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by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 30, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Titan Poker is part of the iPoker network, one of the fastest growing online poker networks available today. PokerScouts ranks it third highest for traffic, behind only PokerStars and FullTilt. Seeing as it’s only open to non-US players, it’s quite an...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 29, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
The 2008 World Series of Poker year may be winding down but the Circuit Event at Caesars Palace is just beginning. Well, at least the Main Event is just beginning as the smaller tournaments have just finished up. And the best one of these may have been Event #11...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 29, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This Sunday was just like the rest – positively huge. The ultimate boom or bust proposition for online tournament players, yesterday was no different. It was heartbreaking for FTR’s own nutsinho, who not only finished 28th out of 23,118 in the Sunday Hundred Grand on...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 28, 2008 | Poker News, PokerStars
May is drawing near as we’ve got only two more days until PokerStars announces a new set of top ten winners for the month of April. Despite the high tension and sense of urgency on the leaderboards over the course of the week, a couple new players have risen to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 28, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Victoria Coren, a professional poker player out of Britian, has been signed by Team PokerStars. Coren is currently holding down the tenth most earnings all-time for women. She also serves as a commentator for “Celebrity Poker Club” run out of England....
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 28, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Victoria Coren, a professional poker player out of Britian, has been signed by Team PokerStars. Coren is currently holding down the tenth most earnings all-time for women. She also serves as a commentator for “Celebrity Poker Club” run out of England....
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 27, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
It’s that time of the week again, and the PKR leader boards are still in full swing. Here we look for upsets, players coming out of nowhere and heated head to head battling in the upper ranks. Let’s take a peek at the leader board this week and see what people have...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 27, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
Mrickett, reported on UltimateBet’s amazing promotion for the World Series of Poker (WSOP), but they are not the only ones getting in WSOP giveaway mode. According to OnlineCasinos.com, with the 2008 WSOP only months away, there has been an massive increase in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 26, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
Sometimes in poker, it seems as if destiny plays a part. Not everyone believes in destiny, but sometimes it just seems irrefutable. Take Gus Hansen, for example. Gus Hansen is quite obviously an extremely talented tournament player, with constantly ruthless...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 26, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
If you’re looking to win a seat in the World Series of Poker this year, UltimateBet Poker may just be your best bet! Ultimate Bet has taken the opportunity to offer their players a large number of Main Event seats for free. Here’s what you need to do to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 25, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
We’re nearing the end of the month, which means that Bodog will soon crown the leaderboard winner for April. For information on what both the monthly and weekly winners win for being on top of the Bodog leaderboard, please click here. Another week has gone by...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 25, 2008 | Poker News
Every Friday I’ve been talking about poker history. This week is no different and today I will continue talking about historical or well known poker players. Today I choose Daniel Negreanu, a Canadian professional poker player. Many of you are likely familiar with...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 25, 2008 | Poker News
Ah, the islands… After a week away in Antigua I came back to poker last night… played in 5 different $5.50 SNGs at FTP… well let me tell you, rum makes you rusty. First tourney I just played poorly. No excuses. Second tourney (which was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 25, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
Five days have passed since the championship started, and we are now down to the TV final table which is, of course, six players. For an introduction to the tournament, please click here. My article will cover the last three days of the tournament to get us up-to-date...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 25, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
It’s time for another weekly installment of the Ongame Leaderboard, as there has been yet another huge week of activity! Without further ado, let’s first take a look back at last week’s leaderboard, before we take a look at this one’s. 1. Rex Cramer: 10654 2....
