He may be unsuccessful in winning the Full Tilt Poker Review Main Event but Soi Nguyen made an impressive feat of his own last Nov 16. Aside from hosting the 2010 WSOP Main Event FTOPS XVIII Event 18 – he won it.

Regardless of his status as an amateur poker player, Nguyen was able to outlive 1,841 players to get first place in the Rush Super Turbo tournament of $217 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em. While Nguyen competed with two very good online players: David “Davidp18” Peters along with IWEARGOGGLES. Neither player could beat Nguyen, the Californian collected the $78,000 for his efforts.

In winning, Nguyen became the third player to win his own tournament in the Full Tilt Referral Code Online Poker Series. Erick Lindgren was the first player to get it and won in 2008 and Greg Mueller performed the same accomplishment in 2009. In other FTOPS news, flourishing online sensation Sebastian “sebbau” Bauer took down Event 16 for $274k on Monday.