Looks like Julian Gardner’s runner-up finish in Event #11 inspired his fellow Red Pros to get some work done Tuesday night. Events #13 and #14 each saw big name Red Pros not only reach the final table, but make it down to heads-up play. One would prevail and win themselves the coveted jersey, while the other would rack up the second 2nd place finish for the sponsored pros this series.

Event #13, a $300 + $22 buy-in 6-handed and deep stacked No Limit Hold’em Shootout event, kicked off the day’s FTOPS festivities and the masses don’t appear to be growing bored with the large number of 6-handed events at all just yet. Just over 1,000 people signed up to participate and the event just squeaked by its $300,000 guarantee with a total prize pool of $302,700.

Like the heads-up shootout before it, this event moved remarkably fast and it wasn’t long at all befor the second and then third and final round was in the books. Several big names advanced out of Round #1 only to falter in Round #2 including top ranked online player Ronald “ronaldgrauer” Grauer (31st), Austin “The quietwinner” McCormick (28th), Christian “da_professional” Iacobellis (24th), Scott “stpauli111″ Hall (18th), Daniel “WiLDmAn75″ Buzgon (15th), Matt “mlagoo” LaGarde (14th) and inhidonks (10th). Those players may have just missed out, but these six, headlined by Steve Zolotow, racked up two wins in order to advance to the final table:

Seat 1: MSUsWorst
Seat 2: endzeit
Seat 3: Steve Zolotow
Seat 4: Abdullah Ochalan
Seat 5: CTAPblU KA3EJI
Seat 6: aiMfoRtheEheAd

With “aiMfoRtheEheAd’s” elimination in 6th place, the final table turned into a case of the haves and have nots; the haves being “Abdullah Ochalan” and Zolotow, who held 1.2 million and 750,000 chips respectively, and the have nots being “MSUsWorst,” “endzeit,” and ” CTAPblU KA3EJI,” who all had less than 500,000. With the blinds still at a relatively low 4,000/8,000 ante 1,000 though, there was still plenty of room for the short stacks to maneuver.

MSUsWorst picked up even more wiggle room when they got it all-in on a T83 flop holding KK to Abdullah Ochalan’s KT to double up. That hit would look like but a flesh wound to Abdullah Ochalan after the hit they would take against Zolotow though. Zolotow limped in late position and Abdullah Ochalan raised from the button. Zolotow called and the two players saw a flop of J94. Zolotow checked, Abdullah Ochalan bet 2/3 of the pot and Zolotow check raised all-in for almost 650,000 total. Abdullah Ochalan called the additional 450,000 or so with KJ for top pair. Zolotow’s A5 could win with any diamond and he picked up even more outs with the 3 on the turn. The 2 river did not make Zolotow a flush, but it did give him the wheel to take the pot, double up and leave Abdullah Ochalan with just over 300,000 chips.

It didn’t take long for Abdullah Ochalan to get those chips back though, doubling through Zolotow after getting it all-in on a 982 flop with A9 to Zolotow’s Q9. The clash of the two big stacked titans did not end there tough. A blind versus blind confrontation saw the two players get it all-in for a 1.3 million chip pot after the flop came 842. Zolotow had overs and a flush draw with his QT while Abdullah Ochalan flopped two pair with 48. Things did not look good for Abdullah Ochalan when the J turn made Zolotow his flush, but the river 4 would make Abdullah Ochalan a boat and ship them the pot and the chip lead.

That hand left Zolotow short on chips, but he reloaded courtesy of CTAPblU KA3EJI when they ran their pocket jacks into Zolotw’s pocket kings to bust out in 5th place. With four players remaining, the blinds were up to 10,000/20,000 ante 2,500 and endzeit and MSUsWorst were starting to get extremely short on chips. MSUsWorst took their stand when they shoved their last 125,000 all-in from under the gun with 44 and Abdullah Ochalan called with Q8. The board ran out J828K to give Abdullah Ochalan trip eights to take the pot and eliminate MSUsWorst in 4th place.

Endzeit would make their exit just a few hands later when they shoved all-in with 79 from the small blind and Zolotow called with A4 from the big. The board ran out AQQTJ to make aces up for Zolotow and endzeit was out in 3rd.

Abdullah Ochalan offered to look at numbers with Zolotow, but the pro declined despite being at a 2-1 chip disadvantage. Zolotow would have to win a flip in order to double up to the chip lead and he was content to call Abdullar Ochalan’s all-in shove holding 99. Zolotow’s opponent showed AT and it was off to the races. The K72 flop was good to Stevie Z, as was the 3 on the turn. The river A brought one of the six cards Zolotow needed to fade though and he would have to settle for second place.

Here are the complete results from the final table of Event #13:

1st: Abdullah Ochalan ($54,486.00)
2nd: Steve Zolotow ($34,810.50)
3rd: endzeit ($22,702.50)
4th: MSUsWorst ($15,740.40)
5th: CTAPblU KA3EJI ($10,594.50)
6th: aiMfoRtheEheAd ($7,264.80)

Zolotow may have fallen just short of the big win, but David Pham was able to pull one out for the Red Pros with a victory in Event #14, a $300 buy-in HORSE event. A smallish field of only 552 players meant there would be an overlay in order to make the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool, but what the field lacked in size it certainly made up for in star power. The final five tables was chocked full of live and internet pros a like and read more like a World Poker Tour seating chart than an online poker event.