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 24, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
The Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino, owned and operated by the Picayune Chukchanski Indian Tribe, is apparently causing tribal members to get kicked out of their own tribe. The cause of this member removal is because other tribal members are becoming too greedy over...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 23, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
UltimateBet announced today that Annie Duke would be managing their schedules for all of their upcoming tournament play. This is a big step in introducing the interests and opinions of one of the best poker players around into their program. Annie has been both...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 23, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
There seemed to be an increase in the light at the end of the tunnel for poker players when South Carolina Representative Wallace Scarborough introduced a bill that would reverse a 200 year old law making card and dice games illegal. Scarborough drafted the bill...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 23, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
World Poker Tour Enterprise Inc have announced that they have finally settled the lawsuit filed against them by several well known professional poker players in July 2006. The case concerned the player release form which the WPT used, where the players claimed that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 22, 2008 | Live Poker Results, Poker News
Woman steals $39,000 to play video poker. Diata Demanje Rhodes, a former Multnomah County employee, stole nearly $39,000 from the county she worked for to fund a video poker addiction. She was forced to resign from her position after officials found money missing from...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 22, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
For those who’ve been following the traditionally star-studded World Poker Tour all season long, your payoff is finally here with the Season 6 WPT World Championships. And what a payoff it has been so far! In all, 545 players paid the hefty $25,000 entry fee...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 21, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another huge Sunday has come and gone, as numerous large paydays were won. The Poker Stars Sunday Million saw 7,176 players pony up $200+15, and after ten hours and eighteen minutes, a winner emerged. Nous44 outlasted everyone, including TYROMPER who took third for...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 21, 2008 | Poker News, PokerStars
We’re looking at just nine days until a new set of top ten MTT winners will be announced on PokerStars for the month of April. While time is nearing the end, these players still have a shot to pick up some slack and climb the ranks before the month’s end....
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 21, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Calvin Ayre, the founder and CEO of Bodog Entertainment has decided it’s time to retire. He began the operation in 1994 and has since been the face of Bodog Entertainment. Since 2007, Bodog has been owned by Morris Mohawk Gaming Group for North America, but Ayre...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 20, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Lucky for all you avid FlopTurnRiver readers it’s that time of the week again. Yeah, the PKR Poker weekly leader board updates are happening right here as requested. The excitement is always hot over at PKR and this week was no exception to the rule. Every week we see...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 20, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
Today is April 20th, 2008. It marks the beginning the second to last tournament stop for the World Series of Poker Circuit Events of the year and it is also a “national holiday”; for those of you who are unaware, 4/20 is national pot smoking day. Legend...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 19, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
In the recent months, a bill has been set forth that would explore the federal legality of a California-only poker service. The bill is one more step closer to going to a vote in the California legislature. The Committee on Governmental Organization approved the bill...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 19, 2008 | EPT, Poker News
The EPT’s 4th season has come to a close, and it has been a raging success. With its end, was the Grand Final in Monte Carlo. The final able wrapped up Thursday, and after 13 hours at the final table, a winner was crowned. As to be expected with the amazingly talented...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 18, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
It’s been a week since we last took a close look at the Bodog leaderboard, so we should expect to see some new names. Or should we? Let’s find out who’s been able to stand their ground and who’s lost their spots since last week. Here’s...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 18, 2008 | Poker News
Poker history can be a pretty wide area of poker to cover. There are tons of issues, hands or situations that could be thrown into the poker history category. Continuing on with the past couple weeks I am going to cover a particular player who has made great history...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 18, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The top 10 players for the MTT Leaderboard on the Ongame Network have been very active in the last week, as we have a new first place for the month of April! Let’s get to it, and take a look at who’s been making headway in the past week, as we’ve reached the midpoint...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 17, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
