Thursday marked Day 2 of the 14th Full Tilt Online Poker Series. When the smoke cleared on the virtual felts, Thayer THAY3R Rasmussen (pictured at right) grabbed third place in Event #3, a $535 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Shootout. He banked $36,000 for his efforts, outlasting all but two players of the 729 who turned out. The tournament shattered its $300,000 guarantee, ultimately boasting $364,000 up for grabs and paying out to the top 81 spots on the leaderboard. Two more events are on tap today as part of FTOPS XIV.Full Tilt Poker player chrispeace bested JonEeeWhite to win Event #3 and earn $76,000. For Rasmussen, it was another impressive cash on a poker resume that already includes wins in the PokerStars $100 Rebuy, Full Tilt $100 Cubed, and Ultimate Bet $75,000 Guaranteed. He sits at #65 worldwide on the PocketFives.com Online Poker Rankings and outlasted German poker player bastet, who grabbed fourth place on Thursday for $27,000. Rounding out the final table of Event #3 of FTOPS XIV was John jt3013 Theisen, who earned $6,900 for eighth place. Here’s how the final table shook out:
1. chrispeace - $76,545
2. JonEeeWhite - $51,030
3. THAY3R - $36,450 (THAY3R)
4. bastet2004 - $27,338 (bastet)
5. buck99 - $20,048
6. MuckCMuckC - $14,580
7. GnightMoon - $10,206
8. jt3013 - $6,926 (jt3013)
9. Laurrra - $4,921
Also playing out on Thursday was Event #2, a $216 buy-in Seven Game Six-Max tournament. The festivities attracted a throng of 838 players and, when the smoke cleared, RymesWOrange defeated PocketFives.com member StephenHendry heads-up. The latter earned $23,000 for second place and recently final tabled the Sunday Mulligan on Full Tilt Poker for $19,000. Like Event #3, Event #2 broke its guarantee, as the prize pool swelled to $167,000 and the top 102 finishers walked away with cash.
Grabbing third in Event #2 was Randy Randers Haddox (pictured at right), the former winner of a 2008 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Six-Handed Mixed event for $73,000. Haddox is a longtime member of PocketFives.com and earned $16,000 for his third place performance. Claiming fifth place on Thursday in the same event was jhksauser, a New Jersey online poker player who banked $9,000:1. RymesWOrange - $35,783
2. St3phenHendry - $23,464 (StephenHendry)
3. Randers - $16,760 (Randers)
4. 7PRS - $12,738
5. jhksauser - $9,050 (jhksauser)
6. real-nic - $5,782
Two more events will play out Friday on Full Tilt Poker:
FTOPS Event #4: $200+16 No Limit Hold’em Cubed
$600,000 Guaranteed
Today at 2:00pm ET
FTOPS Event #5: $200+16 Limit Stud High/Low
$100,000 Guaranteed
Today at 9:00pm ET
We’d like to wish the best of luck to all members of the online poker community taking part in FTOPS XIV events. Visit Full Tilt Poker for the full schedule and satellite information.
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