It happened again, this time it was the Full Tilt Poker Series Main Event that undersold. Not to worry though, FTOPS again picked up the tab when only 4,581 players entered to play the online poker series main event with a guaranteed prize pool of 2.5 million dollars. Full Tilt picked up the tab on the 200k deficit, leaving 400 buyins unprotected.
As we pointed out the last time this happened, during the FTOPS event 22, that’s just like having 400 people go out of the tournament before you even buy in!
So why are these tournaments underselling? We know it’s not the smoking ban that’s plaguing so many casinos right now in the real world… that’s the glory of online poker isn’t it. It’s possible that the economy and the recession and all that could have kept a few players out of the game.. and there’s also the nearly simultaneous MiniFTOPS those could be the cause of Big Daddy Tilt footing the bill, however, with the much smaller buy-in, and the considerably smaller guarantee, these two tournaments should be drawing different crowds.
When the last chips hilt the felt, PocketOwnage420 was crowned the victor, beating out azzabenonaces in the heads up match.
For his trouble, PocketOwnage420 took home a nice n tidy pot, filled with 432,400 $1 poker chips. TesT_Tickler (loving these two names!) took home the miniFTOPS title, bagging $92,868 for his $55 poker tournament entry. Well, on second thought, that’s surely not a bad return on his investment.
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