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by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 4, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
The largest ever World Series of Poker tournament, outside a Main Event, is now completed, and only 1 day late. The tournament was originally schedule to run for 4 days, ending Tuesday. However, late Tuesday, event organizers, along with ESPN360, who would be airing...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 3, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Dreaming of that wonderful summer vacation? Thinking it is going to cost too much money to go? Well, let RedKings carry the tab for you instead! How? By playing in this summer’s Summer Holiday Series at RedKings! The series, which started yesterday, consists...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 3, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
WSOP 2009 Super Satellite Sunday, May 31, 2009, at 20:00 GMT+1 Buy-ins = $500 + $35 Satellites available. $13,000 Prize Package includes entry to the WSOP Main Event, 7 nights’ accommodation and travel expenses for Las Vegas in July 2009. Win your seat at the biggest...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 3, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
Very occasionally a group of poker players will assemble to compete without any money on the line. At such events you’ll usually find a serious amount of prestige on offer, and so it was for the recently completed World Series of Poker Champion’s Invitational. Twenty...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 3, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
Very occasionally a group of poker players will assemble to compete without any money on the line. At such events you’ll usually find a serious amount of prestige on offer, and so it was for the recently completed World Series of Poker Champion’s Invitational. Twenty...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 3, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
Dream Team Poker has announced that they will be hosting their second “open” event, this time on poker’s biggest stage. The event will take place while the Main Event is going on at the World Series of Poker, on July 12th and 13th. The Rio will...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 2, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
The World Series of Poker is not only the pinnacle of skillful poker play, it’s also the host for some fantastic prop betting. Professional poker players are renowned for wagering vast amounts of money on ludicrous challenges and dangerous tests of physical endurance....
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 1, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With the WSOP in full swing some might assume that online tournaments would see a big drop in attendance. However, that was not the case as May came to an end with a big bang. Not only did the majority of big tournaments reach their guarantees this past Sunday, but...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 31, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
So far it seems that the 2009 World Series of Poker could not have gotten off to a better start! Four tournaments have begun and three records have been broken. In Event 2, the $40k buy-in 40th Annual No-Limit Hold’em Event, the record for largest prize pool...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 31, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
So far it seems that the 2009 World Series of Poker could not have gotten off to a better start! Four tournaments have begun and three records have been broken. In Event 2, the $40k buy-in 40th Annual No-Limit Hold’em Event, the record for largest prize pool...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 30, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
durrrr made a brief appearance for the $40K World Series of Poker Event, but busted early after showing up nearly an hour after play began. He and Antonius were on the Challenge tables for a few hours yesterday. During much of that time, durrrr also played Phil Ivey,...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 30, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
With the World Series starting this week the high stakes action is certainly going to slow down a little. However, last week on the felt it was pretty crazy with Dwan and Sahamies continuing their 3k/9k PLO sessions. During several more sessions at the $500/1,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 30, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News, PokerStars
Remember how many times I’ve babbled on and on about this special and great tournament that was coming up at PokerStars? Remember also how many times I said that this tournament was so great, that you would not even need real money to enter, just FPPs? Remember...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 29, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
The first tournament of this year’s World Series is officially in the bag. Day 2 in Event #1, the $500 Casino Employees Event, began yesterday and continued on into the early hours of the morning. Emerging victorious from the melee was 39 year old bartender Andrew...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 28, 2009 | Live Poker Results, Poker News, PokerStars, WSOP
As you could have seen reported by other FTR bloggers, The 40th World Series of Poker event is already underway! I would like to take a minute to tell you why you should qualify using PokerStars to play in these events if you do not happen to have $10,000 in spare...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 28, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
The 40th World Series of Poker got itself firmly under way at noon yesterday with Event #1, the Casino Employees tournament. The contest was concocted by the legendary Benny Binion, as a thank you to all the staff that had made his fledgling WSOP such a success....
