by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 17, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS X event #19, a $216 NL Hold’em event with $400k guaranteed, ran today. It was hosted by Kelly Kim who is fresh off his 8th place finish at the WSOP main event. With 2526 entries, the tournament far exceeded its guarantee, topping out at just over $500k. Almost...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 15, 2008 | FTOPS, Online Poker News, Poker News
The FTOPS X series continues in full swing, as event #16 is now in the books. A $300 + $22 buy-in 6MAX NLHE event, it had a guaranteed prize pool of the magical amount of $1,000,000. The guaranteed money was met, however, when 1,032 hopefuls entered and re-bought...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 15, 2008 | FTOPS, Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Event #17 on Full Tilt’s FTOPS X calendar was a NL Hold ’em 4 x shootout 6-max affair with a $200 + $16 buy-in and a $250,000 guarantee. 1,094 entrants shelled out their entry fee, which wasn’t enough to break the guaranteed prize pool but formed a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 12, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS X continued Tuesday with Event #14, the $216 no limit hold’em turbo event. Almost 40 sponsored Full Tilt pros showed up for the event and with 2583 entrants the event cleared its $500k guarantee by a little over $16k. Players started with only 2000 chips, and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 11, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS X continued last night with its largest buy-in tournament so far this year. The $1000 + $60 no-limit event was hosted by FTP pro David Singer. This tournament matched the largest guarantee to this point of $1.5 million. Competitors in this event started with...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 10, 2008 | FTOPS
Event #7 began November 8th, in the continuous line of events making up Full Tilt’s FTOPS X. This time around, 1,893 players were attracted by the $600,000 guarantee of the $100 + $9 No Limit Hold’em Rebuy tournament. Unfortunately, 68 players less than...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 10, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The always popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series continued yesterday with Event #8, a 6-max Knockout tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $600K. The buy-in for this event was $240 + $16, with $200 going to the prize pool and knockouts worth $40 each. This...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 9, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FullTilt Poker’s Online Poker Series is back for its tenth installment. The fourth event on the schedule was the $600,000 Guarantee, $300 buy-in, 1-rebuy+1-add-on event hosted by Full Tilt Pro Vitaly Lunkin. 815 of the world’s best tournament pros were...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 9, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The tenth iteration of the prestigious Full Tilt Series of Poker is just beginning its 25 event calender, but plenty of poker has already been played. Event #3, the second Hold ’em event so far, concluded earlier this week after 7 hours of hard graft. The 729...
by givememyleg | Nov 7, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series X kicked off on November 5. This double digit series started off just as all the others, with the first event being $216 no-limit hold’em 6 Max. However, the entire purse just keeps growing, because this series has 25 events...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 6, 2008 | FTOPS, Online Poker News, Poker News
Full Tilt Poker is at it again, giving online poker players a run for their money with one of the best online poker tournaments around. The Full Tilt Online Poker Series is now in it’s tenth season and is sure to mimic the excitement of the FTOPS IX. It kicks...
by givememyleg | Aug 21, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The FTOPS IX is now officially over with the conclusion of the main event. In total, 25 events were played with buy-ins ranging from $109 up to $2620, and more than $15 million guaranteed. However, I think Full Tilt went a little too high on most of their...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 20, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event #18 of the ninth Full Tilt Series of Poker was yet another variation on the ever popular No Limit Hold ’em. This time the format was a $500 + $35 3x Shootout, and it attracted a healthy 662 runners. Once Full Tilt’s guaranteed $300,000 had been...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 19, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The 9th Full Tilt Series of Poker was in full swing when the time came for Event #16, the $200 + $16 Omaha/8 tournament. As with every FTOPS event the prize pool was bolstered considerably by the addition of a guaranteed cash sum, this time a healthy $200,000. When...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 18, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The largest buy-in tournament of the Full Tilt Online Poker series took place over the span of two days this past weekend. The $2500+$120 buy-in two-day event attracted 942 of the world’s best MTT players creating a massive prize-pool of $2,355,000. Outlasting...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 18, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Tempers flared and four-letter words flew as the often infuriating game of Razz was played during Event 21 of Full Tilt’s Online Poker Series. 577 player created a prize pool of nearly $175,000 in the $300+22 buy-in tournament. In the end it was player...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 17, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
It will be extremely tough to top the talent that made it to the final table of Event 14 of FTOPS IX. The $535 H.O.R.S.E event saw some of the most talented players online work their way through a stacked field, as well as some of the very best falling just short of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 16, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The action was sure to be fast paced heading into Wednesday’s FTOPS Event #17. The format for this event was 6-max NL Hold’em with rebuys, and featured a $1,000,000 guarantee. With a $300+$22 buyin, the 1,059 entries ponied up 2,239 rebuys and 727 add-ons,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 16, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 4 of FTOPS IX was a $300 No Limit Holdem tournament, with one rebuy and one add-on. 970 players showed up, causing the total prize pool to pass the guarantee. The final prize pool being $694,500, well over the guarantee of $600,000. As usual, a ton of notable...
