A total of 4,666 entries were recorded in the Main Event of the 20th Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS. The $640 No Limit Hold’em Multi-Entry tournament, whose guarantee had been cut from $7.5 million to $2.5 million in the wake of Black Friday, boasted a healthy $2.8 million purse. In the end, Ariel ArielBahia Celestino came away with the victory and banked $346,000 following a four-way final table deal. Let’s check out who else excelled in this epic tournament.

Celestino calls Brazil home and made the final table of an FTOPS event last August for $111,000. In November, Celestino took home the bacon in the PokerStarsWednesday Quarter Million for $55,000 and had over $860,000 in tracked cashes before a single card was dealt in the FTOPS XX Main Event. Celestino is ranked #199 worldwide, a number that will definitely increase when the Online Poker Rankings are recalculated on Wednesday.

Fourth place went to Russia’s paranoik333, who participated in the chop and banked $288,000. If you’re keeping tabs at home, that’s the equivalent of nearly 8 million Rubles heading paranoik333’s way. The St. Petersburg resident final tabled the Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl in December for $68,000 and, over the weekend, recorded a fourth place finish in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for $39,000.

Canada’s BIG_NEMOtook fifth in the FTOPS XX Main Event and walked away with $137,000. The cash, his first six-figure score that we’ve tracked on PocketFives.com, surpasses his previous best mark, a $40,000 haul for winning the PokerStars $100 Rebuy in March. He’ll likely crack the top 100 in the Sortable Rankings for Canada as a result of his FTOPS XX Main Event dominance.

Without further delay, here’s a look at the final table of the $640 No Limit Hold’em Multi-Entry tournament:

1. ArielBahia – $346,696.49 (ArielBahia)
2. Towelfish – $366,792.88
3. WHOPPWHOPP – $279,393.51
4. paranoik333 – $288,774.00 (paranoik333)
5. CupcakeThePig – $137,180.40 (BIG_NEMO)
6. antesvante – $95,186.40
7. Nora80 – $64,390.80
8. youreamaniac – $44,793.60
9. shevliak87 – $30,795.60

Also held on Sunday on the final day of FTOPS XX was Event #44, a $256 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max Knockout Multi-Entry contest that boasted a $750,000 guaranteed prize pool. A total of 6,088 entries were recorded, meaning that over $1.2 million was up for grabs, and LFmagic came away with the jersey and a $200,000 top prize. The top two players on the leaderboard banked six-figures:

1. LFmagic – $200,904.00
2. AKHoorash – $131,500.80
3. losewimpie – $96,190.40
4. peera87 – $68,185.60
5. Jurata_PL – $44,393.70
6. DaHussstla – $27,396.00

Finally, we’d be amiss if we didn’t talk about Hungary’s Andras and217Kovacs (pictured), who chopped the $2,100 No Limit Hold’em Two-Day Event (#40) and recorded its richest payday at $234,000. Heads-up, Kovacs forged a deal with FLIPokeHer, who pocketed $195,000 and officially took down the FTOPS jersey.

The 2011 calendar year has seen Kovacs final table the Sunday Warm-Up and Sunday Brawl for over $155,000 combined. He’s the 12th ranked online poker player in all of Hungary and has nearly $700,000 in tracked cashes to his credit.

Also making the finale of Event #40 was Carter cswidler Swidler, who recorded his second FTOPS XX final table in the last three days. Swidler took third in Event #37, a No Limit Hold’em Cubed contest, for $48,000 on Friday and officially owns over a million dollars in tracked online poker cashes. His fourth place finish in Event #40 was worth $92,000.

Here’s a look at the final table of the FTOPS XX Two-Day Event:

1. FLIPokeHer – $195,000.00
2. AverageHoe – $234,300.00 (and217)
3. Anaxona – $119,250.00
4. cswidler – $92,750.00 (cswidler)
5. Nyx86 – $68,900.00
6. Shawn Buchanan – $50,350.00
7. BeckReloaded – $32,860.00
8. QJdiamantes – $26,500.00
9. Kroko-dill – $20,670.00 (Zaya)

That concludes the 20th running of the FTOPS. We haven’t yet heard when FTOPS XXI will be held. Historically, the tournament series has taken place once a quarter, but whether Black Friday will extend the time between FTOPS remains to be seen. Visit Full Tilt Poker for more details and remember that the site does not accept players from the United States.