by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 15, 2014 | Editorials, Featured Poker News, High Stakes Rail
Over the weekend, I read several articles that described how Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa is suing Phil Ivey for $9.6M. The casino alleges that Phil Ivey, with the help of his associate, Cheng Yin Sun, won more than $9,500,000 playing Baccarat...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 5, 2013 | Editorials, Featured Poker News, High Stakes Rail
Gus Hansen is not having the best of times at the poker tables these days. The multiple WPT winner has never had the best of runs on the online felt, but recently it seems he has started to spiral, leading many to ask, “Is Gus Hansen a degen?” As of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 4, 2013 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The Guinness World Record for most valuable poker chip has just been broken. After 2.5 years of work, Toronto jeweller Gerald Lewy has finally completed a poker chip unlike any in the world. Framed by 5.13 carats of pink diamonds and featuring 17 one-carat diamonds...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 24, 2013 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, Televised Poker
Matusow To Deeb: “I’ll Punch You In The F***ing Mouth” Say what you want about The Mouth, but it’s never alright to slowroll your opponent. As funny as it is to see the occasional Matusow Meltdown, you have to feel for the guy this time. During...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 16, 2013 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The Living Legend that is Doyle Brunson is not going to be seen at the WSOP Tournament tables this yeah. No, he’s not dead, as far as I’m aware the 79 year old Texas Dolly is still very much alive and kicking. On Tuesday Night he tweeted a short comment...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 15, 2013 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Leading member of the Full Tilt Professionals, Gus Hansen, had a fantastic day playing poker yesterday. At both the 2-7TD and the FLO8 tables, Gus was on fire. The beginning of the day didn’t look that great as he when started off at the 2-7TD $1k/$2k tables by...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 1, 2013 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
FlopTurnRiver have learned that discussions are ongoing to include Poker as an Olympic sport for the 2020 games. From what we have heard, Poker is to take the place of Windsurfing in the summer games program. In February, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 15, 2013 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Do you remember back in the day, Tom “durrrr” Dwan issued a challenge to playone not named “Phil Galfond” heads up for 50,000 hands at No Limit Hold’em or Pot Limit Omaha at $200/$400 or higher? The deal included a bonus to the winner, if...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 27, 2013 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Yesterday, Daniel Negreanu of PokerStars Team Pro tweeted a challenge to Gus Hansen, one of the Full Tilt Poker “Professionals.” This challenge was Daniel’s response to some needling from Gus using the wonder of Twitter. Gus had posted a video from...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 8, 2013 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Last night, high stakes poker legend Tom “durrrr” Dwan was back on Full Tilt Poker, putting in over 2000 hands, and ending the day with a big smile on his face. Tom has been our in Macau enjoying the good fishing in the biggest Asian gambling hub, and has...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 8, 2013 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Towards the end of last week, a challenge was laid down on Full Tilt Poker, it was for $1,000,000. The two players? Patrik Antonius, and Rui Cao. Most of you will have heard of Patrik, he was a member of the Full Tilt stable of pros before Black Friday, is a former...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 1, 2013 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
We’ve all dreamt about turning a cheap satellite to major event, and turning it into a fortune. We could then really show our skills, and play with the big dogs. Well, SennaBoris79 from Russiadid just that. He turned $27 into a ticket for the TCOOP Main Event,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 3, 2012 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
Just one month after Full Tilt Poker reopened their doors, they’ve already begun the 21st edition of their Full Tilt Online Poker Series. There was some speculation as to how many people would turn up for these events after the 18 months of down time that Full Tilt...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 13, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WCOOP
