The Sunday Briefing: "JHoWn" Wins FTOPS XVIII Main Event
Full Tilt Poker's FTOPS XVIII came to an end early Monday morning with the conclusion of the Main Event. Four new gold-jersey winners emerged in the last 24 hours, but no one claimed a bigger prize than "JHoWn," who outlasted the Main Event final table for $411,932.13. Event #29, the $2,000 2-Day, was won by "tennisassxy" for $332.264.92. Also winning gold jerseys, as well as six-figure paydays, were John "pixie183" Law and Timothy "timkrank" Miles .
Over on PokerStars "RICOFELIZ" for $252,276.50. Also claiming victories on Sunday were Faraz "The-Toilet 0" Jaka and Zach "HustlerGrune" Gruneberg .
Full Tilt FTOPS Main Event (NL Hold'em)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $600+$40 5,023 $3,013,800
Place Player Prize *1 JHoWn $411,932.13 *2 hilyaki $337,929.87 *3 ReifesEisen $380,313 4 sik0tic27 $192,883.20 5 Lee "acumen53" Childs $144,511.71 6 kasper74 $99,455.40 7 Leeba3443 $64,796.70 8 macqueen56 $45,207 9 UGOTGYPSYD $31,644.90
*denotes three-handed deal
Notable Finishes: Brendon "Brendooor" Rubie (12th - $21,699.36), Justin "YourTimeIsUp" Schwartz (14th - $16,575.90), William "imahustla1" Given (20th - $8,137.26), Fabrizio "sixthsense119" Gonzalez (36th - $6,027.60)
Full Tilt FTOPS Event #29 (NL Hold'em 2-Day)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $2,000+$100 1,088 $2,176,000
Place Player Prize *1 tennisassxy $332.264.92 *2 Michael "Yubaball" Hull $342,175.25 *3 log1c07 $354,807.93 4 Matthias "goodvibe" Neu $179,520 5 gomore $136,000 6 tehe stop it $97,920 7 Keith "DaMurdera3" Ferrera $65,280 8 Phil "USCPhildo" Collins $48,960 9 ericontilt $34,816
*denotes three-handed deal
Notable Finishes: Scott "stpauli111" Hall (10th - $19,584), Kenny "Hixx" Hicks (12th - $19,584), Jack "Jack4339" Pan (13th - $14,361.60), Jesse "laburro" Haabak (15th - $14,361.60), Mark "Eppy1" Epstein (16th - $10,009.60), Jon Turner (19th - $7,942.40), Nick “PureCash25” Rampone (21st - $7,942.40), Charles “HellaStacks_” Lee (22nd - $7,942.40), Erich Kollman (26th - $7,942.40), Steve "gboro780" Gross (29th - $6,963.20), Ty "GimmeDa1time" Reiman (32nd - $6,963.20), Jason "JCarver" Somerville (36th - $6,963.20)
Full Tilt FTOPS Event #32 (NL Hold'em Knockout 6-Max)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $240+$16 5,490 $1,098,000
Place Player Prize *1 John "pixie183" Law $202,484.41 *2 MrSoprano8 $117,298.52 *3 LeMeWinPlz $86,915.11 *4 LoLGoodCall $86,545.52 5 01GrandPrixGT $48,312 6 MAK123 $32,940
*denotes four-handed deal
Notable Finishes: Dan "imabigkidnow" Kelly (22nd - $5,160.60), Matt "berkey11" Berkey (33rd - $3,239.10)
Full Tilt FTOPS Event #33 (NL Hold'em Re-Buy)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $150+$13 1,949 $895,200
Place Player Prize 1 Timothy "timkrank" Miles $184,411.20 2 Sam "theman2892" Iola $121,747.20 3 Matt "berkey11" Berkey $90,415.20 4 Nicolas "nicos11" Chouity $70,720.80 5 Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad $52,816.80 6 foldimo $36,703.20 7 WHENTHUGSCRY $22,380 8 spikedag $15,218.40 9 Rodney "BIGFLOPPER01" Burt $10,742.40
Notable Finishes: Athanasios "Athanasios 9" Polychronopoulos (11th - $7,161.60), Dave "Doc Sands" Sands (14th - $4,923.60), Tommy “blanks plz” Wesley (22nd - $2,864.64)
PokerStars Sunday Million
