FTOPS IX Cash

Full Tilt Poker runs a regular series of Poker tournaments called the FTOPS. These are high buyin, large field, multi table tournaments. I decided to have a go at this series event number 1. This was a standard No Limit Holdem tournament with a buyin of $216. The final field size was 5,779 players. First prize was around $199,000 and given the field size it requires a lot of luck combined with skill to get there I suspect.

After a long battle I ended up 63rd for a prize of $2022.65. So close, 62 places from the big bucks. Full results here.

For the times I went all-in I managed to get my money in when I was ahead. Unfortunately two crucial hands near the end lost to people with marginal hands getting lucky, crippling my stack size and ending my run. That's poker I guess!

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