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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...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 23, 2008 | Poker News, WSOP
According to CNN, today Harrah’s Entertainment announced the implementation of additional World Series of Poker (WSOP) coverage in the form of World Series of Poker Radio. WSOP Radio will be available to over 200 stations nationwide, broadcast from...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 22, 2008 | Poker News
The first celebrity charity poker event of 2008 took place just over a week ago on January 12, hosted by former UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture and his wife, Kim. Many famous poker players, athletes, and celebrities congregated at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 21, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
In the biggest Sunday tournament of them all, Poker Stars’ Sunday Million, StudMaverick took down the slightly higher than normal $212,000 top prize at a final table of amateurs. In the Sunday Warm Up, Murmelpapst received first for over $100,000. WestmenloAA was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 20, 2008 | Poker News
A few Sundays ago I wrote an article outlining the history of the game of poker. This week I would like to start delving more specifically into the history of individual games starting off with a well known variety of poker called Texas Hold’em. Texas Hold’em is...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 20, 2008 | Poker News
To continue last week’s actress turned poker player Hottie of the Week theme, this week’s hottie is the buxom and very sweet-looking, Shannon Elizabeth. Shannon’s early exit in the 2008 Aussie Millions, and her famously topless portrayal of Nadia in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 19, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
Since his retirement, Judge Harold Lee of Arizona has been operating his own personal poker parlor for the past two years. Instead of keeping this operation on the down low, Lee has decided to deliver letters to state authorities advising them of his legal stand. 64...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 19, 2008 | Poker News
The January I’ve been attempting to grind up from $0 playing just Freerolls on pretty much any decent poker site in order to build up a bankroll. It was tough going but I had actually managed to get myself up to around $10 before the urge to take my money to the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 18, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
It looks like Austria is getting their feet wet with the development and release of a government regulated online poker room this quarter. Casino Austria is setting up an online platform on the website Win2day. This new site is replacing another platform titled...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 17, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
As the U.S. Democratic race heats up, a storyline has arisen out of Nevada. The race between Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama for the support of Nevada got very interesting this week. A lawsuit claiming “at large” caucuses spread amongst nine different Las Vegas...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 16, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
Today, Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat claimed, having acquired information from the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, the government is planning to make an amendment to the current law on gambling that would allow online players to claim back their...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 15, 2008 | Live Poker Results, Poker News
Casino Planned For Israel. The Israel Land Administration has agreed to give twelve acres of land to Israel’s first casino project. The Israeli Tourism Ministry has said that it will be on the north shore of the Red Sea, an area visited by many tourists due to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 14, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A player ironically named Mr. Wrong had everything go right for him last Sunday, winning the Poker Stars Sunday Million for just over $200,000. In the Warm Up, midstakes cash game player TheFan83 took down the top prize of $104,000, while another midstakes cash game...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 14, 2008 | EPT, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
Another exciting week of tournaments are in the books, with many stories emerging. The Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure has come and gone, the WSOP Circuit Event and WPT World Poker Open preliminaries are underway, and the Aussie Millions Main Event has started up....
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 13, 2008 | Poker News
Televised poker isn’t anything new to somebody who is just getting into the poker game. With the rampant online poker playing of a young demographic, watching poker on TV to see the big names isn’t anything new or special. It might look as though watching poker on TV...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 13, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
With the recent establishing of the World Poker Ladies Tour (WPT L), which I spoke about in my Wednesday article, I thought I would begin my new “Hottie of the Week” post with a WPT winner, an advocate of women’s-only poker events, and a member of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 13, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
With the recent establishing of the World Poker Ladies Tour (WPT L), which I spoke about in my Wednesday article, I thought I would begin my new “Hottie of the Week” post with a WPT winner, an advocate of women’s-only poker events, and a member of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 12, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
Kahnawake Gaming Commission has issued what looks to be the finalized report concerning the ongoing investigation of a cheating scandal on Absolute Poker. When these events became public, KGC commissioned Gaming Associates to conduct a 10 week long investigation and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 11, 2008 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Bodog Poker is offering an online tournament wrapped around the idea of the up and coming NFL football playoffs. This tournament will pay out a cool $100,000 regardless of the number of participants, so if you want a shot at one hundred grand make sure you register....