With May just around the corner, it’s time for poker players around the world to learn more about the inaugural Eurocity Poker Tour. The Madrid Open is the first tournament of the Eurocity Poker Tour and is limited to 200 seats. It will be held May 9th –...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 17, 2008 | EPT, Poker News
The European Poker Tour Grand Final just reached its final 10; unfortunately FTR’s Ben Sulsky, aka Sauce123 is not one of them. Day four started out with 39 players who were all guaranteed a good payday but a difference of over $200,000 between 39th and 9th...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 16, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Here in May is the second ever European Championship of Online Poker, otherwise known as ECOOP II. This is a high paced online poker tournament lasting ten days where the best of the best duke it out for high stakes. In 2007 the ECOOP gave away 2.5 million dollars,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 16, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT
With 15 WPT cashes to his name, Erik Seidel finally his first WPT title after winning the WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic. Seidel outlasted a field of 345 players and entered the 6 handed final table with a commanding chip. The action on the final table last nearly 12...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 16, 2008 | Live Poker Results, Poker News
Smokers Banned from Casinos in Atlantic City. Smoking was still permitted in casinos even after New Jersey banned smoking in most public buildings just two years ago, but that could soon change. Next week the City Council should be giving final approval to a ban that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 15, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
For those who think that professional poker players have it made and their life travels straight down easy street, this year’s Caesars Indiana Main Event proved otherwise. It became more of a contest to see who could stay fixated on the game than who had the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 14, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Ask any online tournament pro what day of the week they look forward to most, and they’ll almost always tell you Sunday. However, ask them after that Sunday what their least favorite day of the week is, and they’ll most likely tell you it’s Sunday. While nearly...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 14, 2008 | Poker News, PokerStars
We’re at the halfway mark for April’s Pokerstars MTT Leaderboard and it may be a pivotal point for many of the participating players indeed. This is the time where they’ve got to slow down and reassess their approach and make necessary changes to fix...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 14, 2008 | Live Poker Results, Poker News
When you think of Las Vegas, one of the first hotel chains that pops into mind is Caesars Palace. That is apparently what Harrah’s Entertainment also thought. Harrah’s Board of Directors agreed that the company would be better off known as Caesars...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 13, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Well it’s Sunday, April 13, 2008 and that means it’s time for another PKR Poker leader board update for all of you folks here at FTR. Last week we had a bunch of people changing spots overall, and this week has a few lineup changes as well. I’m glad you guys are...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 13, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
Today is the beginning of the three-day $5150 Championship Event of the Harrah’s Indiana Circuit stop. Since Olsdog updated us there have been four more completed events and plenty of excitement from new and familiar faces. Event 8 was the $550 Six-handed No...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 13, 2008 | Poker News
Ok, yes the title was to entice you to read on… Played in my first church basement style one time buy in tourney this weekend. This was weird but I did ok. I arrived 1/2 hour before start time, got in line and made it to the registration table. You signed...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 12, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Yesterday, some troubling news came out, and in the muddy waters that is the post-UIEGA landscape, it came to us as a shock. Yesterday afternoon, on Friday, April 11th, Epassporte stopped being a financial option on every known poker site. To say this was a surprise...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 12, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
A new bill has been introduced in Congress on April 10th, that would block out attempts to enforce the UIGEA. House Financial Services Committee Representative Barney Frank and senior Financial Services Committee member Representative Ron Paul introduced this bill...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 11, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
I’m back for my weekly leaderboard report, but plans have changed and I’ll be writing about Bodog this week, instead. If you are interested in the UB leaderboard, please see givememyleg’s blog on Wednesdays from now on because I am now in charge of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 11, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Ultimate Bet is featuring a heads up match against poker great Phil Hellmuth. With 30k on the line, who doesn’t want to give a crack at a well known player for such an excellent payoff? Ultimate Bet is a follow-up to nine months of heads up battles set up in varying...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 11, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
