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by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 10, 2008 | EPT, High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT
We’re nearly midway through March, and as we lead up to the 2008 World Series of Poker, we have a great deal of exciting tournaments underway, and coming up. There’s yet another EPT event looming, a WSOP Circuit Main Event in three days, and a unique WPT event just...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 10, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
We’ll start off with the UltimateBet $200,000 guarantee. There were 871 entrants to the tournament and UltimateBet posted 25,800 to match the guarantee established. The results were as follows: 1. NoSoup4UUUU — $45,000 2. amak316 — $27,000 3. DIAGF Zpace —...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 10, 2008 | Poker News
Everyone knows the legendary Minnesota Fats, pool player extraordinaire… yet have you experienced Missouri Fats? I am hoping that my experience as him is quick to dissipate, quick to end, and in general gets the hell out of dodge. I think this is likely a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 9, 2008 | Poker News
According to her website, when Liz Lieu was 13 and began playing Chinese poker with her friends she began a long-term love affair with cards. Born in Vietnam in 1974, she was shortly moved to Colorado by her parents. When she was 18, she and a friend started their own...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 9, 2008 | Poker News
A big step has been made for female poker players this month. Van Nguyen won the first televised World Poker Tour event by beating out 444 players and winning a large portion of the money donated to the event by Commerce. This is pretty exciting for women in the poker...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 9, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Jonathan Little has had a great run as a Full Tilt Poker Pro but his time at FTP has come to an end. Terms and Conditions of any poker room are instilled for very specific reasons; That is, to maintain a trusting relationship between the poker room and its many...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 9, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Jonathan Little has had a great run as a Full Tilt Poker Pro but his time at FTP has come to an end. Terms and Conditions of any poker room are instilled for very specific reasons; That is, to maintain a trusting relationship between the poker room and its many...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 9, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
This week has turned up a mixed bag of sorts for those interested and affected by the happenings in the online gambling industry. Most likely if you’re reading this, you’re one of those people. On one end of the spectrum, lawmakers in the state of New York more or...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 7, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News, WSOP
Everest Poker has scored a big win for themselves by netting a huge promotional agreement with the WSOP. This conract is a multi-year agreement that yields them exclusive rights to logos placed on the felt at all WSOP events. This is a really big deal for Everest...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 6, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News, WSOP
Several online poker rooms are giving its players ways to satellite into this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event (WSOP ME), and PokerStars is no exception. In fact, with a myriad of ways to win a seat (for as little as $2.00), PokerStars will be sending...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 6, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
If you want an example of a successful low and midstakes grinder, look no further than Thomas “Renton” L. Even though Thomas has been grinding 1/2 and 2/4 NL for over a year, he has profited a handsome $125k. He may not be flashy, but the one half Native American has...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 5, 2008 | Online Tournaments
The short of it is I played good and I played bad… Had a very funny chart for awhile with the huge upswing after the bleeding money period after the other giant upswing. I had AA 5 times early, but none over the last 500 hands. Managed to lose -$12.25 with the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 5, 2008 | Online Tournaments
Took $600 in profits to pay for new kick ass Q6600 computer. My 2400+ was not cutting it at all. I could only play one or two tables with HUD stats. Since I need to be multi-tabling this was purely unacceptable. I stopped playing poker for a week straight. This...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 5, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
After finishing runner-up in 2005 and 2006 , Chris Ferguson made it third time lucky in this year’s 2008 NBC National Heads-up Poker Championships. Ferguson defeated Andy Bloch in the final, winning by two matches to one at Caesars Palace on Sunday to take home...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 5, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Today’s topic is the final day of the NBC Heads-Up Championship, which featured 8 remaining players battling for a $500k first prize. For an introduction to this invite-only tournament, please visit dthorne04’s blog because this is a continuation of his...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 4, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The NBC Heads-Up Tournament never fails to provide genuinely interesting and compelling matches, as it’s invite only. This means that you’re guaranteed to see some of the best and the brightest in the poker world today, and guaranteed to see some extremely talented...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 3, 2008 | Online Tournaments, WPT
