Apr 4 2011

Mike Sowers Makes FTP Monday $2 Million Final Table… Twice

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Not long ago, Full Tilt Poker began to offer a new tournament choice for their registered users: Multi-Entry Tournaments. In a Multi-Entry tournament, players can buy into a single tournament multiple times using a single account. Effectively, this allows players to multi-table a single tournament, as opposed to multiple cash games and/or different tournaments, as is standard for multi-tabling.

Even the most lucrative events at Full Tilt Poker are not exempt from the new Multi-Entry feature, and this applied to the Monday $2 Million guaranteed tournament that occurred earlier this week. Mike Sowers, a notable high stakes grinder who plays as SowersUNCC at Full Tilt Poker, managed to enter the final table at this event with not one, but two entries.

Sowers bought into the Monday $2 Million, which came with a $1,000 buy-in, four separate times. Although this would be a risky move for any typical mid-stakes player, Sowers’ gamble paid off. The rules of Multi-Entry tournaments at Full Tilt state that a player who brings multiple entries to the same final table must combine his chip stacks. As such, Sowers first entry was given 9th place, and prize money totaling just under $29k. With his chip stacks combined, Sowers handily won the tournament outright using his second entry, bagging over $490k in addition to his 9th place winnings.

Although the Monday guarantee at FTP normally offers a $1 million prize pool, the Doubles Guarantee Week promotion doubled the payout schedule. This tournament is designed for roughly 2,000 players, though the double-up promotion undoubtedly attracted more and led to 400 additional entries, with a total prize pool of over $2.4 million.

Although Sowers obviously had an advantage by combining his chip stacks, he did face some notable competition at the final table, including Chris “Moorman1″ Moorman and Mickey “Mement_Mori” Petersen.

Mike Sowers is no slouch, either – he’s earned $2 million from live tournaments and another $2.5 million from online play.

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