by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 29, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Lots of action was seen this week in poker. Much of this action was between OMGClayAiken and kingsofcards. Of course, Tom Dwan was in many of this week’s largest pots. The first pot is between all three of these young online hotshots. At a $500/$1000 Full Tilt NLHE...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 29, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Lots of action was seen this week in poker. Much of this action was between OMGClayAiken and kingsofcards. Of course, Tom Dwan was in many of this week’s largest pots. The first pot is between all three of these young online hotshots. At a $500/$1000 Full Tilt NLHE...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 28, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Live Poker Results, Poker News
On September 25, 2009 high stakes gambler and Las Vegas innovator Bob Stupak passed away of leukaemia. He was 67 years old and had been battling the cancer for some time. He spent the last moments of his life with close family at Desert Springs Hospital. Following...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 24, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WSOP
Phil Hellmuth prepares for another memorable grand entrance on September 26 in London. Miami, FL (PRWeb) September 22, 2009 – You don’t have to wait outside of Buckingham Palace to spot royalty in London. UltimateBet’s Phil Hellmuth, arguably one of the kings of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 10, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The life of high stakes professional Tom Dwan is rarely dull. As a regular instigator of nosebleed cash games on Full Tilt he plays daily for pots that run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. His aggressive playing style has also lead to some million dollar...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 7, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
Do you remember Men In Black? Specifially, when Will Smith asked the officer why the lot were summoned, the officer replied: “Well, because you are the best of the best of the best!” This expression truly applies to last night’s event, the 2009...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 4, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, and Howard Lederer. Just a few of poker’s rich and famous who have their own Twitter accounts. Over 2,500 people believed that high-stakes cash player Patrick Antonius had also embraced the social-media zeitgeist, but...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 1, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
August 31st 2009 – In his biggest live win to date, RedKings Team Pro Ramzi Jelassi scooped €170,000 in San Remo stage of the Italian Poker League. Not really understanding a lot of what the all Italian Final table players were saying, Ramzi let his cards do the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 17, 2009 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WSOP
If there’s one thing Full Tilt Poker is known for more than any other online site, it’s that they’re the home of the pros. There are a great number of skilled professional players who compete in live events with Full Tilt patches or bear the distinctive red lettering...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 14, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Popular gaming industry news site Gambling 911 recently featured an article by controversial contributor Thomas Somach in which he accused famed poker pro Daniel Negreanu of racism. The article centred around a blog post at Full Contact Poker in which Daniel’s aired...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 10, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The PLO tables this week have had lots of action from some of the top online pros. Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin is off to an amazing start to this month, already up nearly $1 million in just a few days. Cole South has showed no signs of breaking his upswing, banking...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 28, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
Absolute Poker has recently announced the signing of its newest poker pro, Lacey Jones. Lacy, who is also a model, joins another young poker star, Matt Vengrin, as the newest faces of the Absolute Poker brand. Lacey Jones began her poker career in 2005, when she was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 20, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The action was lacking last week for most of the well know High Stake regulars, however it was a great week for Cole South and Di Dang. With Cole South running pretty deep in the WSOP ME, he made his way back to the $200/400 HA tables, successfully taking on Gus...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 4, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
Marcel Lüske and Jason Mercier joined the team PokerStars! These accomplished pros are now part of the most prestigious team of poker pros in the world. I was surprised at first that they just made the announcement, as I had always thought that Marcel Lüske and Jason...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 30, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
Isle of Man, UK – JUNE 30, 2009 – PokerStars.com, the world’s largest online poker site, has welcomed Jason Mercier, a 22-year-old poker pro from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, into the elite Team PokerStars Pro. Jason “treysfull21” Mercier, already a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 30, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
Isle of Man, UK – JUNE 30, 2009: PokerStars the world’s largest online poker site, has announced a new addition to Team PokerStars Pro after signing Marcel ‘The Flying Dutchman’ Luske. The highly experienced Dutch poker pro, who won the European Poker Awards...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 24, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
This week the high stakes action was pretty fast and furious! Many of the super high stake regs have been playing in between WSOP events. Players we’ve seen this week include Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Niki Jedlicka, David “MR B 2 U SON,” Gus Hansen, Sami “LarsLuzak”...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 24, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