The Poker Stars Sunday Million is looking like it may become the Sunday Two Million, as for the second street week the prize pool reached beyond 1.6 million dollars. In the end, “s0stndrd” fought through a field of over 8,000 to take down the $250,000 top prize. FTR...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 3, 2008 | Poker News
Yes, Dennis was the ultimate host of SNL’s weekend update… I won’t argue any longer. Back to poker… This weekend I had a great time playing poker. I awoke Saturday and strapped on my poker cap, filled my diet pepsi and started work. In the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 2, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Paddy Power Poker is offering a huge tournament to kick off March this year. There are going to be millions of dollars up in the air with a number of large tournaments for you to play in. There is a 2 million dollar guaranteed tournament with a buy-in of 1,580...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 2, 2008 | Poker News
Cards came naturally for Erin Ness who says that poker has been a lifetime pursuit. Growing up in New Jersey, she began learning the game when she was a young girl. In an interview for the PokerSource she said, “I come from a card-playing family…When my...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 2, 2008 | Poker News
I’ve basically posted this in a thread as well as on here, just to see people’s thoughts. This thing called poker… It’s an interesting game this Poker. You play cards, you make bets on how good you think you are compared to someone else’s...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 1, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Titan poker, accomplished member of the iPoker network has increased their Sunday prize pool guarantee yet again. Up for grabs this week is a guaranteed prize pool of a whopping $2 million. The buy-in for this event is a bit high at $1,500 + $80 but Titan Poker has...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 1, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Titan poker, accomplished member of the iPoker network has increased their Sunday prize pool guarantee yet again. Up for grabs this week is a guaranteed prize pool of a whopping $2 million. The buy-in for this event is a bit high at $1,500 + $80 but Titan Poker has...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 1, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
One of the most interesting and unique tournaments in the world is well underway. That tournament being the NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship. This event is an invitation only event, with a Poker Stars qualifier also being in the sixty-four-player field. Unfortunately,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 29, 2008 | Poker News
Today I am going to branch off in a new direction for my history of poker articles. I’d like to focus a little on the history of video poker and video poker machines. We see video poker everywhere, from the largest casinos to the dirty truck stop on the side of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 29, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
Some of the world’s best poker players gathered at the Commerce Casino for the L.A. Poker Classic this past week. With a buy-in of $10,000, 665 participants created a huge $6,374,400 prize pool with $1,596,100 for first place. After five days of No-Limit Holdem...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 28, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
Jesse “Spoonitnow” Eddlemen found poker 4 years ago during his freshman year in college, although he did not take it seriously until two years ago. In light of UIGEA, Eddlemen withdrew his whole bankroll; he was only having marginal success anyways . However, when he...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 28, 2008 | Poker News
In the last two days, i’ve pulled 3 third place finishes, busting out on stupid hands but still getting ITM, one of which really surprised me… I was down to 460 chips, with everyone (four others) all over $2,000. They were all trying to grind me out, but...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 27, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
It has been recently announced that poker professional, Antonio Esfanidiari, will join the World Poker Tour as a representative for the WPT Poker- Made Million. The Poker-Made Million currently comprises of an exclusive group of 84 players, who have become self made...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 27, 2008 | Poker News
at the proverbial end of the tunnel? Last evening I participated in one $2 SNG tourney, 9-handed on FTP. Analyzing what happened… I started out with a mistake… —–Hand 1—– [b][color=green]Hero’s M = 33.00[/color][/b] Full...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 27, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
My last couple articles have been documenting the 2008 PartyPoker Premier League, and I’m back to write about the most exciting part of the event: the final table. The last time I wrote, the playoffs had ended and the final table had been determined. There were...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 26, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Yes, it’s bad grammar. Duh. Ok, so when I started this poker journey, it was more of a fluke. Maybe that is why I am now shown as a fish on Sharkscope. It’s true, look me up. I don’t pretend to be great or hide from my mediocrity. I am what I...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 25, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Poker Stars Sunday Million was $530 buy in this week, pushing the prize pool to nearly $1,600,000! The winner usourcek, beat out high stakes cash game professional hotmark777 heads up for $278,066. In the Sunday Warm-Up, a player named reilly11014 received...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 25, 2008 | EPT, Poker News, WPT
With tournament numbers swelling to sizes of amazing proportions both online, and live, it comes as no surprise that the PokerStars sponsored European Poker Tour has been not only attracting tons of players in their fourth season, but handing out million dollar...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 24, 2008 | Poker News
