dubbeemin Wins FTOPS IX Main Event
This Sunday at Full Tilt Poker 4,880 players plunked down $500+$35 to play in the FTOP Main Event. Many of them found themselves at a table with one of the 60 Full Tilt Pro players who also dotted the field (The pro that lasted the longest was Kelly Kim, one of the final 10 players remaining in the 2008 WSOP who busted in 16th).
With a massive first place payout of $432,400 (US) payday, the games best were battle ready looking to cash big. When the smoke cleared after a little more than 11 hours play, the final table was decided. While no Full Tilt pro players graced the table, the warriors that made it this far now had their sights set clearly on the near half million-dollar payday.
The final table began with the following players/chip stacks:
Seat 1: valleyho (4,177,484)
Seat 2: Pokerguru19 (1,252,960)
Seat 3: dubbeemin (3,574,154)
Seat 4: hemlock1313 (1,273,018)
Seat 5: sckilla (5,646,087)
Seat 6: aaaFRANCESCOzzz (1,641,169)
Seat 7: TiltinShoes (3,472,702)
Seat 8: tvcsa (1,426,134)
Seat 9: TheTotalPkg (1,936,292)
It didn’t take long for the first elimination – With the blinds at 60/120K and 15K antes, dubbeemin made a raise to 280K UTG. TiltinShoes then re-raised to 600K. It was folded back to dubbeemin and popped it back to 1.3M. TiltinShoes then pushed all-in and was called in a hurry by dubbeemin.
TiltinShoes: As Kc
dubbeemin: Ah Ac
Flop: 3s 2d Qs
Turn: 3c
River: 5s
Bad time to pick up AK obviously when the chip leader (who barely has you out stacked) is holding Aces!
There were a few more clashes but nothing earth shattering like the first one that lead to a heads up battle for the first place money between dubbeemin and valleyho. By this time dubbeemin had a commanding lead with 18.7M chips to valleyho and his humble stack of 5.7M. It was almost over just a few hands into the match when both players got all of their chips in with dubbeemin holding pocket 10’s and valleyho holding pocket 8’s. Making a set of 8’s on the turn saved valleyho the early defeat.
The final hand saw both players seeing the flop after a small raise from valleyho in the BB to 725,555. The flop showed 9c 7c 6h and valleyho led out for 999,955 (he obviously likes 555), dubbeemin raised to 3.5M and valleyho went into the tank before pushing all in. dubbeemin didn’t think long before calling.
valleyho: Kc 10c
dubbeemin: Qc Jc
Turn: Ad
River: Jd
Both players felt good with their flush draws until the showdown that had valleyho holding a big lead. Unfortunately, the river brought the Jack for dubbeemin and with that, the tournament concluded after more than half a days play. For his efforts, dubbeemin took down the $432,400 pot along with a gold FTOPS jersey.