Recently, staff members from FlopTurnRiver.com had the honor of interviewing some of the best poker players in the world. Whether you are a fan of online or live poker, or both, you will be amazed by what these PokerStars professional players had to say! Did you know...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 30, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Born Thomas Austin Preston, Jr. on New Year’s Eve in 1928, Amarillo Slim succumbed to colon cancer on Sunday, April 29, 2012, while receiving hospice care in Amarillo, Texas. He was 83 years-old at the time of his death. Referring to himself as the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 25, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Annette Obrestad, known as Annette_15 online, was recently named a Lock Pro for the Lock Poker site on the Merge Network. Annette who started her poker career at a very young age is mostly known for winning the PokerStars Sunday Quarter Million, and then being the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 23, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The truly original documentary “All in: The Poker Movie” was developed to investigate the explosion in popularity of poker around the world. Featuring interviews with many well-known professional players, it chronicles the journey of poker from its shady backroom past...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 4, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, PokerStars
PokerStars has added Roy “GodlikeRoy” Bhasin to the ranks of its sponsored players. Based out of Sydney, Australia, the young pro plans to act as an ambassador on both his native continent and in nearby New Zealand. In his blog, godlikeroy.com, Bhasin expressed a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 2, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
Bodog has announced Jennette Tan as the latest addition to their Team Bodog. Nicknamed “Jay”, Tan is an Asian poker player who was born in Los Angeles. In addition to her beauty, she also holds a Masters Degree in Business. She briefly moved to Hong King to start a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 6, 2012 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
Details have been extremely scarce in recent months since Group Bernard Tapie (GBT) supposedly reached a deal to purchase Full Tilt Poker (FTP). In December 2011, it was widely reported that the GBT had come to an agreement to purchase the assets and liabilities of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 25, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Live Poker Results, Online Tournaments, Poker News, WPT
Just one month after his $2 million win at the Aussie Millions High Roller event, Phil Ivey has continued his roll with his shrewd play at the WPT LA Classic. Thanks to a late surge, at the conclusion of day 1 he is sitting in 5th place with 116,300 chips. The chip...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 23, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Betfair Poker has signed a sponsorship deal with 2008 World Series of Poker champion Peter Eastgate. This will be the 26 year-old’s latest step into re-introducing himself to the game which made him a household name among poker fans. Eastgate’s...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 20, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Jonathan Duhamel is relieved to hear that his prized 2010 WSOP Main Event Championship bracelet has been recovered. The bracelet, along with $115,000 in cash and other items including a Rolex watch were stolen from him in a home invasion in December of 2010. The home...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 18, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
The online poker site Bet24 has signed on another poker pro to their brand, Gillian Epp. The 27 year old is an established poker player who also writes columns for the poker magazines CasinoPlayer and PokerPro Canada. At the age of 19, Gillian Epp started out as a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 9, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Since Black Friday, insight into higher stake poker action has mostly fallen off the map. Shows like High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark, and the Big Game were great ways to see how poker at the highest level was played. Viewers could watch their favorite poker player...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 3, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
When Alan Meltzer passed away last October, he left behind $1 million in his will to his chauffeur and another $500,000 to the doorman of his building. An entrepreneurial success story, Meltzer built his fortune in the music business and gained fame in the poker world...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 2, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WSOP
Longueuil, Quebec, Canada — Local police authorities have announced that half of the reported $115,000 cash stolen from 2010 WSOP champion Jonathan Duhamel in a robbery last December has been found. An anonymous tipster provided the police with information which led...