Continuing on with my History of Poker articles I will tell you a little about three card poker today. Three card poker has evolved in the poker world like most variations of poker. It has its roots in the games of Brag and Poque and most other simple early variations...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 24, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
A bill has been introduced in California that will investigate the legality of a California-only online poker service. Assemblyman Lloyd Levine introduced the bill in hopes it would be legal under federal law and be able to be regulated as a service for California...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 24, 2008 | Poker News
Evelyn “Evybabee” Ng is a hot, 32 year old professional poker player born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Like some other professional gamblers, she got her start playing pool for money when she was only 14. By the time she was 17, pokerlistings.com reports...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 23, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
In the gambling industry reliability is a big deal. You need to know that what you’re dealing with, in this case software; you want to know what you’re dealing with is top of the line, and in the case of CryptoLogic, there’s simply no doubt of their reliability,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 22, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Knockout tournaments have been gaining steam on Full Tilt, becoming extremely popular lately. This is why it was no surprise that Event #19, a $240+16 Knockout event, attracted 3,656 players, and more than DOUBLED the guarantee. Originally a $300k guarantee, it topped...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 22, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
In an article printed in Capital Weekly a bill is being looked at that could possibly circumvent the federal ban laws and provide regulated online poker to California residents. It was stated that the federal laws seem to leave states the ability to legalize internet...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 22, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS Event #18 was a Pot Limit Omaha Hi, $100 rebuy event. Originally billed as a $300k guarantee, the prize pool rocketed to $405k. With the inflated prize pool, first place shot up to nearly $90k, with 1151 players vying for the massive first place prize. A host of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 22, 2008 | Poker News
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by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 22, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
If you read my last article, you’ll know that day 7 was scheduled to start with two heads up matches to determine who would sit in the remaining two seats of the final table. Tony G, Andy Black, Alex Kravchenko, and Marcel Luske already had seats at the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 21, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
This week we have an interview with FTR member and FTOPS Event #12 winner Chris Olson. You can find the audio here. Solid quality this week. Podcast The text is below. We’re here with 21 year old Chris “ilikeaces86” Olson. Chris has been playing poker professionally...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 21, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Pokerlistings.com reported today that FullTilt and other poker websites may be under attack. The website says that not only has FullTilt been very hard to gain access to over the past few days, but there have been many posts on forums like 2+2 and PocketFives...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 20, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Well it looks like the FTOPS VII Series continued on February 14th at 14:00 ET. The game was hosted by Rino Mathis. There were 777 players involved in this tournament with a buy-in of $200 + $16 with a $100,000 guarantee. This event featured half PL Hold’em and half...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 20, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
Following last nights Scandinavian Poker Awards, the teen sensation, Annette Obrestad managed to take home a trio of awards for the Norwegian Golden Hand, Best Female Poker Player and Best Performance of The Year (WSOPE 2007) award. Obrestad made history in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 20, 2008 | Poker News
I was reading in the forums here and on blogs here yesterday, and I’m sorry but I wasn’t able to quickly find the posts this morning to show you what I was reading… But I was reading about coming up with a plan, and working the plan. So I took it...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 20, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
I’m back to continue my report on the PartyPoker Premier League of 2008. On Thursday, day 5 had just ended and people were fighting to make the prestigious final table featuring a $520,000 prize pool with $250,000 of that for first place. At this time no players...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 19, 2008 | Online Tournaments
Decided to take a couple shots at 50NL and I’ve found it easier then 25NL. I think good table selection made all the difference in the world. Sat with fishes instead of the regular descent players. Since the bankroll is over $1200 I don’t see a reason...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 19, 2008 | Poker News
Tilt, frustration, depression, exhiliration, how do you manage it? I wish I had that answer… I have found that over the last two sessions that Tilt is my enemy, that I tilt too easily, and that I am blind when I get my cards. Last night I played in two...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 19, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
