by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 1, 2010 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Poker tournaments in January certainly saved the best for last as huge prize pools and first-place pay outs dominated the online poker scene yesterday. PokerStars first upped the ante with a $2,000,000 guarantee in the Sunday Million and FullTilt quickly followed suit...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 18, 2010 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
There was a noticeable downturn in attendance throughout the Sunday Majors last week. I speculated the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure had a lot to do with it, and that hypothesis was backed up by a boom this weekend. Seeing the biggest boost in attendance was the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 11, 2010 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
An interesting dynamic occurred this past weekend as online tournaments on PokerStars seemed to battle with one of their live events, the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure whose main event is still running. While the Warm-Up and Million remained unaffected it seems...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 10, 2010 | Live Poker Results, Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars
Only 24 players are left of the initial record-setting 1529 hopefuls that showed up in Atlantis Resort and Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Ryan ‘g0lfa’ D’Angelo is no stranger to this blog, and once again he makes an appearance, this time...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 6, 2010 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Happy New Years to all the Sunday Tournament Report readers. With 2009 being such a strong year for online tournaments, one can only hope 2010 will be able to match last year’s huge prize pools and big pay-outs. The first tournament weekend of the new year...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 28, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A record-breaking weekend of online poker tournaments is in the books. Yesterday PokerStars took it upon itself to break the record for biggest online poker tournament with their $1 buy-in $300,000 guaranteed turbo event. Nearly 150,000 players entered the event,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 21, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online tournaments keep churning towards 2010. FullTilt bolstered online attendance this weekend by running a smaller buy-in tournament series, Mini FTOPS XIV. The series allowed players with smaller bankrolls a chance to play for big prizes as even some $10...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 14, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
As 2009 comes to a close it seems online tournaments are on the rise. After successful WCOOP and FTOPS events, both PokerStars and FullTilt seem to be having no problems filling up their major weekend tournaments. At one point earlier this year every event seemed to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 8, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another strong day of Sunday tournaments has come to an end. This week could have been titled the week of the pro, as many big name players made deep runs in online pokers biggest events. It seems all of the majors reached and exceeded their guarantees, a good sign of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 1, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A big day is in the books, as both PokerStars and FullTilt continued their impressive runs towards the end of 2009. Both sites have seen huge boosts in participation over the past few months, which is a great sign for the new year. Couple this with some encouraging...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 23, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Heading into a holiday weekend it might have been easy for the biggest online tournaments to slip a bit. However, coming off of a major tournament series and a record-breaking day on PokerStars, online tournaments across the board continued to crush their guarantees....
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 17, 2009 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another day gone by, another FTOPS event in the books! This time it was the FTOPS XIV Event #22: $2,500 + $120 Super Stack NLHE. 938 hopefuls showed up of which only 90 cashed; just 6 of them took home prizes well into the 6 figures! The final table went down as...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 17, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With FTOPS XIV coming to a roaring finish, this past weekend was chalk-full of big buy-in huge guarantee tournaments. Both FullTilt and PokerStars completely dominated the online poker scene, as the FTOPS Main Event and the Sunday Million both cleared $2,500,000 in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 11, 2009 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another day in the books, another FTOPS event gone by! This time it’s the FTOPS XIV event #13: Hold’em No Limit Shootout 6-max Deepstack $300+$22. Tonight’s event was hosted by the acclaimed pro David “The Dragon” Pham, who has many accolades in the many tournament...
