Large entry fields and six-figure main prizes continue at current online poker tourney series
The latest big winner in the current Full Tilt Online Poker Series ninth edition is player “MishkaT” who truimphed in Event 17, which saw an entry field of 1 059 entrants in the $300+$22 buy-in, six-max format tournament. The total prize pool for the event ended up at $1 207 500 as a result of 2 239 rebuys and 727 add-ons.
By the time the field had been whittled down to the final table, Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmaier was a convincing chip leader on 1 691 565 – a solid 75 000 chip lead over nearest opponent “MishkaT” and Kevin “GetPWN3D” Saul who was even further behind on 1 439 336. The three lead players maintained their dominance through to the final three, playing entertaining poker until Staudenheimer was eliminated by a rampant Saul, who by then had built a 4 million chip stack.
Going into the heads up, it looked as if it was all Saul, who had a 5 to 1 lead on MishkaT, but as so often happens in these situations, fortune was capricious, and aided by skill and determination MishkaT closed the gap, leading to an hour’s exciting poker in which the lead changed hands several times.
In the end it was MishkaT who was victorious, claiming the $251 764 main prize and leaving a worthy opponent with the second place paycheck of $167 842. Third placed Staudenheimer was still in six-figure territory with his third prize of $119 542.