Gary Bogdanski Earns Customized Fulltilt Avatar

Gary 'GB2005' Bodganski Was Rated the Best All-Around Player at the FTOPS by Scoring the Most Points on the Leader Board

The results are in: Internet poker pro Gary "GB2005" Bogdanski was the best all-around player at the FullTilt Online Poker Series II (FTOPS). What does that mean for Bogdanski? It means a customized FullTilt avatar, just like the Team FullTilt pros have.

It also means, of course, a whole lot of clout and respect from fellow players. Bogdanski may very well have to turn off his observer chat from now on when he plays at FullTilt for fear of being asked the same question over and over, "Hey, how'd you get your own avatar?"

Bogdanski won with 300 tournament leader board points, just 25 points more than runner up AAAAJ. He earned his points by finishing deep in three events. He finished so deep that he didn't even have to make a final table to snag the best-player honors. He cashed in the following events:

Event No. 1 - Pot-limit Omaha - 12th place - $1,622 - 95 LB points
Event No. 4 - No-limit hold'em shorthanded - 8th - $6,544 - 115 LB points
Event No. 7 - Razz - 13th - $887 - 90 LB points

Bodganski said next to winning a $500 pot-limit five-card draw event at FullContactPoker, this is one of his "proudest accomplishments." He'd won the tournament at FullContact despite having never played the game before.

"I was very happy to play so well in many (FTOPS) events," Bodganski said, "but with the success I've had in other online tournaments, it was a frustrating series. Nevertheless, it is a great honor to win the overall leaderboard for the FTOPS, and I'm excited to have myself made into a cartoon."

News Added: 22 November, 2006

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