Last time I wrote, I left off at the end of Day 4 of the 2008 No-Limit Holdem Championship of the Foxwoods Poker Classic. There are two days left to discuss, so let’s get right to Day 5! Day 5 started with just 9 people and the day’s goal was to play down...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 10, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Once again it’s time to look at the movers and shakers on the Ongame Network Leaderboard. Without further ado, here are the Top 10 players on the MTT Tournament Leaderboard this month, thus far: 1. ToMontana8: 7724 2. Rex Cramer: 7043 3. billybillard: 6234 4. massi83:...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 10, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
We are pleased this week to have with us Johan “busto_soon” Van Til, one of the top online tournament players in the world. The 26 year old from the Netherlands has been playing professionally for 2 and a half years. Van Til has a fabulous resume of wins, including...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 10, 2008 | Poker News, PokerStars
This will be the first of many PokerStars Leaderboard analysis in the coming months. If the leaderboard action on PokerStars shapes up to be anything like that of Full Tilt’s we’re in for some juicy analysis. Last week, GoodWithAFork kindly supplied us...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 9, 2008 | Poker News
All right, so this is kind of a brag post… but here goes… https://www.flopturnriver.com/Online-Poker-Tournament-3241.html Was down, then up, then down, then up… all over the place. I think I played heads up fairly well, did ok the rest of the time,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 9, 2008 | Poker News
Poker history applies to many facets of poker. Last week I told you about one of the most well known poker players in recent poker history, Doyle Brunson. Outlining the past of these iconic players has been interesting for me because it shows that these guys are...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 9, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
The 2008 version of the Foxwoods Poker Classic has been going on since March 24th, and the $10,000 No-Limit Holdem Championship started last Friday. This championship event attracted 346 players to this World Poker Tour event, creating an impressive $967,300 first...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2008 | Poker News
I’m going to attempt to break down the different styles within poker and what they mean in the real world. This is going to heavily sit with those in Europe since my analogies are based upon English Football (If anyone reading this understand what I’m...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2008 | Poker News
Technorati Profile
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2008 | Poker News
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by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
With just five days away from the $5,150 buy-in main event at Caesars Indiana, many poker fans can’t wait to see how their favorite players will fare at this latest World Series of Poker Circuit challenge. However, you don’t have to wait for the action as...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2008 | EPT, High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Relative unknown, Jason Mercier from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, captured the title of the European Poker Tour San Remo on Saturday, outlasting 700 other players for the biggest win of his young career. In the biggest poker tournament to be ever held in Italy, each...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2008 | Poker News
It is a difficult thing about competition, when you feel you are good enough, or when you hear of someone else accomplishing something, you want to compete at their level. Often this leads to trying something you are not ready to do yet. When I played darts...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 7, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Lots of big names won last Sunday, as poker players prepared to break on Monday for the NCAA basketball championship. High stakes cash game player Vaga_Lion took home the gold in the Poker Stars Sunday Million for a cool $216,576. He beat out a tough final table...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 7, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
This has been a simply huge couple of days in the tournament scene, with big names frequenting the high buy in preliminary events at the Five-Star World Poker Classic at the Bellagio, while we near the end of the road at the Foxwoods Poker Classic. The EPT San Remo...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 7, 2008 | Poker News
Technorati Profile
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 6, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
We are a about a month and a half away from the beginning of the poker communities’ most celebrated time of the year, the World Series of Poker (WSOP). But, before the WSOP action begins there are still 3 more Circuit Events to go. Currently, four of the 12...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 6, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
It looks like it’s another week and have we got some more PKR leader boards in store for you! I’m glad you stuck around and decided to keep up on how people are slugging it out in the top ranks currently. There was a lot of jumping around since the last time we took a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 5, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
CBS’ 60 Minutes is set to air a a piece concerning the Internet poker industry and a notorious “insider poker cheat.” Many in the industry are wary of the airing and potential damage that may arise as a result. There have been previous tapings...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 5, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
