KiaJessie overcame more than a 10 to 1 chip deficit to win the $200 Limit Omaha H/L event tonight over muckmehard.  KiaJessie took home $48,285 for the win while muckmehard's consolation prize was $31,117.  The final table payouts for the tournament were:

1.KiaJessie-- $48,285
2. muckmehard-- $31,117
3. AD-Stars22-- $23,069.50
4. Adar-- $17,704.50
5. SDLarry-- $13,412.50
6. Gunslinger3-- $9,657
7. Ditka89-- $6,438
8. cashnotax-- $4,828.50
9. bayne_s-- $3,433.60

Chris "Jesus" Ferguson took the honor for  the highest FTP "red" pro finisher with 20th place.  He earned $815.48 for his effort.  Toto Leonidas was the "bubble boy", he finished in 100th place.

Event #8, the $200 Limit Omaha H/L event with a 150k guaranteed prize pool started at 9pm EDT.  It is being hosted by Stuart Paterson, known as "The Donator" to the online world before becoming a FTP "red" pro.  This tournament began with 1,073 players for a pool of $214,600.  The final 99 players will all be guaranteed at least $364.82 while the winner will take home $48,285.

The FTP "red" pros in attendance were: Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Chip Jett, Lynette Chan, Toto Leonidas, Max Pescatori, Jim McManus, Karina Jett, Berry Johnston, "Miami" John Cernuto, and the host Stuart Paterson.

LA Mike's top screen names in tonight's event are:

1. Exitonly
2. Tuna Tamer
3. The Polisher
4. lookin for work
5. DrOfDonkology
6. ProtekYoNuts
7. TheFamilyJules
8. Ilovepussycat
9. WTF_ever_nh
10. Trainedmonkey

Honorable Mention: LoveTunnel

At 3:25am EDT, the final 9 players took their seats at the final table.  At least one player, the gentleman in the nine seat, was very recognizable.  He was PrtyPsux, otherwise known as JC Alvarado in the real world.  Alvarado has had plenty of "live" success as well.  He had a great run at the beginning of the year at the LA Poker Classic.  He was the runner-up in the 2.5k event and made a really deep run in the 10k main event.  He made the WPT TV table out in Reno, Nevada where he ended up as the runner-up for almost 367k.  JC finished the FTOPS event in 4th place, collecting $72,138 for his work.

Serefecheers hit the rail very quickly after Alvarado in third place.  He collected $91,812 for his effort today.  As heads-up play began, 313OG had a huge chip lead over akaginsf.  313OG ended the match in a timely fashion at 4:33am EDT to pickup the $231,615 first prize.  Akaginsf collected $140,210 for the runner-up finish. 

The final table payouts were:

1. 313OG-- $231,615.44
2. akaginsf-- $140,210.04
3. serefecheers-- $91,812
4. PrtyPsux-- $72,138
5. dijana-- $54,169.08
6. dacove71-- $40,134.96
7. BigBukkinChickn-- $30,166.80
8. PhilHPoker-- $23,608.80
9. king goostar-- $17,575.44

Barny Boatman was the final FTP "red" pro left in the event.  He finished up in 345th for $590.22 and was the only "red" pro to cash.  Also bringing home a paycheck was PW's own, Pokerwire Amanda.

Event #6, a $300 NL Hold'em tourney with a guaranteed prize pool of at least $1M began at 6pm EDT.  4,372 players entered to produce an actual pool of over $1.3M.  The final 585 will all be guaranteed a minimum of $432.83.  The final player left will be the lucky winner of $231,615.  The event is being hosted by Clonie Gowen.

The other FTP "red" pros involved were: Roland De Wolfe, Ram Vaswani, Farzad Bonyadi, Greg "FBT" Mueller, Stuart Paterson, Karina Jett, Ross Boatman, David Benyamine, Steve Brecher, Thomas Wahlroos, Lynette Chan, Max Pescatori, Erica Schoenberg, Berry Johnston, Barny Boatman, Keith Sexton, Mike Gracz, JJ Liu, Allen Cunningham, Eddy Scharf, Paul Sexton and Kristy Gazes.