by FTR Poker Admin | May 27, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
The World Series of Poker 2009 officially starts today at noon in Las Vegas. Poker players from around the world have been arriving over the past couple of days in preparation for the world’s largest poker tournament series. Just as Vegas gears up for the...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 26, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Back in late 2007, Titan Poker concocted the European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP), a series of high stakes online tournaments designed to bring together Europe’s top poker talent on one exciting stage. Since that first incarnation the event has grown and...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 25, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With one Sunday before PokerStars big Porsche giveaway, tournaments saw their lowest participation in a long time. Only three of the eight majors reached their guarantee including the Warm-Up, Brawl, and Mulligan. The Sunday Million saw quite a drop in attendance,...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 25, 2009 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Full Tilt Poker is well known for having the biggest stable of poker pros in the business. To keep those keen minds and thick bankrolls happy tournament programmers need to be sure that they keep the exciting big-money tournaments flowing. Their latest attempt to...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 24, 2009 | Poker News
The latest innovation from the leading online poker room gives players multiple chances to win cash prizes, a 2009 WSOP package, and a Peugeot 207cc luxury car. Online poker players making their first deposit during the month of May at TitanPoker.com, the largest...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 24, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
Maybe it’s because the last World Series of Poker just finished up in November, but it seems hard to believe that the 2009 World Series starts Wednesday. Registration opens up on Tuesday, as well as tournament satellites and of course, plenty of cash game...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 23, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Last Sunday afternoon, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Phil Ivey, and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies played three-handed $500-$1,000 HA. Sahamies was the big winner in that session, building his stack to over $500,000. Dwan then decided he’d play both Ivey and Sahamies concurrently on...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 23, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The durrrr challenge saw some action at the tables with a small session on 20th that logged 693 hands and Patrik Antonius extended his lead to $424,631 Here’s a few hands from that session. The first pot to break the 100k mark didn’t come long after the session...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 22, 2009 | Poker News, PokerStars
No money? No problems! Not all of us have huge bankrolls that can be dedicated to poker all the time. Some of us would rather start small and donk it up to the major leagues. The problem is, most sites have very bad table selection, especially small, and not due to...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 21, 2009 | Poker Law, Poker News
With Barney Frank’s bill to legalize online gambling out in the open, it seems that the battle lines are being drawn in Washington. The Congressman’s richest and most powerful opponents look to be the National Football League. The NFL have consistently trumpeted their...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 21, 2009 | Poker News, PokerStars
If you read Jack’s Corner a few days ago you would know already that PokerStars is giving away a Porche Cayman S on top of cash prizes for this month’s Turbo Takedown. This offer is so incredible that FTR just wanted to make sure none of their members...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 20, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News, WSOP
Qualify to play in the World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event at Everest Poker and you could be taking home more than just what you win at the event. That’s right, Everest Poker is giving its players the chance to reel in some extra cash. So what is this...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 20, 2009 | Live Poker Results, Poker News
397 poker players competed for more than $2 million in prize money at the first-ever World Poker Tour® tournament in Italy. Last week, 397 players participated in the first ever World Poker Tour® event in Italy — WPT Venice™, powered by bwin. The €4,000 tournament...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 20, 2009 | Poker Law, Poker News
A growing number of US states and EU countries are classifying poker as a game of skill. Almost always prompted by a court case in which poker players are accused of engaging in illegal gambling. The most recent successful defense of such a case has come in Sweden,...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 20, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Imagine living in Las Vegas with three of your best friends, playing as much online poker as you can, all with one common goal. The goal? To win $2,000,000 in 2 months. That is the premise of a new “Docu-Series” on G4 TV, which will begin airing in...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 19, 2009 | Live Poker Results, Online Poker News, Poker News, WSOP
SunPoker is giving players a chance to qualify for some of the world’s best live tournaments through their online satellites. So far, SunPoker players have cashed for more than €300,000 in the Casinos Austria Poker Tournament series. Now, they want to give you...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 18, 2009 | FTOPS, Poker News
The 12th FTOPS ended this weekend with the conclusion of the Main Event. The Main Event was a $500+35 NLHE tournament. There was a $2,500,000 guarantee and 4581 entrants. The chip count on the final table was as follows: Pocketownage420 – 6,355,367 azzabentonaces –...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 18, 2009 | Poker News, PokerStars
If you look around in the PokerStars Frequent Player Point store, you might have noticed that there are Porsches available for purchase. You would need SuperNova status and 3,000,000 FPPs to get one of your own, brand-spankin’ new. PokerStars has already given...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 18, 2009 | FTOPS, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Here are the results for the Full Tilt Poker FTOPS XII Event#13: NL Hold’em Knockout with Superstack. Basically, you will get a $20 bounty for every player you knock out of the tournament. It is also a superstack event, which means that there is a ton of play...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 18, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With FTOPS XII coming to an end this Sunday there was quite a buzz around FullTilt Poker. For once it seemed PokerStars would not have the biggest Sunday online. FlopTurnRiver is covering all of the major FTOPS events including the Main Event which ended tonight. ...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 16, 2009 | High Stakes Rail
Patrik and Durrrr put in a short session on the 13th that lasted around 60minutes. Over that short period they logged 310 hands and durrrr was able to book a much-needed win to compensate for some of the big losses he suffered in the May 4th session. Patrik now holds...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 16, 2009 | High Stakes Rail
The action was fast and furious last week in High Stakes online poker. Gus Hansen’s upswing came to an abrupt end and Tom “durrrr” Dwan was able to recoup some of that $2 million loss from last week. Also coming back from the dead was Luke “_FullFlush1_” Schwartz....