CBS’ 60 Minutes is set to air a a piece concerning the Internet poker industry and a notorious “insider poker cheat.” Many in the industry are wary of the airing and potential damage that may arise as a result. There have been previous tapings...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 5, 2008 | EPT, Poker News
Continuing from courtiebee’s summary of Days 1 and 2 of the EPT stop in San Remo, I’ll be bringing you Days 3 and 4. The action was hot and heavy in Italy yesterday, as the final table was set for today. They played down from 31 to 8 yesterday, and the players didn’t...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 4, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
There’s a new winner every week on UltimateBet.com thanks to the Ultimate Tournament Leaderboard. If you haven’t had a chance to familiarize yourself with the UltimateBet’s weekly tournament leaderboard yet, please click here to read my post from...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 4, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Titan Poker, a popular gaming room on iPoker, is sending some players to the 2008 World Series of Poker this year in 2008. With this program Titan Poker offers a few ways to get in on the fun. Titan Poker offers a main event super satellite series that awards $14,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 4, 2008 | EPT, Poker News
Apparently Italians love poker because they came out in droves for the European Poker Tour’s first ever event in Italy. The registration line was so long that people were waiting in the streets as people itched to become part of the action that was the EPT San...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 3, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
You hear a lot about the Phil Gordon, Phil Hellmuth, and Phil Ivey, but how about a young online stud named Phil D’Auteuil? Phil “takechip” D’Auteuil from Quebec, Canada recently burst onto the online poker scene, winning over $700,000 in the past 3 months, half a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 2, 2008 | Poker News
Most of you are familiar with one of the, if not the most well known poker player in history. That poker player would be Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson. Most people familiar with poker at all have at least heard his name in passing, either referencing what he is doing in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 2, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
In recent years, we’ve seen various successful sports stars try their hand at poker with mixed success. Most notably we’ve seen former World No. 1 tennis player, Yevgeny Kafelnikov switch to poker, who made a series of impressive finishes at the World Series of Poker...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 2, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
Recently in Massachusetts, a gambling bill was rejected that would have allowed the construction of three more casinos, but provided fines of up to $25000 and two years jail time for playing poker online. While the construction of casinos should provide an inherent...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 1, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The OnGame Network is extremely popular to say the least. They feature a great deal of rooms, including the ever-popular Poker Room! Despite leaving the U.S. online poker room scene some time ago, they are the fifth most popular network online, constantly have a great...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 1, 2008 | Poker News
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by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 1, 2008 | Poker News
I learned a few things this weekend… most of them positive: 1) When the wife and daughter are out of town, it is prime poker time, the house is silent and there are no distractions, 4 tabling is much easier. 2) When you are on the win streak and the confidence...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 1, 2008 | Poker News
This week’s version of Poker After Dark, a popular poker broadcast on NBC, will feature Gus Hansen and five ladies. Hansen, who has four WPT wins under his belt, will face all of Beth Shak, Clonie Gowen, Erica Shoenberg, J.J. Liu, and Vanessa Rousso in this...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 31, 2008 | EPT, Poker News, WPT
The past few days have been a bit of a holding pattern for live tournaments, as we’ve just put the WPT World Poker Challenge behind us, and are gearing up for an enormous April, ushering in the Spring with millions of dollars in payouts, and new faces made famous...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 31, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Poker Stars had its buy in raised to $1050 this week, creating a gigantic prize pool of over 1.8 million dollars! The spoils went to UH Big Tex, who won $366,698 for the victory. The 2nd place finish of Governator may not be a victory in the literal sense, but his...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 30, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Continuing on with the increase in leader board postings here on FTR I will be covering PKR Poker’s own leader boards every Sunday. They’ve got a good group of players that will be exciting to follow up with every week. PKR offers a lot of neat stuff to their top...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 30, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Greetings! I would like you to meet the Ultimate Tournament Leaderboard, UltimateBet.com’s weekly list of the best tournament players on its site. It’s basically a weekly contest that awards tournament dollars and a chance to win at least $1,000 cash....
