FTOPS XII continued yesterday with Event #4.  This was a $200 + $16 no-limit Hold’em event allowing 1-re-buy and 1-add-on and featuring a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool.  That prize would rise, however, as there were 1,196 players to buy-in, followed by 872 re-buys and 784 add-ons.  That brought the total in the pot to $580,400! As with most of the 꽁머니 토토 tournaments, there were a number of Full Tilt’s Red Pros in this one.  Red Pros in this event included Andrew Black, David Pham, Lee Watkinson, and Scott Fischman.  Only two of Full Tilt’s Pros would finish in the money, however.  Stefan Rapp finished at 110th place and tournament host, Trond Eidsvig, lasted until 36th

PokerStars has set a new record for the largest ever online poker tournament series. This year’s Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP 2012) ran for two weeks, featuring 40 events of three tournaments each for a total of 120 events. Registration for the last event has just closed, resulting in a grand total of $65,332,179 worth of prizes for the series. There were a grand total of 526,154 entries, also a new record. The previous records were set by PokerStars’ SCOOP 2010 when 461,936 entrants played for a total of $64,230,010 in prize money. It should be noted that SCOOP 2010 only had 33 different events, compared to this year’s 40 events. Despite the larger