It was a case of déjà vu yesterday in Day 2 of the Mini FTOPS as, not only were the guarantees being surpassed again, but the winners looked familiar as well!
Mini-FTOPS Smashes Guarantees in Events 2, 3 and 4
It was a case of déjà vu yesterday in Day 2 of the Mini FTOPS as, not only were the guarantees being surpassed again, but the winners looked familiar as well!
The current mini-Full Tilt Online Poker Series is not just mirroring the December series in terms of guarantee-busting tournaments, many of the players who took down valuable prizes in FTOPS XXI four weeks ago are back at it in the lower buy-in tournaments. Indeed, currently atop the tournament series leaderboard is “Gennadiy AS”, who added yesterday´s Mini-FTOPS #2 PLO Hi/Lo to the Razz Event he captured in the main series.
Mini-FTOPS Results Day 2
The $22.00 buy-in 6-Max PLO Hi/Lo (Mini-FTOPS #2) attracted 1,884 players – almost doubling the advertised guarantee and generating a first prize of $7,536.00 for “Gennadiy AS”.
| # | Mini-FTOPS #2 | Prize |
| 1 | Gennadiy As | $7,536 |
| 2 | akkopower | $4,841 |
| 3 | thanasis1982 | $3,391 |
| 4 | countrymac | $2,524 |
| 5 | 1FCKoeln82 | $1,808 |
| 6 | iam_junior | $1,224 |
The guarantee was almost doubled again in the $109.00 buy-in multi-entry Superstack No Limit Hold´em (Mini-FTOPS #3) as 2,955 entries smashed the $150,000 guarantee and provided nice paydays for “s3c3” and “schrutebucksss” who split the top prizes in a heads-up deal.
| # | Mini-FTOPS #3 | Prize |
| 1 | s3c3 | $50,848 |
| 2 | schrutebucksss | $47,848 |
| 3 | falodi | $28,663 |
| 4 | Belabasci | $21,571 |
| 5 | Mountino | $15,070 |
| 6 | Plotinus | $10,047 |
| 7 | AKJMoscow | $6,796 |
| 8 | drygrikbjuden | $4,728 |
| 9 | eyes7475 | $3,546 |
The turbo Rush Poker Mini-FTOPS #4 event was also popular despite the late start time, and remarkably the top 6 positions were all filled by European players – Laurence “whatariver1” Houghton from the UK taking home the $13,908 first prize.
| # | Mini-FTOPS #4 | Prize |
| 1 | whatariver1 | $13,908 |
| 2 | johannes20 | $8,901 |
| 3 | Yovlin | $6,606 |
| 4 | hesze86 | $4,937 |
| 5 | GrandeMilcek | $3,477 |
| 6 | Guudjik | $2,294 |
| 7 | beerkid | $1,529 |
| 8 | Lundy94 | $1,043 |
| 9 | daddio141 | $764 |
Tuesday on Mini-FTOPS XXI
There are three more big tournaments taking place today with a total of $85,000 available in guaranteed prizes.
Mini-FTOPS #5 is a $22.00 buy-in 6-Max Superstack HA tournament (alternating rounds of NL Hold´em and PL Omaha Hi) for which the cards are in the air at 11.00am ET (4.00pm GMT). There is $25,000 already in the pool for this event and sleepy-heads will be glad to know that there is late registration available for two hours.
They will be “under starter´s orders” for the $22.00 buy-in Double Stack HORSE tournament (Mini-FTOPS #6) at 2.00pm ET (7.00pm GMT), with a measly $10,000 guaranteed for this event and late registration also available for two hours.
Tournament of the day is the $33.00 buy-in Super Turbo Multi Entry Knockout tournament which starts at 5.00pm ET (10.00pm GMT). A $50,000 guarantee and $6.00 bounty on each player should attract a lot of interest, but do not expect Mini-FTOPS #7 to last long – players only receive 300 starting chips and levels last just 5 minutes (late registration available until the end of Level 3!).
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