It is going to be a very busy spring for the online grinders out there. Full Tilt Poker recently released the schedule for the sixteenth installment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) and this tournament series might just prove to be a sweet one.

Full Tilt Poker is changing things up a bit for FTOPS XVI. First of all, the dates are a little different. Players are used to the spring FTOPS getting underway during the early part of May, but this year the tournaments have been pushed up a couple of weeks and the action gets underway on Friday April, 23rd. From there, the site will be offering a trio of events each day for the next ten days, culminating in the $600 buy-in FTOPS Main Event on Sunday May 2nd at 6:00PM ET.

The trio of tournaments each day is a departure from prior FTOPS schedules, which typically only offered three tournaments in one day over the weekends. The hectic schedule ensures there will be plenty of action over the course of the 30 FTOPS events. In addition to the much beloved gold jerseys, the series will also offer at least $18 million in prize money. A good chunk of that prize money is set aside for the Main Event, which will boast a $3 million guarantee.

Other big events on the FTOPS XVI schedule include a 6-handed No Limit Hold’em w/ Rebuys event with a $1 million guarantee, the much-anticipated $2,000 buy-in 2-Day event and a $300 buy-in tournament on Sunday, April 25th with at least $1,250,000 up for grabs. For those who enjoyed the newly implemented Super Turbo FTOPS during FTOPS XV, you’ll be happy to hear there are two Super Turbo events on this series’ schedule.

If those buy-ins sound a little pricey, never fear, for Full Tilt Poker is already running satellites for the events and even sweetening the deal for satellite qualifiers with the FTOPS XVI Satellite Challenge. The Satellite Challenge aims to reward players who win more satellite seats than anyone else into a give event. If a player wins the most satellites into a single FTOPS event, they will receive the T$ equivalent of two buy-ins for that event. The player with the second most number of satellite wins will get one buy-in’s worth of T$.

Full Tilt Poker is also intent on rewarding its past winners with a Tournament of Champions freeroll. The nearly 300 FTOPS winners will all be invited to participate in a freeroll tournament on Sautrday, May 8th, where the winner will earn a prize package to the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event.

The thirty winners from FTOPS XVI will also get to play in the elite freeroll, so go ahead and mark your calendars with the dates for all the FTOPS events:

Friday, April 23rd
2:00PM: Event #1 – $200 + $16 NLHE with $750,000 Guaranteed
6:00PM: Event #2 – $310 + $12 NLHE Super Turbo 6-Max with $300,000 Guaranteed
9:00PM: Event #3 – $200 + $16 LHE 6-Max with $150,000 Guaranteed

Saturday, April 24th
2:00PM: Event #4 – $500 + $35 PLO 6-Max with $400,000 Guaranteed
4:00PM: Event #5 – $100 + $9 NLHE with Rebuys with $600,000 Guaranteed
6:00PM: Event #6 – TBA with $250,000 Guaranteed

Sunday, April 25th
2:00PM: Event #7 – $120 + $9 NLHE KO with $800,000 Guaranteed
4:00PM: Event #8 – $500 + $35 NLHE Heads-Up with $500,000 Guaranteed
6:00PM: Event #9 – $300 + $22 NLHE with $1.25 million Guaranteed

Monday, April 26th
2:00PM: Event #10 – $200 + $16 PLO-8 with $200,000 Guaranteed
6:00PM: Event #11 – $300 + $22 NLHE 4x Shootout 6-Max Turbo with $300,000 Guaranteed
9:00PM: Event #12 – $1,000 + $60 NLHE 6-Max with $1.25 million Guaranteed

Tuesday, April 27th
2:00PM: Event #13 – TBA with $200,000 Guaranteed
6:00PM: Event #14 – $200 + $16 NLHE Turbo with $400,000 Guaranteed
9:00PM: Event #15 – $500 + $35 HORSE with $250,000 Guaranteed

Wednesday, April 28th
2:00PM: Event #16 – $200 + $16 7-Game with $150,000 Guaranteed
6:00PM: Event #17 – $200 + $16 NLHE Cashout with $150,000 Guaranteed
9:00PM: Event #18 – $300 + $22 NLHE 6-Max with Rebuys with $1 million Guaranteed

Thursday, April 29th
2:00PM: Event #19 – $200 + $16 NLHE 1 Rebuy, 1 Add-On with $600,000 Guaranteed
6:00PM: Event #20 – $300 + $22 PLO Heads-Up with $250,000 Guaranteed
9:00PM: Event #21 – $100 + $9 Stud-8 with $100,000 Guaranteed

Friday, April 30th
2:00PM: Event #22 – $200 + $16 NLHE Six-Max with $400,000 Guaranteed
2:00PM: Event #23 – $500 + $35 NLHE 4x Shootout with $350,000 Guaranteed
9:00PM: Event #24 – $300 + $22 Razz with $150,000 Guaranteed

Saturday, May 1st
2:00PM: Event #25 – $2,000 + $100 NLHE Ante from the Start Two-Day Event with $2 million Guaranteed
4:00PM: Event #26 – $100 + $9 PLO with Rebuys with $400,000 Guaranteed
9:00PM: Event #27 – $515 + $20 NLHE Super Turbo KO with $350,000 Guaranteed

Sunday, May 2nd
2:00PM: Event #28 – $240 + $16 NLHE Knockout 6-Max with $1,000,000 Guaranteed
4:00PM: Event #29 – TBA with $500,000 Guaranteed
6:00PM: Event #30 – $600 + $40 NLHE with $3 million Guaranteed