As recently as March 2011, Taylor taypaurPaur (pictured) was ranked #1 on PocketFives. On Monday, Paur, who lists the island of Cyprus as his location in his PocketFives profile, came out on top of the pack in Event #20 of the ongoing Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS, a $1,060 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max Double Chance contest. A total of 387 players turned out and Paur earned $73,000 following a three-way deal. Click over to Full Tilt for a full recap.

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Paur is three months removed from winning the PokerStars$100 Rebuy for $21,000. Three days ago, he took down the site’s $200 Rebuy for the same amount, lifting his total to $1.6 million in tracked MTT cashes on PokerStars alone. On that site, you can find Paur playing under the screen name tramp$d0pray. On Full Tilt, he is known as ambiguosity. PocketFivers have won FTOPS events every single day of FTOPS XXI.

Taking part in the three-way deal along with Paur was Panama pokerplayer Bolivar Palacios (pictured), who is known on PocketFives as Ramux. His second place finish was worth $64,000 and he’s up to over $1.1 million in tracked cashes on our site. Palacios is the third ranked player in Panama and final tabled the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event for $450,000.

We should also point out that Full Tilt Poker player blony_tair turned in his second FTOPS final table in three days in Event #20, where he took sixth place and walked away with $14,000. On Saturday, the poker player was third in Event #15, a $322 Pot Limit Omaha High Six-Max Triple Chance tournament. Here is how the final six stacked up in Event #20 on Monday, reflecting the chop:

1. ambiguosity – $73,559.52 (taypaur)
2. Ramux – $64,510.24 (Ramux)
3. IITTII – $55,817.24
4. vvirtue – $31,347.00
5. T3G3S – $22,059.00
6. blony_tair – $14,706.00

Also on Monday, British Columbia’s Tiltn_Mafkschopped Event #21 of FTOPS XXI, a $216 No Limit Hold’em Turbo tournament. He officially landed in second place following a heads-up deal with hteraaj2001and both players walked away with $28,000 in tow. Just over 800 players turned out and the tournament more than tripled its $50,000 guarantee.

Also making the final nine was the Ukraine’s Romeopro(pictured), who is known in the real world as Roman Romanovskyi. He is #72 worldwide in the PocketFives Online Poker Player Rankingsand is one month removed from scoring his very first Triple Crown.

Here is a look at the final table:

1. hteraaj2001 – $28,564.21
2. Tiltn_Mafks – $28,498.79 (Tiltn_Mafks)
3. jervis333 – $17,383.54
4. 9 to Five – $13,232.00
5. madalain – $9,593.20 (alainmedesan)
6. Stacy99 – $6,781.40 (Stacy99)
7. Romeopro33 – $4,962.00 (Romeopro)
8. SoFrischSoGut – $3,804.20 (Fresh_Oo_D)
9. charly3005 – $2,811.80

Three events with $300,000 in guaranteed prize money are on deck for Tuesday as part of FTOPS XXI:

FTOPS XXI Event #22
Tuesday, December 11 at 11:00 ET
$100 + $9 Pot Limit Omaha High Rebuy
$150,000 Guaranteed

FTOPS XXI Event #23
Tuesday, December 11 at 14:00 ET
$500 + $35 Ten-Game Six-Max Multi-Entry Tournament
$75,000 Guaranteed

FTOPS XXI Event #24
Tuesday, December 11 at 17:00 ET
$207 + $9 No Limit Hold’em Rush Super Turbo
$75,000 Guaranteed

Register for any FTOPS event by visiting Full Tilt Poker.

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