All the poker fans' attention this weekend was focused on the main event Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII (FTOPS)... Online poker room tournament Full Tilt Poker gathered 4750 participants. The buy-in of the tournament was $500. The tournament organizers guaranteed a prize pool of $2 million, but the tournament participants exceeded this amount, forming a prize pool of $2'375'000.
The first 648 places in the online poker tournament received prize money. Among the winners of the reporting tournament were Huck seed (282 place), Stuart paterson (354th place), Andy bloch (429 place), Maciek “Michael” Gracz (455th place), Roland de Wolfe (510th place), and Robert mizrachi (578th place). The tournament was attended by Phil Ivey Is a living legend of modern poker. Phil failed to show his best game and finished the tournament one step away from the prizes - 649th place.
The main prize of the poker tournament was played among themselves cheesemonster and MarMoss... The difference in prize money between first and second places was $161'000. As a result, a heated struggle developed for this amount. On one of the distributions cheesemonster goes all-in, holding a pair of pocket kings. MarMoss I could not find a decent answer and, having revealed myself, realized that this time too he stopped one step away from his cherished dream - to win the first poker tournament in his life.
results
cheesemonster - $410'780
MarMoss - $249'375
SLmelonman - $161'500
frostey - $125'875
Dwarf - $95'000
R3dL0bster - $71'250
kiwid10 - $54'625
awriver - $41'563
Jason "strassa2" Strasser - $30'875