by givememyleg | Jan 28, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Live Poker Results, Poker News
Phil Ivey again shows why he is one of, if not the, best players in the world. Today he won the $250,000 buy-in 2012 Aussie Millions Super High Roller event for $2 million. According to the Hendon Mob “All-time money list” this win put Ivey into second place at just...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 3, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
PokerStars pro, Eugene Katchalov, is the 2011 BLUFF Player of the Year. His face is to grace the cover of BLUFF magazine this month. He had quite the impressive year in 2011 with over $2.5 million in tournament winnings and a WSOP bracelet. His 2011 started off with a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 19, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News, PokerStars
On Saturday it was announced that Joe Hachem would not be resigning with PokerStars as a Team Pro member. His contract expired recently and it was a mutual decision not to renew the contract. The 45 year-old Australian father of four says he will remember his time...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 10, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
As part of a recent $180 million facelift for Tropicana Las Vegas, Jamie Gold has been announced as their new poker spokesman/ambassador. This coincides with the grand re-opening of their newly renovated poker room, which has been renamed “The Jamie Gold poker...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 6, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, PokerStars
PokerStars has added a pair of new faces to their Team Pro ranks – Bjorn “Bjoerni89” Schneider and Martin “filfedra” Staszko. Both men hail from the center of the European continent, putting them in excellent poker company. Staszko, a 35...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 17, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, PokerStars
Online giant PokerStars has released another poker documentary on one of their team members. Adrienne “talonchick” Rowsome, a female Team PokerStars professional, is the subject of their latest Youtube documentary. Their first short film focused on Randy...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 11, 2011 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, High Stakes Rail, Poker News
As part of PokerStars’ 10-year Anniversary, FlopTurnRiver has been given the chance to interview two of the biggest names in online poker today – Barry Greenstein and Chris Moneymaker. They share their experience with PokerStars over the years and touch on other...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 14, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WSOP
Oh boy. Some people just like to start fights. People like James Bord, that is, who just recently stated his very firm belief that European poker players completely smoke Americans. Bord said, “I don’t think an American can win the [WSOPE] bracelet;...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 4, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
A duo of online poker players are in trouble with the law. However, this story has nothing to do with actions at the poker table or at an online poker room. Two PokerStars Pros are accused of cheating a Nevada casino, Wynn Las Vegas, out of $700,000 at the Craps...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 30, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker Law, Poker News
Full Tilt Poker…yeesh, what a year! 2011 has been quite the rough run. The company has reportedly been bought out, but in the mean time, there is still a lot (and I do mean a very large amount) of hot water to wade through. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has labeled...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 30, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker Law, Poker News
Full Tilt Poker…yeesh, what a year! 2011 has been quite the rough run. The company has reportedly been bought out, but in the mean time, there is still a lot (and I do mean a very large amount) of hot water to wade through. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has labeled...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 22, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Poker Law, Poker News
Annie Duke’s day job is as a promoter, and she’s clearly good at her job. Epic Poker is yet again in the headlines; although, to be fair, not for the best of reasons. The Epic Poker League (EPL) has suspended two of its most prominent players: Howard...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 22, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Poker Law, Poker News
Going from bad to worse, Full Tilt is still in hot water, and wow: they are getting scalded. The Department of Justice just claimed that Full Tilt was a massive, international Ponzi scheme racking up $444 million in Ponzi-ed money. Back in April, Tom Dwan was so...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 11, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Erik Seidel has won more than $16 million in lifetime live tournaments. That number only includes public live tournaments, and doesn’t include private tournaments or cash games. With the kind of bank roll this consistent pro has, it would be very difficult to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 11, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald just retired from poker, at age 20. McDonald made his name by winning the EPT Main Event for $1.3 million, and by earning himself a seven figure bankroll in online poker. But months later, he’s right back out of retirement,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 6, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Thuy Doan, the young female poker pro who immigrated to the United States from Vietnam at the age of 7, has lost her battle with cancer. Thuy got seriously involved with poker and improved her game to the level of top professional while in college in Virginia, coming...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 6, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Mike Matusow isn’t called ‘The Mouth’ for nothing. Two weeks ago, Matusow played a highly controversial hand with Hellmuth on Poker After Dark, although ‘played’ might be too generous a term. The majority response has condemned both...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 2, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Ah, the thrill of big pots. You might play $0.25-$0.50 and get excited by $10 pots, $1-$2 and find yourself jazzed over a $450 pot, but no matter what level you play, you know what size pot is always exciting? $1 million pots. Unfortunately for this round-up of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 2, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker Law, Poker News, PokerStars
