The biggest buy-in FTOPS tourney took place over the past two days on Full Tilt. Event #22 was a $5200, $2,000,000 Guaranteed 6-max event hosted by Full Tilt Pro and WSOP ME Final Table participant Craig Marquis. An event with such a large buy-in was sure to only attract the biggest names in online and live poker, and this tournament certainly did not disappoint. Full Tilt brought a strong contingent of their own pros, including recent bracelet winner Erick Lindgren, high-stakes Pro Gus Hansen, Limit phenom Matt “HossTBF” Hawrilenko, WSOP Runner- UP Paul Wasicka, and online Pro Taylor “Green Plastic” Caby. There were also many online MTT Pros playing including top-ranked players such as “AJKHoosier1”, “amak316”, “Annette_15”, and FTR’s very own, “busto_soon”.
The deep-stacked tournament led to a lot of post-flop play not normally seen in online MTTs. Coming into the final table players still had, on average, 75BBs to play with. At 5000/10000 blinds, the starting stacks at the Final Table were:
Seat 1: KaKeTKa (832,144)
Seat 2: PureCash25 (565,184)
Seat 3: Buster Love (183,867)
Seat 4: dpowell (344,096)
Seat 5: amak316 (746,125)
Seat 6: NEONPILS99 (328,584)
“Buster Love” is supposedly the one and only Mark Seif, a live pro who has fallen under fire recently for his affiliation with Absolute Poker during their SuperUser scandals. Previously mentioned Amit “amak316” Makhija is a top-rated internet pro who has made a WPT Final Table. All six players would be battling it out for first place, the notorious FTOPS Jersey Avatar, and $550,000 in first-place money. First to go was “dpowell” when his pocket fives were no match for Seif’s pocket sixes:
Seat 1: KaKeTKa (411,878)
Seat 2: PureCash25 (520,418)
Seat 3: Buster Love (351,902)
Seat 4: dpowell (242,096)
Seat 5: amak316 (1,140,581)
Seat 6: NEONPILS99 (333,125)
Buster Love posts the small blind of 5,000
dpowell posts the big blind of 10,000
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
amak316 folds
NEONPILS99 folds
KaKeTKa folds
PureCash25 raises to 25,000
Buster Love calls 20,000
dpowell has 15 seconds left to act
dpowell raises to 120,000
PureCash25 folds
Buster Love raises to 350,902, and is all in
dpowell calls 121,096, and is all in
Buster Love shows [6h 6c]
dpowell shows [5s 5h]
Uncalled bet of 109,806 returned to Buster Love
*** FLOP *** [Td 9c Js]
*** TURN *** [Td 9c Js] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [Td 9c Js 9s] [Kh]
Buster Love shows two pair, Nines and Sixes
dpowell shows two pair, Nines and Fives
Buster Love wins the pot (513,192) with two pair, Nines and Sixes
Dpowell would have to settle for 6th place and $90,000. He would soon be followed by “NEONPILS99”, who, with only 22BBs, would try a resteal with QTo only to be looked up by “PureCash25” and his A9o. Once the turn fell, NEONPILS99 was drawing dead and would have to settle for fifth place and $137,500:
Seat 1: KaKeTKa (533,445)
Seat 2: PureCash25 (397,418)
Seat 3: Buster Love (520,431)
Seat 5: amak316 (1,331,131)
Seat 6: NEONPILS99 (217,575)
NEONPILS99 posts the small blind of 5,000
KaKeTKa posts the big blind of 10,000
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
PureCash25 raises to 25,000
Buster Love folds
amak316 folds
NEONPILS99 raises to 216,575, and is all in
KaKeTKa folds
PureCash25 has 15 seconds left to act
PureCash25 has requested TIME
PureCash25 calls 191,575
NEONPILS99 shows [Th Qc]
PureCash25 shows [9h Ad]
*** FLOP *** [7d 9s 2s]
*** TURN *** [7d 9s 2s] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [7d 9s 2s 9c] [4h]
NEONPILS99 shows a pair of Nines
PureCash25 shows three of a kind, Nines
PureCash25 wins the pot (448,150) with three of a kind, Nines
Next we would finally see some post-flop play, albeit just one street. Seif would call a Pre-Flop raise from “KaKeTKa” and then check-raise all-in with a pair of sixes and open-ended straight draw. Unfortunately for him, his opponent flopped a set of sevens and he would be unable to hit, busting him in fourth for $195,000:
Seat 1: KaKeTKa (490,878)
Seat 2: PureCash25 (654,560)
Seat 3: Buster Love (551,431)
Seat 5: amak316 (1,303,131)
Buster Love posts the small blind of 5,000
amak316 posts the big blind of 10,000
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
KaKeTKa raises to 24,567
PureCash25 folds
Buster Love calls 19,567
amak316 folds
*** FLOP *** [4d 7h 5h]
Buster Love checks
KaKeTKa bets 34,567
Buster Love raises to 525,864, and is all in
KaKeTKa calls 430,744, and is all in
Buster Love shows [6h 6d]
KaKeTKa shows [7d 7c]
Uncalled bet of 60,553 returned to Buster Love
*** TURN *** [4d 7h 5h] [2h]
*** RIVER *** [4d 7h 5h 2h] [2c]
Buster Love shows two pair, Sixes and Twos
KaKeTKa shows a full house, Sevens full of Twos
KaKeTKa wins the pot (993,756) with a full house, Sevens full of Twos
Down to three-handed, the play really started to pick up with a lot of three-betting and some real post flop play. An extremely interesting hand happened when PureCash25 seemingly misclicked on the button to 300,000 chips instead of 30,000. Amak316 seemed very wary of the play, taking forever before he shoved with QQ. PureCash25’s misclick was certainly fake when he was forced to call with AKo, unfortunately for him he would not win the race and would become the short stack:
Seat 1: KaKeTKa (561,310)
Seat 2: PureCash25 (1,352,344)
Seat 5: amak316 (1,086,346)
amak316 posts the small blind of 6,000
KaKeTKa posts the big blind of 12,000
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
PureCash25 raises to 300,000
amak316 has 15 seconds left to act
amak316 has requested TIME
amak316 raises to 1,084,846, and is all in
KaKeTKa folds
PureCash25 calls 784,846
amak316 shows [Qs Qh]
PureCash25 shows [Kc Ad]
*** FLOP *** [Th 5h 6s]
*** TURN *** [Th 5h 6s] [3h]
*** RIVER *** [Th 5h 6s 3h] [7c]
amak316 shows a pair of Queens
PureCash25 shows Ace King high
amak316 wins the pot (2,186,192) with a pair of Queens
It was only a matter of time until Purecash25 had to get his remaining chips all-in, this time holding QQ. However, he would take a nasty beat against amak316’s AJs:
Seat 1: KaKeTKa (550,810)
Seat 2: PureCash25 (295,998)
Seat 5: amak316 (2,153,192)
KaKeTKa posts the small blind of 8,000
PureCash25 posts the big blind of 16,000
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
amak316 raises to 40,000
KaKeTKa folds
PureCash25 raises to 293,998, and is all in
amak316 calls 253,998
PureCash25 shows [Qs Qc]
amak316 shows [Jd As]
*** FLOP *** [2s 4h 7c]
*** TURN *** [2s 4h 7c] [6c]
*** RIVER *** [2s 4h 7c 6c] [Ah]
PureCash25 shows a pair of Queens
amak316 shows a pair of Aces
amak316 wins the pot (601,996) with a pair of Aces
The beat would leave PureCash25 out in 3rd, earning him $262,500 for his two-days of hard work.
Amak would assume a large chip lead and eventually bust KaKeTKa and take home the FTOPS crown and $550,000. KaKeTKa would settle for 2nd and a huge cash of $362,500:
Seat 1: KaKeTKa (195,310)
Seat 5: amak316 (2,804,690)
KaKeTKa antes 2,000
amak316 antes 2,000
KaKeTKa posts the small blind of 8,000
amak316 posts the big blind of 16,000
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
KaKeTKa raises to 193,310, and is all in
amak316 calls 177,310
KaKeTKa shows [8s Ks]
amak316 shows [2s Ah]
*** FLOP *** [2h 9c Jd]
*** TURN *** [2h 9c Jd] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [2h 9c Jd 9s] [4h]
KaKeTKa shows a pair of Nines
amak316 shows two pair, Nines and Twos
amak316 wins the pot (390,620) with two pair, Nines and Twos
Congratulations to all of those who made the money and to the final six:
FTOPS Event #22 $5200 $2.5M Guaranteed
500 Entrants
1. amak316 $550,000
2. KaKeTKa $362,500
3. PureCash25 $262,500
4. Buster Love $195,000
5. NEONPILS99 $137,500
6. dpowell $90,000