by FTR Poker Admin | May 16, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Last week’s episode saw the end of a four-week series of shows where the poker playing, for the most part, left a lot to be desired in the eyes of most aficionados. Particularly after the great first 5 episodes and some of the great hands that were played. This week...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 16, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
PokerStars has established a reputation for itself as the leader in customer service when it comes to online poker rooms. Lee Jones was a big part of bringing the focus on the customer attitude to Poker Stars. He now takes his years of knowledge and experience to...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 15, 2009 | FTOPS, Poker News
With only two days and 6 events left in FTOPS XII, players are buckling down for a huge weekend of big buy-in, large guarantee tournaments. Event 20, a $200+$16, $400,000 guaranteed NL Hold’em Event saw 2,206 entrants create a prize pool of $441,200. This was...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 14, 2009 | Live Poker Results, Poker Law, Poker News
Holy crap! Pigs are flying! Or maybe they finally realized that jails were getting too full and people decided to stop imprisoning people based on stupid laws. Delaware, the second smallest state after Rhode Island, has voted and passed Sports Betting and Table games...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 14, 2009 | Poker Law, Poker News
Politicians in South Carolina have moved one step closer to making poker legal in the state. Many forms of gambling are currently prohibited by a 207-year old law which outlaws “any games with cards or dice.” This technically includes any number of family...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 14, 2009 | FTOPS, Poker News
Last night saw the return of a staple FTOPS event, the 6-max rebuy. The buy-in was set at $300, with a sizable $1,000,000 guaranteed ensuring the prize pool was well stocked. Although only 961 players opted to compete it seems they weren’t shy about reloading when...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 13, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News, PokerStars
Just when you thought it could not get any better… You know, Porsche’s make damn fine automobiles. Their midrange coupe, nicely situated between the Boxster and the more outrageous 911, is called the Cayman. Ever wondered how one of these would drive, and...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 13, 2009 | Poker Law, Poker News
Much has been made of President Barack Obama’s predilection for poker. The revelation that he enjoys the occasional cash game with some of his political allies was greeted rapturously by the poker community. As more level headed members of the industry predicted there...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 12, 2009 | FTOPS, Online Tournaments, Poker News
j__thaddeus Takes Down FTOPS XII Event#13 — Double stacked 6-MAX NLHE Shoot Out Another great FTOPS event is in the books, and we have another big-money winner. Today was a particularly special one, because it was a double stacked 6-max shootout event; essentially a...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 12, 2009 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS XII could be getting a little expensive for the folks over at Bovada. Yesterday’s Event 12 drew a decent crowd of 1,349 players to pay the $1,000 + $60 entry fee. However, that still left an overlay of $151,000 in the $1.5 million guaranteed tournament....
