“dubbeemin” Takes Down Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS IX Main Event

Esteemed congratulations go out to “dubbeemin” for routing the enormously skilled field of Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS IX Main Event (Full Tilt Online Poker Series). The action unfolded Sunday evening as the FTOPS Main Event got underway at 6pm ET.

Team Full Tilt’s Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson hosted the final event, a $500+$35 No Limit Hold’em tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $2.5 million. A field of 4,880 converged on the FTOPS IX Main Event tables to take a shot at the highest GP in the FTOPS IX series, and the prestigious title of FTOPS IX Champion.

Lasting 10 hours and 44 blind levels that escalated to $140k/$280k and $35k Antes, 1st place would pay a heavenly prize of $432,400.

As the final table was set, ‘TiltinShoes’ of the United States would be the first finalist to view the outcome from the rails, earning $32,500 for a 9th place finish. Soon joining would be ‘aaaFRANCESCOzzz’, taking the 8th place prize of $43,750.

In 7th, ‘tvcsa’ pocketed a cool $57,500, followed by ‘hemlock1313’ in 6th for $75,000. The next to fall was ‘sckilla’, taking the impressive 5th place purse of $100,000. ‘Pokerguru19’ finished in 4th, worth $132,500. Eventually, ‘TheTotalPkg’ would fall from the competition in 3rd place, earning $170,000.

Heads-up play came down to ‘valleyho’ and ‘dubbeemin’ as the two chip-jousted for the ultimate victory. In the end, it was ‘valleyho’ eliminated in 2nd place, taking home an awesome reward of $262,500.

‘dubbeemin’ was crowned the Champion of FTOPS IX, outlasting a field of nearly 5k to pocket a whopping $432,400.

FTOPS IX Main Event Final Table Results
1st – dubbeemin - $432,400
2nd – valleyho - $262,500
3rd – TheTotalPkg - $170,000
4th – Pokerguru19 - $132,000
5th – sckilla - $100,000
6th – hemlock1313 - $75,000
7th – tvcsa - $57,500
8th – aaaFRANCESCOzzz - $43,750
9th – TiltinShoes - $32,500

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