15th edition of Full Tilt Poker's flagship tournament series FTOPS commences on Wednesday 9pm ET (Thursday 3am CET), with a million dollar guaranteed prize pool in the opening event, a $215 NL Hold'em. All in all there's 27 events and more than $17 million guaranteed for the players. The $535 Main Event will have a guarantee of $2.5 million.


One of the highlights of the series is the 2-day $2,620 NL Hol'dem which will have antes from the beginning so apart from money ($2 million) also action is guaranteed.

MiniFTOPS, mirroring the real thing but with one tenth of the buy-ins, is on schedule starting March 10.

Pokernews.com drafted a list of the 5 players who have performed best at FTOPS since the start of the series in 2006:

1. Adam "csimmsux" Geyer (3 wins, 3 final tables)
-FTOPS V – Event #13: 1st place - $72,662
-FTOPS VII – Event #17: 1st place - $488,175
-FTOPS XI – Main Event: 1st place - $456,056.62

2. Yuval "yuvee04" Bronshtein (3 wins, 4 final tables)
3. Steven "UFman2" Burkholder (2 wins, 5 final tables)
4. James "TheFatFISH" Obst (2 wins, 5 final tables)
5. Ozenc "the aviator1" Demir (1 win, 5 final tables)

FTOPS XV schedule here

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