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 11, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
Ask high stakes SNG and cash game player BrynKenny about a 21 year old kid from Indiana named Aaron Jones, who took $62,000 off of him in a HU grudge match, and $50,000 more on a prop bet from the match. Ask mu_empire, who lost nearly $20,000 to Jones in a HU match....
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 10, 2008 | EPT, Poker News
How is it that some tournament players seem to never be bitten by the variance bug? Granted, these days we live in a “What have you done for me lately?” world when it comes to results in tourneys. So when someone has the kind of year that David “The Dragon” Pham has...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 9, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
Poker player David Pham brought his superb year to a close by winning the Poker Player of the Year aware 2007. The 41 year old finished ahead of the likes of JC Train (2nd) and Jonathan Little (3rd). Pham’s successes has includes his recent win, Event 8 of the Five...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 9, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
The poker community was dealt an odd, but significant, blow in the past days by the Denmark High Court. According to The Official Website of Denmark, a new ruling by the court effectively makes private poker tournaments illegal. Obviously, this news has no bearing...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 9, 2008 | Poker News, WPT
Along with a general recent surge in poker popularity, the amount of women playing the game professionally has skyrocketed. According to Fox News, in response to this rise in participants, The World Poker (WPT) has just launched an official WPT ladies tour and No...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 8, 2008 | Online Tournaments
The headline of this weeks Poker Stars Sunday Million was tournament pro Mkind0516, who battled it out with FTR’s Sauce123 in the Super Stack series ME at TurningStone; he received 5th place for about $42,000, $200,000 was the prize for winner giorango. The Sunday...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 8, 2008 | Poker News
Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, has the chance to become the new online poker hero. Known to most of America as the man hoping to become the first black President in United States history, the poker industry also recognizes that he could be the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 7, 2008 | EPT, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
Another year has started, and that means there’s a boatload of money to be won this year in live tournaments. 2008 has just begun, but no time has been wasted as the World Poker Tour World Poker Open preliminary, the Aussie Millions preliminary events, the World...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 7, 2008 | Online Tournaments
This is what my last few months profits have gone towards…
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 6, 2008 | Poker News
Many of us play poker every day of our lives. We live for the game and spend a good amount of time playing it. For something that takes up a huge part of the day, how many of us have thought about where poker itself came from? What happened to create such an excellent...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 6, 2008 | Live Poker Results, Poker News
In an age where even dating is becoming a digital pastime it is not surprising that casinos around the globe are beginning to use electronic poker tables; and the companies producing these systems claim they are the future of poker. PokerTek Inc., a company which...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 5, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
Last week, just days after a settlement was reached in a dispute between the United States vs. Canada, Japan and Europe involving the recently enacted UIGEA, the WTO awarded the Caribbean nation of Antigua $21 Million in compensation money to be paid for by the United...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 3, 2008 | Poker Law, Poker News
In what has to be seen as a bit of a bad omen to start the year off in online poker, Germany has effectively banned online gambling in their country. This came as a surprise to many seeing as in November a ruling went against an online gambling ban occuring in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 3, 2008 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
Daniel Didech is known on the internet for his ability to play a massive number of tables for a massive number of hours. But don’t let that overshadow the fact that he is just as skilled as any at the poker table. Didech has had success at a variety of games, SNG’s,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 31, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Poker Stars Sunday Million was a $1,000 buy in this week, and with nearly 2,000 entered 1st prize was nearly double the norm: $350,000. It was won by amateur Mighty_L, in third was Tulkaz, a professional from Denmark, who scored $126,000 for his respectable...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 30, 2007 | Poker News
I hereby proclaim this little piece of teh internetz as mine. That’s all.
