Beth Shak(credit: Beth Shak's Official Web Site)
5,742 players joined Beth Shak on the virtual felt Sunday August 17, 2008 at 2.00 pm ET for the $120 + 9 pm NLHE knockout tournament. The 23rd event of the FTOPS IX had a total prize pool of $574,200, paying out 558 places. Erick “E-Dog” Lindgren was the only Full Tilt Poker pro to make bank in the tournament. He finished in 22nd place and earned more than $1600 for his efforts.
Teledonk came in 400th place; castellimich earned $947.43 for the 57th slot while MrHolywood claimed more than $1k for 52nd place. The big money was obviously reserved for the top nine players. The top finisher was the only one guaranteed a six-figure payday. As the final two fought it out for the title, Kroko-dill and Hyperspiral knew that more than $50,000 separated them.
In the end, there could be only one winner and it was Kroko-dill.
Here are the final results:
1) Kroko-dill - $113,691.60
2) Hyperspiral - $69,765.30
3) Scarypooper5 - $50,506.63
4) BeatProphet - $35,600.40
5) soggy dogg - $25,839
6) kennl - $17,226
7) PapaWood619 - $11,484
8) c4s1n0 - $8,038.80
9) vcehorosho - $5,742.00
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