By
Dan |
Published
Nov 13 2008, 12:29 PM
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On Wednesday night, one of the most familiar names in all of poker captured victory in the 15th event of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series. Cliff JohnnyBax Josephy, a former number one player on the PocketFives.com Online Poker Rankings, took down the $216 Pot Limit Omaha High-Low tournament, banking $46,125. PocketFivers actually finished 1-2-3 in that event, with Jack Sevens and Gustav Langner placing second and third, respectively. The top 108 spots paid out in the Full Tilt Poker tournament. Let’s take a look at the results from Wednesday’s action on the FTOPS X felts.
Cliff JohnnyBax Josephy is a World Series of Poker bracelet winner, having captured his coveted piece of hardware by virtue of winning a $1,500 buy-in Seven Card Stud tournament in 2005. He finished fourth in a $1,500 buy-in Seven Card Razz tournament in 2006 for $39,080. A member of the UltimateBet Star Players Team, Josephy was the runner up in the 2006 installment of the UB-sponsored Aruba Poker Classic. Devon Miller ultimately triumphed in that tournament. Josephy also made a deep run in the 2008 WSOP Main Event, finishing 386th out of 6,844 players; Danish poker pro Peter Eastgate claimed the top spot late Monday night.
Josephy was number one on the PocketFives.com Online Poker Rankings for over a year. The now-36th ranked player finished second in the Super Tuesday on PokerStars for nearly $60,000 in July and won the $100 rebuy on the same site a month earlier for $33,000. He’s the owner of a pair of Triple Crowns and has the 11th best Pro Poll ranking. Josephy is an instructor at PokerXFactor.com, a popular poker training site.
Coming in second place in Event #15 was PocketFiver Jack Sevens. The market research specialist from Northborough, Massachusetts took home $29,213 for his efforts. Right behind him was Gustav Langner, who finished third and cashed for $21,628. Last month, Langner placed second in the $100 buy-in Turbo Hundo on Full Tilt Poker for $3,800 and took third in the $109 buy-in $35K Guaranteed on PokerStars in August for another $3,800. The Brazilian is a lawyer by trade, according to his PocketFives.com Profile.
In Event #16, a $322 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Six-Max tournament with rebuys, PocketFiver Jonathan xMONSTERxDONGx Karamalikis finished in second place, pocketing a healthy $157,084. There were 1,032 entrants in Event 16 and the top 120 spots paid out. Karamalikis is ranked 83rd on PocketFives.com and won the $100 rebuy on PokerStars in March for $66,000. He also took second in the Sunday 500 in late September for $66,500. The Australian native won the $150 buy-in $40K Guaranteed on Full Tilt Poker in June for $26,000.
Ranked player govshark2 nabbed fourth in Event #16, cashing for $83,627. He’s had an impressive run through Sunday major tournaments recently, winning the Sunday Million last month for $184,500 and taking second in the $750K Guaranteed on Full Tilt in August for $86,000. He finished third in the Sunday Second Chance on PokerStars in August for $30,000 and won the Full Tilt $90K Guaranteed for $23,800.
Finally, 11th ranked player eisenhower1 made the final table and finished sixth in Event 16, earning $38,423. In July, he took down the Sunday Warm-Up for $97,000. One month later, he logged a $64,000 cash for finishing fifth in a $322 rebuy FTOPS event. In October, the PocketFiver brought home a total of $56,000 in tournaments that are tracked for the PocketFives.com Rankings.
There are two more FTOPS events on tap for today. We’ll have full coverage for you tomorrow on how PocketFives.com fared:
FTOPS Event #17 -- NLHE 6-max Shootout $200+16 ($250K Guaranteed)
Today at 2:00pm ET
FTOPS Event #18 -- Limit Razz $300+22 ($150K Guaranteed)
Today at 9:00pm ET
Visit Full Tilt Poker to view the remaining schedule and to register for the $535 buy-in, $2.5 million guaranteed Main Event, which kicks off on Sunday.
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