by carlcarlsoniv | Nov 11, 2009 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News, WSOP
The WSOP Main Event has already come and gone. The final table started with 9 players who would play 17 hours until the last two were left standing. The biggest story coming into the final table was Phil Ivey’s presence. Despite being short stacked, many felt if...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 9, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A big weekend in online poker tournaments has come to an end. Bolstering tournaments across the board was the start of FTOPS XIV, FullTilt’s bi-annual tournament series. There were three events finishing up late last night, for more thorough reports on Events...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 8, 2009 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another day gone by, and another FTOPS Event in the books! Today we had the pleasure of witnessing the action of FTOPS XIV, Event #7: $100+$9 R/A. Tonight’s event was hosted by Bruno Stefanelli, a relatively lesser known Italian pro poker player with an impeccable...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 2, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The first day of November proved to be quite a big day for online poker tournaments. Those remembering to set their clocks forward did not have to wait an extra hour for the early-bird events. The Sunday Warm-Up started a big day of tournament action, and the event...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 26, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another Sunday, another huge day of major online poker tournaments. Both PokerStars and FullTilt manged some big days today, as every single major easily eclipsed their guarantees. The recent “upswing” in entries is a welcome sign after quite a lull...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 19, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another Sunday, another huge day of tournaments on PokerStars and FullTilt. Both sites had successful days, as every tournament was able to reach its guarantee, a great sign for the future. FTR would be remiss not to mention a smaller event, won by former FTR writer,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 12, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another solid Sunday of tournament action is in the books. Attempting to make up for a sub-par Sunday last week, PokerStars was in full swing as the majority of their major events easily eclipsed their respective guarantees. The Sunday Million continued its struggles,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 5, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online tournaments took a bit of a hit yesterday, as a bunch of the major events failed to hit their guarantee. Coming off of two Major series (FTOPS and WCOOP) FullTilt and PokerStars had to be hoping for a better showing in October. Perhaps the start of the NFL...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 29, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Fresh off an extremely successful 2009 WCOOP campaign, PokerStars was looking to see some big improvements in their Sunday majors. Well, while all of the tournaments managed to reach their guarantees, there wasn’t quite the same boost that FullTilt received from...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 22, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The WCOOP came to an end late Monday night (or earlier this morning for some) and the Main Event did not disappoint. The $5,2000 buy-in tournament amassed a huge $10,720,000 prize pool. Other events finishing up Sunday and Monday were the $10,000 HORSE, the $1,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 22, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
They say poker is a game of luck. Someone should have gotten that memo to Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, who not only demonstrated that poker is a game of skill, but also demonstrated that he has the necessary prowess to take down his second bracelet of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 19, 2009 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News, WCOOP
When all was said and done, only one remained, and it happened to be a seasoned vet among the PokerStars pros. ElkY showes us how it is done, by taking down the PokerStars 2009 World Championship of Online Poker Event #38: $530 1R1A NLHE. This event exceeded its...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 15, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With only one week remaining in the 2009 WCOOP PokerStars set out for another record-breaking Sunday. Three big events, headlined by the $25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Championship, were scheduled for Sunday. Events 26 and 28 also took place, with the $1,000+$50 two-day...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 15, 2009 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
Another day gone by, and another great event in the books! This time it was the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) event #27, $25000+$500 USD Hold’em No Limit Heads-Up. That’s $25 THOUSAND DOLLARS to buy in, so you could be assured that the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 15, 2009 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
Another day gone by, and another great event in the books! This time it was the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) event #27, $25000+$500 USD Hold’em No Limit Heads-Up. That’s $25 THOUSAND DOLLARS to buy in, so you could be assured that the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 13, 2009 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
Another day gone by, and another great event in the books! This time it was the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) event #24, $500+$30 USD Hold’em No Limit Heads-Up. 1564 hopefuls showed up for a night of extremely deepstacked poker, to determine...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 8, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With the WCOOP in full swing this past Sunday was a bit different than other weeks. The typical events, including the Million, Warm-Up, Second Chance, and $500k were all replaced by WCOOP Events. The Million was replaced by Event #9, a $200+$15 event which gained...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 31, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
After an extremely poor showing last week, PokerStars managed a huge comeback this Sunday, crushing guarantees in their five biggest tournaments. The Sunday Million saw a huge rebound, with nearly 9,000 players joining the weekend’s largest tournament. With the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 24, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This past Sunday saw a sharp drop-off in major tournament attendance since the conclusion of FTOPS XIII. Many of the tournaments that had been crushing their guarantees lately failed to even come close to enough entrants, forcing PokerStars to pay-out nearly $40,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 17, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
