8 remain in FTOPs event 1

8 players left in FTOPs event 1

9 players remain In the $200 short-handed $1 million guaranteed tournament.  4445 players started, leaving an overlay of over $100,000 – what a value!  Blinds are 25,000-50,000 ante 6000.

FTOPs Chip count

MrsESPN currently leads with over 4 million chips, and has really stepped up the aggression.  The Quietwinner, also over 4 million chips leads the second table.  Rounding out the field, URBEHIND 3.3 million, ChasingIdiot 3.7 million, and PXFACTOR nursing the shortstack with 870K.

Table 1 has Tomsk400 at 2.5 million, while flopjunkie19 has 1.5 million, and loosenuts99 1.8 million.

Double through with AA

With a short stack, flopjunkie19 moves all-in, doubling through The Quietwinner while holding pocket aces.  FJ is now up to 2.8 million, while The Quietwinner is down to 950K right before the break.

Chip count at the break:

Tomsk400 5.4 million chips

URBEHIND 4.2 million chips

Chasingidiot 3.4 million chips

flopjunkie 2.7 million chips

MrsESPN 2.3 million chips

PXFACTOR 1.7 million chips

loosenuts99 1.3 million chips

The Quietwinner 949K chips

Payouts

Top prize for the first event of FTOPs 12 is a nice $191K.  Second place receives $117K, while 3rd place gets $81,200.  Fourth place receives $60K, 5th $44K, 6th $30K, and seventh & eighth place both receive $19.300 in this million dollar guaranteed prize pool.

Elimination hand

AQ v pocket tens MrsESPN gets reraised to all-in vs PXFACTOR.  The tens hold up and MrsESPPN is eliminated in 8th place to kick off hand for hand play.