We are into the 2nd week of August, the WSOP is on hold until the November Nine return on 6th November to Las Vegas to battle it out for the $8,944,138 first prize and the title of WSOP Main Event Champion.

In the online world we have the FTOPS XVII taking place at Full Tilt Poker running through to the FTOPS Main Event on Sunday August 15th. Followed by the WCOOP with $50 million guaranteed at Pokerstars from 5th to 26th September.

The Live Poker Circuit switches its attention to London with the London Poker Festival starting 30th August with the WPT London sponsored by Partypoker.

Tomorrow sees the start of the Full Tilt Poker hosted FTOPS XVII tournament series as the seventeenth run of the FTOPS begins. The event promises to guarantee a total prize pool of $19,000,000 across 33 events including the $600 Main Event with a $3,000,000 prize pool.

Last year, FTOPS was made up of thirty events making it the largest FTOPS to date. This series of FTOPS tournaments is the largest ever seen at Full Tilt Poker. The first event is a $216 NL event, the same as FTOPS XVI – this opening event last time saw a field of 3,673 with a first prize of $130,000.

New to the series will be the introduction of six Rush Poker tournaments. Rush Poker is Full Tilt’s new signature game, in which players are moved to a different table after each hand is dealt. This way, playing one table can yield a rate of over 200 hands per hour and always keeps your opposition fresh.

If Texas Holdem isn't your preferred poker game you can try your hand at Rush Poker featuring in PLO, PLO8 and Limit Hold ‘em tournaments. The proceedings begin on Wednesday August 4th at 21.00 ET with the $200 + $16 NL event guaranteeing $750,000. Don't miss it!

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Amit “amak316” Makhija is the winner of the Tenth Full Tilt Online Poker Series emerging victorious from the $5,200 buy-in Two-Day tournament and took home a healthy $550,000 payday. The event drew exactly 500 entrants, paying out $2.5 million to the top 54 spots. Some of the world’s top pros braved the felts for the Full Tilt online poker tournament, which played out over the course of Saturday and Sunday.

On Sunday, Makhija nearly matched his WPT payday by outlasting the 500 person field in the Two-Day Event. The tournament was played six-handed and the final table panned out as follows:

1st Place: amak316, $550,000
2nd Place: KaKeTKa, $362,500
3rd Place: PureCash25, $262,500
4th Place: Buster Love, $195,000
5th Place: NEONPILS99, $137,500
6th Place: dpowell, $90,000

Makhija has made the transition from the online poker world to the live arena fairly effortlessly. He won the $100 rebuy online in March on PokerStars for $46,000, which is often considered to have of the most talented tournament fields. He also took down the $100 cubed on Full Tilt Poker for $19,300. Makhija received a considerable amount of face time on cable station ESPN over the summer by virtue of finishing fifth in Event 1, the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em championship. In August, he was the runner up to poker pro John “The Razor” Phan at the World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker event, pocketing over $560,000.

The tournament was hosted by November Nine member Craig Marquis. The new Full Tilt pro was able to buck the trend and cash in his own tournament, finishing in 24th place and earning $17,500, not to mention the $200 bonus in rakeback. Two more red-named pros were able to represent their site proudly, as David "The Dragon" Pham and Brandon Adams both cashed. Adams took it one step further and actually bubbled the final table, busting in seventh place and taking home $57,500.

Other notables that were able to make the money included Casey "bigdogpckt5s" Jarzabek (48th), Justin "Boosted J" Smith (47th), Keith "cheesemonster" Lehr (44th), Matt "NoBadBeatsPlz" Kay (43rd), Dani "Ansky451" Stern (40th), Luke "magikstick8" Vrabel (34th), govshark2 (33rd), Joe "Dyzalot" Morneau (31st), Kyle "kwob20" Bowker (28th), Eugene "myrabbifoo" Katchalov (20th), Hans "miAmihAns" Winzeler (17th), Steve "thorladen" Weinstein (16th), David "Davidp18" Peters (12th), and Kevin "GetPWN3D" Saul (11th)

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One of marquee events for the online poker community is the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS X). Online poker players need not wait any longer to get started as the online poker action kicks off tonight with a $1million guaranteed event.

There are a total of six events in the tenth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS X). The guarantee for the first event is $1 million, and in the 25-event series with guarantees of $1 million or more. The Full Tilt Series closes out with a $2.5 million-guaranteed, $500 buy-in main event on Nov. 16.

FTOPS X Schedule

Each event will be hosted by a Full Tilt pro, but a few names have yet to be released.

• Nov. 5th,  9 p.m. ET $200 no-limit hold'em six-max $1 million Mike Matusow
• Nov. 6th,  2 p.m. ET $240 pot-limit Omaha knockout $200,000 Sigi Stockinger
• Nov. 6th,  9 p.m. ET $500 no-limit hold'em triple shootout $300,000 TBA
• Nov. 7th,  2 p.m. ET $300 (one rebuy/one add-on) no-limit hold'em $600,000 Vitaly Lunkin
• Nov. 7th,  9 p.m. ET $200 limit hold'em six-max $150,000 Matt Hawrilenko
• Nov. 8th,  2 p.m. ET $500 pot-limit Omaha six-max $350,000 TBA
• Nov. 8th,  4 p.m. ET $100 (rebuy) no-limit hold'em $600,000 Ryan Daut
• Nov. 9th,  2 p.m. ET $240 no-limit hold'em knockout six-max $600,000 TBA
• Nov. 9th,  6 p.m. ET $300 no-limit hold'em $1.5 million Gus Hansen
• Nov. 10th  2 p.m. ET $300 mixed hold'em $250,000 Roland de Wolfe
• Nov. 10th  9 p.m. ET $1,000 no-limit hold'em $1.5 million TBA
• Nov. 11th  2 p.m. ET $200 half pot-limit hold'em and half pot-limit Omaha $150,000 Lee Watkinson
• Nov. 11th  9 p.m. ET $500 H.O.R.S.E. $300,000 Jennifer Harman
• Nov. 11th  9 p.m. ET $200 no-limit hold'em turbo $500,000 Aaron Bartley
• Nov. 12th  2 p.m. ET $200 pot-limit Omaha eight-or-better $150,000 Matt Vengrin
16 Nov. 12th  9 p.m. ET $300 (rebuy) no-limit hold'em six-max $1 million Isaac Baron
• Nov. 13th  2 p.m. ET $200 no-limit hold'em quadruple shootout six-max $250,000 Thomas Bihl
• Nov. 13th  9 p.m. ET $300 razz $150,000 TBA
• Nov. 14th  2 p.m. ET $200 no-limit hold'em $400,000 TBA
• Nov. 14th 9 p.m. ET $200 seven-card stud eight or better $100,000 Perry Friedman
• Nov. 15th 2 p.m. ET $500 no-limit hold'em heads up $500,000 Huck Seed
• Nov. 15th 2 p.m. ET $5,000 no-limit hold'em six-max (two-day event) $2 million TBA
• Nov. 15th 4 p.m. ET $100 (rebuy) pot-limit Omaha $400,000 Dario Alioto
• Nov. 16th 2 p.m. ET $120 no-limit hold'em knockout $500,000 Erich Kollmann
• Nov. 16th 6 p.m. ET $500 no-limit hold'em $2.5 million TBA

Players can take advantage of an excusive Full Tilt No Deposit Bonus through LTDPoker to start satelliting into the events. A full schedule of qualifiers is available on Full Tilt Poker website.

Tenth edition of the Full Tilt Online Series (FTOPS) is due to start on online poker room Full Tilt Poker in November.