FTOPS XIII came to an end yesterday, and with it a huge day of tournaments commenced. Both the FTOPS Main Event and $2500 two-day event were slated to finish Sunday and both produced exciting finishes. The first event finishing yesterday was the $2,500 two-day event,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 16, 2009 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another day gone by, and another FTOPS Event in the books! Today we had the pleasure of witnessing the action of FTOPS XIII, Event #22: $2,500 NLHE 6-MAX Deep. Tonight’s event was introduced by one of the three players in the entire Poker World who actually...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 12, 2009 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another day went by, and another FTOPS event is in the books. Yesterday’s event was the FTOPS XIII Event 13, $300+$22 NLHE Deepstacked ShootOut. It was hosted by TheHendonMob’s Barney Boatman. Tonight’s event was a triple shoot out, which means it...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 10, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With FTOPS XIII in full swing, this past Sunday was filled with huge tournaments and enormous prize pools. Online tournaments are on fire lately, with every single major on FullTilt and PokerStars crushing their respective guarantees. For more in depth coverage of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 9, 2009 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another day gone by, another great FTOPS Event in the books, another yellow shirt handed out. One of the most prestigious online poker tournaments in existence, Full Tilt Poker’s own Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XIII is currently underway, and we just...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 3, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another huge weekend of online tournaments is in the books, and once again every major tournament on FullTilt and PokerStars managed to reach their guarantees. While this is normally a great sign, it is even more welcome as FTOPS XIII sets to kick off later this...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 27, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
July is turning into a great month for online tournaments, with this past Sunday building on last week’s success. Every tournament managed to reach their guarantee for another week, which is a great sign as FullTilt approaches yet another Online Poker Series...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 20, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A record-breaking Sunday led to huge tournaments yesterday. It all started with FullTilt announcing their attempt to break the world-record for the biggest online poker tournament. The $5 buy-in was capped at 50,000 players, which took little time to fill. FullTilt...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 13, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online tournaments are rebounding nicely after a three-week WSOP lull. With only a few hundred players remaining in the Main Event, plenty of the world’s best tournament players focused their efforts on major online events hosted by PokerStars and FullTilt...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 6, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With the WSOP finally winding down (the Main Event started Friday) online tournaments looked to pick back up this weekend. While tournaments were down across the board during the WSOP, online poker usually gets a nice boost after the WSOP and once the newest episodes...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 30, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
PokerStars was looking to find a way to bolster their tournament attendance during the world series. What they came up with was a special VPP Promotion getting 4x the amount of VPPs to those playing in their Sunday Majors. Most regulars were skeptical whether or not...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 25, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker Law, Poker News
SAN FRANCISCO — The European Union recently took a shot at the United States in little-noticed trade war over internet gambling, charging that the United States unfairly interferes with internet gambling in ways that run contrary to World Trade Organization rules....
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 24, 2009 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Greg Mueller’s name is very familiar to this blog. Numerous times FBT has made it deep in many online tournaments, particularly in the FTOPS. But this time he took it down in the real world too. Mueller, who is an ex professional hockey player, is no stranger to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 24, 2009 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Greg Mueller’s name is very familiar to this blog. Numerous times FBT has made it deep in many online tournaments, particularly in the FTOPS. But this time he took it down in the real world too. Mueller, who is an ex professional hockey player, is no stranger to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 22, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The World Series of Poker finally put a big dent in Sunday tournament action as attendance was down across the board yesterday. PokerStars saw the writing on the wall last week dropping its guarantees in the $215r and Second Chance. However, they failed to foresee...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 20, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars, WSOP
Angel Guillen. Angel Guillen. Angel Guillen. Repeat it 1,000 times until you can remember this name. Angel Guillen, a young poker pro from Team PokerStars Mexico has shown the world what exactly it was the management at PokerStars saw in him when they recruited him to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 15, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With the World Series of Poker Main Event quickly approaching PokerStars took the opportunity to run the largest WSOP satellite of all-time. All in all, 233 players earned a seat to the main event through a $370 qualifier which created a $2,807,350 prize pool. ...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 8, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
While last week saw a nice boost in entries across the board, online tournaments finally felt the effects of the WSOP as every tournament struggled to reach their guarantees. For reports on all the major WSOP Events be sure to check out the FlopTurnRiver News...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 7, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WSOP
Tons of big names showed up for this one, including Hellmuth, Clouthier, McEvoy and Channing. But a relative unknown went home with the biggest money prize, the bracelet and the bragging rights. Anthony Harb came on top of the field of 1,646 each of whom paid $2,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 7, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WSOP
Ken Aldridge came out victorious after what is considered to have been an epic (as in time consumed, not flashiness or entertainment or skills displayed) HU battle with Carman Cavella, to win the bracelet in event #9 of the 40th edition of the World Series of Poker....
