FTOPS XVII has come to an end, and a champion has been crowned. Mike “chapmoney” Chappus secured two wins during the 34 event series, a truly awesome accomplishment. Chapmoney’s first win came in Event #3, the $322 buy-in 6-max No Limit Holdem 4x Shootout Turbo, netting him $68,040. His second win came later in Event #24, the $216 No Limit Holdem event with over 1,200 players, which earned chapmoney a cool $49,497. This performance gave chapmoney first place for the FTOPS XVII leaderboard.
Other noteworthy results were in Event #29, the $2,100 6-max No Limit Holdem event. This two day event ended up paying the second highest first prize in the series: $417,000 to McLean “pureprofitfour” Karr.
Event #32, the $256 Buy-in 6-max No Limit Holdem, attracted the second largest field for the series of 5,055 players. The very large field was eventually taken down by “DrunkSpirit” who pocketed $193,121 for winning the event.
The series ended with the FTOPS XVII Main Event. Hosted by Mike “The Mouth” Matusow and with a prize pool of $3 million, this event was sure to make an exciting finale to the series. The buy-in of $640 bought a total of 4,805 players to take their shot at winning the series Main Event. After over 15 hours of play there was a deal made during heads up action between “TyboVegas” and “DQnk”. The tournament was won by “TyboVegas” for over $423,000. The final table results were:
1st place – TyboVegas – $423,057
2nd place – DQnk – $446,942
3rd place – flagal43 – $255,000
4th place – roo7227 – $192,000
5th place – Ship_the_dollar – $143,850
6th place – jfiiue4 – $99,000
7th place – einstein007 – $64,500
8th place – angrywhale – $45,000
9th place – JBurleson – $31,500
Jeremy “JBurleson” Burleson, who managed a ninth place finish in the main event, had also won Event #19, the $535 buy-in for a strong FTOPS showing. Now with FTOPS XVII in the books we are less than three weeks away to kick start the MiniFTOPS series.
Poker News Daily will be covering FTOPS XVII and all the action as it takes place.