by givememyleg | Aug 16, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Everyone was laughing at event 13 of the FTOPS 9, mainly because the game being played was HA (okay bad jokes over). Just what is HA? For those who don’t know, HA is a mixed game which is half PL Hold’em and half PL Omaha. In total, 913 players paid the...
by givememyleg | Aug 16, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 11 of the FTOPS 9 was the game of limit hold’em. Although limit hold’em doesn’t attract as many fish since they can’t just push all-in, Full Tilt offered a $200,000 guarantee for the $216 buy-in. Well, with only 932 players registered,...
by givememyleg | Aug 16, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 3 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series 9 was the first of its kind. It was the first ever 4x shootout that the series has ever seen, but with a twist because it was also shorthanded. Not quite knowing what to expect, Full Tilt gave the $216 buy-in a $250,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 16, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event eight of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series IX came to an end last Sunday with “ryanbluf” the man who finished ahead of his competitors and claimed the $121,184.57 first place prize. The event was a $240 + $16 No Limit Hold’em 6-Max Knockout...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 15, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
History was made and chips were flying for Event 15 of Full Tilt’s Online Poker Series. It was a Turbo Format. The $200+16 buyin $500,000 guarantee attracted a field of 2,472 players. One again the field failed to reach the guarantee and Full Tilt had to provide...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 15, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Last Saturday saw the completion of the second Omaha event in FTOPS IX, and this time the format was Pot Limit Omaha 6-Max. It was no surprise, then, to see that this event was hosted by well known Omaha master Robert Williamson III. The buy in for the event ran to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 15, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Full Tilt’s 9th Online Poker Series continued this past Monday with a $1000+60 buy-in $1,500,000 guarantee start-studded tournament. One of the biggest buy-in tournaments of the series was full of high-stakes professionals and notable online winners. The...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 14, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series continued this past Saturday with Event #7, a $100+$9 NLHE rebuy tournament with a $500,000 guarantee. This format, popular with many higher stakes online players, drew 1,961 entries for a total prize pool of $621,100 after the rebuy...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 14, 2008 | FTOPS, Online Poker News, Poker News
Over 1,000 players took their chances in Event 9 of FTOPS IX this past Sunday. The No-Limit Hold’em Heads Up tournament started at 4:00pm ET with a $500 + $35 buy-in. Only 128 of the 1,322 hopefuls were able to place in the money. Tedsfishfry took home the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 9, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series continued yesterday with another met guarantee in a game with dwindling popularity, especially online, Stud Hi. 581 people bought in to Event #5, a $200+16 tournament to make a prize pool of $116,200 with almost 27k going to first...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 8, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The 9th Full Tilt Online Pokers Series continued yesterday with Event #2, PL Omaha H/L Bounty. Full Tilt always seems to come up with new tournaments for their series’ to keep people interested and this event is no exception. The $240+16 buy-in PL Omaha H/L...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 8, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Get ready because FTOPS IX is ready to start full swing! If you recall FTOPS VIII, you’ll remember that over $15 million in prize money was given out over the 24 event schedule. This time around, the FTOPS IX series is made up of 25 events with a greater than...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 3, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Another wildly popular and successful FTOPS series is in the books, with millions upon millions paid out, and throngs of players coming out in search of those enormous paydays through beating out those aforementioned throngs of players. Now up to series VIII, FTOPS...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 3, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The Knockout format has been extremely popular on Full Tilt Poker, with numerous tournaments taking on the format, and getting good-sized fields in return. The most popular Knockout event on Full Tilt is the Sunday Brawl, a $240+$16 tournament with a $250k guarantee,...