It seems fitting that February 14th featured Event 14 of FTOPS VII, razz. The general dislike for razz amongst poker players wasn’t enough to hold people back even on Valentine’s Day, and the event easily met its $150,000 guarantee, ending up with a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 19, 2008 | EPT, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
Amidst the flurry of huge money being doled out online, there haven’t been many huge tournaments going down live, save for some of the side events at the L.A. Poker Classic series. However, there are many shots at big money in the upcoming weeks, as the World Series...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 18, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS event #15 was no different from the rest of the events in the sense that it absolutely blew through its guarantee of $150k. The $200+$16 6-max event attracted 1,815 players, inflating the prize pool to over double its guarantee, topping off at $363,000! The most...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 18, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Last Sunday was the biggest tournament day in months. We had the Poker Stars Sunday Million, 3 FTOPS events including the Main Event, and a one time Poker Stars 2 million guaranteed 10,000 FPP buy in tournament. With over 6 million dollars in tournament prize pools...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 18, 2008 | Poker News
Sunday evening I’m entering a $2 SNG at Bovada Poker. All seems normal, first hand brings a lot of callers (of course I’m out with my normal starting junk) with not much happening… but suddenly the second hand pops up. I will try to post the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 17, 2008 | Poker News
Today I am continuing on with my poker history articles that focus on a specific variation of poker. Today the topic of choice is a brief overview and history of H.O.R.S.E. poker. H.O.R.S.E. is a mix of five different styles of poker. It encompasses Texas Hold’em,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 17, 2008 | Online Tournaments
Well my initial goal was to make $400 a week, but I haven’t had a chance to even focus on poker at all!!! Surprising I’ve been way too busy, and the days have gone by sooo fast. I’ve done maybe a weeks worth of poker in two weeks at best. ...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 17, 2008 | Poker News
There is a common theme among most hot women in the field of poker. Except for Jennifer Leigh, they would all be considered older women by the 20-somethings. One girl who falls outside of this categorization is Chantel McNulty; a 22 year old from Dallas, Texas who now...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 17, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Ask an online tournament pro what Sunday means, and you’re sure to get a wide variety of answers. Sundays are synonymous with frustration, success, jubilation, and disappointment, depending on whom you ask. Despite the outcome, whether they make 4, 5, or 6 figures, or...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 16, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
888 Holdings experienced a 55% increase in its fourth quarter revenues this month. For a company that has seen drastic drops since its withdrawal from the U.S. market, these victories aren’t taken for granted. 888 says that the increase in revenue is largely due to an...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 16, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
888 Holdings experienced a 55% increase in its fourth quarter revenues this month. For a company that has seen drastic drops since its withdrawal from the U.S. market, these victories aren’t taken for granted. 888 says that the increase in revenue is largely due to an...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 16, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event #12 of the FTOPS VII kicked off at 9:00pm ET on February 13th. This event featured a No Limit Hold ‘em 6-Max Rebuy tournament. Like all the other events in this FTOPS series, this tournament didn’t come short of any action with 1,361 players lining up to play....
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 16, 2008 | Poker News
Ok, I’m hell. I know I probably didn’t bet it right, but look at this hand. —–Hand 6—– Hero’s M = 9.58Full Tilt Poker Game #5276970135: $2 + $0.25 Sit & Go (40124886), Table 1 – 40/80 – No Limit Hold’em...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 15, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Online poker has its pros and cons. The fact that nobody can see you can be considered a pro or a con in many different situations, but it’s obvious that nobody can see your actions beside the people you are challenging. Skypoker has changed all of this. Now players...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 15, 2008 | Poker News
So yesterday was Valentines Day, not exactly the day you think of Poker and FTR, but I did get to play two tourneys last night. After dinner, I had about an hour and a half and jumped into a $2 SNG, played according to the rules I had set for myself… and took...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 14, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
The PartyPoker Premier League is an exclusive poker league featuring twelve hand-picked players competing for $1 million in prizes. It started on February 10th and will go until the 16th, and it’s scheduled to be televised in the UK near the end of March. 75% of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 14, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS Event 11 was a $216 Buy-In Limit Omaha H/L tournament. The guaranteed prize pool was $200,000, and as with every other FTOPS event, the pool was exceeded. In the end there were 1,333 entrants for prize money totaling $266,600 with 135 places paid. The event...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 14, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
