PocketFivers Earn Over $1 Million from FTOPS XXI Main Event Final Table

Dan · December 17, 2012

Over 4,700 players turned out for the Main Event of the 21st Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS, on Sunday, a $640 No Limit Hold’em Multi-Entry Tournament. As has been the case during the entire running of FTOPS XXI, PocketFivers made mincemeat of the final table, coming away with seven of its nine spots and raking in well over $1 million. Click over to Full Tilt today.

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A heads-up chop ended matters and saw Full Tilt Poker’s yadio1111walk away with $453,000, the largest cash of the tournament. Second place belonged to Ontario pokercommunity member cswami, who earned $413,000. The cash nearly doubled the value of the tracked scores we have for the Canuck, whose largest online MTT cash prior to Sunday was worth $23,000 and came after winning the PokerStars Big $109 in September.

Third place and a cash injection of $253,000 went to Russia’s Ti0. He’ll earn his $1 million cash badgeon PocketFives with his FTOPS XXI Main Event finish and plays on Full Tilt under the screen name AmplifiedSample. He is a former PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker event winner, having taken down a $530 No Limit Hold’em Cubed tournament this year for $182,000.

United Kingdom player Gerald Geraldo22Cochlan (pictured above) claimed fifth place and raked in $140,000 in the FTOPS XXI Main Event. He plays on Full Tilt under the handle Aberdonian85and is now just a few cashes away from recording $500,000 in tracked scores. We’ll be publishing an interview with him soon on our site.

There was a pretty lively thread in the Poker Community forumhere on PocketFives railing Cochlan, which included text from a conversation earlier in the day in which he said he might be going out for the night instead of playing the Main Event. He commented, “Flat-mate was on about maybe going out. Will see if I’m playing.” We’d say Cochlan made a wise decision to register.

Sixth place went to Sorel Imper1um Mizzi, who has nearly $5 million in live MTT tournament cashes to his name according to the Hendon Mob. Mizzi won the WPT Vienna High Roller Event earlier this year for $151,000. His largest live score was worth $659,000 and came after a third place showing in the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event. Mizzi Tweeted when the final table was ongoing, “Wow, a rail consisting of legendary @MadMarvin is a rail indeed,” referring to poker pro Marvin Rettenmaier.

Another Russian made the final table of the FTOPS XXI Main Event, MAMOHT_T (pictured), who took seventh place and walked away with $65,000. He has over $1.3 million in tracked cashes on PokerStars, the largest of which came last month for $19,000 in the room’s $75,000 Guaranteed.

Canada’s Steve betrthanphilTripp landed in eighth place and cashed in for $45,000. He is ranked #48 in Canada, #24 in the province of Ontario, and #1 in his hometown of Lindsay. Rounding out the final table was Zugwat, who earned $31,000 as the first casualty of the group. Here is how the final table finished in the FTOPS XXI Main Event:

1. yadio1111 $453,229.40
2. CSWAMI $413,229.40 (cswami)
3. AmplifiedSample $253,932.48 (Ti0)
4. iRockhoes $188,733.60
5. Aberdonian85 $140,120.40 (Geraldo22)
6. Imper1um $97,226.40 (Imper1um)
7. MAMOHT_T $65,770.80 (MAMOHT_T)
8. betrthanphil $45,753.60 (betrthanphil)
9. Zugwat $31,455.60 (Zugwat)