by FTR Poker Admin | May 11, 2009 | Poker News
The third MotoGP race of the season was the third stop on the Magic Moments of Poker tour. bwin poker players experienced the most exciting racing series on two wheels up close and personal at the Gran Premio bwin.com de España in Jerez. André Braender from Germany...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 11, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With FTOPS XII in full swing this week’s Sunday Tournament Report will be more of a focus on PokerStars happenings. For those looking for FTOPS updates, please check out the FlopTurnRiver news section for write-ups on the bigger events. It took a bit of a...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 11, 2009 | FTOPS, Poker News
Sunday was a big day for FTOPS XII. Three tournaments (8,9,10) ran simultaneously throughout the day, the biggest of which was the $1,500,000 guaranteed Event #10. The tournament failed to reach its guarantee, an alarming trend so far in FTOPS XII. Yesterday only...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 11, 2009 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event #8 of the FTOPS XI was $240+16 NL Hold’em Knockout 6-max, guaranteeing $600,000. A massive 4,411 players registered, creating a huge prize pool of $882,200 with first place a cool $168,527.84. The chip counts at the start of the final table were the...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 11, 2009 | FTOPS, Poker News
The twelfth Full Tilt Series of Poker is now in full swing, with Event #9 giving heads up specialists a chance to demonstrate their prowess for the first time this season. The $500 + $35 No Limit Hold ‘em tournament attracted a modest 933 entrants, including a number...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 10, 2009 | FTOPS, High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
And another FTOPS Event is in the books. This time it was the FTOPS XII Event 7 high buy-in. It was a $100+9 R+A event, which had 2850 total rebuys and in excess of 1100 addons. For this event, 1807 hopefuls showed up to lay claim to the title. Among these were known...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 10, 2009 | Poker News
Don Cheadle is one of those movie stars you know and love. Known mostly for his role as “Basher” in the Ocean’s Eleven series, he has also starred in literally countless other movies such as Hotel Rwanda, Swordfish and Mission to Mars, and everywhere...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 9, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Full Tilt Poker is giving you the chance to play on national television against some of the best names in poker. Not only do you get to play against the best and brightest in front of a nationwide audience, but you also get to compete for a share of $2,000,000! ...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 9, 2009 | Poker News
With the Gran Premio bwin.com de España just around the corner MotoGP riders tested their nerves off the racetrack. Exclusive photos from today’s stunning “Poker in the Sky” tournament are now online. Headed by racing legend Randy Mamola, an international...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 9, 2009 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS XII continued yesterday with Event #4. This was a $200 + $16 no-limit Hold’em event allowing 1-re-buy and 1-add-on and featuring a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. That prize would rise, however, as there were 1,196 players to buy-in, followed by 872...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 9, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
After a drought of a few weeks the High Stakes Rail report is back! Last week in High Stakes online games the action was a little sparse. This was due to the EPT in Monte Carlo, as most high stakes players were out there playing live. This didn’t stop some though...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 8, 2009 | FTOPS, Poker News
Full Tilt’s Online Poker Series got off to a great start this week with huge prize pools and a wide variety of buy-ins. Last night a $500+$35 shoot-out event pitting 729 of the world’s best tournament players crowned “nypitbull24” as its...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 7, 2009 | Poker Law, Poker News
Last week the Minnesota Department of Safety authored a letter to 11 Internet Service Providers containing a list of 200 assorted gambling websites, including a number of prominent poker companies. The ISPs were ordered to block Minnesota residents from accessing...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 7, 2009 | FTOPS, Poker News
With Winter firmly behind us the masterminds at Bovada Poker decided the time was ripe to unleash their latest Full Tilt Series of Poker. The 12th incarnation of this festival began yesterday, with Event #1 concluding an hour ago. The new series kicked of with a...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 6, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Bodog Poker Open III Main Event caps successful week with more than 4,800 online poker players competing for $606,741 in prize money and T$12,150 in bounties. May 6, 2009 – The Bodog Poker Open III wrapped up a hugely successful week of tournaments on Sunday...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 6, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Bodog Poker Open III Main Event caps successful week with more than 4,800 online poker players competing for $606,741 in prize money and T$12,150 in bounties. May 6, 2009 – The Bodog Poker Open III wrapped up a hugely successful week of tournaments on Sunday...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 6, 2009 | Poker Law, Poker News
After much anticipation and speculation, Financial Services Committee Chairman, Barney Frank, has introduced a bill that proposes legalization and regulation of online gambling companies. This legislation has been long awaited by those looking for clarification of...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 6, 2009 | Poker Law, Poker News
The Chairman of the House Financial Committee in Washington, Barney Frank, has today unveiled his latest attempt at re-legalizing online gambling. Frank has been a consistent supporter of poker and gambling in general and is seen by many as the industry’s most...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 5, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Tower Gaming, as an official WSOP Satellite Location, offers players a chance at a $17,000.00 all-expenses package to the WSOP Las Vegas. Stay at the Venetian Palazzo Hotel and play with the best poker players in the world for a buy-in as little as $1.20! Cartago,...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 4, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With another FTOPS looming this past Sunday served as a bit of a warm-up for all the online tournament professionals. Be sure to check flopturnriver.com for daily updates on all the major FTOPS events. This week some big names made deep runs in bigger events and,...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 2, 2009 | Poker News, PokerStars