Jerry Vanstrydonck has had an odd journey to poker success. After getting into poker in high school, Jerry confessed he was a losing poker player from 2004 to 2006. Any good poker player friend of Jerry’s probably would’ve told him to quit right there. Luckily no one...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 13, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
Yesterday, the World Poker Tour (WPT) and it’s partner GSN (The Games Network) announced the schedule for the sixth season of the televised WPT. According to Fox Business News, the new season will feature 23 two-hour episodes kicking off in the new timeslot,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 13, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Tuesday featured FTOPS VII Event #10, which was one of the most sought after events of the series. The buy in was $1060, the highest in FTOPS VII so far, and had a guaranteed prize pool of one million dollars. Yes, you heard me right, one million dollars. But...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 13, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Nick Slade, a 45 year old English professional poker player from Preston, England, has marked a remarkable personal comeback by making winning the PartyPoker European Open IV, and taking home $200,000 for first prize. This is a remarkable achievement considering that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 12, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
In an effort to attract more tournament players to its site, Bodog has introduced a new Holdem tournament series known as the Bodog Poker Open. PokerStars has the WCOOP and Full Tilt has the FTOPS, so it was only a matter of time before Bodog created something in an...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 12, 2008 | FTOPS
The FTOPS VII – Event #5 was on February 8th at 9:00 PM. This is a huge event with a buy-in of $200+$16 and 1,203 entrants. The total prize pool was $240,600 and with 144 paid places that turns out to be a lot of people in the money. There were 17 Full Tilt...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 12, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
The poker world features players that go from rich beyond their wildest dreams, to completely busted in a short time due to playing outside of their rolls, overspending, or for whatever reasons. It’s a world where the lines of right and wrong have been blurred quite a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 11, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event six of FTOPS VII took place on Saturday February 9th and featured 6-max PL Omaha with a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool. The first five FTOPS VII events all managed to surpass their guarantees, and event six was no exception: with a buy-in of $500+$35, an...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 11, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
On Sunday we so a lot of familiar faces in the winners circle. Full Tilt had a $1,000,000 guarantee this week rather than 750k because of the FTOPS VII, and it was won by none other by well known pro Erick Lindgren. He was the one who hosted this event and scored...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 11, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The lesson for this weekend is “Never Give Up” Saturday I played in a few $2 SNG’s at FTP, all in all I was down about $2 after playing in 6 of them. That makes one 1st place, and 1 3rd place (the rake took the rest). So not too good for the day. ...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 11, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS VII Event #3 was a $535 Limit HORSE event hosted by Andy Bloch; the only HORSE tournament of the series. It featured 623 players, including 19 Full Tilt Pros including Allen Cunningham, Poker Hottie of the Week Clonie Gowen, PearlJammed, Jens Voertmann, and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 10, 2008 | Poker News
Jennifer Leigh, aka “Jennicide”, is an almost too good to be true. For those computer nerds out there, according to Wikipedia, she is a World of Warcraft player with a knowledge of C++ and Linux programming. For the more domestically inclined, she loves...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 10, 2008 | Poker News
Poker players today might take the poker chip for granted when sitting down at a table to give it their best in a couple hands. Chips offer a simplistic and fair way to make bets and allows players to calculate how much money a player has available to them on the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 10, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS VII Event #2 featured the first Pot Limit Omaha tournament of the series. The $256 buy in event had a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. It also had an odd format called “knockout.” In the knockout format, for every player you bust out $40 is credited to your...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 10, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
I grew my bankroll around 30% last month and ended up going on a downswing once we walked into February. Nothing too major but it was pretty much eating into my entire profits. One major factor however was the fact I took a swipe at 10NL. Now that’s a big jump...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 9, 2008 | Live Poker Results, Poker News
MGM Mirage’s Monte Carlo Casino is scheduled to re-open on Friday February 15, almost three weeks after being forced to close due to a fire atop the resort on January 25. The re-opening will be on time for the American Presidents Day holiday weekend. The fire...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 9, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
Earlier in the week, Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) provided Congress with his findings in his tax revenue analysis. McDermott’s analysis suggests that the U.S. Government could generate between $8.7 billion and $42.8 billion from regulating Internet gambling from...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 8, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