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 29, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
On Wednesday, April 2nd, Congress has decided to conduct a long overdue hearing concerning the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA.) The Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade and Technology will be...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 29, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
Heading into Day 3 of the 2008 World Poker Challenge, one would have to put their money on Phil Ivey. It would’ve been a safe bet to say the least. Not only does Phil Ivey has the distinction of being one of the most talented and respected players in the world, but...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 29, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
With talks of an online poker ban in Canada floating around, a ban similar to the one in place in the United states, GigaMedia Limited is unconcerned about the situation. The ban is looking to stop gambling in the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake. The casino profits here...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 28, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
2008 will be the last year the WPT World Poker Challenge championship event will take place, for it is one of six public events that didn’t make the cut for the WPT’s schedule for next year. Back in 2003, its first year with WPT, this event attracted only...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 27, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
Jonathan “JonnyCosmo” McGowan’s didn’t look like much a few years ago. The 22 year old journalism major was just plodding along at San Diego State University, and was only showing gradual improvement at his poker hobby as well. But with the help of fellow poker...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 26, 2008 | Poker News, PokerStars
Most everyone who plays online poker is familiar with PokerStars considering they are one of the biggest online poker networks currently established in the world. With the 3.5 million and growing user base there is always an interesting battle to the top of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 26, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
According to the World Poker Association (WPA) website, their mission is to, “promote professionalism in poker worldwide and support the highest standards of ethical conduct in tournament poker activities”. Founded by Jesse Jones in 2004, the association...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 26, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
English professional poker player, Neil Channing, managed to outlast a field of 667 players as he blitzed his way to winning the 2008 Irish Open held at Dublin’s City West Hotel, taking home Euros 801,400 ($1,260,000 USD). Channing was rampant, as he entered...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 25, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
Yesterday the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a nonprofit organization that ensures poker’s integrity and protects players’ rights, launched its Litigation Support Network. It is a free service that can give informal and initial poker-related legal advice on...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 25, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A player named Tsipor took down the Poker Star’s Sunday Million this week for nearly $210,000. He beat out a tough final table consisting of cash game regulars jaywks, blacenegro, and tourney profressional pbdrunks. Pbdrunks continued his success in 2008 with another...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 24, 2008 | EPT, Poker News, WPT
As usual, in the months leading up to the World Series of Poker, there are a ton of big money tournaments leading up to the biggest tournament series of the year. The Winter can be a bit of a slow time for poker, but as Spring, the tournaments increase, and players...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 23, 2008 | Poker News
For those unfamiliar with Anette Obrestad I will give you a little bit of information on this big and upcoming professional poker player. Obrestad made poker history when she was the winner of the WSOP Europe£ 10,000 main event taking in the title of youngest player...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 23, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
The 2007/2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit tournament series is coming to a close with only three of the 12 events remaining. This fact leads to one exciting and heavily anticipated conclusion: the 2008 World Series of Poker is right around the corner! This...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 22, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
Following the theme of mrickett’s latest article, recently more good news has come up as it pertains to the future of online gambling, and the many obstacles that have arisen in the past eighteen months. Recently in Massachusetts the Governor, Deval Patrick, wrote up...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 22, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
In Sweden this past week, prosecutors were instructed to discontinue prosecuting cases against media companies who publish or air ads related to online poker and other forms of online gambling. The lift on this ban will surely present a lot of opportunity for foreign...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 21, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
On Saturday at 4:30 Eastern Time Absolute Poker is holding an Easter egg hunt in honor of the upcoming holidays that most of us are familiar with. Now we can reminisce about the good old days of searching out Easter eggs without having to get up from the computer. No...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 21, 2008 | Poker News
The Championship Event of the second annual Wynn Classic ended yesterday night, awarding a $692,286 first prize. Just days after the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star, many pros left San Jose and came straight to Vegas to play this four day $10,000 buy-in event. A few pros...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 20, 2008 | Poker News
Technorati Profile
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 20, 2008 | Poker News
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by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 20, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