In the latest durrrr challenge update Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan played a pretty hefty 9 hour session in one day. The session itself was split into two while durrrr caught up on some sleep! Most railbirds might have assumed that while the WSOP was in progress the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 15, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
After taking and keeping the lead for several sessions Patrik Antonius is now in danger of losing the lead. On Tuesday 11th June Tom “durrrr” Dwan finally caught a break and won back thousands from Patrik Antonius. Durrr won $376,597 in an epic 3 hour session in which...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 8, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The Durrr Challenge started at the beginning of this year and create a massive buzz in the poker community. Everyone was expecting the pace to be much faster than it has been. It’s been around 3months since Patrik Antonuis took up the challenge and we’ve only just...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 8, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
With the World Series taking up the time of most high stakes pros there hasn’t been that much action at the nose bleeds this week. The $500/1,000 action has been particularly dry. However the newly added $300/600 and $200/400 pot-limit Omaha tables with antes on Full...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 30, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
durrrr made a brief appearance for the $40K World Series of Poker Event, but busted early after showing up nearly an hour after play began. He and Antonius were on the Challenge tables for a few hours yesterday. During much of that time, durrrr also played Phil Ivey,...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 30, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
With the World Series starting this week the high stakes action is certainly going to slow down a little. However, last week on the felt it was pretty crazy with Dwan and Sahamies continuing their 3k/9k PLO sessions. During several more sessions at the $500/1,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 23, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Last Sunday afternoon, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Phil Ivey, and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies played three-handed $500-$1,000 HA. Sahamies was the big winner in that session, building his stack to over $500,000. Dwan then decided he’d play both Ivey and Sahamies concurrently on...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 23, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The durrrr challenge saw some action at the tables with a small session on 20th that logged 693 hands and Patrik Antonius extended his lead to $424,631 Here’s a few hands from that session. The first pot to break the 100k mark didn’t come long after the session...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 16, 2009 | High Stakes Rail
Patrik and Durrrr put in a short session on the 13th that lasted around 60minutes. Over that short period they logged 310 hands and durrrr was able to book a much-needed win to compensate for some of the big losses he suffered in the May 4th session. Patrik now holds...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 16, 2009 | High Stakes Rail
The action was fast and furious last week in High Stakes online poker. Gus Hansen’s upswing came to an abrupt end and Tom “durrrr” Dwan was able to recoup some of that $2 million loss from last week. Also coming back from the dead was Luke “_FullFlush1_” Schwartz....
by FTR Poker Admin | May 16, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Last week’s episode saw the end of a four-week series of shows where the poker playing, for the most part, left a lot to be desired in the eyes of most aficionados. Particularly after the great first 5 episodes and some of the great hands that were played. This week...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 10, 2009 | FTOPS, High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
And another FTOPS Event is in the books. This time it was the FTOPS XII Event 7 high buy-in. It was a $100+9 R+A event, which had 2850 total rebuys and in excess of 1100 addons. For this event, 1807 hopefuls showed up to lay claim to the title. Among these were known...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 9, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
After a drought of a few weeks the High Stakes Rail report is back! Last week in High Stakes online games the action was a little sparse. This was due to the EPT in Monte Carlo, as most high stakes players were out there playing live. This didn’t stop some though...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 18, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
By now just about everyone who might care already knows about the Durrrr $1 million heads-up challenge. However, another top online player has issued an open challenge for anyone willing to accept it for $1 million, “from Tiger Woods to Phil Ivey”. This...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 16, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The Irish Open was one of Europe’s most prestigious tournaments long before the likes of the WSOPE and EPT arrived. Nowadays it still maintains its place as one of the toughest and most sought after tournament crowns on the world stage, along with a reputation for...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 11, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Live Poker Results, Poker News
Beginning this Sunday and continuing for the next five Sundays, NBC will be airing the 2009 National Heads-Up Poker Challenge, starting at noon each week. The event was recorded last month at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and features a field of 64 players, including...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 10, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Daniel Negreanu, Peter Eastgate, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Tom Dwan, Illari Shahmies, Barry Greenstein and David Benyamine were all at the table once again this week on High Stakes Poker. In the second hand of the night, a double straddle was placed by Eastgate and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The poker world was stunned yesterday as news began to circulate that Casey Reese, son of poker legend Chip, had passed away. Rumors began to filter through to various forums and blogs that the twenty year old college student had died following a fatal drug overdose....
