’s A3 didn’t improve much and he was out with a cool $40k.

Moments later Tony G crippled Yeshaya when he hit the nut straight on the turn with 78. Yeshaya moved all in shortly afterwards with A4os and was called by BootySmooth’s pocket 3s. The flop of KK3 means that Yeshaya was drawing very thin and was out moments later - taking home $55k.

TheMightyZep was the next player out in a blind vs. blind battle. The big stack hAAydon moved all-in from the small blind with KQ-offsuit only for the big blind to call with 88. The 3rd casualty left with a healthy $70k.

Big action with big hands:

Tony G then finished in 6th place for $105k when his A9spades wasn’t enough for his opponents pocket tens.

BootySmooth was the next casualty as his 88 was no match for his opponents KK on a 6 high flop, taking home $147k in the process.

Sebbau was the next one to hit the rail as he called an all in with A10-offsuit, which was easily dominated by his opponents AK, which hit Broadway on the turn!

After Sebbau was out there was lot of talk about a deal, but the play resumed promptly.

hAAydon lost his chip lead when he pulled off a massive 1.5million chip bluff on his opponent, who was literally holding the nuts.

KnickAdam55 chips away at his opponents, up to 3 million in chips. Then he loses the biggest pot of the tournament so far:

Finally a tournament director arrived and they started to talk about a split.

The players agreed to split it:

hAAydon: $380k ( 1,767,780)

knickadam55: $370k (1,648,745)

triathlon4: $350k (1,293,475)

$36k was left for the winner along with the gold jersey.

Knickadam55 was the next casualty with a coin flip which he lost:

A few hands later hAAydon triumphs when his A10 holds up against his opponents very weak A3 - a 10 on the flop secures the deal: