by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 27, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
It has been recently announced that poker professional, Antonio Esfanidiari, will join the World Poker Tour as a representative for the WPT Poker- Made Million. The Poker-Made Million currently comprises of an exclusive group of 84 players, who have become self made...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 20, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
Following last nights Scandinavian Poker Awards, the teen sensation, Annette Obrestad managed to take home a trio of awards for the Norwegian Golden Hand, Best Female Poker Player and Best Performance of The Year (WSOPE 2007) award. Obrestad made history in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 13, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Nick Slade, a 45 year old English professional poker player from Preston, England, has marked a remarkable personal comeback by making winning the PartyPoker European Open IV, and taking home $200,000 for first prize. This is a remarkable achievement considering that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 4, 2008 | EPT, High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
Barely even able to drive, and often not even able to legally buy alcohol, players no older than high school graduates are sweeping the tournament scene. They are constantly feasting upon tournaments in countries other than the United States, a country where they...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 29, 2008 | EPT, High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
The Borgata Winter Poker Open is coming to a close as the Main Event is heading into Day 3, with the L.A. Poker Classic starting, the EPT in Dortmund looming, as well as the World Series of Poker Circuit stop in Rincon just beginning. Despite having a great structure,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 24, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
In 2007, Barbara Enright was the first ever woman elected into the Poker Hall of Fame. In 2008, she will be one of the first women elected into the Women’s Poker Hall of Fame. The news that the Ladies International Poker Series (LIPS) will be founding this new...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 24, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
In 2007, Barbara Enright was the first ever woman elected into the Poker Hall of Fame. In 2008, she will be one of the first women elected into the Women’s Poker Hall of Fame. The news that the Ladies International Poker Series (LIPS) will be founding this new...
by givememyleg | Jan 22, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Live Poker Results, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
It has been a positively sick week, with another millionaire made in the poker world, and two other main events of series going on. The Aussie Millions have come to a close, the WPT World Poker Open is heading into Day 2, and the World Series of Poker Circuit in...
by givememyleg | Jan 21, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The NBC Heads Up Poker Championship has become one of the most prestigious tournaments of the year. Professionals, celebrities and some lucky amateur players start looking forward to this single elimination massive field, and the fame that comes with winning. This...
by givememyleg | Jan 16, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Live Poker Results, Poker News
Howard Lederer has taken down event 9 at the Aussie Millions taking home over $1.2 AUD. Along with 24 others, Howard stumped up $100,000 to enter this event, so it’s not surprising that only the very highest rollers paid to play in this event which included Phil Ivey,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 13, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
With the recent establishing of the World Poker Ladies Tour (WPT L), which I spoke about in my Wednesday article, I thought I would begin my new “Hottie of the Week” post with a WPT winner, an advocate of women’s-only poker events, and a member of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 13, 2008 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
With the recent establishing of the World Poker Ladies Tour (WPT L), which I spoke about in my Wednesday article, I thought I would begin my new “Hottie of the Week” post with a WPT winner, an advocate of women’s-only poker events, and a member of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 9, 2008 | High Stakes Rail
Poker player David Pham brought his superb year to a close by winning the Poker Player of the Year aware 2007. The 41 year old finished ahead of the likes of JC Train (2nd) and Jonathan Little (3rd). Pham’s successes has includes his recent win, Event 8 of the Five...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 28, 2007 | High Stakes Rail
Following a bad run of cards with playing on Full Tilt Poker over a month ago along with a reported loss of over $6 million, David Benyamine announced that he’d had enough of Full Tilt and vowed that he would never return. However, Benyamine was spotted making a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 23, 2007 | EPT, High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
Another year of poker is in the books, and despite many fears that have arisen in the last fourteen months over the future of the game we all love, but this year has shown that our game is still strong. It has been another historic year for poker, as the game still...
by givememyleg | Dec 19, 2007 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
The players tossed chips around for the final time on High Stakes Poker. Episode 17 was the final episode of the season, and so far it has been a very interesting one. I’m not sure how it stacks up to season 3, but we will see after the final episode is over....
by givememyleg | Dec 17, 2007 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
It was just announced today that David “The Dragon” Pham has won the Card Player’s POY race. It was determined he had clinched the title when Jonathan Little was eliminated from the WPT Doyle Brunson Classic, as he was the only player who could have...
by givememyleg | Dec 12, 2007 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
This is the second to last episode of season 4 in High Stakes Poker. I hope this season goes out with a bang and we actually see a $1 million+ pot, instead of deals being made! Last week’s episode wasn’t as good in comparison to episode 14, but it...
by givememyleg | Dec 6, 2007 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
When it comes to poker, David “Chip” Reese was as good as it gets. If you were to ask anyone who the best player in the world was, Chip’s name as atop of the list for many people. He was more than respected by all of the top professionals, he was...
by givememyleg | Dec 4, 2007 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
We are at episode 15 in season 4 of the highest cash game on television! The High Stakes Poker season 4 has been the best by far, and last week’s episode 14 was the best of the season. This 500k minimum buy-in has really made things interesting and we got to see...
by givememyleg | Nov 29, 2007 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
It is still the $500,000 minimum buy-in for season 4 on High Stakes Poker and the action so far has been intense. However, being that this is pretty much the half way point I am sure we are very close to seeing that $1,000,000+ pot. Judging by the previews last week,...
by givememyleg | Nov 20, 2007 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
If you watch High Stakes Poker every week like I do, you probably have loved what the $500k buyin has done for the show. For starters, it is just simply amazing staring at over $5,000,000 on the table, and also we got to see the biggest pot in televised history; an...
by givememyleg | Nov 20, 2007 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
High Stakes Poker continued their $500,000 minimum buy-in with episode 12 on their 4th season. This show featured the same players at the start of the $500k; Antonio Esfandiari, Sammy Farha, David Benyamine, Patrik Antonius, Guy Laliberte (amateur poker player, he is...
by givememyleg | Nov 7, 2007 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
If you like watching High Stakes Poker, here is the episode you could not wait to see. On 11/5, GSN aired the most anticipated episode of HSP yet, the $500,000 buy-in! Every player that bought in had to buy-in for at LEAST a half million dollars, and some did for more...
by givememyleg | Oct 30, 2007 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
On 10/29, GSN aired the 10th episode of the 4th season of High Stakes Poker! After you saw Gabe and AJ arguing, they went to the felt. It had the same players seated as last week (Eli Elezra, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Jennifer Harman, Brandon Adams, Sammy Farha,...
by givememyleg | Oct 29, 2007 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
This is the 9th episode of High Stakes Poker and there are the same players as last week for episode 8. (Eli Elezra, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Jennifer Harman, Brandon Adams, Sammy Farha, Jamie Gold, and Phil Galfond). The first hand of the night starts off with...
