The eighteenth installment of Full Tilt Online Poker Series began Wednesday with a $200 buy-in no-limit hold’em event hosted by 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up and Full Tilt Poker Red Pro John Racener. The $800,000 guarantee for the event was crashed when 4,500 players showed up. A Full Tilt Poker Review deal was struck three-handed, with the biggest share going to “sir29”, who finished in third place. “Pageh656″ claimed the title, gold jersey as well as $117,434.
Thirty-four events are planned for FTOPS XVIII with over $19 million in guaranteed prize pools. There are shootout, turbo, knockout and super turbo tournaments on the schedule, as well as Rush Poker tournaments plus four draw poker tournaments.
Newly casted Friend of Full Tilt Referral Code, James Blake will be hosting Friday’s 6-max event. 2010 November Niners Matthew Jarvis, Filippo Candio, John Dolan and Soi Nguyen will also be hosting events, and the $600 buy-in Main Event with a $3 million guarantee will be hosted by Gus Hansen.