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 29, 2007 | Poker Law, Poker News
With the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in late September of 2006, many felt a great injustice had been done. Those who felt strongly about it have been doing what they can to undo the wrong that’s been set forth. Robert Wexler, a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 29, 2007 | Poker News
Last week I talked about the year in the live poker world, which is often intersected with the online world of poker. This week I would like to focus on the online world. Specifically, online tournaments. It has been an unbelievably crazy year. From the biggest first...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 28, 2007 | Poker News
This is a starting post to basically give a background to my poker life, philosophy and goals for the future beginning in 2008. Having been around cards for 1/2 my life, it actually took me a long time to truly get into poker. I was a typical fish, having instincts...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 28, 2007 | Poker News
Let’s get right down to it. I made $1500 in November at the pokers and I’ve played about 5k hands of breakeven-ish poker this month. I don’t play enough, and that’s my fault. A few things, I think I’m gonna get me a new computer, probably...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 28, 2007 | High Stakes Rail
Following a bad run of cards with playing on Full Tilt Poker over a month ago along with a reported loss of over $6 million, David Benyamine announced that he’d had enough of Full Tilt and vowed that he would never return. However, Benyamine was spotted making a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 27, 2007 | Poker News
Phew, so I have a new graph! After the horrific downswing comes the much welcomed upswing. Since the last blog entry, I have been playing 10-18 tables of the $6.50 45 man SitnGos, with a few $12 games thrown in as I reach break-even again. All this has been late night...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 27, 2007 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
Tom Marchese is a student just turned professional poker player. He has enjoyed an abundance of success anywhere from $400 buy in all the way up to $5000 buy in No Limit Hold’em games and has made over $200,000 in the past 3 months alone. While his game showed...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 24, 2007 | Online Tournaments
In the biggest Sunday tournament around, Romanoff11 scored the near $200,000 first prize in the Poker Stars Sunday Million. Not so far behind was low stakes cash game regular littlepotato in 2nd, who earned just over $100,000. The Sunday Warm up paid nearly $100,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 23, 2007 | EPT, High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
Another year of poker is in the books, and despite many fears that have arisen in the last fourteen months over the future of the game we all love, but this year has shown that our game is still strong. It has been another historic year for poker, as the game still...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 21, 2007 | Poker News
Well it’s taken me about 2 days to get round to writing this entry, partially because I’m feeling pretty down on Poker in general. I had to stick around in Manchester for another day because my lift home let me down. I Decided to move a lot of my roll into...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 21, 2007 | Poker News, WPT
In a record setting final table performance, Eugene Katchalov took first place in the Doyle Brunson Classic in only fifty-three hands. In less than four hours Katchalov mowed down well-known online players such as Jordan Rich, known as Octavian_C online, and Ryan...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 20, 2007 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
Ben Sulsky is a high stakes cash game regular who plays mostly No Limit Hold’em at the 5/10 and 10/20 level. He has been playing poker seriously for only about a year and a half. In only a couple months after he began he vaulted himself into elite cash game...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 18, 2007 | Poker News
Well, so much for the epic 2 weeks of grinding. My computer exploded and blue screened every 2 minutes so I had to take it to the college IT guys to get it fixed, there goes my potential income. Never mind, I guess the break from poker has probably done me good and I...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 17, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A new Sunday tournament was introduced this week on Poker Stars. A high stakes $5200 buy in winner take all freeze out featured top online professionals such as Gigabet, MezemerizePLZ, ADZ, as well as others including Barry Greenstein entered the event, however...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 7, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Wheeee it’s time for a blog. I’m 19, a student of percussion at college :D, oh and I suck at poker. November was terrible for me. It was such a potentially good month but as the 2k roll I needed to move up to 100NL got closer, I decided to cash out $700 ...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 4, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Poker Stars Sunday million reached just over a 1.3 million dollar prize pool and had nearly 200k up for grabs for first place. No poker pros could be found at the final table, which cleared the way for amateur BigBossM to take down top prize. No names also won the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 2, 2007 | Poker News
We need more people in ventrilo. It’s a great medium for chatting and not losing your concentration while playing poker. All it requires is holding down a key or mouse button when you want to talk. No typing, no diverting your attention from poker, and no having...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 30, 2007 | Poker News
Who was that guy who posted his own blog in the FTR blog comment forum back when it existed? I want to interview him for my blog.
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 30, 2007 | Poker News
Ok so I haven’t played for forever and I don’t know what my playing schedule will be like in the near future. I found out I failed the bar exam I took back in late July (which I expected because I didn’t study enough) so I am going to hit the books...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 30, 2007 | Poker News
Hi my name is bigred. I’m new here. I mainly post in the poker sections. You probably won’t find me in the community forum. Those guys are weird, LOL!!!!!!