Poker players in America have been up the creek since the FBI’s crackdown on April 15, 2011, finding it difficult to find a reliable internet poker home. There has been talk of American players moving overseas to be able to play again, but until recently, much...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 30, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
Opportunities in the market of online poker have been stymied, to say the least, since April 15, 2011. Not all in the industry are sitting on their hands, however. Jamie Gold is launching a new poker site called FreeGoldPoker.com, geared specifically towards American...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 29, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Prop bet, also called a side bet, prop, or exotic, is a bet made on an outcome or a proposition. These can be anything from statistics and happenstance in a regular game to personal, one-of-a-kind bets. Poker is a thoroughly entertaining game, from the suck-outs to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 26, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Daniel Negreanu has been making a number of big life moves in recent history. Just this month, Negreanu temporarily relocated to Canada. The popular poker professional luckily holds Canadian citizenship, making his relocation a breeze. American pro Daniel Cates was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 15, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Recently on FTR.com we introduced you to the story of Jose Mecado, who is well-known in the poker world for his meteoric rise through the online stakes, and for his subsequent admission that he was scamming players on the Merge Network. Mecado also admitted that he...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 12, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Poker Law, Poker News
Phil Ivey: the myth, the legend, the Tiger Woods of poker. What does a successful poker player look like? Phil Ivey, right? As it turns out, the popular view of this poker icon might be remarkably different from the truth. Most readers will be aware of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 11, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Bad beat stories: you see them in forums, read them in chat bars, and hear them at every live table you play at. They can get old, because everybody experiences them. But there are some bad beats that are just too entertaining to get old. Unsurprisingly, these involve...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 10, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
Ever since April 15, US poker players have been in a scramble to find a site that would allow them to play. Many had to abandon their usual site and even some quit altogether. Phil Galfond is taking a different route. Known for winning millions of dollars in online...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 5, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Poker pro Huck Seed, who is best known for winning the 1996 World Series of Poker Main Event and for taking on some of the world’s toughest games at Full Tilt Poker, won big last night. This time, Huck’s big win wasn’t at the poker table at all....
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 4, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WSOP
Daniel Negreanu knows how to pick a fight. Matt Savage is probably the most respected tournament director in the world and also happens to be the target of Negrenau’s recent ire. The dispute? A poker tournament rule that’s got Negreanu’s chips in a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 28, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Come on, don’t lie: you missed Phil Ivey at the 2011 WSOP. We all did! Whether or not he makes the money, as long as he’s in a tournament, he’s headline news, absolutely fascinating to watch, and easily makes his table the most interesting in the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 14, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, PokerStars
The TV show The Big Game has been a notable success for PokerStars, and entertained the poker world thoroughly. If you’re not familiar with The Big Game, the set-up is both simple and compelling. For 150 hands, an amateur player called the ‘loose...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 9, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Phil Ivey has taken an aggressive route to salvation. Attempting to emerge from the wreckage of Black Friday with his reputation intact, but has this gambit paid off? It all began with a law suit, demanding that Full Tilt pay out millions of dollars owed to their...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 6, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
I don’t know about you, but I love watching Doyle Brunson. I love watching him beat up younger players, laying down the old school smack down on up and comers left and right. Chris Moneymaker revolutionized poker, and the poker industry is flooded with internet...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 6, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker Law, Poker News
Tobey Maguire’s attorney has filed court papers, where the actor will be fighting the allegations brought against him by Brad Ruderman. Along with a bankruptcy trustee, Ruderman is suing Maguire and 21 other poker players, aiming to recapture more than $4...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 2, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Already owning a long history of gambling, and a string of warnings from Major League Baseball (MLB) to steer clear of poker, Alex Rodriguez has been implicated in the Tobey Maguire poker ring. Rodriguez joins the A-list of big names involved in the high-stakes, and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 29, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The big time, lone ranger, gun slinging gambler: an American myth we love to revere. Billy the Kid, the Texas Road Gamblers, and Nick the Greek, just to name a few moldy oldies. Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, and Doyle Brunson, to name a few more recent famous gamblers....