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 5, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Daniel Negreanu, Peter Eastgate, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Tom Dwan, Illari Shahmies, Barry Greenstein and David Benyamine were all at the table once again this week on High Stakes Poker. There were several massive pots in this week’s episode. In the first,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 30, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
All the talk was mainly surrounding a new face on High Stakes, ‘Gypsie Queen,’ as they made their debut last week. There was much speculation into who the new player actually was, as it’s not that often new faces are seen at these nosebleed stakes. There was a massive...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 26, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Patrik and Durrrr logged their third session in a week on Sunday 22nd March, playing for a little over an hour. The relatively brief session saw Durrrr return to the forefront again. Durrrr won $123,849 this session, eroding Patrik’s lead from the last session. Durrrr...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 26, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, PokerStars
And the happy family that is Team PokerStars Pros keeps on growing. Not too long after their latest free agent acquisition, JC Alvarado, PokerStars has already signed up another big name to carry its flag and colors for the well-respected site. Johnny Lodden, a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 25, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Last Friday, 20th March, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius continued their 50,000-hand challenge match, logging another 425 hands. With the $161,086 Patrik won in this session, Antonius took the overall lead for the first time since February 21st. He...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 23, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Daniel Negreanu, Peter Eastgate, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Tom Dwan, Illari Shahmies, Barry Greenstein and David Benyamine were all at the table once again this week on High Stakes Poker. In the first interesting hand of the session, Eastgate raises Q8o and Barry...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 21, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Live Poker Results, Poker News
In October last year, Dream Team Poker unveiled their revolutionary new approach to a team poker tournament and later that month held their first event. It was an invitation only event, which featured some very well-known professional poker players as well as some...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 21, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Live Poker Results, Poker News
In October last year, Dream Team Poker unveiled their revolutionary new approach to a team poker tournament and later that month held their first event. It was an invitation only event, which featured some very well-known professional poker players as well as some...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 20, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Daniel Negreanu, Peter Eastgate, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Tom Dwan, Illari Shahmies, Barry Greenstein and David Benyamine were all at the table once again this week on High Stakes Poker. In the first hand, Daniel Negreanu raised it to $2,500 Ad7d. Doyle Brunson,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 12, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Sunday, March 8th brought episode two of High Stakes Poker on GSN. There was plenty of action on this week, with Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Peter Eastgate being involved in some of the biggest pots once again. This week’s episode featured the same players as...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 11, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Tom Dwan, known online as Durrrr, has been pretty prominent in the first two episodes of High Stakes Poker’s 5th season. Although it’s hard to know exactly how each player is doing because only a select number of hands are shown, Dwan seems to be right at...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 7, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The trend continued in the first week of March as Patrik Antonius once again dominated the Hold’em tables. Just six days into the month, the Finnish poker pro is already up over half a million dollars. The first huge pot went down between Antonius and Tom Dwan in a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 6, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
High stakes online regulars Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan got together this afternoon for a show of complete gambling degeneracy, a series of two flips worth $400k each. Both players bought in for the max on Dwan’s very own $500/1000 deep heads up PLO table and proceeded to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 28, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond was the best on the poker tables this week, picking up nearly $300,000 in winnings over the past seven days. A large amount of the winnings came from multiple battles with Gus Hansen, but Galfond also fleeced a number of the top online...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 25, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The much anticipated premier of High Stakes Poker, Season 5 begins this Sunday, March 1st on the Game Show Network. After last season there had been some question about whether there would even be a season 5. However, to the delight of High Stakes Poker fans, GSN...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 24, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The first week of the Tom “Durrrr” Dwan challenge has come to an end. After some big swings Dwan finds himself up nearly $150,000 (or slightly under 4 buy-ins) on Patrik Antonius. The swings have been huge, as are the stakes. In the end one of these two...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 20, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Over the past month, Gus Hansen and Hac Dang (trex313) have been battling heads up constantly. So far, the matches have been swinging vastly in the direction of Dang. However, yesterday, Hansen finally had the upper hand during the match and managed to pick up a solid...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 18, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
