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Patrik Antonius Takes Down Biggest Pot In Online Poker History

TheGambler — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:19:31 +0000

isildur1 might be the name on everyone’s lips these days, as the unknown players sweeps $6 million off the tables last week (mostly from NL Holdem superstar Tom durrrr Dwan, of the self-named Million Dollar Challenge), but there’s another “old-timer” (comparatively speaking) on everyone’s lips today, and it happens to be another poker pro who lost big to isildur1, that being Patrik Antonius (to the tune of about $1 million).

But Antonius bounced back from that $1 million loss on Full Tilt Poker nicely, taking down the record-breaking largest sized pot in online poker history. And to make the $878,959 pot even sweeter for Antonius, the opponent he won it from was none other than isildur1 himself.

The previously record, appropriately enough, was set by durrrr himself, $723,000 won off Di “Urindanger” Dang in October of 2008.

This time, the game was heads-up Pot Limit Omaha and the table stakes were $500/$1,000. When they sat down at the table, both players started with over $400,000 each.

Mini-FTOPS XIII Kicking Off Soon: Last Minute Satellites Running

TheGambler — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:49:09 +0000

The Mini-FTOPS XIII is almost underway. It starts September 9, and offers up the same 25 events at a fraction of the buy-in (1/10th) for a total $3 million guaranteed prize pool, including a $500,000 main event.

That main event caps the Mini-FTOPS XIII series on September 20 at 5 pm ET for a $55 buy-in, following the two-day event, a $266 tourney starting the day before, on September 19 at 1 pm for a $400,000 prize pool.

A $7,500 prize package, including a free entry into every FTOPS XIV event, is up for grabs as well – for whoever tops the leaderboard that’ll be running throughout the series. Prizes will also be awarded to several of other top finishers as well.

Full Tilt still has Mini-FTOPS XIII satellites going on now, daily, up through the start of the series, for buy-ins starting at $0.50 or 50 Full Tilt Points, awarding free seats in various events, including the main event.

Full Tilt Poker Loses, Players Win in FTOPS XII

TheGambler — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:55:30 +0000

When a poker site runs a Guaranteed Tournament, the money in that guaranteed prize pool is typically expected to come from the buy-ins of the players entering the competition. But when not enough entrants sign up for a tournament, the poker site doesn’t have enough buy-in money to cover the entire guaranteed prize pool amount, and so has to fork up the difference from their own coffers. This is called an “overlay”, and it’s what Full Tilt Poker had to face multiple times during its FTOPS XII.

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series 12 has just ended and the players, of course, are happy as ever. The FullTilt Poker operators? Not so much. Just look at the main event, for one…

The FTOPS XII main event had a scant 4,581 players paying the $500 + $35, bringing the prize pool to about $2.3 million. Only problem is, the guarantee was $2.5 million, so Full Tilt had to cover the remaining $200,000 from their “profits”. With only $160,000 raked in from the $35 entry fees, Full Tilt took an over $40,000 loss on this event.