The Midweek Briefing: Sebastian "sebbau" Bauer Takes Top FTOPS Prize of the Week

The Midweek Briefing: Sebastian

With Full Tilt Poker's FTOPS XVIII in full swing, the online tournament scene has produced several huge wins this week. Over the last few days, the biggest individual prize went to Sebastian "sebbau" Bauer for winning Event #16, a $1,000 NL Hold'em 6-Max, for $274,234.50. Not far behind is Jason "Private ATM" Helder who won Event #22, a $300 NL Hold'em 6-Max with Rebuys, for $213,500. 2010 November Niner Soi Nguyen also captured an FTOPS event this week. Amazingly, it was the one he hosted. Nguyen took down Event #18, a Rush NL Hold’em Super Turbo, for $78,503.92.

Full Tilt FTOPS XVIII Event #16 (NL Hold'em 6-Max)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$1,000+$601,341$1,341,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Sebastian "sebbau" Bauer$274,234.50
2Nate "njw11" Wachtel$181,035
3MHE DOEDET$127,395
4Mayu "MURIBE" Roca Uribe$95,211
5Shrubbery$68,391
6nyquilholic$44,923.50

Notable Finishes: Kevin "Wu_Wizard" MacPhee (7th - $27,758.70), David "DumbHick" Hickman (8th - $27,758.70), Nick "YesImaHick" Phillips (9th - $19,444.50), Caio Pimenta (13th - $10,459.80), Brent "Broberts85" Roberts (18th - $8,582.40), Josh Arieh (22nd - $7,107.30)

Full Tilt FTOPS XVIII Event #18 (Rush NL Hold’em Super Turbo)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$207+$91,841$381,087
PlacePlayerPrize
1Soi Nguyen$78,503.92
2hellviper86$51,827.83
3Luke "IWEARGOGGLES" Staudenmaier$38,489.79
4WhoIsTJones$30,105.87
5Philpro01$22,484.13
6wildjoker321$15,624.57
7gambeta_perrins$9,527.17
8David "Davidp18" Peters$6,478.48
9Nick "agriffrod" Mitchell$4,573.04

Full Tilt FTOPS XVIII Event #22 (NL Hold'em 6-Max, Rebuy)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$300+$22928$1,000,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Jason "Private ATM" Helder$213,500
2Mark "newhizzle" Newhouse$140,000
3Caio Pimenta$100,000
4Ravi "govshark2" Raghavan$76,000
5HosniMubarak$54,000
6Ben "Bttech86" Tollerene$34,500

Notable Finishes: Craig "HU4ROLLZ" Bergeron (8th - $21,500), Jesse "JMaster130" Cohen (12th - $11,800), John Racener (13th - $8,600)

PokerStars $1,050 Super Tuesday

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$1,000+$50432$432,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Coilmaster85$82,900.80
2Luiz Filipe "mestrefilipe" de Andrade$61,560
3Eric "psuNYY51" Ladny$45,360
4Peetoon$34,560
5sil_eye_hand$24,192
68superpoker$18,360
7P4L_JS$14,040
8James "croll103" Carroll$9,720
9Gabe "gp333" Patgorski$7,171.20

Notable Finishes: Jeff "jeff710" Hakim (12th - $5,616), Stian "JohnnyBelow" Stabell (20th - $3,024), Brandon "anybodybut17" Setzer (23rd - $3,024), James "mig.com" Mackey (25th - $3,024)

PokerStars $320 Wednesday 1/4 Million

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$300+$201,030$309,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Ariel "ArielBahia" Celestino$55,620
2David "malicous222" Randall$40,170
3caaaaamel$29,973
4jpheonician$22,402.50
5Matt "lookoutdudes" Mcewan$15,573.60
6Nate "njw11" Wachtel$12,483.60
7Flush_Entity$9,393.60
8Pythomunoz$6,334.50
9bartleby666$3,862.50

Notable Finishes: David "Hickboy" Hickman (10th - $3,244.50), Craig "mcc3991" McCorkell (12th - $3,244.50)

UB $150K GTD

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$1,000+$50202$202,000
PlacePlayerPrize
*1Galen "TURK_MALLOY" Hall$41,915
*1Brian "AKSHARKY" James$41,915
3James "CROLL103" Carroll$22,220
4Mike "NIT0NTILT" Watson$16,160
5Paul "PAULGEES81" Volpe$13,231
6Elio "TURBOKING333" Fox$11,110
7DEEPSHOW$9,090
8DREWFUS1$7,070
9Jamie "POKERJAMERS1" Armstrong$5,050

*denotes heads-up deal, terms unknown

Notable Finishes: Bryan "SCARYPOOPER1" Porter (10th - $3,030), Shyam "S_DOT111" Srinivasan (13th - $2,424)

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