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 8,575 $1,715,000
Place Player Prize 1 RICOFELIZ $252,276.50 2 musicom $184,362.50 3 James "j_t_s80" Broom $128,625 4 DuggerGerngy $85,750 5 alex987 $68,600 6 onealtiseven $51,450 7 omalos $34,300 8 StrungOut1 $18,865 9 costel725 $13,291.25
Notable Finishes: Matt "All_in_at420" Stout (14th - $6,774.25), Joseph "Joey Capp" Cappuccio (26th - $3,773), Brad "BradL" Libson (45th - $3,172,75)
PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 4,748 $949,600
Place Player Prize 1 Pinowww $148,975.39 2 kenz085 $110,628.40 3 Moritz “Catenaccio” Kranich $78,342 4 MSAKI $53,652.40 5 lancevk $40,359 6 Steve "Illini213" Barshak $30,862 7 supahmario $31,366 8 Kyazho $11,870 9 Dmitry "Russian_nuts" Stelmak $7,596.80
Notable Finishes: Keith "DaMurdera3" Ferrera (28th - $2,089.12), Dan "djk123" Kelly (32nd - $2,089.12)
PokerStars Sunday 500
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $500+$30 1,180 $590,000
Place Player Prize 1 brianm15 $100,300 2 clunged $73,750 3 Moritz “Catenaccio” Kranich $55,991 4 dia_stallion $40,120 5 Shhh00kem $29,205 6 Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet $23,305 7 Brandon "Brandon78" Adams $17,405 8 adametes $11,505 9 capoch $6,372
Notable Finishes: Adam "simmsux" Geyer (12th - $5,074), Nicholas "CPT CRUX" Stowell (16th - $2,832)
PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 1,573 $314,600
Place Player Prize 1 Faraz "The-Toilet 0" Jaka $56,628 2 PMCQ $40,898 3 Will "CutiePi314" Ma $31,460 4 Hafiz "hafizzle" Khan $23,595 5 Ti_Thompson $16,516.50 6 PokerSickNr1 $13,370.50 7 bybycu77 $10,224.50 8 Matt "berkey11" Berkey $7,078.50 9 Nemoqwe88 $4,404.40
Notable Finishes: Fabrizio "SixthSenSe19" Gonzalez (11th - $2,988.70), Hiren "hustla16" Patel (14th - $2,359.50), Jude "j.thaddeus" Ainsworth (17th - $1,730.30)
PokerStars $109+R NL Hold'em ($300K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $100+$9 1,278 $471,700
Place Player Prize 1 Zach "HustlerGrune" Gruneberg $86,085.25 2 danskemann $62,688.93 3 szusza84 $47,170 4 Simon Sun $35,377.50 5 TJ "1BigAceHole" Ulmer $24,764.25 6 bustardo $20,047.25 7 John "johne147" Eames $15,330.25 8 pvas2 $10,613.25 9 EASY DZ $6,603.80
Notable Finishes: Josh "brikdog24" Brikis (14th - $3,773.60), Mike "Gags30" Gagliano (15th - $3,773.60), Jason "TeamWispy" Helder (17th - $2,830.20)
Full Tilt Sunday Mulligan
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$16 1,537 $307,400
Place Player Prize 1 jochee $66,091 2 Nico "PokerKaiser" Fierro $41,806.40 3 Alec "traheho" Torelli $31,047.40 4 David Pham $24,592 5 ship em 613 $18,444 6 basic_elements $13,218.20 7 Matt "mattster24" Sterling $8,607.20 8 Mike "SPIN101" Spinasanta $6,148 9 racehorse $4,303.60
Notable Finishes: Neil "theVisionay" McFayden (10th - $2,566.79), Larry "PrishChips31" Sharp (11th - $2,566.79), Yann "yadio111" Dion (14th - $1,844.40)
UB $200K GTD
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 1,019 $203,800
Place Player Prize 1 VACANTSEAT $45,508.54 2 Taylor "TAZED1SPURR" Paur $27,207.30 3 Jason "N0VASKY" Koon $18,443.90 4 SODAIRA11 $13,145.10 5 DONKLIFE4EV $11,107.10 6 NUQUATTRO $9,069.10 7 OMAHAHAHA83 $7,031.10 8 TCHK $4,993.10 9 INYOUREYE11 $3,464.60
Notable Finishes: Dave "HOLLYWOODDAVE" Stann (15th - $1,732.30)
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