1,349 players paid the buy-in of $1,000+$60 to take part in event 12 in Full Tilt Online Series XII. All of them with the common goal of taking down the whole tournament and the first prize of $300,000.
Even though the buy-in was quite high for event number 12, not less than 1349 players registered to play some shorthanded Texas Hold'em poker. After many action filled hours of poker, and after that all the notable poker players had been kicked out of the tournament. There were only these players left who were going to play the final table.
GotURead - 2,811,645
Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick - 1,967,861
bonya37 - 1,203,786
Jas11 - 1,148,548
KiKaMo - 682,212
Josh "doctorhowser" Norris - 279,948
First player to leave the tournament came to be Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick who's pocket 8's ran into GotURead's pocket queens that stood up all the way to the river after both players went all-in pre-flop, and it didn't take long before next player went out. This time it was also an all-in pre-flop, but no pockets. Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick went all-in with AQ and was called by Josh "doctorhowser" Norris AK. Board ran out 85A78 and Norris took home the pot with a better kicker to his pair of aces. Next player to leave the tournament came to be KiKaMo who went all-in pre-flop with QQ and got called by AJ. An ace landed on the flop and KiKaMo basically only had 2 outs that would give him the pot. Turn and river was no help for him, and now there were only 3 players left. With only 3 players left the tournament ended in a dramatic double elimination when the blinds were 40,000/80,000, level 10,000.
Jas11 - 3,445,527
GotURead - 2,986,073
bonya37 - 1,662,400
Jas11 was on the button and raised to 200,000. Bonya37 then went all-in from the small blind with AQ. To Bonya37 big surprise both the other players called. GotURead with AK, and Jas11 with JJ.
The board ran out 910639 and Jas11 took home the pot and the tournament with his pocket jacks.
Final table results:
1. Jas11 - $300,000
2. GotURead - $198,000
3. bonya37 - $138,300
4. KiKaMo - $105,000
5. Josh "doctorhowser" Norris - $72,750
6. Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick - $49,500