Full Tilt Online Poker Series

{{Short description|Online poker tournament series}}

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The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) was an online poker tournament series which ran on Full Tilt Poker. It was established in August 2006 {{cite web|url=http://www.pokersite.org/poker-tournaments/ftops/|title=Full Tilt Poker FTOPS - Qualify for the FTOPS|website=www.pokersite.org}} and was held approximately every three months.{{Cite web |last=Cypra |first=Dan |date=2009-02-06 |title=FTOPS Schedule Explained by Howard Lederer |url=https://www.pokernewsdaily.com/ftops-schedule-explained-by-howard-lederer-1008/ |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=Poker News Daily |language=en-US}}

The FTOPS consisted of multiple tournaments in a variety of different poker games, each of which was hosted by a different Full Tilt professional.{{cite web|url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/ftops-xv-schedule-announced-7341/|title=FTOPS XV Schedule Announced|date=6 January 2010}} FTOPS I consisted of eight Texas Hold 'em and Omaha Hold 'em tournaments, but the series since expanded to include Stud, Razz, and mixed games, as well as knockout bounty, shootout, cashout, short-handed, and heads up tournaments. With the FTOPS XIII in August 2009, Full Tilt added a charity event to the series to benefit Ante Up for Africa, hosted by Don Cheadle.{{cite web|url=http://www.coinflip.com/news/schedule-ftops-xiii-released.html|title=Domain Registered at Safenames|website=www.coinflip.com}} The main event was a $500 buy in No Limit Holdem tournament for FTOPS I to XV and $600 from FTOPS XVI onwards. The $2,100 Two-Day Event was for a long time the highest buy-in tournament in the series, but as of FTOPS XIX, the $10,300 Two-Day Heads-Up Event surpassed it.

The series featured a number of ongoing challenges that reward players for certain feats, such as winning 30 hands without showdown.{{cite web|url=http://www.onlinegambling.com/poker/news/FTOPS_XV-601008.html|title=%%TITLE%% - Online Gambling|website=www.onlinegambling.com}} Players who made the final table are awarded an FTOPS jacket, and event winners were awarded an FTOPS gold jersey and an FTOPS gold jersey avatar to represent them at Full Tilt’s tables.{{cite web|url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/full-tilt-poker-and-ftops-gold-3728/|title=Full Tilt Poker and FTOPS Gold - Poker News Daily|date=31 July 2009}} At the FTOPS XV in February 2010, any player who made the money in 17 of the 27 events would have received a $1 million bonus.

While the FTOPs series included many notable performance by top poker pros, arguably the most notable feat was accomplished in August 2008, when poker pro Yuval Bronshtein, playing under his handle "Yuvee04" took down two FTOPS in the same day.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poker-king.com/poker-king-articles.php?article=497|title = Yuval yuvee04 Bronshtein Wins Two FTOPS Titles in the Same Day}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.pokernewsdaily.com/yuvee04-wins-back-to-back-ftops-events-258/|title = Yuvee04 Wins Back to Back FTOPS Events|date = 13 August 2008}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/world-of-poker/FTOPS-IX-yuvee4-Wins-Two-Events-In-One-Day_08417/|title=News: FTOPS IX: 'yuvee04' Wins Two Events In One Day|accessdate=27 May 2023}} Bronshtein won four FTOPs total, which is also an all time FTOPs record.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/8571-online-poker-raj-badcardsaa-vohra-wins-two-day-ftops-event|title = Online Poker -- Raj 'BadcardsAA' Vohra Wins Two-Day FTOPS Event - Poker News}}

Full Tilt also ran the MiniFTOPS, which took place one month later and featured the same events at one-tenth of the original buy-ins.{{cite web|url=http://www.pokerlistings.com/17-million-on-the-line-in-upcoming-ftops-xv-56327|title=Poker News - Current News & Features from Around the Poker World|website=Pokerlistings}}