The Thursday FTOPS tournament may have been fairly small, but the names at the final table were certainly big, as red pros, online regs, and former winners populated the three final tables of the day. Longtime grinder Mike “GoLeafsGoEh” Leah was the opening winner of the day, claiming the $200 Rush Winner Poker Review Turbo No Limit Hold’em Event and earning a $92,797.25 payday in a little over two and a half hours of play.
The evening event generated one of the most star-studded final tables of the series, complete Winner Poker Bonus with two Red Pros, three WSOP bracelet winners, and two prior FTOPS championsThe 2-7 No Limit Hold’em event is new to the FTOPS schedule and the pros turned out in droves to give the action-packed game their best efforts.
It was not Bronshtein’s day to grab jersey #5, nor was it time for another Red Pro to book a win, as Huckleberry Seed and Robert Williamson III finished up in third and second place.