Pat “TorontoToro” Pezzin (31st), Marco Traniello (29th), Josh “pbdrunks” VanDuyn (28th), Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen (19th), Brandon Adams (17th), Evan “NEONPILS99″ Parkes (15th), Josh “brikdog24″ Brikis (13th) and Justin Smith (11th) fell just short of the stacked final table, which featured the likes of WSOP HORSE bracelet winner Zac “Zacpacker” Fellows, David Pham, Nick “Grippolio” Grippo and Bradley “FatsoFat6969″ Craig:

Seat 1: Smokinokun (319,755)
Seat 2: Bradley “FatsoFat6969″ Craig (52,001)
Seat 3: Nick “Gripploio” Grippo (487,359)
Seat 4: rumprammer (260,234)
Seat 5: Zac “Zacpacker” Fellows (217,571)
Seat 6: nuttynutt (107,840)
Seat 7: David Pham (509,568)
Seat 8: POCKET FIVE (253,672)

The player known as “nuttynutt” hardly got their seat warm before they made their exit from the event in 8th place on the first hand of final table play. Left with just 100,000 chips, nuttynutt called Zacpacker’s completion bet with a 9 showing to Zacpacker’s 5. Zacpacker bet 4th street after catching a 2 and nuttynutt called when they picked up the 6. The last of nuttynutt’s took control of the hand on fifth street after Zacpacker was dealt a Q compared to nuttynutt’s 3 and bet out. Zacpacker called and regained the advantage in the hand when he hit the A and nuttynutt was dealt a second nine, the 9. Zacpacker bet again on 7th, putting nuttynutt all-in. Nuttynutt called and subsequently mucked when Zacpacker showed his A-2-3-5-7 low. That pot pushed Zacpacker up the chip counts and eliminated nuttynutt in 8th place.

Razz would be good to Zacpacker, as he would go on to knock out FatsoFat6969 in 7th place and collect a nice side pot from “POCKET FIVE” when he madea 3-5-6-7-10 low. Thos ebig hands propelled him to a virtual tie for the chip lead with Pham as both players had just over half a million chips. A big hand in which “Smokinokun” made an eight low against Grippolio, who had a pair of queens showing on 6th street, doubled them up to within striking distance of the two chip leaders, while dropped from 3rd in chips to 5th in chips.

Grippolio’s backslide continued into the Stud Hi round when their buried jacks failed to hold up against POCKET FIVE’s split tens. The very next hand, Grippolio picked up another buried pair, this time pocket kings, but lost the all-in pot on 7th when his opponent, Smokinokun, rivered queens and nines to take the pot and bust Grippolio in 6th place.

David Pham spent the early goings of the final table picking up small pots without showdown to maintain his chip stack, but once the game got to Stud H/L he became involved in a couple of sizeable pots. He too a 425,000 chip pot off POCKET FIVES when Pham made aces and nines while POCKET FIVES whiffed their low draw. Down to their last 116,000, POCKETFIVES got it all-in the very next hand once the game changed to Limit Hold’em. Their chips went all-in preflop against Smokinokun and, appropriately, POCKET FIVE’s pocket fives were way ahead of Smokinokun’s 44. A four on the flop would give Smokinokun the best hand though, and when no five came on the turn or river, POCKET FIVE was eliminated in 5th place, giving them the rest of the evening to reconsider their online handle.

Once play got down to the final four, “rumprammer” became more active as well, winning a huge Omaha H/L hand off of Zacpacker after making the nut straight on the river in a 580,000 chip pot. Pham would go on to finish Zacpacker off, getting it all-in on a flop of J54 holding A437 to Zacpacker’s KT64. Zacpacker would take the advantage, hitting two pair with the 6 on the turn, but the 3 on the river made a straight for Pham and eliminated Zacpacker in 3rd place.

The top trio of players would tangle at the table for over 50 hands before losing Smokinokun in 3rd place. The game had cycled back to Razz and Pham rivered an 8-7-6-5-3 low to best Smokinokun’s made 9-7-6-4-2. Pham collected the more than 650,000 chips in the pot while Smokinokun made their exit in 3rd place.

Heads-up play would be an epic affair as Pham and rumprammer took a small ball approach with each other that prolonged play into the early hours of Wednesday. Shortly after 6AM ET, Pham put the tournament to bed in a Stud Hi hand. The Red Pro began with three to a flush, picked up a pair of sevens on 4th street and completed his flush on 6th while rumprammer could only muster a mere pair of deuces. The flush took the pot and the match and Pham picked up the first Red Pro jersey of FTOPS XIV along with more than $50,000 in prize money.

Here are the complete results from the final table of Event #14:

1st: David Pham ($69,570)
2nd: rumprammer ($45,750)
3rd: Smokinokun ($31,800)
4th: Zac “Zacpacker” Fellows ($20,400)
5th: POCKET FIVE ($12,600)
6th: Nick “Grippolio” Grippo ($8,700)
7th: Bradley “FatsoFat6969″ Craig ($6,600)
8th: nuttynutt ($4,5000)

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