When you read the title to this interview, you may have asked yourslef “Who is this Dr. Giggy guy, and why does he like Family Guy so much?” Well, Martin “Dr. Giggy” Giguere (it’s pronounced “Djiggy,” although he does love Family Guy!) is likely the biggest winner in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 19, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
In a Wall Street Journal Law Blog today, Dan Slater reports on a rally led by Harvard University Professor Charles Nesson against pending provisions of a resort casino bill which would effectively criminalize poker in Massachusetts. Nesson, a Harvard undergrad and law...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 19, 2008 | Poker News
I’ve spent the last few weeks building my bankroll back to reasonable levels, reasonable by small stakes standards. At the beginning of the week (I know, it is Wednesday)… I had $91 in the BR. Not a bad batch, was $9 from total break even in my 4 months...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 19, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
Recent WSOPE runner up, John Tabatabai, has proved that he is more than just a flash in the pan by taking down the 12th All Africa Poker Tournament. The tournament held in Piggs Peak, South Africa, also included local hero, Raymond Rahme in the line-up, who is best...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 18, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
The dates and venues for this year’s World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) were officially announced today by Harrah’s Entertainment. Hosted in London, England, this year’s series will run from September 19th to October 1st and will take place in the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 18, 2008 | EPT, Poker News
The EPT Polish Open has come and gone as the EPT Season 4 nears its end. The Poker Stars sponsored poker circuit has gained a great deal of popularity this year, and shows no signs of stopping as there’s only one more tournament to go before the illustrious EPT Grand...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 17, 2008 | Online Tournaments
Sunday we saw the same weekly patterns continue: Top players in the final table, prize pools getting bigger, and Bodog 100k guaranteed’s huge overlay. In the Poker Stars Sunday Million, C00lHandNuke played it cool and took down the top prize of $208,000. Cash game...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 17, 2008 | Poker News
Everyone knows that even with skill, at low level poker there is still quite a bit of luck involved… this weekend started off with the luck on my side… and then it quickly left. SaturdayI was up to around $81 in my bankroll, closing quickly in on total...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 16, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
As I reported a few days back the World Series of Poker is still hanging out in New Jersey. But, finally there is a conclusion to the largest championship field in the WSOP circuit. The winner received $431,136 for their efforts! With a $4900 buy-in and a grueling...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 16, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
The return of Paradigm Poker Consultants, Inc. was announced today by Steve Morrow, who co-directed the 2002 World Series of Poker while consulting PokerStars from a start-up poker room to the #2 position in the online poker industry. Paradigm Poker Consultants, Inc....
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 15, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
Following up on courtiebee’s report on the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star event, here is the final table report, fresh off of the finish yesterday evening. A lot of times in tournaments, the time leading up to the final table, ripe with bubble aggression and big stacks...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 14, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
Coming back to Atlantic City for the fourth year the World Series of Poker has taken over Jersey. Caesars Atlantic City is currently hosting the 9th of 12 WSOP Circuit stops in 2008. The event will last three days and day one finished in a solid fashion. Dan Hicks...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 14, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
Event number eight of the Caesars Atlantic City tournament ended after a single day, even with 607 players entered. How did that happen you might ask? Well it’s simple, they changed it up and made the event a turbo event, changing the blinds every 20 minutes to yield...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 13, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
Have you ever played an online multi-table tournament and just wished that being the chip leader after the first hour guaranteed a pay day? Or how about a live tournament that spans a few days – wouldn’t it be nice to know that coming out of day two with...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 13, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
This tournament featured a solid $500 buyin and 382 players sat down to play. The tournament spanned two days and 373 were eliminated on day one. When the second day started with the remaining 9 players things got a little interesting. Final table chip counts are a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 12, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Most people in the poker community are likely now aware that Gavin Griffin recently took down the 2008 Borgata World Poker Tour event, making him the first player to win a World Series of Poker event, a European Poker Tour event, and a World Poker Tour event,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 12, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
On Sunday, Huck Seed finally got got his hands on a major heads-up title by winning the 2008 Canadian Open Poker Championship in Calgary, Alberta at the Deerfoot Inn and Casino. Seed has made a string of cashes in major heads-up tournaments in recent years without...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 11, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
PokerStars already sponsors the European and Asian Poker Tours, and it is adding Latin America to its list. Yesterday it announced the launch of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT), and 2008 will feature stops in Brazil, Costa Rica, and Uruguay. “Poker is...
