Sunday marked the final day of play in the 12th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). The high-stakes Main Event saw a massive $200,000 overlay. Also finishing up yesterday was the $2,620 buy-in Two-Day Event, which saw 2007 UltimateBetAruba Poker Classic Main Event winner Travis TravestyFundRice (pictured at right) take home the title for $460,000. In that event, which took place at the luxurious Radisson Resort on the sunny island, Rice battled and earned $800,000 for his efforts. Meanwhile, Greg gregrum Goodrum blasted through the 2,365 player field that turned out for the MiniFTOPS Two-Day Event, which came with a $266 buy-in; his win was worth $120,000. Let’s recap Sunday’s action on the final day of FTOPS XII.

Travis TravestyFundRice has also experienced success in the online world. Besides his win in the competitive Two-Day event, Rice is a former champion of the Full Tilt Poker $100 rebuy, which he took down in February for $40,000. Rice also won the $80,000 Guaranteed version of the event for $35,000 last month. He has two World Series of Poker (WSOP) final tables under his belt, taking fifth in a $2,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event in 2007 and finishing sixth in that year’s World Championship of Pot Limit Hold’em; the two finishes were worth a combined $189,000.

Two other PocketFivers reached the final table of the high-stakes FTOPS Two-Day Event. Canadian PocketFiver Marlin5555claimed sixth place for $90,000, one of 90 players to make the money. Two months ago, he took down the $150 rebuy on Full Tilt, amassing $70,000. He also claimed victory in the $100 rebuy on the same site twice in the last three months for a combined $28,000. In January, he finished as the runner up in the PokerStars$100 rebuy twice in a four-day span, earning $23,000. Rounding out the final table was Shawn phatcat Luman (pictured at left), a former Triple Crown winner and longtime member of PocketFives.com. Luman took down the $200 rebuy on Stars last month for $41,000 and final tabled the $1K Monday in March for $32,000. Luman’s ninth place finish in the FTOPS Two-Day event was worth $34,000.

Greg gregrumGoodrum took home the MiniFTOPS Two-Day Event title, earning $120,000 from the $266 buy-in affair. The Texan barreled through a field of 2,365 runners en route to the win. It was his largest online poker cash to date, besting other solid scores such as a win in the $150 buy-in $75,000 Guaranteed on Full Tilt for $18,000 in April. Incredibly, he finished second in that tournament the day before for $12,000. Goodrum also took down the $24 buy-in $34,000 Guaranteed on the same site for over $7,000 four days earlier. He enjoys hitting the cash game felts in competitive games of Limit HORSE and Razz.

A total of 11,983 players entered the $55 buy-in MiniFTOPS Main Event, which meant that the prize pool mushroomed to $600,000. When the smoke cleared, one PocketFiver earned $92,000 for the win: Colin TesT_ticklerRennie. The California native notched the largest online poker score of his career. Besides taking down one of the largest tournaments ever held on Full Tilt Poker, Rennie won the site’s $20 rebuy in February for $3,100 and $10 Cubed in March for $2,600. PocketFivers finished in the top three in the tournament, as Hungarian PocketFiver phealtook second for $62,000. The Budapest native has past wins in the $11 rebuy on PokerStars and $30,000 KO Guarantee on Full Tilt for a combined $21,000. Grabbing third was Hemerson Ari Mendes, who simply goes by zilbeee here on PocketFives.com. He hails from Brazil and pocketed $44,000 for his third place effort.

As has been the case with many of the FTOPS high-stakes tournaments, the $535 buy-in Main Event fell short of its guarantee. One PocketFiver reached the final table of the 4,581 player contest, as New York native RonFezBuddy banked $57,000 for seventh place. It blew away his previous largest cash, a $19,000 payday for finishing second in the Nightly Hundred Grand on PokerStars in February. Other accolades have included a win in the $11 rebuy, also on Stars, for $13,000 in February. You can often catch the Mount Sinai resident heading to Atlantic City to play on the brick and mortar felts.

Also playing out on Sunday was a $13 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Knockout tournament, the 24th event of the MiniFTOPS schedule. PocketFivers finished in the top three spots in the event, with decayclaiming the title and $23,000. “Max,” as he goes by, finished as the runner up in the $5,200 buy-in event during FTOPS X for a whopping $362,000. Now, he has an outright victory during the tournament series. Coming in second place in the event, which drew 15,270 entrants, was DTpoker101, who banked $15,000 in his largest online poker payday to date. Rounding out the top three in the MiniFTOPS event was Don doublemeup Deutsch, who earned $11,000 for his troubles.

Finally, the high-stakes version of Event #24 was a $129 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Knockout tournament that fell short of its $1 million guarantee. However, Chance Chances CardsKornuth made the most of the truncated field, finishing as the event’s runner up for an even $100,000. In the last two months, Kornuth has wins in the $75,000 Guaranteed on Full Tilt Poker and the $55 Cubed on Stars for a combined $34,000. Trailing Kornuth was Stuart vedder1980 Barclay, who landed in fourth place for $60,000. The score greatly surpassed his previous largest cash, an $8,000 take in the PokerStars $10 rebuy.

Landing in fourth place in FTOPS Event #24 was mindgamer, who earned $45,000. The PocketFiver from Austria won a $100 buy in (two rebuys plus one add-on) tournament on PokerStars for $19,000 in February and, eight days ago, triumphed over the field in the $530 buy-in $60,000 Guaranteed High Roller on PartyPoker. Also making a final table appearance in the Sunday tournament was bob2bob, who banked $11,000 for ninth place. He opened the 2009 calendar year by finishing as the runner up in the Sunday Brawl on Full Tilt for $53,000.

Congratulations to all PocketFivers who cashed in FTOPS XII. We’ll look forward to reporting on members of the online poker community at the 2009 WSOP.