After overcoming a large chip deficit heading into heads-up play, GBecks captured the $100 rebuy title over 20KJay.  The final table payouts were:

1. GBecks-- $102,383
2. 20KJAY-- $66,668
3. flopdisasta-- $48,215.25
4. darkbet-- $38,691.25
5. GB2005-- $29,191.06
6. LaJune-- $21,429
7. ontherocksuga-- $13,809.80
8. Doobie75-- $10,000.20
9. Vanssi-- $7,081.10

Allen Cunningham finished in 74th position to be the last FTP "red" pro standing.  He earned $738.11 for the tournament.  The only other "red" pro to finish in the money was Andy Bloch.  He placed 135th for $595.25.

After nearly 7 hours of play, Bmqball defeated serialkaller to win the $500 Pot Limit Omaha 6-Max event today.  The final table payouts were:

1. Bmqball--  $66,865
2. Serialkaller-- $43,851
3. Tutnik-- $31,504.30
4. Buckster316-- $23,947
5. YoungSupremacy-- $17,105
6. D2THEMFI-- $10,885

The top FTP "red" pro finisher in the event, happened to be the host, Robert Mizrachi.  He finished in 36th place to take home $1,244.  (He was the only one to cash in the event.)

Event #4, the $500 Pot Limit Omaha 6-Max started at 3:00pm EDT.  The tournament is being hosted by Robert Mizrachi and had a guaranteed prize pool of $150k.  622 players entered to produce a pool of $311k doubling the guarantee.  The final 84 players will all be guaranteed $808.60 with the eventual winner taking home $66,865.

Here are the final table finishers from the $200 Pot-Limit Holdem event:

1. JensV - $61,901
2. Red Bikini - $38,144
3. lyerly - $25,095
4. ringjob3 - $20,076
5. LegacyRik - $15,391
6. stupidtim - $11,041
7. TheFatFish - $8,030
8. Corny54 - $6,257
9. MrKrabbs - $4,818

Both Michael Craig and Thomas Fuller earned $435.  Thomas finished in 109th place, and Michael was able to make it to 101st.  I was impressed by Michael's finish--at the 3 1/2 hour mark he ran KK into AA for a 61k pot against a player who was also in the top five at the top.  Michael was able to nurse his remaining 5k into a healthy cash.  Stuart Paterson was the next top red pro, finishing in 245th.

After being down to 2k, Michael shot up the leaderboard during the second hour of the $200 PLH event.  Michael doubled up to about 8k with 109 and the next thing I knew he was in 5th place at 25k. Another PokerWire blogger, Thomas "GNightMoon" Fuller, has been playing well and sits on a stack of 19k. 

It was a rough hour for the Full Tilt pros as only Berry Johnston and Steve Brecher sat above the 5k mark.  Max Pecartori had 4.7k, and the only other pros I spotted who were still in were Clonie Gowen and Stuart Paterson, both under the 2k mark.

Unfortunately, when pros start going to the wayside, so does the entertaining chat.  I did get a laugh from Eugene Todd bro, however, when he flopped a wheel holding A3 on a 542 board.  His opponent, oldwolfhound, wasn't buying it and doubled genetodd up with 77.  He responded to a "Merry Christmas" quip with, "happy hannukah, bro."  If you haven't listened to the interview with Gene Todd on PokerWire Radio, do yourself a favor and download it now (right click on the link and select "save as").  Or, better yet, subscribe to the podcast.

I've caught a few priceless gems in the Full Tilt chatbox during tonight's tournament--and it's only 45 minutes in.  I now know why Allen is such a good poker player--the boy is a great liar:

lJLeeRSX (Observer): i bet allen has a better car then ivey
lJLeeRSX (Observer): allen drives a Lamborghini
Narkoi (Observer): What you drive allen?
AllenCunningham: mclarren
Batera: mclarren f1?
AllenCunningham: yup

I've seen Allen's car--and I'm fairly certain it costs several hundred thousand less than the F1...

Not to be outdone, the affable Fin Thomas Wahlroos has also been put to the test early: