The largest buy-in tournament of the Full Tilt Online Poker series took place over the span of two days this past weekend. The $2500+$120 buy-in two-day event attracted 942 of the world’s best MTT players creating a massive prize-pool of $2,355,000. Outlasting some of the world’s best players was going to be a difficult task, and in the end only one player could say he topped them all. “hAAydon” took home 1st place and nearly $400,000 in prize money after a 3-way chop was discussed and finalized. Players “triahtlon4” and “knickadam55” were also involved in the chop and each took home well over $300,000. The players took turns folding for nearly ten minutes as they awaited a Full Tilt Representative to help faciliate the deal.
Full Tilt red pro Erich Kollmann busted on the final-table bubble in 10th, earning himself just over $22,000. There were many High-stakes MTT and NL Cash players making deep runs. Former online prodigy “Ozzy 87” made the final three tables, finishing in 25th place and earning more than $9,000. Ozzy 87 has played in some of the biggest NL Cash games that have ever run online, typically at stakes 200/400 and higher. Although he is not yet 21 years old Ozzy has been dominating online high stakes poker for the past few years.
Other high-stakes players included “PLAYMONEYPRO” who finished 18th and Tom “SBrounder” West who finished in 16th place. Both earned nearly $12,000 for their deep runs. “Tony G” made the final table; however, do not confuse him with high-stakes loud mouth Tony Guoga. Tony G is a respectable online-MTT player who is certainly accustomed to being confused for the well-known TV professional.
High-stakes Frenchman David Benyamine made the money finishing in 63rd place. Benyamine, who has made over $7,000,000 playing PLO on Full-Tilt poker since 2007, might find little use for his $5,600 in prize money. Kristy Gazes, wife of fellow professional Bill Gazes finished 81st for nearly $5,000.
Congratulations goes to “hAAydon” and the other 89 players who were fortunate enough to make the money:
1 | hAAydon | $541,650.00 |
2 | triathlon4 | $341,475.00 |
4 | sebbau | $194,287.50 |
6 | Tony G | $105,975.00 |
8 | Yeshaya | $55,107.00 |
10 | Erich Kollmann | $22,372.50 |
12 | Kvitto | $22,372.50 |
14 | hamazriya | $16,485.00 |
16 | SBRounder | $11,775.00 |
18 | PLAYM0NEYPR0 | $11,775.00 |
20 | SpanishKey | $9,184.50 |
22 | WinnerFish | $9,184.50 |
24 | hendrenmob1 | $9,184.50 |
26 | ChrisChun | $9,184.50 |
28 | uclabruinz | $8,007.00 |
30 | runemowgli | $8,007.00 |
32 | 1zzz1 | $8,007.00 |
34 | f_aAshaof4our | $8,007.00 |
36 | Tmay420 | $8,007.00 |
38 | grtwhitehoop | $7,065.00 |
40 | Antonio18 | $7,065.00 |
42 | Avril Sharapova | $7,065.00 |
44 | BubonicPlague | $7,065.00 |
46 | GreatDANbino | $6,358.50 |
48 | Liinda14 | $6,358.50 |
50 | OJ Limpsin | $6,358.50 |
52 | WHENTHUGSCRY | $6,358.50 |
54 | bearbuck | $6,358.50 |
56 | traheho | $5,652.00 |
58 | JROBB | $5,652.00 |
60 | hikkespett | $5,652.00 |
62 | Pokerccini | $5,652.00 |
64 | LuXuryJun1 | $5,181.00 |
66 | JRShaffy | $5,181.00 |
68 | busto_soon | $5,181.00 |
70 | thechemist83 | $5,181.00 |
72 | xGameSetMatchx | $5,181.00 |
74 | broomcrnsuncle | $4,710.00 |
76 | spectrum1234 | $4,710.00 |
78 | potroast | $4,710.00 |
80 | bonafidedonkey | $4,710.00 |
82 | adam-y-y-y | $4,239.00 |
84 | Luckbox48151623 | $4,239.00 |
86 | SowersUNCC | $4,239.00 |
88 | good2cu | $4,239.00 |
90 | padirk165 | $4,239.00 |