After months of anticipation, Patrik Antonius and Tom “Durrrr” Dwan have started playing the “Durrrr Challenge.” A few months ago Tom Dwan challenged the entire poker world (all but Phil Galfond) to a 40,000 hand heads-up match in either NL...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 12, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Residents of the second largest country in the world have reason to feel cheerful today, after the announcement of the 2009 Canadian Open Poker Championships. The event will be held from May 13th to 17th at the Stampede Casino in Calgary, Alberta. The COPC has...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 3, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
As the month of January came to a close it was Gus Hansen and Patrik Antonius who emerged as the big winners so far this year. Hansen was at the top in Omaha with slightly more than $3.8 million in winnings, while Antonius sat at the top in Hold’em, winning over $1.75...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 28, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Online poker behemoth PokerStars has announced the addition of two members of the fabled ‘November Nine’ to their roster of sponsored pros. Dennis Phillips and Ylon Shwartz, who finished 3rd and 4th in the 2008 WSOP main event respectively, have officially joined up...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 26, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Gus Hansen continued to tear up the high stakes pot limit Omaha tables at Bovada this weekend, picking up another $1,000,000 in profit to add to the over $2,000,000 he brought in last weekend. Gus would have to start out the weekend with a heads up match against...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 20, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Gus Hansen absolutely destroyed all comers on the Omaha tables this weekend. The swings were huge, but eventually Gus would reach over 2 million dollars in profit between Friday and Monday. The action packed weekend began on Friday evening with a heads up match...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 15, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
It was a tough Wednesday for Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan as he threw over $800,000 into the pockets of other players on the Hold’em tables throughout the day. His troubles began at 4:30a.m. in a hand against MR B 2 U SON. Dwan raised preflop to $3k and had MR B call from the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 10, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Life is good for the high rollers. Just ask PokerStars pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier. His biggest wins seem to come in the beautiful, serene surroundings of the Bahamas. Seems like a great reason for him to keep going back. Less than twelve months...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 10, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
For the second week in a row on NBC’s “Poker After Dark” a first-time winner was crowned. This week Phil Gordon outlasted an interesting group of talkative players including Phil Hellmuth, Cory Zeidman, David Grey, Gabe Kaplan, and Todd Brunson. ...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 10, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Ziigmund took a huge bite out of MR B 2 U SON Friday, winning nearly $400k after playing heads up on several tables for only half an hour. All of the action took place on mixed $500/1000 Pot Limit Omaha and Pot Limit Hold’em tables. The first big hand between the two...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 6, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
One of the best high-stakes players around, Tom “Durrrr” Dwan has issued an open-challenge to all high-stakes players. In a recent post Durrrr stated he will play anyone except fellow-pro Phil Galfond 50k hands of heads-up No-Limit Hold’em or...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 6, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
One of the best high-stakes players around, Tom “Durrrr” Dwan has issued an open-challenge to all high-stakes players. In a recent post Durrrr stated he will play anyone except fellow-pro Phil Galfond 50k hands of heads-up No-Limit Hold’em or...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 4, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
If you were keeping track of any high stakes action on Full Tilt yesterday, you would have most likely caught the epic three and a half hour long heads up battle between Phil Ivey and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan on Ivey’s own Thunderdome ($500/1000 Pot Limit Omaha) table. The...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 4, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Patrik Antonius had a nice time at the tables yesterday as he finished up nearly $300k in a session lasting just under an hour and a half. What was most likely to be the largest pot of the day began with Phil Ivey raising to $3k from the button. Antonius called from...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 3, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