I was poking around online today and saw something pretty epic that people should take notice of. Poker Trillion is offering a relatively insane offer to their players. With this offer you take your rakeback earned in regular playing and put it towards an event of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 8, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
For the first time since the start of 2008, the tournament scene has finally hit a small lull, but it’s not without a semi-major final table going down. Today nine men did battle on the felt for a $229k 1st place prize at the Rincon World Series of Poker circuit...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 7, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
This week we have another Podcast, which came out much better than the previous. The only technical issue is my volume is pretty small, but if you jack up the volume all the way it shouldn’t be an issue. Podcast with Shaun Deeb DS: Hey all, this week we have...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 6, 2008 | Online Tournaments
Played a measly 1,007 hands two tabling .25NL. Was up $60 then $40 back up to over $60. Played within the system very well, had a couple fish catch flush’s on the river. Lost the minimum on one because he checked it to me when he hit!!! Another I got reraised...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 6, 2008 | EPT, Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
A blessing and a curse for the Responsible Gambling Council, and a step for poker, came this last weekend in the form of Mike McDonald’s win at the 2008 EPT Germany Open. The 18 year old, who according to PokerListings calls himself “Timex”, is an...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 6, 2008 | EPT, Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
A blessing and a curse for the Responsible Gambling Council, and a step for poker, came this last weekend in the form of Mike McDonald’s win at the 2008 EPT Germany Open. The 18 year old, who according to PokerListings calls himself “Timex”, is an...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 6, 2008 | Online Tournaments
Mission: Make money, build up bankroll, move up stakes After playing on and off over the past couple of years on a couple different sites I have never lost a buyin playing poker. I have taken $20 to over $1500 on two different sites. All of this was while learning. ...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 6, 2008 | Live Poker Results, Poker News
Woman Refuses $20,000 Jackpot. A $20,000 jackpot was offered on a nickel slot machine at Harrah’s Atlantic City in Jersey, but 77-year-old Angela Domino has refused it, saying it should have be $86,000 instead. She has filed a lawsuit against the casino and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 5, 2008 | Poker News
So, I’m still not back. In a Harry Potter analogy, I’m kinda like Voldemort in book 1. A shadow of my former self, remaining under the radar while gathering my powers in order to continue. It hasn’t been much publicized, but my roll ballooned pretty...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 5, 2008 | Poker News
Indeed it is. But hey! Live it to the fullest!
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 5, 2008 | Poker News
So I’m reading a couple of poker blogs, reading the eBook Comedy of Errors and listening to comments (for some reason though, comments don’t show on the blog… not sure if it is the moderation or not, anyone with a blog here want to help me out with...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 4, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Super Bowl didn’t seem to have a very large affect on the turnout of the big Sunday’s this week. In the richest tournament around, the Poker Stars Sunday Million, a player named Volcano360 won a solid $180,000 for his victory. He edged out Wildman75, who received...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 4, 2008 | EPT, High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
Barely even able to drive, and often not even able to legally buy alcohol, players no older than high school graduates are sweeping the tournament scene. They are constantly feasting upon tournaments in countries other than the United States, a country where they...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 4, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
Hey Everyone, FTR weekly interviews is back! This week we have a podcast as our interview. We’re trying out this new audio format with Max “Massimo” Steinberg, I think it came out really well, but I’m really sorry about the echo, we tried to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 4, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Hi Everyone, (Ok, hello to those who stumble in here accidentaly) This was the first weekend with me starting over. And I’m pretty happy. Now know that when I started on Saturday I had about 19.00 in my FTP account. This is not where I wanted to be, but that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 3, 2008 | Poker News
Moving on with the history lessons I have been giving we will talk about the history of another well known variant of poker called five-card draw. As I said a couple articles back, Texas Hold’em is currently the most popular variant of poker. This is a recent...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 3, 2008 | Poker News
Today is Superbowl Sunday. One of the top three pizza-ordering days of the year, the day when the Patriots will try to make history, but in a more general sense, the day where there is a, well hopefully, awesome football game continually interrupted with also stellar...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 2, 2008 | EPT, Poker News
Hohensyburg Casino in Dortmund, Germany hosted the PokerStars European Poker Tour German Open, the second EPT event of 2008. Long lines and high interest saw the tournament start delayed by an hour, and in the end there were 411 entrants for € 7,700 each, good for a €...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 2, 2008 | Online Tournaments
