Three events played out on Tuesday as part of the 16th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). Members of the online poker community took down two of them, including Matt papamat25 Iles, who came out on top in a $216 No Limit Hold’em Turbo tournament (Event #14) for $80,000. Iles plays as I Pay Ur Rent on Full Tilt and chopped heads-up with fellow PocketFives.com member Ben The Destroyer Mintz. A total of 234 spots paid out and the total prize pool passed the $460,000 mark. Let’s recap the action from Tuesday in FTOPS XVI.Event #14 wasn’t Iles’ first trip to victory lane. He has dual victories in the Full Tilt $1K Monday and also won the site’s Friday Night Fight. He final tabled the PokerStars Sunday 500 in August 2009 and January 2010 for a combined $116,000 and won the Full Tilt Poker $100 Cubed one year ago for $24,000. His heads-up opponent, Mintz, hails from New Orleans and was the runner-up in a $162 buy-in tournament on PokerStars 12 days ago for $14,000. In March 2009, Mintz took down the Bodog $100,000 Guaranteed.
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Also reaching the final table of Event #14 was Arizona’s DNA2RNA, who took home $34,000 for fourth place:
1. I Pay Ur Rent - $80,243 (papamat25)
2. TheDestroyer531 - $76,243 (The Destroyer)
3. alpot - $45,648
4. DNA2RNA - $34,469 (DNA2RNA)
5. tonya720 - $24,222
6. nevio - $15,837
7. kamsky4 - $10,713
8. lcky4leafclover - $7,453
9. Tankcom1 - $5,590
Also playing out on Tuesday was Event #15 of FTOPS XVI, a $535 Limit HORSE contest. A field of 442 players turned out and a three-way deal was struck that saw Jeremy thechemist83 Gaubert (pictured at right) ultimately emerge victorious for $46,000. The longtime PocketFiver has chopped the Sunday Mulligan, won the Sunday Warm-Up, and won the PokerStars and Absolute Poker $150,000 Guaranteed tournaments. Last August, Gaubert took down the Main Event of the Gold Strike World Poker Open in Tunica. On Tuesday in Event #15, poker pro Marc Karam and dfunks222 each cashed for $40,000.Taking fourth place in the $535 Limit HORSE event was gypsy tears, who banked $17,000. The California native has runner-up showings in the Full Tilt Poker $1 Million Guaranteed, $75,000 Guaranteed, and Fifty-Fifty in the last six weeks for nearly $150,000 total. Joining him on Tuesday at the final table of Event #15 were poker veterans Chris herdgolf86 Tipper, $JMONEY$, and Corey comandr_cool Burbick:
1. thechemist83 - $46,000 (thechemist83)
2. dfunks222 - $40,000
3. Marc Karam - $40,000
4. gYPSYtearss - $17,000 (gypsy tearss)
5. herdgolf86 - $10,500 (herdgolf86)
6. POCKET FIVE - $7,250 ($JMONEY$)
7. Comandr_Cool - $5,500 (comandr_cool)
8. tuudey - $3,750
In Event #13, a $256 Pot Limit Omaha Rush Knockout event, a roster of 1,220 players vied for poker supremacy. In the end, Germany’s PreshaDrop chopped with hoppi18 and officially took second place for $42,000. In mid-December, PreshaDrop won the PokerStars Super Tuesday for $63,000 and is two months removed from a win in the UB.com $50,000 Guaranteed for another $18,000. PreshaDrop edged out David Bakes Baker (pictured at right), who collected $24,000 for third place. Here’s how the final table cashed out:1. hoppi18 - $45,053
2. PreshaDroppa - $42,787 (PreshaDrop)
3. Bussa Buss - $24,705 (Bakes)
4. WidowJack - $19,825
5. TheCatalan - $14,957 (Cule100)
6. MANIY - $10,980
7. berdyfish - $7,076
8. ryanbluf - $5,124 (ryanbluf)
9. Phil Curtis - $3,660 (Phil Curtis)
At least $1.3 million in guaranteed prize money will be up for grabs today:
FTOPS Event #16: $200+16 Seven-Game Mixed
$150,000 Guaranteed
Wednesday at 2:00pm ET
FTOPS Event #17: $200+16 No Limit Hold’em Cashout
$150,000 Guaranteed
Wednesday at 6:00pm ET
FTOPS Event #18: $300+22 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max with Rebuys
$1 Million Guaranteed
Wednesday at 9:00pm ET
Visit Full Tilt Poker for details.
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