FTOPS XI series kicks off at Full Tilt Poker |
| Written by Ben Thorns | |||
| Monday, 09 February 2009 11:02 | |||
Excitement abounds this week at Full tilt poker, the FTOPS XI series has comenced and there is excitment in the air. The 25 event tournament kicked off on the 4th February and runs until Sunday 15th February and has a staggering guaranteed prize fund of $15,000,000. Each event in the full calendar of poker games is hosted by one of the Full Tilt Poker professionals, including the charismatic Chris Ferguson winner of 5 WSOP bracelets, 2 WSOP rings, WSOP main event champion 2000 and John Juanda, who in his poker career has won 4 WSOP bracelets, the WSOP Europe main event championship title 2008 and winnings in excess of $8.5m. There are avariety of different knockout and shootout satellite poker tournaments leading up to the guaranteed $2.5m prize pool main event including pot limit Omaha, Razz,HORSE, stud and No limit Hold’em. The more satellites challenges that are won the more T$’s will be credited to your account for your main event entry, and if you suceed in winning more than any other poker player then you will rereceive the equivalent of 2 buy-ins. There is also the ever popular FTOPS XI two day event which is a $5,000 + $200 buy-in tournament and offers a guaranteed prize fund of £2,000,000. There are a number of prizes to be won along the way, if you are one of the final players in any of the FTOPS XI tournaments, then as well as winning your prize money you will receive the exclusive, limited edition FTOPS jacket, which you can wear with pride . If you are one of the lucky winners of FTOPS XI then you will win both the jacket and a gold jersey avatar. There is also the Bouncebackability Freeroll, this provides the opportunity for a poker player eliminated before the money to have a bounce back into an exclusive freeroll where it will be possible to win a buy-in entry to the FTOPS XII Main event. If you are not already an account holder then there is still time to take part, register immediately and receive 100% deposit match up to a very generous max of $600.
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