Double Guarantees Week Coming to Full Tilt Poker
January 18, 2010 | Comments Off
Poker players will be excited to hear that Full Tilt Poker is doubling the prize pools for their guaranteed tournaments for one week this month. From January 25th to the 31st players will be able to compete in the guaranteed tournaments at Full Tilt Poker and try their skills at winning even more cash.
A total of $25 million will be up for grabs during the special week at Full Tilt Poker. each tournament will be offering a massive prize pool as the regular guarantees are already very generous. The Sunday Mulligan which normally has a $200,000 guarantee will boast a $400,000 guaranteed prize pool.
The Sunday Brawl, the sites large bounty tournament, usually has a prize pool of $400,000. It will be increased to $800,000. The largest prize pool will come from the $750,000 guaranteed tournament. This tournament will be offering up $1.5 million in prize money.
The above tournaments will be closing out the special double prize pool week but there will also be nice tournaments taking place during the week. The weekly guaranteed tournaments have smaller buy-ins which may be more affordable than the larger weekend tournaments. There is the $1k Monday which will offer $600,000 for players to compete for.
The daily $75,000 guaranteed tournament will have a $150,000 prize pool and the Daily Dollar tournament will have a $20,000 prize pool. The Fifty-Fifty tournament is another great tournament which has a $50,000 prize pool which will go up to $100,000.
This special week is a great way for the regulars at Full Tilt Poker to try and earn extra cash while playing the games they enjoy each week. If you are not familiar with Full Tilt Poker, this special week is a great chance for players to compete in tournaments which are offering very large prize pools.
Full Tilt Poker Weekend Tournament Results
January 4, 2010 | Comments Off
Full Tilt Poker was back in the swing of things this past weekend. The online poker room had a great turnout for their $750K guaranteed tournament as well as their Sunday Brawl tournament. Both tournaments had so many players competing that the total prize pools for both events saw over $279,000 in increases.
The Sunday Brawl is a $240 plus 16 Knockout tournament which offers a $400,000 guaranteed prize pool. This past weekend the tournament prize pool was increased to $575,400 as 2,877 players registered to compete. 279 spots would be paid and first would earn just over $81,000.
JCTurn and NudelTofu would be the top players of the competition as they made it all the way to heads up play. Both players outlasted the competition but only one could earn the top prize. In the end both would go all in but the cards would be in NudelTofu’s favor and sense he held the chip lead the win would go to him and JCTurn would have to settle for second place.
Final Results:
NudelTofu – $81,859
JCTurn – $64,783
whitehorse5 – $77,859
Euthanaces – $65,500 *4-way deal
Tmay420 – $29,345
buriedatsea – $19,564
babiggie – $13,234
Badgergav – $9,206
jklaen – $6,905
The $750,000 guaranteed tournament has a buy-in of $200 plus 16. This tournament had over 4,000 players competing so the tournament had a prize pool of $854,200 which paid out to 585 spots. The last two players standing would be medijun and metfan4590. Both players would decide to cut a deal so both would walk away with a six figure payday. The deal was cut according to chip stacks and the eventual winner would earn the remaining prize money. In the end it would be metfan4590 claiming the win.
Final Results:
metfan4590 – $123,871
medijun – $118,286 *2-way deal
Str8Forward – $59,794
Jimmy Jazz Jr – $46,981
SLips713 – $35,278
slimers19 – $26,139
dutchmaster – $19,647
eleach86 – $15,376
RANDY W 70006 – $11,446