Alan Boston(credit: Full Tilt Poker)
Thomas Bihl is the 2007 WSOPE HORSE champion. The German poker superstar played host at the 17th event of the FTOPS X. The $200 + 16 buy-in NLHE 4 X shootout featured six players per table and had 1,094 players show up for the tournament. An overlay was required to meet the $250,000 guarantee. Stefan Rapp was the only red pro to make the money in the event, taking 40th place and $750.
CrystalBalla, da_professional, The Omaholic and GoLeafsGoEh all represented for the online community. The final two spots belonged to Shoomie and BigDaddyKing. BigDaddy walked into heads-up play with a bit of a chip lead and exited it the same way, earning $43,750 for his efforts and the title.
Here are the final results:
1) BigDaddyKing - $43,750
2) Shoomie - $27,500
3) SNACKERS - $18,300
4) justakid69 - $12,500
5) DLizzle - $8,750
6) TerenzHill - $6,000
548 players entered the Razz tournament on Thursday, November 13, 2008, driving up the $150,000 prize pool to a cool $164,400. imabigkidnow, winner of Event #14 earlier in this series, made the final table of this tournament. He finished in seventh position, adding another $3600 to his series bankroll.
No Full Tilt Pros earned any cash in the event including host Alan Boston. However, KudelyKQ, GoLeafsGoEh and Capax Infiniti were among the top finishers in the tourney. TYGOP and Crisp86 battled it out for the title until Crisp86 sealed the deal with a 9-low at the 40k/80k level.
These are the standings:
1) Crisp86 - $38,962.80
2) TYGOP - $25,810.80
3) ShawnFrie - $18,084
4) OnTheRail15 - $11,179.20
5) pbdrunks - $6,904.80
6) Rainman1989 - $4,767.60
7) imabigkidnow - $3,616.80
8) Browndog19 - $2,466
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