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 16, 2007 | Poker News
Everest Poker has a new “Live The Dream” promotion, a unique contest where they are choosing 10 players to represent their website and spend a year living the life of a poker pro. The ten who are chosen will win free entries into the world’s biggest...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 8, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Pokerstar’s Sunday Million final table consisted of all amateurs. WhatArunAA eventually pulled out the win for about $180,000. At one point late in the tournament, Pappiri had a gigantic chip lead. So large that at one point he lost 3 hands in a row for 4 million...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 7, 2007 | Poker News
Some encouraging news for online poker players, on October 22nd – 24th, around 100 members of the Poker Player Alliance met up at Capitol Hill with lawmakers in their bid to defend poker player’s rights to play online in the US. With Howard Lederer, Professor...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 5, 2007 | WCOOP
Anyone who had the money couldn’t resist entering into the WCOOP Main Event on Sunday September 30th. The $2300 buy in conclusion to the WCOOP series hosted nearly 3,000 players, and, more importantly, the biggest prize pool in online poker history: $7,495,000!! The...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 5, 2007 | WCOOP
Normally playing bad cards is a bad thing. In Razz, you try to play as many bad cards as possible. It’s not a surprise then that a player who likes playing bad cards, a player named OnlyPlayRagz, would be the winner of Event #11, the only Razz event of the WCOOP....
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 5, 2007 | WCOOP
WCOOP Event #9 may have been the most exciting of all the events so far. Rebuy events are known to have some crazy and aggressive play. Players often joke that the Swedes are the most aggressive players around, so it’s not too much of a surprise that a Swede ruthan...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 2, 2007 | Poker News
I’ve had a bunch of stuff going on lately, and I feel it is my personal duty to let over 1000 strangers know all about it. After getting back from Vegas, I have spent a lot of my poker time getting a new training site up and running. I finally took care of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 16, 2007 | Poker News, WCOOP
played the final 2 wcoop events the 1k limit and finished itm in 28th, was close to a big score there, but played one hand bad and got a bit shortstacked and took a small beat to bust out right before we got down to 3 tables. in the main event i did well built a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 1, 2007 | WCOOP
I just woke up to see that maxxscam got out in 216th, for about $6k, not too bad. gp333 didn’t cash and neither did busto_soon. Right now I don’t recognize barely any names left. We have our final table, and the one name I do recognize, HelmetSky, is just...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 30, 2007 | WCOOP
Sorry guys I took a break because I had to study. So gp333 has had an incredibly up and down day and right now it is down. He is under 30k chips and has only just over 10bb. Busto_soon has been less swingy in his day, but still has failed to get anything going....
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 30, 2007 | WCOOP
gp333 has been up and down. He has stabilized at 52k chips. Unfortunately gabe misclicked off 7k chips. He got some of that back by letting his opponent bluff into his KK. PokerStars Game #12366146604: Tournament #70000023, $2500+$100 Hold’em No Limit –...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 30, 2007 | WCOOP
gp333 suffered a horrible beat and now finds himself in the middle of the pack. PokerStars Game #12364448401: Tournament #70000023, $2500+$100 Hold’em No Limit – Level V (200/400) – 2007/09/30 – 19:12:37 (ET) Table ‘70000023 171’...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 30, 2007 | WCOOP
gp333 continues to dominate his table with aggression. He’s unstoppable right now. His postflop skills are so good he is raising hands like J6o profitably. PokerStars Game #12363373539: Tournament #70000023, $2500+$100 Hold’em No Limit – Level IV...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 30, 2007 | WCOOP
WCOOP ME is underway! Nearly 3000 player have entered and first place is nearly 1.4 million dollars! Top 8 will recieve 6 figure paydays! It’s going to be somebodies lucky day today, and right now its looking like it could be gp333’s day! The FTRer is in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 30, 2007 | Poker News
Wheeeeeeeeeeee, just got back from Las Vegas. Me and 3 buddies met up Wed and took off early Sunday morning after just a shit ton of drinking, clubbing, gambling, and drinking. I didn’t play a single hand of poker but I played about 20 hours of Pai Gow,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 25, 2007 | WCOOP
Although a known tournament pro made the final table of event #8 of the WCOOP, a $530 buy-in Limit Omaha H/L event, the winner of the tournament was an amateur. A player simply called Copi beat a field 917 entrants to take the $103,804.40 first prize in a prize pool...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 25, 2007 | WCOOP