Fish, chips, cup o’ tea, Mary Poppins, and now you lucky Brit bastards have one more thing to claim to your name: awesome exclusive PokerStars bonuses! For all of May of ’09, PokerStars will be rewarding its UK players with tons of free VIP Player Points...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 2, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
Another US state has issued what equates to their attempt at censoring the Internet. This time, it is Minnesota who has decided that it would be in the best interest of the residents of that state if they did not have access to certain companies, either through the...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 2, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
Another US state has issued what equates to their attempt at censoring the Internet. This time, it is Minnesota who has decided that it would be in the best interest of the residents of that state if they did not have access to certain companies, either through the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 30, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Titan Poker Offers $63,000 in Freerolls to New Depositors in May The latest innovation from the leading online poker room gives players multiple chances to win cash prizes, a 2009 WSOP package, and a Peugeot 207cc luxury car. Online poker players making their first...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 30, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News, WSOP
Cheap Seat qualifiers running now; Four $12,000 World Series of Poker* Main Event prize packages guaranteed this Sunday, May 3. Apr. 30, 2009 – The rush is on for online poker players looking to qualify for the 2009 WSOP* Main Event—poker’s richest and most...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 30, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
That’s right folks, the 2009 edition of the largest poker tournament series in the world starts in less than a month. The series will start off with a bang this year in celebration of the 40th Annual No-Limit Hold’em event (this is actually Event 2, Event...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 28, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
The money will be up for grabs at Fortune Poker for the month of May. The new promotions are sure to entice new players and keep the Fortune veterans loving the action. Included in this month’s promotion list is a €1,000,000 guaranteed tournament, €5,000 rake...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 27, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The end of April brings a few special twists to the Sunday Tournament Report, most notably the PokerStars monthly Turbo Takedown. The $1,000,000 guarantee event can only be bought into with 5000 Frequent Player Points (FPPs) which players earn playing in real-money...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 25, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Bodog Poker Open III to feature three tiers of online poker tournaments and more than $280,000 in prize money. Online poker’s best new tournament series is back for its third installment, and it’s better than ever. The 26-event Bodog Poker Open III (BPOIII) kicks off...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 25, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
It has been discussed for a long time now and the time has come that California will be the first state to try to legalize and regulate online poker within its borders. The bill, called the California Online Poker Law Enforcement Compliance and Consumer Protection...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 23, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Former poker giant PartyGaming recently set the stage for its recovery when it announced a $105 million non-prosecution deal with the U.S. Department of Justice. As soon as the deal was made public, Chief Executive Jim Ryan began talking up the possibility of industry...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 22, 2009 | Poker News, PokerStars, WSOP
20% Reload bonus! OH HAI DER! You know you want it, and PokerStars comes through for you once again. It’s one of those scarce PokerStars bonuses (which have been becoming less and less scarce lately, which is great) and its valid as of right now. All you have to do to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 22, 2009 | Poker Law, Poker News
One of poker world’s most high profile pressure groups has committed itself to a multimillion dollar lobbying campaign over the next 6-8 months. The Poker Players Alliance has told the Associated Press that they have a war-chest of $3 million to utilize during this...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 22, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Bodog is one of the biggest brands of sportsbetting online. The Antigua-based company (licensed in the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake) actually made its name one of the most recognized everywhere. Bodog cemented its name in the online gambling hall-of-fame by way of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 20, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Upcoming Poker Events for Week of April 19, 2009: $250,000 Guaranteed Sunday, April 19, 2009, at 19:00 GMT+1 Buy-ins = $300 + $20 Satellites available. Win part of a huge guaranteed prize pool for an amazingly low buy-in! WSOP 2009 Super Satellite Sunday, April 19,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 20, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The first week after a major tournament series can go either ways, sometimes tournaments gain popularity and see a nice boost in attendance. Other times, however, tournament entries see a bit of a drop-off with players taking a week off after such a grueling set of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 19, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
Looking for another opportunity to play your way into the 2009 World Series of Poker? Well, tomorrow night Bodog is giving you another chance by offering at least two seats to the New Orleans circuit event being held May 18th at Harrah’s in New Orleans. This...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 18, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
By now just about everyone who might care already knows about the Durrrr $1 million heads-up challenge. However, another top online player has issued an open challenge for anyone willing to accept it for $1 million, “from Tiger Woods to Phil Ivey”. This...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 17, 2009 | Poker Law, Poker News