Friday night I came home from work, was sitting around after going out to dinner with my family and decided to play a $1.00 SNG on FTP, so I got into one, 9-handed Turbo. Started off ok, folded bb hand and sb hand with crap. Next hand… Dealt 7d Qh in Button...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 1, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Many places online have been talking about a recent exploit in Betfair Poker’s website allowing all players in a tournament to receive excessive payouts in certain all-in situations. A good chunk of players jumped on this glitch and took Betfair Poker for hundreds of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 1, 2008 | Poker News
Hi Everyone, I’m not new to the blog world but I am new to the poker world. My friends and I would play basement games here and there and I’d do ok, but they jumped online and started playing, then got me into Full Tilt Poker and I’ve been online...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 1, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
Consistency is the name of the game when it comes to establishing your name in poker history. Or, if you don’t care about fame and glory, it also translates to quite a bit of cash coming your way. So many players are one hit wonders in today’s day and age where...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 31, 2008 | Poker News
It’s felt like months since I’ve had anything to say or even been able to get onto a table – I’m terrible with time – but strangely it’s only been about two weeks. The internet has been up and down more times than a yo-yo, costing...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 30, 2008 | Poker News
We have all heard of, and probably watched, “HighStakes Poker” on GSN on Monday nights; the game where the world’s best players put up at least $100,000 of their own money in one of the most exciting games ever. Well, recently Erik Fast and Zack...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 30, 2008 | Poker News
Poker enthusiastic students at universities such as Yale, Harvard, USC and UCLA have been given the chance to join a chapter of a new poker society: the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society. The goal of this society is to bring to the academic environment poker as...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 29, 2008 | Poker News
Once again, poker was the game of choice to raise money for a good cause as Geoff Jenkins, MLB outfielder, hosted a charity tournament at the Jack Rabbit Supper Club and Lounge in Arizona last night. Recently signed as a free-agent to the Philadelphia Phillies,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 29, 2008 | EPT, High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
The Borgata Winter Poker Open is coming to a close as the Main Event is heading into Day 3, with the L.A. Poker Classic starting, the EPT in Dortmund looming, as well as the World Series of Poker Circuit stop in Rincon just beginning. Despite having a great structure,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 28, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Poker professionals crowded the final tables this week. Brian “Sn8wman” Hawkins, ranked in the top 100by pocketfives.com, won the Poker Stars Sunday Million for a cool $278,000. High stakes HU and 6 max cash game regular Suck My Ace received 6th for about $62,000. The...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 27, 2008 | Poker News
This week I am continuing to write about the history of the most popular styles of poker that we see both in casinos and online today. Omaha is certainly one of the top contenders for this spot, right behind Texas Hold’em which I happened to cover last Sunday. One...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 27, 2008 | Poker News
The FTOPS VII are coming soon, and the FTOPS VII are played on Full Tilt. Clonie Gowen plays on Full Tilt, even hosts an FTOPS VII event, and Clonie Gowen is hot, really hot. The logic behind this week’s choice for Hottie of the Week is simple enough. Gowen was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 26, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
In Washington last month, Lee Rousso decided to run for Governor in hopes of one day overturning a Washington state law that opposes online poker playing. Rousso will be running against Washington’s current Governor Christine Gregoire, whom he voted for in 2004. One...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 26, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Not long ago, poker giants like Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker chased the once dominant Party Poker in market share. Things were going great for Party Poker and had events not lead to its eventual downward spiral there’s no telling where we’d see the company today....
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 26, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
Coming into a star-studded World Poker Tour final table, Brett Faustman might have been a little, perhaps very intimidated. However, it didn’t show, as he bested 258 other players to claim the 2008 World Poker Open championship. This tournament featured far less...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 25, 2008 | Live Poker Results, Online Poker News, Poker News
Online poker may be seeing a new demographic of people stepping up to play in coming days. Gaming Laboratories International will be releasing a poker console to be installed in traditional casinos that will allow users to try their shot against players online. This...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 24, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
In 2007, Barbara Enright was the first ever woman elected into the Poker Hall of Fame. In 2008, she will be one of the first women elected into the Women’s Poker Hall of Fame. The news that the Ladies International Poker Series (LIPS) will be founding this new...