The 7th WCOOP Event was the first of two Limit Hold’em events of the series. Although it featured only an $100,000 guaranteed prize pool, by the time the tournament began the prize pool was four times that amount, a whopping $400,000! The field featured one of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 25, 2007 | WCOOP
We may have had our first player to ever have a WSOP bracelet and a WCOOP Bracelet. FossilMan, more commonly known as the WSOP 2004 main event winner Greg Raymer, beat out 771 people on the way to winning his first WCOOP event ever. This event was a $320 rebuy and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 25, 2007 | WCOOP
The 5th Event of the WCOOP proved to be the best so far. The tournament had 6025 entrants and a prize pool of over 3 million dollars. AB_illusive, a respected high stakes cash game regular, took home almost 400 thousand dollars in the biggest prize pool of the WCOOP...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 21, 2007 | Poker News
First post and all I do is bitch…….wheeeeeeeeeeeeee OK, I’m at work and have an hour off for once so I decided to put some thoughts down. Something just happened about an hour ago that made me question what the fuck I’m doing with my life. I...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 21, 2007 | Poker News
So I have only played like 50 hours this past month due to family visiting, house hunting, and just taking some time off. Time off is nice, but I am ready to play again. My wife’s folks leave this Sunday so I think next week I’ll finally get some hours...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 20, 2007 | Poker News, WCOOP
So the WCOOP hasn’t been going very good, earlier in the year i won 2 WSOP packages on stars, so i got w$ for the 2nd package, decided I will use them towards the WCOOP and possibly save some to use to qualify for wsop or pca next year as well. So i played the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 19, 2007 | Poker News
Just read this old post by soah from 2+2: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=5121718&page=0&fpart=all&vc=1 It’s about varying flop bet sizes – it’s nothing advanced or groundbreaking, but posts like these...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 19, 2007 | WCOOP
The World Championship of Online Poker’s $215 buy in, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball tournament, was the 4th installment of the WCOOP series. It was the smallest tournament of the Championship so far. It had a field of only 649 players, and a prize pool $129,800. The winner,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 19, 2007 | WCOOP
The 3rd WCOOP tournament, a shorthanded $215 buy-in pot-limit Omaha high event, had a field of 1818 players and a prize pool of over $350,000. Although some professionals had a strong showing the eventual winner was jalla79, an amateur who took home just under...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 19, 2007 | Poker News
Hi, and welcome to my new blog here at FTR. You might not know who I am, but I’m one of the older posters here and I havent made a post for over half a year. I started out posting on the boards about 2 years ago. Originally I was a SnG player who grinded out the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 18, 2007 | Poker News
Hi there, Welcome to anyone reading this. I am going to try and keep motivated to post this and keep it as up to date as possible. Getting motivated to play poker in the proper mindset that I need to win seems to be difficult latly, I am hoping writing might be a good...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 18, 2007 | WCOOP
BadgerPro, a top MTT professional, recently entered the WCOOP Event #2: 5 Card Draw. He Final Tabled the event and recieved a 5th place finish for over $6,000. Interestingly enough, Badger hadn’t played 5 Card Draw seriously before he entered the event, but...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 17, 2007 | WCOOP
The 2nd WCOOP tournament, a 215 dollar buy-in pot-limit 5-card draw event, showed a field of 857 players and a prize pool exceeding 170,000 dollars. The eventual bracelet winner, spielraum.at from Salzburg, Austria, took home a cool 26,265 dollars, a nice chunk of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 16, 2007 | WCOOP
WCOOP kicks off, almost one million dollars up for grabs! The World Championship of Online Poker kicked off last Friday with Event #1, Short Handed No Limit Hold’em, which had $215 buy in. Big names came out for the event, including Victor Ramdin, The__D__RY (16th...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 15, 2007 | WCOOP
Event #1, $215 Short Handed NLHE, reached a prize pool of almost one million dollars! The winner was samh133, a well known high stakes cash game player. Event #2, $215 PL 5 Card Draw, reached quadruple the guaranteed prize pool! ($400,000) The winner was spielraum.at...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 13, 2007 | Online Tournaments
Thought I’d post these for entertainment. Here’s September so far http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f193/d_b0d/Septembersofar.jpg Here’s a 25 day span from Early July to Early August....
