Event 5 of the FTOPS at Full Tilt Poker was the $200 buy-in Limit Holdem 6 max event hosted by Clonie Gowen. As with all the events preceding this one, the $150,000 guarantee was not needed as 1,203 players entered the event and created a prize pool of $240,600. In this event 144 paces would be paid with $49,202.70 to the winner.
Besides Clonie Gowen, this tournament had its fair share of Full Tilt poker pros in the field including Karina Jett who was the first to go of the pros in 1092nd, JJ Liu, Chip Jett, Huckleberry Seed, Scott Fischman and more, The best finisher of the pros was Marco Traniello who finished in the money in 89th place.
The final table was reached when with 7.5K/15K blinds, 6 feet under raised to 30K, it was folded to bdotshin05 in the big blind who, with only 39,831 left, re-raised and was then put all in by 6 feet under. 6 feet under showed Ac 5c to the 7h 6s of bdotshin05 and an Ad 5 s 7d Js 2 s board knocked bdotshin05 out in 7th place.
With that the final table was set and ended up being a marathon 2 hour table.
The final table would be:
Rjmgrace – 588,532
Beaniemill – 536,215
Serefecheers – 135,880
6 feet under – 261,836
Importer1 – 817m037
Bedard – 1,269,500
The first elimination would come by the hands of beaniemill. He raised under the gun and with Qc Jc and was re-raised all-in by serefecheers, beaniehill called only to see serefecheers roll over Ad Kd. The flop was all rags but the turn brought a Jh to send serefecheers to the rail in 6th place.
A few minutes later, 6 feet under raised on the button and was 3 bet by importer1, 6 feet under called and the flop came 9d Kh 3d. 6 feet under was first to act and check – raised the flop, importer1 called the raise. The turn brought the 3c and 6 feet under bet out and was instantly raised by importer1. 6 feet under re-raised getting all his chips in the middle with Ad 9c and was called by importer1 with Ah Kd , The turn did not help and 6 feet under was out in 5th.
After being cripple a couple hands before, rjmgrace was very short stacked and all in with 9c 6c only to be called by importer1 in the small blind and Bedard checked the big blind. Importer1 bet out Bedard on the turn when a jack hit and his Ad Js held up to eliminate rjmgrace in 4th.
The final three battled for a little less than an hour till finally beaniemill called a raise from the big blind from importer1. The flop came 8c 2s 2d and beaniemill checked, importer1 bet and beaniemill called. The turn brought the Ah and again beaniemill checked and importer1, after thinking a bit, bet again. This time beaniemill raised and importer1 instantly re-raised and with the call beaniemill was all-in. Beaniemill incredibly showed Kd Tc and importer1 showed 8d 7h. The turn did mot improve for beaniemill and he was out in 3rd.
As they went into heads up, importer1’s 1,827,000 in chips held a slight lead over Bedard and his 1,782,000. After nearly 30 minutes of heads up play, importer1 raised pre-flop and was 3 bet by Bedard which importer1 just called. The flop came Qd Qs Jc and Bedard bet out and importer1 called. The turn brought the Ad and the money card as Bedard again bet out and importer1 raised putting him all-in. Berdard called and unfortunately for importer1 his Ah Tc was dominated by Bedard and the Ac Ks. No help on the river and Bedard was crowned the FTOPS limit holdem Event 5 champion.
The FTOPS Event 5 Final Standings:
1 – Bedard – $49,202.70
2 – importer1 – $32.481.00
3 – beaniemill – $22,857.00
4 – rjmgrace – $17,082.60
5 – 6 feet under – $12,270.60
6 – serefecheers – $8,060.10
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