The tournament, a super-stack 9-handed, NL Hold’em event was hosted by Actor and Professional Don Cheadle. Cheadle has been active in poker lately and
is best remembered for his roles in “Ocean’s Eleven”, “Crash”, and “Traffic”. On the felt Cheadle has not been as dominant, although he did eliminate Phil Ivey in the first round of the NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2007. One of the bigger names reaching the final nine was Nick “FU_15″ Maimone, a successful online and live tournament player who had five $30,000+ scores to his name heading into the final table. FU_15 busted in 3rd place when his ATs lost to KJo on a KhQd2d5c7h board. The tournament came down to “warren_ace1″ and “berkey11″ and the experience edge was with the latter. However, warren_ace1, who has had little recorded success on , was able to win the final coinflip, TT&gtAJo, to take down the title and just over $48,000. Congratulations goes to all 234 who made the money and a special thanks goes to everyone who helped support the Ante Up for Africa cause!! FTOPS XII Ante Up for Africa $100k Guaranteed 2,367 Entrants $236,700 prize pool 2. berkey11 $31,244.40 3. FU_15 $23,196.60 4. YrrsiNN $17,515.80 5. awojj $12,308.40 6. j0ush0es $8,047.80 7. gimmeda1tyme $5,444.10 8. Oddla $3,787.20 9. Boinkage $2,840.40