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 31, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Pot Limit Omaha Hi can be a very swingy game, with small edges being pushed all the time. Add to it a $100 rebuy, and you get an extremely interesting event, which is just what happened in FTOPS VIII Event #22, a $100 rebuy, Pot Limit Omaha event. This event ran at...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 30, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS eight is in full swing and many have noticed from the frequent updates here at FTR and it’s obvious that event 20 was just as excellent considering the $200,000 guarantee placed on the event. Players certainly don’t have any qualms with putting up the $200 + $16...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 30, 2008 | FTOPS
FTOPS number eight was in full swing and event number eight was as interesting as all the others. Full Tilt’s FTOPS events are becoming well known in the online poker world and they continue to gain steam as more and more players enter them for a chance at the big...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 28, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event #16 brought out some stiff competition, which should come as no surprise to anyone. During the last series, FTR’s own ilikeaces86 won this very same type of event, the $300 rebuy, 6-max event for $257k, and had to beat out an extremely tough final table that...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 26, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
It was truly the winner takes all in Event number 17 at the Full Tilt Online Poker Series. That’s because this No-Limit Hold’em tournament was a 4 X Shootout affair meaning that only the winner of each table got to advance to the next round. And with the...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 26, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
There was certainly quite a variety of tournaments at the 8th annual Full Tilt Online Poker Series. Stud games, PL Omaha, HORSE, Razz, and of course regular old Hold’em were all featured at the FTOPS. But out of all of them, some people might consider the No...
by givememyleg | May 26, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Quite possibly the most anticipated FTOPS VIII tournament, event 21 did not disappoint. This is one of the most prestigious online poker tournaments that you can win, due to it’s high buy-in, deep structure, and because it is the only 2 day online poker...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 26, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOP VIII Event 15 featured HA (half PL Hold’em, half PL Omaha), which pulled in a nice 932 players into the competition. With a buy-in of $200+$16 and a guarantee of $150,000, the prize pool was sure to surpass the guarantee. The prize pool busted the guarantee by...
by givememyleg | May 26, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series continued with event 19, which was a $216 buy-in and the name of the game was no-limit hold’em. The $200 no-limit tournaments online today are the standard for most high stake players, so I expected this event to crush the...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 22, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
As you well know FTOPS VIIII hosted by Full Tilt Poker just got over and it rocked just as hard as the past events. Today we’re taking a look at Event 13 over at Bovada, and the action was just as excellent as could be expected. There were 607 players in this event...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 21, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 14 of the FTOPS VIII Tournament was a $200 + $16 NL Hold’em Turbo. It was hosted by Amanda Baker. It was a 200k Guarantee that had 2,140 players. The chip counts going into the final table were as follows: 1. Pokah_Prinz 838,357 2. comhood 831,290 3....
by FTR Poker Admin | May 19, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS 8 Event 11 was a $1000+$60 No Limit Hold’Em tournament, the second largest buy-in in the FTOPS, with a guaranteed prize pool of $1,500,000. The event, hosted by Nick Shulman, drew 1593 players creating an ending prize pool of $1,593,000 with a 1st place...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 18, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Full Tilt Poker has been quite creative this series, introducing all kinds of varieties of tournaments, with big-buyins and bigger payouts. Event #12 of FTOPS VIII fit that bill, as 961 players showed up for the $200+$16 No Limit Hold ‘Em tournament, with 1 rebuy and...
by givememyleg | May 16, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 10 of the FTOPS 8 was the third pot-limit Omaha tournament on the schedule. However, this was the first one that was hi/lo, aka Omaha 8 or better. This was one of the smaller guarantees, with a $200 + $16 buy-in with the prize pool being at least $200,000. The...
