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The Sunday Supplement: Batista Books FTOPS Win

The biggest story to emerge from another Sunday filled with major tournaments had to be Chad Batista booking an FTOPS win.

FTOPS XV Event #10, a $300+22 buy-in with a $1.5 million guarantee, drew a total of 4,682 players. Chad “jse81″ Batista and Lilly79 chopped at the top saving $15k for first, but eventually Batista booked the win and banked $225,000.

Batista wasn’t the only FTOPS winner on the day, however. Dr Fill Good won the $120+$9 No Limit Hold’em Knockout event for $136,250.11 and AAeveryhand won the $500+$35 Heads-Up for $77,336.

FTOPS XV continues through February 21 on Full-Tilt.

Over on PokerStars, the Sunday Million continued to be the biggest Sunday draw with 8,341 players turning up to create a $1,668,200 prize pool.

Swiss player Blompf booked a $227,757.02 win after a chop at the top with oldrich88 from the Czech Republic.

Smac102 took down the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up banking $142,982.61, but perhaps even more notable was the fifth place finish by East Coast loudmouth Eugene Todd in the PokerStars F40 $40 Micro Million, celebrating PokerStars 40 billionth hand dealt.

Todd took $33,263.29 for his efforts and after his exit, the four players at the top chopped, with $95,816 going to eventual winner anybodybut17.

Meanwhile, Jeremiah Vinsant, Nick Maimone and Team PokerStars Pro J.C. Alvarado all made the final table of the Sunday 500 on PokerStars.

However, none could best KGBkaka, who took home $92,341 for the win.

Other big names to make final tables in PokerStars Sunday events included Lee “Final Table” Nelson, Jon “PearlJammer” Turner, Hevad “RaiNKhAN” Khan, and Jason “JP OSU” Potter.

Finally, just weeks after his final table appearance in the 2010 Aussie Millions, Peter “Apathy123″ Jetten made the final table of UB’s $200k Guaranteed event.

Jetten could manage no better than ninth, however, as BEARBEER took first place and $48,202.08.

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Huge Sunday for Online Poker

Online tournament leader PokerStars led the charge with a massive $2 million-guaranteed Sunday Million Special Edition tournament.

The room smashed its guarantee drawing a record-setting 19,377 players to the $215 buy-in tournament creating a prize pool of $3.8 million.

Surprisingly there was no chop at the final table and online player OX45AL took down the whole $550,011 first place prize.

Meanwhile Full-Tilt doubled its $750,000 guaranteed tournament up to $1.5 million yesterday. A total of 7,578 players combined to create a prize pool of $1.51 million.

There were no big-name players at the final table, although Eric Froehlich did come in 22^nd place, just missing out on the serious cash.

In the end Full-Tilt player BankofSweden made a heads-up deal with extassyman, which saw both players take home over $200k. BankofSweden went on to win the tournament but that only earned him $2,000 more than extassyman.

Finally UltimateBet was buzzing with the main event of UBOC 4. The event, which was hosted by Phil Hellmuth, drew 1,307 to create a prize pool of roughly $1.3 million.

The UB event provided the most star-studded final table of the day with Team UB pro Michael Binger finishing in fifth place and WSOP regular Lauren “SUPERMODL” Kling  losing heads-up to DOUBLEDAVE22 thanks to a brutal suckout.

DOUBLEDAVE22 took home $279,044 for first while Kling had to settle for $163,244 in second.

Who Is Phil Hellmuth

Who Is Phil Hellmuth

In today’s world of poker, there are some names that remain etched in our minds and are truly unforgettable. One such name that redefined the principles of the game is Phil Hellmuth. Controversially known as poker brat due to the tantrums he’s been known to throw when he’s been unlucky and lost, there are unconfirmed rumours that he has made and exceeded well over $150,000,000 by playing this game with skill and nothing short of talent.

While there is no written record anywhere of his true financial accomplishments, his name demands the attention of any poker fan who hears of this legend otherwise known as the tiger of the poker jungle. It was back in 1989 when Phil first made his mark. With a little knowledge and desire to emerge victorious, Hellmuth raced to glory in the World Series Of Poker Championship and claimed first position amongst seven hundred odd participants in the main event bagging $755,000 in prize money and becoming the youngest ever main event champion at the age of 24. Later on at the Omaha 8/Better tournament Phil grabbed sixth position and made it to two further final two tables to record a great tournament.

During his career he has won a record 11 World Series Of Poker titles and is the tournaments undoubted king. His last World Series Of Poker Win came in 2007 when he won the $1,500 entry no limit holdem tournament, winning just over $637,000. All of his wins have come in texas holdem tournaments. His accomplishments have taken him all over the world. While attending a press interview in the Zanzibar Islands, one reporter managed to put pieces of the puzzle together and was able to identify Phil at the local bar.. During an arranged interview, Phil spoke of many achievements that would make any man on this planet envious. However, at the end of the interview, he said quote “With a little determination, anyone can make it happen”. After the interview Hellmuth walked out of the plush five star beach resort and got in his rented land cruiser to the airport saying he was off to Australia. To date, Phil has written several books on Poker, including the famous “play poker like the pros”.

All of his books have gained international stardom and have seen many amateur players buying them to understand the mindset of one of pokers greatest ever players. Additionally, he has also released several instructional DVD’s which help players understand his expert insight towards becoming better players. He has also been paid to be an exclusive writer for numerous poker magazines and editorials. His name pops up on all of the top search engines and he has his own podcast known as The Poker Edge which is broadcasted via ESPN. Phil Hellmuth was born in Madison, WI and to date manages to impress everyone when it comes to poker. He currently resides in Bay Area, CA with his wife and two sons. So now you know who is Phil Hellmuth you can play against him at ub.com. Make sure you get rakeback though. To get ub rakeback best deal is with The Rakeback Mafia.