One of the more interesting tournaments in FTOPS XIX has come to an abrupt end. Event #29, a $200+$16 “cashout” style tournament attracted more than 1,300 players creating a $134,400 prize pool and $134,400 cash out pool.  For those unfamiliar with these events players can cash out of the tournament at any time and receive equal equity for their chips. This is obviously a new format to online poker tournaments and one that a lot of players still fail to understand.  In this tournament players could earn $10 for every 200 chips they cashed out.  What ends up happening is this format, along with a turbo blind structure, makes for quite a short event. In fact Event #19 took less than 3 hours to complete.

There were about 20 FullTilt professionals in Event #29 including host Caio Pimenta who is a staple in online tournaments on FTP.  Pimenta was joined by other well known professionals including Robert Williamson III, Scott Clements, Vitaly Lunkin, and former WSOP Main Event Champion Huck Seed.  Jon Turner made the deepest run of the Red Pros finishing in 51st place for $295.

The title came down to “bmoney012” and “Metahaem” who decided it was best to chop the remaining prize pool and take some variance out of the final table.  While bmoney012 was the one who was left standing he actually earned slightly less money than Metahaem after their chip-chop deal.

Congratulations to Metahaem, bmoney012, and all 216 players making the money in FTOPS XIX Event #29!

FTOPS XIX Event #19  $100k Guaranteed
1,334 Entrants; $268,800 prize pool
*2-way chop

1. bmoney012 $19,947
2. Metahaem $20,997
3. whereisdonny $10,819
4. cardsharkk13 $8,332
5. BKqzbxt $6,316
6. Hollywood5 $4,515
7. WhiteRabbito $3,292
8. AGabor23 $2,553
9. Spades4Fun $1,962