The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) was an online poker tournament series which ran on Full Tilt Poker. It was established in August 2006 and was held approximately every three months.
The FTOPS consisted of multiple tournaments in a variety of different poker games, each of which was hosted by a different Full Tilt professional. FTOPS I consisted of eight Texas Hold 'em and Omaha Hold 'em tournaments, but the series since expanded to include Stud, Razz, and mixed games, as well as knockout bounty, shootout, cashout, short-handed, and heads up tournaments. With the FTOPS XIII in August 2009, Full Tilt added a charity event to the series to benefit Ante Up for Africa, hosted by Don Cheadle. The main event was a $500 buy in No Limit Holdem tournament for FTOPS I to XV and $600 from FTOPS XVI onwards. The $2,100 Two-Day Event was for a long time the highest buy-in tournament in the series, but as of FTOPS XIX, the $10,300 Two-Day Heads-Up Event surpassed it.
The series featured a number of ongoing challenges that reward players for certain feats, such as winning 30 hands without showdown. Players who made the final table are awarded an FTOPS jacket, and event winners were awarded an FTOPS gold jersey and an FTOPS gold jersey avatar to represent them at Full Tilt’s tables. At the FTOPS XV in February 2010, any player who made the money in 17 of the 27 events would have received a $1 million bonus.
While the FTOPs series included many notable performance by top poker pros, arguably the most notable feat was accomplished in August 2008, when poker pro Yuval Bronshtein, playing under his handle "Yuvee04" took down two FTOPS in the same day. Bronshtein won four FTOPs total, which is also an all time FTOPs record.
Full Tilt also ran the MiniFTOPS, which took place one month later and featured the same events at one-tenth of the original buy-ins.
FTOPS Main Event winners Series Date Entrants Winner First PrizeFTOPS I August 2006 1,468 Crownnginger $161,480FTOPS II November 2006 2,449 Spiked $224,653FTOPS III February 2007 3,217 Traheho (Alec Torelli) $288,001FTOPS IV May 2007 3,798 John_McClane17 $336,217FTOPS V August 2007 4,578 CrazyZachary (Zachary Clark) $395,905 FTOPS VI November 2007 4,371 fkscreennames (Daryl Jace) $385,937FTOPS VII February 2008 5,291 Reverse $456,401FTOPS VIII May 2008 4,750 cheesemonster (Keith Lehr) $410,780FTOPS IX August 2008 4,880 dubbeemin (Brian Mintz) $432,400FTOPS X November 2008 5,225 Julian Verse (Va Shon Watkins) $450,708FTOPS XI February 2009 5,287 csimmsux (Adam Geyer) $456,056FTOPS XII May 2009 4,581 Pocketownage420 $432,400FTOPS XIII August 2009 5,306 Poligraph (Matthew Waxman) $453,663FTOPS XIV November 2009 5,471 zhivago2 (Heinz Kamutzki) $418,839FTOPS XV February 2010 5,645 JackQKA $237,644 (7-way deal)FTOPS XVI May 2010 4,534 Kirbynator $327,057.40 (3-way deal)FTOPS XVII August 2010 4,805 TyboVegas $423,057.41 (2-way deal)FTOPS XVIII November 2010 5,023 JHoWn $411,932.13 (3-way deal)FTOPS XIX February 2011 14,479 GIAMPP $877,949.74 (3-way deal)FTOPS XX May 2011 4,666 ArielBahia (Ariel Celestino) $346,696 (4-way deal)FTOPS XXI December 2012 4,766 yadio1111 (Yann Dion) $453,229.40 (2-way deal)FTOPS XXII March 2013 3,653 feel fine $392,332.20FTOPS XXIII August 2013 3,327 Itahaschi $270,828.43 (3-way deal)FTOPS XXIV December 2013 2,755 poksu pete $207,016.12 (3-way deal)FTOPS XXV April 2014 2,557 Firaldo87 (Niall Farrell) $236,232.74 (3-way deal)FTOPS XXVI August 2014 1,500 ponyo88 $153,962.72 (3-way deal)FTOPS XXVII December 2014 1,767 natfalber11 (Nathaniel Falber) $212,040FTOPS XXVIII March 2015 1,260 potta_x_potta (Mustapha Kanit) $239,400FTOPS XXIX March 2016 815 CMoosepower (Christian Elgstrøm) $63,472
See also World Cup of Poker World Championship of Online Poker
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