by givememyleg | May 16, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The FTOPS 8 continued with event 9 and it was a big one, $322 no-limit hold’em. This took place of their usual Sunday $750k and had a guaranteed prize pool of $1,500,000; making it at least double the standard. It was hosted by Gus Hansen, who is one of the most...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 15, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The buy-in for this tournament was $500 + $35 and there was a total of 637 players. First place alone payed out over $68,000. Lets take a look at the chip counts heading into the final table: 1. Kavin86 1,114,541 2. scatterbrain123 495,675 3. Care4Nature 465,801 4....
by FTR Poker Admin | May 13, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Undoubtedly, one of the toughest tournaments online on a daily basis is the $100 rebuys. They are almost always filled with the best and brightest in the online tournament circuit. This was no different when Event #7 of FTOPS VIII went down just a few days ago, which...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 13, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Big buy-in, big field online tournaments always seem to attract the best players in the game, which comes as no surprise. The fields are mixed with players taking shots, satellite winners, and of course the pros who frequent final tables amongst all the sites. So it...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 13, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS VIII is here finally and the action was just as sweet in event four as the action was last year. We had over one thousand players turn out today, totaling in at one thousand and seventy six which generated $215,200 which was $15,200 over the guarantee. With a...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 12, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS VIII is underway again and continuing this series is Event #5 out of the 24 scheduled events. Event 5 was a Stud H/L – Limit game hosted by the young Full-Tilt pro, Jeff Madson. Though other events have attracted a larger number of players, a healthy...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 11, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The second event of FTOPS 8 was a $240+$16 Pot Limit Omaha Knockout event hosted by Max Pescatori. It was the first event of six involving Pot Limit Omaha in this series. Being a “Knockout” event meant, not only are the normal prizes awarded for finishing...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 10, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The amazing Full Tilt Online Poker Series is once again back, as Full Tilt Poker is pulling out all the stops, packing in twenty-four events in just twelve days of play. Full Tilt continues to push the envelope every FTOPS series, as they continue to add new events,...
by givememyleg | May 7, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The FTOPS VIII (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) begins today! It has been announced for over a month now, and many people have been waiting for today to come. This series is larger than ever with 24 events, including new games never played in any FTOPS, and has over...
by givememyleg | Apr 29, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Full Tilt Poker is running the FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) again, for the 8th time! FTOPS VIII is set to again be the biggest one in history, with more than $10 million in guaranteed prize money! It just keeps growing, just like always has more events and...
by givememyleg | Feb 25, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 17 in the FTOPS 7 was the biggest and perhaps most anticipated event for the series. It is definitely the most unique to the series and no other online site has ever ran anything like it before. Why? Well, not only is the buy-in huge for the online world at...
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 | 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 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 givememyleg | Feb 19, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 16 of the FTOPS VII took place on February 15th at 21:00 and the name of the game was Stud. This was the first and only stud event of the series (not counting Razz), and since it is a dying game, nothing too much was expected. It was $215 buy-in with $100,000...
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 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 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 givememyleg | Feb 15, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 8 of the FTOPS VII was a unique twist on the game. It was $120 + $9 no-limit hold’em 6-max knockout. What this means is that $100 of everyone’s buyin goes to the prize pool, and everyone also has a $20 bounty on their head. Every person you happen to...
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 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 givememyleg | Feb 13, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
So far, every event held in the FTOPS VII has broken all the guarantees and expectations. With $20 million guaranteed total, I was expecting to see some overlays but if the series keeps running the way that is has been, that will not be the case. It also was not the...
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 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 | 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 | 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 givememyleg | Feb 8, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
The FTOPS VII Series kicked off Wednesday February 6th at 21:00 ET and what a better game to start with? Of course it was no-limit hold’em, with a $200 + $16 buy-in which seems to be the standard online high stakes limit for multi-table tournaments. As with...