Over the past year the Interactive Entertainment and Gaming Association has been engaged in a protracted court battle with the U.S. Department of Justice. iMEGA are seeking to overturn the UIGEA and, after originally being defeated, were granted a second hearing at...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 16, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The Irish Open was one of Europe’s most prestigious tournaments long before the likes of the WSOPE and EPT arrived. Nowadays it still maintains its place as one of the toughest and most sought after tournament crowns on the world stage, along with a reputation for...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 15, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
One of the fastest growing poker community sites on the web today is FlopTurnRiver.com. This site isn’t like just any other poker community site where people only talk about random things on the forum each day. They feature strategy articles, room reviews, and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 15, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Bodog has released the dates and information for the latest rendition of the very popular Bodog Poker Open series. The upcoming series will piggyback a little bit on the concept started by PokerStars in the recent SCOOP series. They will offer three different...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 15, 2009 | Poker News
After being in the business for 10 years, PokerRoom.com of OnGame fame will close its doors after Bwin.com decided to put it down. PokerRoom.com is, or rather, was one of the most famous and longest-running online sites. Yesterday, players on the PokerRoom.com site...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 14, 2009 | Poker News
As the official sponsor of this year’s World Series of Poker, Everest Poker has taken extreme measures to ensure that its players receive the best VIP treatment of any poker site sponsored player. Qualifying for the WSOP with Everest will be more than just...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 14, 2009 | Poker News
Cyprus 13 April 2009 – Three of the most beautiful settings in Europe are on the cards for the players in Team RedKings as they prepare for a month of fantastic Live Poker Events with the RedKings support machine with them all the way. Moving from San Remo to the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 14, 2009 | Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
Sunday 12th April saw the beginning of Event 22 of SCOOP, the long awaited Main Event. There were 3 events, low, medium and high as normal. Event #22 low certainly drew a crowd with 18,747 players entering. Those thousands created a massive prize pool of $1,874,700...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 13, 2009 | Poker News
SunPoker.com is giving away guaranteed seats to the Casinos Austria Poker Tour (CAPT) in Innsbruck, Austria. The CAPT tournaments have proven time and again to be some of the best run tournaments in the world and are starting to see the huge prize pools of the larger...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 13, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
21-L SCOOP event 21-L can easily be cataloged as a who’s who in online HU play. 1550 of the very best players online duked it out in this HU shootout tournament. The field was large, but this was definitely not an indication of an easy ride for tough players...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 13, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With Easter Sunday coinciding with SCOOP, some wondered how much of a hit PokerStars’ Main Event and $25K HU Event would take attendance-wise. Fortunately for the site the majority of the SCOOP events made their guarantees while their normal Sunday tournaments...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 12, 2009 | Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker is down to its final day after the completion of Event 20. This event was a fixed limit, 6-max Hold’em tournament, with starting stack sizes of 5,000 chips and 15 minute blinds. Once again there were three...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 11, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Live Poker Results, Poker News
Beginning this Sunday and continuing for the next five Sundays, NBC will be airing the 2009 National Heads-Up Poker Challenge, starting at noon each week. The event was recorded last month at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and features a field of 64 players, including...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 11, 2009 | Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
The first ever Poker Stars Spring Championships of Online Poker is drawing close to its triumphant conclusion. The series has been very well attended so far, and that continued to be true of Event #17, which concluded early this morning. It was a No Limit Hold ‘em...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 10, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Everest Poker is now offering their players a great opportunity to win a seat at the WSOP Main Event 2009. They are offering a step style progression, 6 steps in total, to work your $3 into a Main Event Package + $3000 for travel expenses. Alternatively you can skip...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 10, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Daniel Negreanu, Peter Eastgate, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Tom Dwan, Illari Shahmies, Barry Greenstein and David Benyamine were all at the table once again this week on High Stakes Poker. In the second hand of the night, a double straddle was placed by Eastgate and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 9, 2009 | Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
April 8th saw a huge turnout for PokerStars’ Event 14 of the Spring Championship of Online Poker. Event 14 was set up as a No-Limit Hold’em tournament with 6-max tables. In accordance with all other events for SCOOP, three tournaments made up the event ...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 9, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Former online gambling behemoth PartyGaming have reached a landmark settlement with the U.S. government, absolving them of any illegal activity. The owners of Party Poker agreed to pay the U.S. Attorney’s Office $105 million in return for immunity from prosecution. As...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The poker world was stunned yesterday as news began to circulate that Casey Reese, son of poker legend Chip, had passed away. Rumors began to filter through to various forums and blogs that the twenty year old college student had died following a fatal drug overdose....
