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VPP Poker Room News
| “gboro780” Wins $1.5M GTD FTOPS XI Event #10 - Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 14:37
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It has been a stellar week at Full Tilt as thousands of participants have taken to the virtual felt to compete in the 11th installment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series. With more than $15 million in guaranteed prize pools up for grabs, Event #10's $1.5 million GTD was exceptionally attractive.
A field of 5,325 converged on the tables Sunday for Event #10, $300+$22 No Limit Hold’em, hosted by FullTiltPoker.net Pro John Phan. The excessive tournament entries boosted the expected prize pool even higher to $1,597,500 as the FTOPS XI event got under way at Full Tilt.com.
Player by player and hour by hour, the numbers dwindled until the final table was formed. One by one, these players fell to the rails as well, including the 3rd place elimination of "Shoomie", worth $107,352, that brought about the final heads-up conquest between “BUSTYOU79” and “gboro780”.
In the end, it was “gboro780” who came out on top, pocketing an astounding $275,600 for the first place victory, plus the admiration of the online poker community for hauling in a desirable FTOPS XI Bracelet. “BUSTYOU79” walked away with an very respectable $166,938 for the second place finish.
FTOPS XI Event #10 NL Hold’em, $1.5m GTD Final Table Results
1st - gboro780 ($275,600.70)
2nd - BUSTYOU79 ($166,938.75)
3rd - Shoomie ($107,352)
4th - Jerms13 ($83,868.75)
5th - nevermo ($63,101.25)
6th - ilovemypuppy ($47,126.25)
7th - TorontoToro ($36,742.50)
8th - J4d3dr4g0n ($27,956.25)
9th - Drow ($20,767.50)
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