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Jon Turner's having a heck of an FTOPS (credit: Full Tilt Poker)

Yuval “yuvee04” Bronshtein, a mixed games specialist has rocketed up to the top of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) leaderboard after winning not one, but two events in the series. To add a little something something to this amazing feat, the resident of Atlanta, GA, who began playing the game while a freshman in college, yuvee04 won the events back to back. Yes….BACK-TO-BACK.

First, Yuval took down the $500 + 35 buy-in HORSE on August 12, 2008 tournament that was hosted by WSOP bracelet winner Jens Voertmann. 655 players took to the felt, driving up the prize pool to $327,500. yuvee04 outlasted them all including Full Tilt pros Jon “PearlJammed’ Turner, John Cernuto, John DAgostino and Steve Zolotow, each of whom made bank in the event. Boosted J, SamENole, KudelyKQ, Mig_com and badbeatninja also earned some cash in the tourney.

Here are the final results for Event # 14:

1) yuvee04 - $70,412.50
2) spadez67 - $48,470.00
3) HTBJabroni64 - $32,913.75
4) NiceJB - $21,287.50
5) MoormanI - $13,427.50
6) OUEmoKid - $9,497.50
7) Rex55 - $6,877.50
8) ms12345 - $4,617.75

24 hours later on Wednesday August 13, 2008, yuvee04 headed to the FTOPS tables again in the $200 + 16 NLHE Turbo tournament hosted by author/blogger/former lawyer and poker player Michael Craig. 3,471 other players joined him, keeping the prize pool at the $500,000 guarantee. A total of 234 players made bank in the event including Full Tilt Pros Erica Schoenberg, David Chiu and Robert Williamson III. Online rounders who earned cash included SCTrojans08, Roothlus, CrystalBalla, HosniMubarak,syzygy-1-1-1-1 and Mark “newhizzle” Newhouse among others.

In the end, yuvee04, defeated ANIMAL5050 for his second FTOPS IX title in a row, adding nearly $102,000 to his online tournament earnings.

These are the results for Event # 15:

1) yuvee04 - $101,975
2) ANIMAL5050 - $66,000
3) DHM0219 - $49,000
4) xRIPCURLx - $37,000
5) 20542 - $26,000
6) newhizzle $17,000
7) gambeta_perrins - $11,500
8) DammaD - $8,000
9) vm1124 - $6,000

Join The Professor, aka Howard Lederer, for a Razz tournament on Friday August 15th at 21.00 ET. Satellites for the $300 + 22 buy-in tournament are going on now. Visit FTP now for more information!

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