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FTOPS Event #17 Promises Exciting Conclusion[ return to main articles page ]

By: dhubermex
Published on Feb 17th, 2008

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series is coming to an end for the month of February, with exciting action currently taking place in its feature Event #17, hosted by FullTilt Pro Scott Fischman. As of February 17th, 4:30pm Eastern Time, many PocketFivers remain among the field of 30 players. In what promises to be an exciting conclusion, the FTOPS Event #17 will pay out over $1 Million to the Top 3 finishers tonight, with 1st Place taking home $488,000!

Feature Sundays have become more common in the last year, as major poker sites compete against each other to bring their tournament players the largest possible prize pools. Nearly every month, there is one (or more) Sunday major tournament paying out over $200,000 cash to its victor. Not to mention all the preliminary and post-event tournaments that consistently guarantee prize pools in the six figures.

Full Tilt Poker has grown up quite a bit since late 2006, when PartyPoker decided to disallow U.S. players on its site due to the passage of the UIGEA. Many have argued that FTP benefited the most from Party's withdrawal from the U.S. market... and this could very well be true. However, it has been Full Tilt's commitment to tournament variety and large guaranteed prize pools that has allowed it to keep pace with PokerStars, which remains #1 in tournament player volume.

As the action unfolds in the $2,500+120 FTOPS Event #17, we can give you a list of PocketFivers still vying for the half-million-dollar first place prize:

Chad "m8kingmoves" Batista (playing as "jse81")
"jonasof87" (playing as "RandomDonk")
"Superfluous Man" (playing as "Pechorin")
"Badgers239" (playing as "Fishof Thedai")
"jcada99"
"dorinvandy"
Steve "stevoL" Leonard
Sumeet "Batera" Batra
Eric "EFro" Froelich
Jason "runescaper03" Yost
"PrairieFox"
Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin
"majdasad" (playing as "ABU-BILAL")
James-Corwin "mig.com" Mackey
John "Johnson_1" Newcombe

Best of luck to all PocketFivers still in on the action in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series Event #17! To watch all the action in real-time, download the Full Tilt client and click on the TOURNAMENTS tab. From there, select the FTOPS tab, and double-click on the $2,500+120 NL Holdem FTOPS Event #17. If you would like to keep up with the commentary from PocketFivers around the world, you can keep up with the action by reading and posting in the FTOPS Main Event Thread
 

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