In one of the final tournaments held as part of the recently completed Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS, David Davidp18Peters chopped heads-up with Dalbaiyob and walked away with $152,000. The $163 No Limit Hold’em Rush Rebuy attracted 1,589 players and ultimately featured a prize pool that approached $1 million, easily blowing away its $750,000 guarantee. Peters sat down with PocketFives.com to break down the chop and recap several key scores during a recent hot streak.

Rush Poker has taken the industry by storm ever since its introduction in January. As soon as players are finished with their action in a hand, they are whisked away to a new table with a new set of opponents where a new hand begins. Rush Poker is high octane and Peters shared his thoughts on the new cash game and tournament format: “It’s pretty interesting and I like it. It’s fast-paced, you get to see a bunch of hands, and you can also take advantage of people who are just trying to quick fold until they get monsters.”

Players have taken a variety of approaches in Rush Poker tournaments. We asked Peters to share his mentality headed into the high-stakes FTOPS version: “For the most part, until you can actually get reads on people, you don’t really know anything about them, so I just play it as if I were playing randoms in a regular tournament. I look for good spots to raise, 3bet, etc. based on position and stack sizes.” He added, “You can also get away with more because people don’t know how you’re playing; you can 3bet six hands in a row and no one knows.”

Three days following his six-figure FTOPS chop, Peters won the PokerStars Wednesday Quarter Million for $55,000. Back in March, he final tabled the site’s Sunday 500 for another $37,000. Like many in the online poker community, Peters is anxiously awaiting the start of the 2010 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) on September 5th: “I have been on a nice heater lately and hopefully can ride that into the WCOOP.”

The FTOPS Rush final table featured a gauntlet of talent including RPM Pokerpro Chris cdbr3799Dombrowski (pictured) and Laurence rivermanl Houghton, who finished in third and fourth, respectively. Peters admitted that the road to a chop was anything but a breeze: “Both Dombrowski and Houghton were playing very well and I didn’t recognize the guy I got heads-up with, but he played very well and aggressively. It was definitely a tough final table.”

Peters had a rock solid 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP), piling up three cashes for over $400,000 total. He took second in the final $1,000 No Limit Hold’em event for $350,000 and promptly made a deep run in the Main Event, taking 136th place for $57,000. In the $1,000 tournament, Peters noted that he had a 9:2 chip lead entering heads-up play against the Netherlands’ Marcel Vonk, but a couple of “standard coolers” proved to be his undoing.

His momentum seemed to carry over into the Main Event: “It was definitely nice having momentum going into the Main Event. I thought I played well in the Main Event, picked good spots, and attacked the weaker players well.” Peters also found success in a $2,500 No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed tournament at the 2010 WSOP, finishing in 32nd place for $12,000.

In case you missed it, here’s how the final table of the $163 No Limit Hold’em Rush Rebuy cashed out during FTOPS XVII:

1. Dalbaiyob – $182,799
2. Davidp18 – $152,213 (Davidp18)
3. cdbr3799 – $96,399 (cdbr3799)
4. whatariver1 – $76,356 (rivermanl)
5. colenel decker – $57,267
6. slaskovic – $41,041
7. TakeltBack – $26,725
8. wheelguy – $19,089
9. meireles23 – $13,362

Check out our FTOPS XVII resultsand visit Full Tilt Poker for more information. Congratulations to Peters and other members of the online poker community who cashed.