Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth(credit: Ultimate Bet)
The Ultimate Bet Sunday $200,000 had 816 players on September 14, 2008. Unfortunately this meant that the online home of Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth had to pay out nearly $37,000 to meet that guarantee for this event. The good value for the player drew in the savvy online rounder including Nicholas “blumesiusx” Blumenthal.
Blumenthal, who is also known as CapTinBisKuit and IAmKeyserSoze, has quite the impressive online resume which includes top ten results in nearly every major weekend event and an FTOPS IX win (Event #3). He finished strong in this tournament as well. This weekend, blumesiusx finished in fourth place and earned $13,000 for his efforts.
In the end, dsands25, who previously took seventeenth place in this event, defeated hodgeman in heads-up play and claimed the $45,000 first place prize and the title.
These are the results:
1) dsands25 — $45,000
2) hodgeman — $27,000
3) pebs44 — $18,500
4) blumesiusx — $13,000
5) mellyy85 — $11,000
6) xxd33pxx — $9,000
7) Prez420 — $7,000
8) douros — $5,000
9) ELMO_MASK — $3,500
10)lil_oh_me — $2,000
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