Series Features 14 Events, Including One Two-Day Tournament

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is back tomorrow with its fifth installment, and the series will pay out more than ever to its participants — at least $7 million over 14 events.

In addition to the newly upped total guaranteed prize pools (the FTOPS IV, held in May, had guaranteed prize pools totaling $4 million), Full Tilt is heavily promoting its $2,620 buy-in two-day no-limit hold'em tournament. While a two-day event for an online poker room is nothing new, it is a relatively new undertaking for one of the major sites, especially for a high-profile series like the FTOPS. The poker tournament has a $600,000 guarantee (meaning Full Tilt expects at least 240 entrants) and satellites into the event are running for as little as $55. Single-table $357 buy-in sit-and-gos are also being run in which the first-place finisher gains entry into the event and second place earns $395.

The FTOPS main event is also bigger this time around. The main event of the FTOPS IV had a guarantee of $1.5 million while the FTOPS V main event guarantees 33 percent more at $2 million. Last year's main event ultimately had a prize pool of $1,899,000 generated by its 3,798 entrants, and first-place finisher John_McClane17 pocketed $336,000. Download poker wallpapers.

Full Tilt will also be awarding each event winner with an exclusive golden FTOPS jersey avatar, as usual. Other prizes being given out include limited-edition FTOPS baseball caps for all players & women poker players who finish in the money in any event and FTOPS baseball caps and jackets for all players who reach a final table.

The games featured in this runthrough of the series include Omaha, seven-card stud, H.O.R.S.E., and, of course, lots of hold'em. The series also has plenty of shorthanded and rebuy events on the schedule. Play $500 match poker bonus.

The schedule of events for the FTOPS V follows:

Event	Date/Time (ET)	Buy-in	Game	Guarantee
1	Wed., Aug. 8, 9 p.m.	$200+$16	No-limit hold'em	$500,000
2	Thu., Aug. 9, 9 p.m.	$200+$16	H.O.R.S.E.	$150,000
3	Fri., Aug. 10, 9 p.m.	$200+$16	Pot-limit hold'em	$200,000
4	Sat., Aug. 11, 3 p.m.	$500+$35	Pot-limit Omaha (6-max)	$150,000
5	Sat., Aug. 11, 4:30 p.m.	$100+$9	No-limit hold'em (rebuys)	$300,000
6	Sun., Aug. 12, 6 p.m.	$300+$22	No-limit hold'em	$1 million
7	Mon., Aug. 13, 9 p.m.	$1,000+$60	No-limit hold'em (6-max)	$1 million
8	Tues., Aug. 14, 9 p.m.	$200+$16	Limit Omaha eight-or-better	$150,000
9	Wed., Aug. 15, 9 p.m.	$300+$22	No-limit hold'em (6-max, rebuys)	$450,000
10	Thu., Aug. 16, 9 p.m.	$200+$16	Seven-card stud	$100,000
11	Fri., Aug. 17, 9 p.m.	$200+$16	Limit hold'em (6-max)	$200,000
12	Sat., Aug. 18, 3 p.m.	$2,500+$120	No-limit hold'em (two-day event)	$600,000
13	Sat., Aug. 18, 4:30 p.m.	$100+$9	Pot-limit Omaha (rebuy)	$200,000
14	Sun., Aug 19, 6 p.m.	$500+$35	No-limit hold'em main event	$2 million

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