There was definitely no shortage of high stakes action on the virtual felt at Bovada Poker this past year. We saw the largest ever pot broken several times. The current record is $723,938, set when Urindanger held pocket Aces versus Durrrr’s pocket Kings. The...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 3, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Gus Hansen’s 2009 began roughly this week as he dumped just over $250k while playing over the first two days of the year. Gus’ troubles began when he took on trex313 heads up on two mixed Hold’em/Omaha tables for an hour and a half. At the end of the match, Hansen was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 30, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
A new season of Poker After Dark began last night as six world-class players sat down to battle out in a winner-take-all $20,000 Sit-N-Go style tournament. The show typically has a weekly theme, and for the first week of Season 5 producers decided to go for a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 22, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
For an online poker site still trying to regain its credibility in the wake of cheating scandals and a starring role in a 60 Minutes expose, UltimateBet.com took a big step backwards over the weekend with hand number 1162170993. It appears that the one and only Phil...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 20, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
It was a great Friday for Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and not so great of a day for Gus Hansen, as Hansen managed to make Dwan over half a million dollars richer over a few sessions of poker. The two started off the day with a $150k pot. Gus Hansen was dealt AA and re-raised...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 17, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The race for Card Player’s coveted Player of Year award has come to an end, with John Phan at the top of the leaderboard. The contest, which tracks cashes in the world’s biggest tournaments throughout the year, has become one of the most prestigious awards...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 10, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Poker fans scouring the TV schedules for high quality professional play have long found their desires satiated by both Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker. Following the announcement last week that PAD would return with a new series in 2009, it has been revealed...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 8, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Sydney native Martin Rowe, 34, became the latest PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Grand Final champion. Rowe won AU$1 million as the top finisher out of a field of 476 entrants, all competing for a total prize pool of over $2.8 million. And, as if that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 8, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Live Poker Results, Online Tournaments, Poker News
The dust is still settling after the fiasco that was the PokerStars LAPT Nueveo Vallarta, and apparently some would like to pretend it never happened. To recap, at about 10:30 p.m. CT Friday evening, day 1 of the second event of the LAPT’s second season, play...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 8, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
It was a rough weekend for Finnish online poker pro Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies as he lost just over $1.3 million over the last three days. One million dollars of those losses came from a single four hour session at a $500/$1000 6-max no limit table. The session didn’t...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 4, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Recording for season five of one of televised poker’s finest shows has just wrapped up at the Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas. NBC’s Poker After Dark will air 13 new shows over thirteen weeks in 2009. Well known for its single table sit and go format,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 3, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
For the large number of poker pros who make their home in Las Vegas, the big tournaments at the local casinos provide top quality action without having to travel. For that reason, and many others, the Venetians regular Deep Stack Extravaganza has become one of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 1, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro and Tom “durrrr” Dwan are two names you see playing the highest of stakes on Full Tilt Poker all the time. This weekend the two decided to battle it out heads up on several tables more than once. By the end of Sunday though, only one would be...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 1, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro and Tom “durrrr” Dwan are two names you see playing the highest of stakes on Full Tilt Poker all the time. This weekend the two decided to battle it out heads up on several tables more than once. By the end of Sunday though, only one would be...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 29, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Poker fans get your bankrolls ready. Phil Helmuth has recently released a new line of poker inspired clothing, now available at his site, PokerBrat.com. Manufactured by the Poker Brat Clothing Company, the line features several different designs available in a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 26, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
A unique tournament has just begun in London, England. Gathering twelve of the game’s finest minds and biggest egos, the PartyPoker.com Premier League III looks set to host some of the most exciting poker action around. A mix of the old and new, the reserved and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 26, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
Full Tilt Poker just keeps adding to their stable of professional players and celebrity “friends of Full Tilt.” Recently, they announced the signing of a new “friend,” Randy Couture. Couture is a five-time Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 25, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Canadian native Daniel Negreanu took down this year’s British Columbia Poker Championships Main Event at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, B.C. Ranked as the second-largest poker tournament in Canada, the championship consisted of five events, three of which...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 22, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The price to play high stakes poker just went up. GSN announced that for season five of their hit show, High Stakes Poker, players will be required to buy-in for a minimum of $200,000. Last season, the regular buy-in was $100,000, although they did have a few...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 22, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
All the high stakes action was on the Omaha tables yesterday, where Omaha specialist Ziigmund managed to pick up slightly over a quarter million dollars. There was even several heads up matches between Ziigmund and Full Tilt red pro Brian Hastings (who has proved his...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 18, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Things are not very rosy around Cycalona “Clonie” Gowen these days. One of the few prominent female professional poker players, Gowen filed a lawsuit against her former employer Full Tilt Poker, one of the biggest online poker rooms. The suit was filed in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 17, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Patrik Antonius continued an amazing November this weekend as he netted almost half a million dollars between Friday and Sunday on the Hold’em and Omaha tables at Bovada Poker. Aside from picking up almost $500k, Antonius also showed that he may well be the dominant...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 10, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Poker pro Patrik Antonius has to be very happy after just the first week of November, as he is up slightly over $1.3 million dollars on the Hold’em and Omaha tables since the beginning of the month. Antonius has taken some huge pots off of just about every opponent he...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 8, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
On Friday night, there was once again an action filled night at the Full Tilt Poker high stakes tables. This time there were no huge winners, but they still managed to stir up some big pots. Phil Ivey, David Benyamine, and Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro were the only three...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 3, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
High stakes online poker player LarsLuzak had what most people would consider a great weekend, logging just over $825,000 in winnings in a little more than 13 hours of play. This of course translates to a respectable hourly rate of around $63,500. Another interesting...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 1, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Gus Hansen had a good week on the tables this week, booking almost a million dollars in winnings in one day. Over half of the winnings were on the Hold’em table, but a large portion also came from playing Omaha. Gus’ biggest win of the week came against fellow Full...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 26, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
It was a crazy night at the high stakes tables on Full Tilt Poker last night. Many of the nosebleed stake tables were buzzing with action most of the night, but RailHeaven lived up to its name as it saw the record for biggest online pot fall…multiple times. Tom...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 10, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
In an effort to capitalize on the success of its recent large scale tournament in Macau, the Asian Poker Tour has signed up three of the region’s most exciting young players as its ambassadors. J.C. Tran, Nam Le and Quinn Do have all signed on the dotted line to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 20, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
You might think that a man who’s broken countless world records, has more gold medals in one Olympic Games than any other person, has more golds in his career than any other person ever, and who is undoubtedly one of the greatest sportsman ever to have lived...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 14, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The stage is set for another mammoth cash game with the news that Party Poker’s Poker Den: The Big Game is to return for a third series. The program, which features a pro heavy marathon cash game, is also upping the ante – increasing the game’s...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 4, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
Think you have what it takes to play Team Full Tilt’s Patrik Antonius? Now you have the chance to find out with Full Tilt’s One on One with Patrik Antonius. The winner of the prize package will receive one on one poker instruction from Patrik Antonius...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 1, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
High Stakes Poker has a home for its fifth season. However, that home is the same place it’s been for the first four – The Game Show Network, also known as GSN. While the World Poker Tour will no longer be on GSN, High Stakes Poker will be staying. High Stakes Poker’s...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 25, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
The summer is halfway over, and as often happens this time of the year, live tournaments are in a bit of a lull. The 2008 World Series of Poker is all over, except for the final table of the Main Event, which won’t be going down until November. The next seasons of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 17, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
