FTOPS 5 GETS GOING
10 August 2007
12 days to distribute $7 million in prizes as top
online poker competition kicks off
One of online poker's biggest tournament series has
started rolling this week with the 5th Full Tilt Online
Poker Series (FTOPS) offering a total prize pool of $7
million spread over a series of competitions and 12 days
of action.
First up this week was a $500 000-guaranteed tournament
hosted by World Poker Tour champ and author Phil Gordon.
The buy-in was set at $200+$16. Following that, a
$200+$16 H.O.R.S.E. event featuring two-time World
Series of Poker $50 000 H.O.R.S.E. final tabler David
Singer. Players compete for a $150 000 guaranteed prize
pool starting.
Five-time gold WSOP bracelet winner Allen Cunningham is
the guest of honour for Full Tilt's $200 000 guaranteed
Pot-Limit Hold'em tournament this Friday. The event
features a $200+$16 buy-in and starts at 9 p.m. (ET).
On Saturday afternoon it's a $500+$35 Pot-Limit Omaha
six-max event scheduled for 3 p.m. (ET) with a $150 000
guaranteed prize pool and hosted by 2007 WSOP bracelet
winner Robert Mizrachi. Later the same day No-Limit
Hold'em action is available in a tournament getting
underway at 4:30 p.m. (ET)with a $300 000 guaranteed
prizepool. British pro Rolande De Wolfe, will be online
to answer questions and compete.
Sunday's action includes a $300+$22 No-Limit Hold'em
tolurney with a $1 million prize pool and the action
starting a 6 p.m. (ET).
The FTOPS events continue into next week, including
No-Limit Hold'em six-max, Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo,
Seven-Card Stud, Limit Hold'em and No-Limit Hold'em main
event scheduled for August 19. Poker aces will abound on
the site then, too with scheduled appearances online by
Erica Schoenberg, Stuart Paterson, Jon D'Agostino, David
Oppenheim, Greg Mueller, Phil Ivey, Max Pescatori and
Paul Wasicka.
Online Casino News courtesy of
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