Friday was another day and another victory for members of the PocketFives poker community in the 21st Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS. This time, Russia’s serjiofxcame away with the “w” in a $216 No Limit Hold’em Rush Cubed tournament (Event #29) and pulled in $42,000. There was no chop to be had in the event and serjiofx is now just inches shy of scoring a $500,000 cash badgein his PocketFives profile. PocketFivers have won tournaments every single day of FTOPS XXI. Click over to Full Tilt for more details.

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A field of exactly 400 players turned out, creating a prize pool of $170,000, and the Russia pokercommunity member defeated Pokercciniheads-up for the title. For Pokerccini, taking second place meant a bankroll boost of $26,000.

Members of PocketFives could be found in nearly every spot at the final table, including Corey comandr_coolBurbick (pictured above), who landed in fourth place and earned $15,000. Burbick has been a member of PocketFives since 2007 and is one of only a handful of players with over $4 million in tracked cashes. On the first day of December, he won the PokerStars Turbo $30,000 Guaranteed for $10,000.

Seventh place went to Canada’s tuna_fish_tank, who raked in $5,500. He made his mark on the tournament world in mid-2009 by picking up an outright victory in the Full Tilt Poker $1K Monday for an even $80,000. Around the same time, he took second in an FTOPS $200 Cubed event for another $81,000.

Scott BigRiskkyClements (pictured) landed in eighth place in Event #29 for $4,200. Clements, a former Red Pro, plays under his real name on the new Full Tilt Poker and sits at #183 worldwide in the PocketFives Poker Player Rankings. On the same day as his FTOPS final table, he won the PokerStars $55 Rebuy for $5,700.

Rounding out the final nine in Event #29 was sosick, who calls Poland home and welcomed $3,400 to his bankroll on Full Tilt. He is at #58 worldwide, #3 in Poland, and is just $8,000 short of $1.3 million in tracked cashes on PokerStars, where he plays as sosickpl.

Here is how the final nine players in Event #29 cashed out:

1. serjiofx – $42,550.00 (serjiofx)
2. Pokerccini – $26,381.00
3. moliveira – $19,573.00 (mapof)
4. Comandr_Cool – $15,318.00 (comandr_cool)
5. DoktorGre – $11,488.50 (doktorgre)
6. AD_84 – $8,510.00
7. tuna_fish_tank – $5,531.50 (tuna_fish_tank)
8. Scott Clements – $4,255.00 (BigRiskky)
9. sosickPL – $3,404.00 (sosick)

We’re one day away from the Main Event of FTOPS XXI, a $640 No Limit Hold’em Multi-Entry Tournament that will kick off on Sunday. In the meantime, three events are on deck on Saturday to hold you over:

FTOPS XXI Event #31
Saturday, December 15 at 11:00 ET
$2,000 + $100 No Limit Hold’em Ante from the Start Two-Day Event
$500,000 Guaranteed

FTOPS XXI Event #32
Saturday, December 15 at 14:00 ET
$200 + $16 Seven-Card Stud High/Low
$20,000 Guaranteed

FTOPS XXI Event #33
Saturday, December 15 at 16:00 ET
$100 + $9 No Limit Hold’em Rush Rebuy
$150,000 Guaranteed

Visit Full Tilt Poker to register for any FTOPS XXI events.