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 13, 2007 | WCOOP
Hi all, Tomorrow the WCOOP will officially start with the $215 short handed NLHE event. There is 400k guaranteed, which yours truly will be fighting for. Through this coverage we will be giving you recaps of each event, which will include quotes from your favorite MTT...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 5, 2007 | Poker News
Well I finally went and played live for the first time since I have learned how to play poker in Vegas this last weekend. The results were bad, but my play was fine – of the tenish tourneys I played, I only got it in bad once. This week my mom has arrived for a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 5, 2007 | Poker News
My daughter is learning to crawl. Try as she might, she just can’t get it so far. She strains and grunts and stretches and rolls to no avail. Eventually, she gets frustrated and fusses. I don’t know what innate urge compels parents to speak to their infant...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 5, 2007 | Poker News
I’ve been donk-free now for about 300-hands. Previously I’d gone about 500 hands without donking before I fell off the wagon and went with TPGK against obvious pre-flop strength. I know I have a problem, I know I have to quit. I’m just taking it a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 23, 2007 | Poker News
So my month has been real up and down. If you haven’t seen the graph i posted in the commune go look. It’s the topic with the frowny face… lol. In it you’ll see in a little over 10k hands i have a 40BI upswing, and then in that same amount of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 30, 2007 | Press Releases
Flop Turn River is proud to announce that its cutting-edge, online poker hand converter is now compatible with Full Tilt Poker’s hand histories! Players can analyze their play for free by uploading their hand histories at flopturnriver.com and join the discussion in FTR’s active, growing forums.
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 23, 2007 | Press Releases
Developed by one of its own long-standing members, Flop Turn River’s Tournament Trimmer enables players to review the play that occurred during a tournament in a condensed, easy to read format. You can review all of the tournaments that were run through the Trimmer in FTR’s Tournament Archives.
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 12, 2007 | Press Releases
Created by an FTR veteran, Flop Turn River’s Tournament Trimmer is a cutting-edge device that gives people the chance to review tournament hand histories in an efficient manner by condensing hands into single lines of text. Previous tournament histories can be reviewed in the Tournament Archive.
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 9, 2007 | Press Releases
A widely recognized poker authority, FlopTurnRiver.com now provides a free, exhaustive hand history database for its growing membership. Players can review more than 2,500 real-life examples of how people have played pocket aces in Texas Hold’em contests as well as many other hole combinations.
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 10, 2006 | Press Releases
Since it was introduced in 2003, FlopTurnRiver.com has succeeded in putting together a community of poker players which includes people new to the game and others who’ve played for decades. Players enjoy talking about everything related to poker and other topics in Flop Turn River’s lively forums.
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 20, 2006 | Press Releases
Striving to give its members every resource available to help them improve their game, Flop Turn River has compiled a comprehensive hand history database. By using the database, players can see how others have played various hands and whether people win more with pocket aces or something else.
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 22, 2006 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.com is a thriving poker community of more than 9,000 members. Visitors enjoy FTR’s forums where they discuss everything related to poker and more. Offering strategy articles for beginners, seasoned pros and everyone in between, FTR is a great resource for anyone interested in poker.
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 18, 2006 | Press Releases
Having reviewed more than 65 Internet poker and rakeback rooms and giving its members and visitors a chance to publicly share their opinions about them, FlopTurnRiver.com has emerged as the primary source for trustworthy, player-friendly information about online poker rooms and rakeback.
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 11, 2006 | Press Releases
In addition to providing free poker tools such as its Poker Odds Calculator and Tournament Trimmer to help poker players improve their game, Flop Turn River now offers free poker video tutorials. Players can share their opinions of the videos they watch, ask questions and/or comment about them.
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 9, 2006 | Press Releases
Offering free poker tools and a bustling forum where more than 7,000 poker players discuss everything related to poker as well as a bunch of subjects that have nothing to do with the game they love, Flop Turn River has quickly become one of the most popular websites among poker players worldwide.
by FTR Poker Admin | May 10, 2006 | Press Releases
Flop Turn River continues to amaze poker players with its introduction of a real-time Chat Room and a Poker Tools section. Poker players can use FlopTurnRiver.com’s useful tools, including its Hand History Converter, Poker Odds Calculator and/or Tournament Trimmer, to improve their game for free.
