billytk01 Busts a Winning Move at Full Tilt Poker's $750,000 Guaranteed on May 4,2008
3,546 players entered the Full Tilt Poker Sunday $750,000 on May 4, 2008. The site, which is home to Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Phil Ivey and Howard Lederer, paid out more than $40,000 to meet that guarantee. As the final table got underway, billytk01 had a commanding lead with more than 2,000,000 chips.
IKeepYouHonest was in the middle of the pack with his stack. However, he hit the rails first when calbears22 turned over big slick. domer79 followed soon after when LIAandTONYsDAD made the nut flush on the turn with his A ,Q . domer79 earned more than $13,000 for his eighth place finish.
TheAsianVampire then kicked his game into high gear by knocking out the next three players. LIAandTONYsDAD stopped his streak by ending the tournament life of gawyn in fourth place. At this point, billytk01 reasserted his dominance and sucked the essence from TheAsianVampire. TheAsianVampire's third place finish was good for $52,500.
billytk01 then drew final blood and KOd LIAandTONYsDAD in a heads-up match up.
These are the final results:
1) billytk01 - $132,788 2) LIAandTONYsDAD - $80,250 3) TheAsianVampire - $52,500 4) gawyn - $41,400 5) Outkicked - $31,050 6) calbears22 - $23,025 7) GUNssoooon - $17,250 8) domer79 - $13,500 9) IKeepYouHonest - $10,050
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