by givememyleg | Feb 5, 2008 | FTOPS, Poker News
It’s that time again, the FTOPS is running wild! Full Tilt Poker is running the FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) again, for the 7th time! FTOPS VII is set to again be the biggest one in history, with $10 million in guaranteed prize money! It just keeps...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
This was the mother of the FTOPS VI tournaments, event 16; the main event! The main event has grown every year since the FTOPS started, and it didn’t stop this year. The game was No-Limit Hold’em, buyin was $500 + $35, and there was going to be at least $2...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 15 of the FTOPS VI was held on Nov 18, the final day for the series. This event was one of the newest ideas and unique tournaments, a No-Limit Hold’em Knockout. The buyin was $150 + $13, and $120 would go towards the prize pool. The additional $30 would...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
It was rebuy madness again for Event 14 of the FTOPS VI. However, on Nov 17 it was different; the game was Pot-Limit Omaha. Any game gets a little crazy with rebuys, and when you get dealt 4 cards instead of 2, it gets even better! The buyin for this event was $100...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 13 of the FTOPS VI started on Nov 17, but didn’t finish until Nov 18! This is because it was a 2-Day event, only the second of its kind. The game was No-Limit Hold’em, and only the players who play the highest stakes took part as the buyin was...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
On Nov 16 poker players were ready for Event 12 of the FTOPS VI. The game was Shorthanded Limit Hold’em and the buyin was $200 + $16. Limit Hold’em isn’t as popular as its brother No-Limit, so the prize pool was only $200,000 guaranteed. However,...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 11 of the FTOPS VI was held on Nov 15 and would be one for the hardcore poker players, HORSE. With a $500 + $35 buyin, there was at least $250,000 guaranteed. With the addition of the 50k HORSE tourney at the WSOP, this game has suddenly started to gain the...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 10 of the FTOPS VI was more rebuy madness. On Nov 14, the $300 + $22 No-Limit Hold’em rebuy tournament would take place. However, Full Tilt would make this more fun with shorthanded play (6 Max)! With $750,000 guaranteed, there was a lot of money to be...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 9 of the FTOPS 6 took place on Nov 13. The registered players were prepared to play a game that is rising in popularity, Pot-Limit Omaha 8 (aka Omaha Hi/Lo split). With a $200 + $16 buyin, Full Tilt tossed a guarantee of $150,000, which would nearly double to...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 8 of the FTOPS VI was on Nov 12 and it was one for the high stakes players. The game was No-Limit Hold’em with a huge buyin of $1000 + $60. Full Tilt guaranteed $1,000,000, but that wasn’t enough for the players. 1,332 showed up making the prize pool...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 7 of the FTOPS VI took place on Nov 11 and the game was No-Limit Hold’em. Being the most popular game today, all the prize pools for the NLHE events were massive! This one was a $300 + $22 buyin with $1,000,000 guaranteed! Once registration was closed,...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 6 of the FTOPS VI took place on November 11th and the game was 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo (aka Stud 8 or Better). The guaranteed prize pool was only $25,000, which was much smaller than all other events. This is because 7 Card Stud 8OB is pretty much a dying game and not...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 5 of the FTOPS VI took place on Nov 10 and everyone who signed up had to be prepared for some crazy rebuy madness! It was a $100 + $9 rebuy/addon with $400,000 guaranteed, and some players willing accepted 20+ rebuys in the first hour. With 1600 entrants the...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 4 of the FTOPS VI took place on Nov 10 and everyone showed up to play the action game, Pot-Limit Omaha. However, there was a twist to make it even more action packed; it was 6-max. With shorthanded play the action is drastically increased as people can’t...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 3 of the FTOPS VI took place on Nov 9. The name of the game was Pot-Limit Hold’em with a $200 + $16 buyin. Full Tilt had $300,000 guaranteed and with only 1,468 players there was a $6400 overlay! This event was hosted by the well known online pro, Jon...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Event 2 of the FTOPS VI took place on Nov 8. Everyone showed up to play some RAZZ, which is 7 Card Stud Lo. (Worst low hand wins, A2345 is the nuts). The buyin was $300 + $22 with a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000, however 679 players showed up making the prize...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS Event #1 Summary FTOPS VI kicked off on Wednesday, November 7th with its $216 Short Handed No Limit Hold’em event. Over 3500 people entered the event with a guaranteed prize pool of $750,000, 432 places would be paid and nearly $150,000 would go to the winner....
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | FTOPS, Poker News
Full Tilt Poker is running the FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) again, for the 6th time! FTOPS VI is set to be the biggest one in history, with more than $9 million in guaranteed prize money! This is $2 million more than FTOPS V, which was only 3 short months...
