Over $1 Million in Total Guaranteed Prizes
Published on February 5th, 2016 9:19 pm EST
FTOPS XXIX, which will get underway on Sunday, February 29th, will include a total of 46 events and a total guaranteed prize pool of just over $1 million. That's right - Full Tilt Poker, which, at one time, was the second largest online poker site in the world, is now hosting a tournament series with just a little over $1 million in total guaranteed prize money. The relatively small guaranteed prize pool shouldn't come as too much of a shock, as, according to Pokerscout.com, Full Tilt Poker is currently the 12th largest online poker site in the world. Despite initiating a number of changes that were intended to appeal to the casual poker player, Full Tilt Poker has continued to struggle mightily in recent months and years.
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As mentioned, FTOPS XXIX will get underway on Sunday, February 21st with two tournaments - a $100 No Limit Hold'em tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000, as well as a $50 6-Max No Limit Hold'em event with a guaranteed prize pool of $20,000.
The tournament series will be heavy on No Limit Hold'em, but there will also be NL Omaha H/L, Pot Limit Omaha and Fixed RAZZ events, just to name a few.
The main event of FTOPS XXIX, which will take place on Sunday, March 13th, will be a No Limit Hold'em re-entry event with a buy-in of $500 and a guaranteed prize pool of $250,000. This will be a far cry from the FTOPS XIX main event, which Blair "blur5f6" Hinkle took down for $1,162,949.74. This event, which took place a few months before "Black Friday", ended up drawing a total of 14,479 entries.
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Amaya, Inc. has significantly scaled back the size of the buy-ins for the FTOPS in order to appeal to casual players. The single highest buy-in for a FTOPS XXIX event will be $500, so don't expect to see too many professional poker players taking part.
Source: FTOPS Schedule
Source: Pokerscout.com
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