This past weekend the guaranteed tournaments at Full Tilt Poker were very interesting as both resulted in poker deals between the final players left in the game. Both the $750k guarantee and The Sunday Brawl had a deal cut between the players so everyone took home a nice payday.
The Sunday Brawl is a knockout tournament which has a buy-in of $240 plus 16 and offers a $400,000 guaranteed prize pool. This past weekend the tournament had 2,885 players competing which created a prize pool of $577,000 and paid out to 279 spots.
The final three players in the tournament, possum808, losebigpots and DedoDeGorila, decided to cut a deal. The players talked it out and decided on certain payouts according to their chip counts and a remainder was left to go to the eventual winner. The first to go would be possum808 and then losebigpots would lose to DedoDeGorila but with the deal, losebigpots would be the big winner of the tournament as he took home the largest prize.
Final Results:
DedoDeGorila – $83,252
losebigpots – $88,009
possum808 – $77,426 *3-way deal
THE__D__RY – $42,121
mrcool0710 – $29,427
Dinhjo – $19,618
Every1s Problem – $13,271
kenpro111 – $9,232
breeth – $6,924
The $750,000 guarantee was not as successful in creating an increased prize pool. The tournament had 3,542 so the prize pool stayed at $750,000. The tournament would pay out to 522 players and this tournament would also see a deal made.
The final two players of the tournament pokerNIRVana5 and berkey11 decided to cut a deal when heads up play began. Once a deal was decided the two would continue the game to see who would be the eventual winner. In the end berkey11 would be eliminated in second place and pokerNIRVana5 would earn the extra cash from the deal.
Final Result:
pokerNIRVana5 – $111,038
berkey11 – $102,000 *2-way deal
ASUpokerStar – $52,500
shhhookem – $41,400
DOOOLfan – $31,050
mahowny – $23,025
vspaccloss – $17,250
miw210 – $13,500
onefingerortwo – $10,050