FTOPS XIV Event #20 won by UFman2
Posted on November 16, 2009
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Event #20 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series XIV was a no limit hold’em tournament hosted by Andy Bloch. The tournament had a buy-in of $216 and 2,803 players registered to compete. The prize pool was guaranteed at $400,000 but with so many players competing, the prize pool was increased to $560,600.
Bloch was joined by several other Full Tilt pros and Friends of Full Tilt Poker. Jon Turner, Vitaly Lunkin, Lee Watkinson, Scott Fischman and Huck Seed all competed in the tournament. the last red name standing in the tournament was Johan Brolenius a Friend of Full Tilt. Brolenius is a member of het Swedish National Ski Team and finished in 45th place winning $1,289.38.
The tournament took nine hours to get down to the final table. Once final table play began it was clear it was going to be tough to get to heads up play. in the end it would be online players UFman2 and SaulGood left to compete in heads up play.
Heads up play would last a good while and both players would eventually decide to make a deal. The deal decided was that UFman2 would earn $100,000 and SaulGood would earn $85,000 which left $2,000 for the winner. Play would then go on for about an hour before a winner would be named. In the end UFman2 would earn the chip lead and leave SaulGood in second place. UFman2 is now the second two-time career jersey winner of this FTOPS. UFman2 joins Deception Pt as a two-time career jersey winner of this series.
Final Results:
1st: Steve “UFman2” Burkholder ($102240.40)
2nd: Aaron “SaulGood” Surbeck ($85,000.00)
3rd: SmokeChoke ($54,378.20)
4th: TIGR778 ($40,923.80)
5th: David “muckducks” Cairns ($28,590.60)
6th: LuckyLukeKK ($19,060.40)
7th: 007-0253 ($12,893.80)
8th: Shyam “S_Dot111” Srinivasan ($8,969.60)
9th: Tarsis ($6,727.20)
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