On June 1, Full Tilt proudly announced its newest addition to the elite Team Full Tilt – Patrik Antonius. With his outstanding record and achievements, it’s no wonder this rising star was asked to join Team Full Tilt with the legends of Andy Bloch, Allen...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 24, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WSOP
Phil Hellmuth and Milwaukee’s Best Light have announced a unique partnership designed to promote this years World Series of Poker. 12 Million cans featuring three different likenesses of the Poker Brat himself are to be produced to coincide with the start of...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 16, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
In what appears to be quite a strange move, the Game Show Network has yet to renew their contract with High Stakes Poker. The show has become quite popular over the years, with pots worth houses being the norm, featuring some of the best cash game players in the...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 9, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Things appear to be quiet on the tournament front, but looming in the distance is the monster known as the World Series of Poker. The 39th Annual World Series of Poker is set to kick off on May 30th – three weeks from now – with a $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 3, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WSOP
Yesterday, the WSOP Circuit Event in at Caesars Las Vegas came to an end, as an extremely tough final table convened. The $5k buy in event attracted 334 total entries, with 36 players getting paid. Here were the stack sizes going into the final table. Ben Fineman:...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 28, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Victoria Coren, a professional poker player out of Britian, has been signed by Team PokerStars. Coren is currently holding down the tenth most earnings all-time for women. She also serves as a commentator for “Celebrity Poker Club” run out of England....
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 28, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Victoria Coren, a professional poker player out of Britian, has been signed by Team PokerStars. Coren is currently holding down the tenth most earnings all-time for women. She also serves as a commentator for “Celebrity Poker Club” run out of England....
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 23, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
World Poker Tour Enterprise Inc have announced that they have finally settled the lawsuit filed against them by several well known professional poker players in July 2006. The case concerned the player release form which the WPT used, where the players claimed that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 16, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT
With 15 WPT cashes to his name, Erik Seidel finally his first WPT title after winning the WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic. Seidel outlasted a field of 345 players and entered the 6 handed final table with a commanding chip. The action on the final table last nearly 12...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2008 | EPT, High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Relative unknown, Jason Mercier from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, captured the title of the European Poker Tour San Remo on Saturday, outlasting 700 other players for the biggest win of his young career. In the biggest poker tournament to be ever held in Italy, each...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 7, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
This has been a simply huge couple of days in the tournament scene, with big names frequenting the high buy in preliminary events at the Five-Star World Poker Classic at the Bellagio, while we near the end of the road at the Foxwoods Poker Classic. The EPT San Remo...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 2, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
In recent years, we’ve seen various successful sports stars try their hand at poker with mixed success. Most notably we’ve seen former World No. 1 tennis player, Yevgeny Kafelnikov switch to poker, who made a series of impressive finishes at the World Series of Poker...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 26, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
English professional poker player, Neil Channing, managed to outlast a field of 667 players as he blitzed his way to winning the 2008 Irish Open held at Dublin’s City West Hotel, taking home Euros 801,400 ($1,260,000 USD). Channing was rampant, as he entered...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 19, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
Recent WSOPE runner up, John Tabatabai, has proved that he is more than just a flash in the pan by taking down the 12th All Africa Poker Tournament. The tournament held in Piggs Peak, South Africa, also included local hero, Raymond Rahme in the line-up, who is best...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 12, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Most people in the poker community are likely now aware that Gavin Griffin recently took down the 2008 Borgata World Poker Tour event, making him the first player to win a World Series of Poker event, a European Poker Tour event, and a World Poker Tour event,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 12, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
On Sunday, Huck Seed finally got got his hands on a major heads-up title by winning the 2008 Canadian Open Poker Championship in Calgary, Alberta at the Deerfoot Inn and Casino. Seed has made a string of cashes in major heads-up tournaments in recent years without...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 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 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 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,...
