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Since the London events have ended and the players have nowhere to compete, they rushed into online poker. Gus Hanses tried to crush on Cole South but the last one succeeded to get back most part of what he lost previously.

There was a fine battle at Full Tilt room between Erik “DIN_FRU” Sagstrom and Phil Ivey. Erik was having fun beating everyone and finished the day with a $336k in his pocket, though he could have won much more if it were not for the Phil Ivey who suddenly rushed in to the game as if he knew some kind of secret and was not afraid of getting into trouble with Erik. The day brought him $1.1 million. Here is a short list of the players who were not that lucky to sit at the same table with Ivey: Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Cole South, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and Patrick Antonius.

The winner of the six max pot-limit Omaha tournament of the FTOPS, “Smouse156” took home over $76,000.

833 competitors took part in FTOPS’ six event for a chance to win a portion of the $416,500 prize pool.

Thus, the 102nd spot was rewarded with $791 alongside 17 other competitors. The next-placed 18 online players became $874 richer. This was followed by $999 for the next best 12 while $1,166 was give away to the dozen players finishing above those. So, it is easy to imagine how prizes for the better finishing players grew: $8,954 for the seventh place, $14,369 for the sixth, $22,491 for the fifth spot, $31,654 for the fourth, $41,650 for the third spot and $71,000 for the second.

The 13th edition of FTOPS is set to offer 25 events with the total prize pool of $19 million.

Full Tilt Poker was one of the poker gambling sites benefiting from sponsorship deals with UFC. To say more, the company was the top-shelf sponsor. And with Spike TV refusing to show the Full Tilt logo on the UFC broadcasts as a result of the new policy at the TV station, UFC had no choice, but to adopt this policy as well, otherwise there will be no TV coverage of the fights. Naturally, this situation caused some uproar, because Full Tilt logo is plastered all over every part of the UFC fighters and the Octagon Mat, but there is already a very little chance the situation can change.