• the Main Event, and its $453,663 prize, was won by Matthew “Poligraph” Waxman, winner of Event 15 in the last FTOPS XII; he also made another final table inthis latest FTOPS XIII, at Event 56
• Jake Toole had the biggest takedown, though, with $453,687 for winning the 2-day $2,500 event; runner-up was FullTilt Pro Brian Hastings
• the $300 Razz Event, #21, and its almost $40,000 prize was won by Billy Kopp, who finished deep in this year’s WSOP Main Event; Kopp just got signed by UltimateBet Poker
• the Ante Up For Africa charity poker tournament earned $50,000 more for the humanitarian cause
• coming up September 9 is the $3 million guaranteed Mini-FTOPS XIII, with the same lineup of events as the FTOPS XIII but with 1/10 the buy-ins

And on an interesting side note, chopping the pot (or deal-making at the final table) has become quite popular in online poker, and it sure showed here, with several final pots being amicably split (almost) evenly between the two heads-up players remaining at the final tables’ end.

Some of the FTOPS XIII hosted some of the Best Poker Satellites that we have seen to this years main events.  In order to qualify yourself for the next FTOPS finals, you may want to consider taking a poker test to see if you meet the standards.

One day before the PokerStars EPT Season Five Grand Final Main Event, on April 27, 2009, a slew of poker stars will come out in droves to support this great cause, including members of Team PokerStars itself, like Joe Hachem, Vanessa Rousso, and Daniel Negreanu. The No Limit Texas Holdem event has a €4,000 buy-in and the winner of the event will receive a free seat in the PokerStars EPT Bahamas Event in January 2010.

Ante Up for Africa, the organization running the event, has held two similar charity poker tournaments in the past, both as part of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.