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
The former heavyweight of the poker world, PartyPoker.com, has not been knocked out yet. The parent company of the online poker site, PartyGaming Plc, has announced a deal with the United States in which they agree to pay $105 million over the next three years. In...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2009 | Poker News, SCOOP
Event 10 of the Spring Championship of Online Poker, known as SCOOP, has concluded. This event was NL Hold’em Heads Up Match Play. There were 3 events with different buy-ins. Low, Medium and High. $16.50, $162 and $1,575 respectively. All events passed their...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2009 | Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
Event 11 of the Spring Championship of Online Poker, known as SCOOP, has concluded. This special Mixed-Hold’em 6max Event alternated between Limit Hold’em and No-Limit Hold’em on each blind/level change. For those unaware, the SCOOP is a special...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 7, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Upcoming Poker Events for Week of April 5, 2009: PokerStrategy $10,000 Freeroll Titan Poker Sunday, April 5, 2009, at 17:00 GMT+1 Restricted to PokerStrategy players who made a deposit during the month of March. $250,000 Guaranteed Sunday, April 5, 2009, at 19:00...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 7, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Italian Player Wins $99,000 Jackpot Tournament Prize at Titan Poker Titan Poker player Pierpaolo Pica hits the jackpot after almost one year of online poker playing. TitanPoker.com, the largest poker room on the iPoker Network, has awarded player Pierpaolo Pica from...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 7, 2009 | Poker News, WSOP
$1,000,000 bonus for ALL Everest Poker WSOP qualifiers – wherever you finish Everest Poker will match the WSOP Main Event winnings of their qualified players up to $1,000,000…and share it with all those qualified…even if you busted out in the first hour! Based...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 7, 2009 | Poker News, SCOOP
The last two days saw the first 2 day event of the SCOOP series. Event 10 was a single freezeout. The small event eclipsed the $250,000 garanteed by PokerStars. 20,353 entered making a massive $610,590.00 prize pool. 4,500 players walked away with some money for their...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 6, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With the Spring Championship of Online Poker now in full-swing on PokerStars this week the Sunday Tournament rotation looks a bit differently. PokerStars still ran their Sunday Warm-Up, Second Chance, and $215r. However, the Million and Sunday500 were replaced by...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 5, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
Okay guys, here I am presenting you a tournament recap for all 3 SCOOP Event 5s, both in the low buy-in spectrum, medium buy-in spectrum, and high buy-in spectrum. Event 5 is special, because it was a shootout event. A shootout event is just like a SNG, where the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 5, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Daniel Negreanu, Peter Eastgate, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Tom Dwan, Illari Shahmies, Barry Greenstein and David Benyamine were all at the table once again this week on High Stakes Poker. There were several massive pots in this week’s episode. In the first,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 4, 2009 | Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
The first ever PokerStars Summer Championships of Online Poker began on Thursday with the first of its innovative three-tier tournaments. In an attempt to make these large online festivals accessible to everyone, every event has three versions at three different...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 3, 2009 | Poker News
Chilipoker.com and WPT Enterprises announced today that they have finalized an exclusive partnership to launch the first ever World Poker Tour® (WPT) event to take place on the African continent-WPT Marrakech. The three-year deal enables the partners to create annual...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 3, 2009 | Poker Law, Poker News
A bill introduced by Texas Representative, Jose Menendez, passed through the Texas House Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee yesterday. This is the first step in getting poker legalized and regulated throughout the state. The bill was passed by a vote...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 2, 2009 | Online Poker News, Poker News
PokerHeaven.com, the second largest operator on the International Poker Network, is turning 4 years old this month and is celebrating with everyone! To help spread the birthday cheer, over €85,000 are up for grabs in four different giveaways. First up is the €50,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 2, 2009 | Poker News, PokerStars
Online poker’s biggest presence is unquestionably, PokerStars. Ever since fairy-tale WSOP main event champ Chris Moneymaker qualified via a PokerStars satellite, things have gone from strength to strength. The infamous UIGEA has only served to strengthen their...