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 22, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
You’ve seen them in the movies Rounders, Oceans 11, Spiderman, The Town, and even Titanic. Now, you might be seeing them in gambling-related news for some time. A-list celebrities Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Tobey Maguire are among more...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 14, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Can you imagine one roof which houses the world’s very best poker professionals, ready to teach you for a fee? You would have access to the likes of Patrik Antonius, Mike McDonald, Phil Gordan, and Tom Dwan and yes, they would be your teachers. Well, Brandon Adams, a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 10, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WSOP
The 2011 World Series of Poker has thus far been a success. Six of nine repeat events have seen an increase from 2010 attendance, and even more telling, the side action is phenomenal. Attendance at the Rio in Las Vegas has, unsurprisingly, exploded this week. The...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 1, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Poker Law, Poker News
Phil Ivey, the most recognizable face in poker and regarded by most as the best player in the world, has released a statement that he will not be playing in the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and is suing Tiltware. Ivey has won eight WSOP bracelets and $5.3 million...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 1, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WSOP
In a brilliant PR move, the WSOP has put together its first ever series of Grudge Matches, occurring tomorrow (Thursday). Three Grudge Matches will be played, featuring Johnny Chan versus Erik Seidel, Johnny Chan versus Phil Hellmuth, and Chris Moneymaker versus Sammy...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 25, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The 2008 HORSE final table played host to a now-infamous meltdown. Scotty Nguyen, known as the Prince of Poker in some circles and the Ambassador of Poker in others, gave one of the worst performances of his life. In short, he had a drink-inspired melt down. Nguyen is...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 23, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
If you are a golf fan, you have been privileged to watch Tiger Woods plying his craft from 1997 until now. Granted, his last 18 months have been marred by personal problems, injuries, and a golf swing that seems to be in constant flux, but on the whole, you and I...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 20, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Gus Hansen has been the story of the 2011 winners. Through the first half of 2011, when it came to professional players’ earnings, he was the far and away the name on top. Black Friday’s repercussions haven’t helped any of the U.S. based players....
by FTR Poker Admin | May 18, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
High stakes poker is a small, cut throat, but sometimes hilarious world. There might be millions of people happy to play for a hundred bucks, but only a few have a bank roll in the order of millions. In this small world, it seems that everybody knows everybody else:...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 18, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
In the second decade of the 21st Century, your heroes need not be unreachable demi-gods waving from ivory towers. It turns out that most of them are just ordinary people, who are more than happy to connect with the fans. Twitter has brought plenty of previously aloof...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 5, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Federated Sports & Gaming has released its list of pro poker players allowed into their exclusive league. The league is looking to become a respected league and will hopefully show, once and for all, that poker is a game of skill. It’s an honor to be invited...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 5, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Despite the hugely disruptive effects of the events of Black Friday, online poker action continues to go strong, even at the effected sites such as Full Tilt Poker. Those players outside the US who are still able to play for real money at Full Tilt will find it is...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 4, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Poker News
It was only a week ago when I posted how Ziigmund had announced his retirement from Full Tilt Poker completely. Knowing Ziigmund’s personality, it’s only fitting that his self-ban from the site has already been lifted. Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 4, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
High Stakes Poker, one of the game’s most popular television renditions, has selected Gold Strike Poker as their new lead sponsor. This move comes as a result of the actions of Black Friday, which removed many of the major online poker rooms from the American...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 26, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
In the wake of the banning of American players from the online poker scene, the Finnish have come to dominate the nightly action on PokerStars and Full Tilt. Perhaps no one player has been more successful than Patrik Antonius, who recently completed a $560,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 26, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Come with me now as we journey back through the misty mists of time. To an era when High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark ruled the roost. Before the proliferation of poker game shows, these were the only felt-centric TV spectacles worth talking about. The...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 24, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Another Isildur Challenge is in the book with the Swedish poker professional once again coming out on top. Widely considered one of the world’s best heads-up NL Hold’em Players, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom took on a online qualifier in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 20, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Poker Law, Poker News, PokerStars
Reactions from poker celebrities, law maker Barney Frank, one of the eleven defendants, and more: Greg Raymer, 2004 WSOP Main Event Winner Only a few months ago, Greg Raymer was a member of Team PokerStars and, since 2004, Raymer has had ties to the business-side of...
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