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 7, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WSOP
When all was said and done, Travis Johnson was the last man left standing out of a field of 2,791 hopefuls in the 2009 WSOP Event #7, $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em. The total prizepool for this event came in at just under $4,000,000. Brandon “any2cantu” Cantu...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 1, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With the WSOP in full swing some might assume that online tournaments would see a big drop in attendance. However, that was not the case as May came to an end with a big bang. Not only did the majority of big tournaments reach their guarantees this past Sunday, but...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 25, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With one Sunday before PokerStars big Porsche giveaway, tournaments saw their lowest participation in a long time. Only three of the eight majors reached their guarantee including the Warm-Up, Brawl, and Mulligan. The Sunday Million saw quite a drop in attendance,...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 18, 2009 | FTOPS, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Here are the results for the Full Tilt Poker FTOPS XII Event#13: NL Hold’em Knockout with Superstack. Basically, you will get a $20 bounty for every player you knock out of the tournament. It is also a superstack event, which means that there is a ton of play...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 18, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With FTOPS XII coming to an end this Sunday there was quite a buzz around FullTilt Poker. For once it seemed PokerStars would not have the biggest Sunday online. FlopTurnRiver is covering all of the major FTOPS events including the Main Event which ended tonight. ...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 12, 2009 | FTOPS, Online Tournaments, Poker News
j__thaddeus Takes Down FTOPS XII Event#13 — Double stacked 6-MAX NLHE Shoot Out Another great FTOPS event is in the books, and we have another big-money winner. Today was a particularly special one, because it was a double stacked 6-max shootout event; essentially a...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 11, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With FTOPS XII in full swing this week’s Sunday Tournament Report will be more of a focus on PokerStars happenings. For those looking for FTOPS updates, please check out the FlopTurnRiver news section for write-ups on the bigger events. It took a bit of a...
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 4, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With another FTOPS looming this past Sunday served as a bit of a warm-up for all the online tournament professionals. Be sure to check flopturnriver.com for daily updates on all the major FTOPS events. This week some big names made deep runs in bigger events and,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 27, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The end of April brings a few special twists to the Sunday Tournament Report, most notably the PokerStars monthly Turbo Takedown. The $1,000,000 guarantee event can only be bought into with 5000 Frequent Player Points (FPPs) which players earn playing in real-money...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 20, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The first week after a major tournament series can go either ways, sometimes tournaments gain popularity and see a nice boost in attendance. Other times, however, tournament entries see a bit of a drop-off with players taking a week off after such a grueling set of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 13, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With Easter Sunday coinciding with SCOOP, some wondered how much of a hit PokerStars’ Main Event and $25K HU Event would take attendance-wise. Fortunately for the site the majority of the SCOOP events made their guarantees while their normal Sunday tournaments...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 6, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With the Spring Championship of Online Poker now in full-swing on PokerStars this week the Sunday Tournament rotation looks a bit differently. PokerStars still ran their Sunday Warm-Up, Second Chance, and $215r. However, the Million and Sunday500 were replaced by...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 5, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
Okay guys, here I am presenting you a tournament recap for all 3 SCOOP Event 5s, both in the low buy-in spectrum, medium buy-in spectrum, and high buy-in spectrum. Event 5 is special, because it was a shootout event. A shootout event is just like a SNG, where the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 30, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Sunday tournament participation continues to waver as the last week before the much anticipated SCOOP series on PokerStars commences. This past Sunday there was a large amount of big names making deep runs in Sunday Majors. PokerStars saw a nice increase in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 23, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
For the first time in a while, online tournaments saw a bit of a drop in participation this week. Perhaps it could be players “resting” up for the looming SCOOP Series on PokerStars. The “Spring Championship of Online Poker” will have buy-in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 16, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another big day of online tournaments is in the books. This Sunday, tournaments continued their recent trend of full participation with all tournaments reaching their guarantees. It seems even in times of economic trouble that poker is able to withstand and even...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 9, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online tournaments were back in full swing this weekend as the major events on PokerStars and FullTilt kept building off recent successes. With FTOPS XI in the books and SCOOP looming next month, tournaments could have seen a lull in participation. However, this...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 7, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The first round of the NBC Heads-Up Championship Event concluded yesterday as the field of 64 became the field of 32 after a grueling day of play. There are four regions in the 64-man bracket, named after the suits in the deck, diamonds, spades, clubs, and hearts....
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 2, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars
PokerStars announces changes to its VIP Program. PokerStars, world's largest poker site, just announced some changes to its already successful VIP Program. Basically, it entails that you will have to sweat less at the lower levels in order to get to the nice rewards.
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 2, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
February was a great month for high-stakes tournament action. With FTOPS XI providing the online world a huge boost as well as PokerStars 25 billionth hand promotion, the tournament world saw a huge boost in participation. Looking to grow off the momentum,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 23, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
There was a noticeable drop in participation in some of the Sunday majors this weekend as many players may have taken some time off after a long FTOPS XI run over the past two weeks. As always, the PokerStars Turbo Takedown was one of the bigger highlights on the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 16, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With FTOPS XI coming to an end there were a bunch of big buy-in, large guarantee poker tournaments running Sunday. PokerStars upped the ante by making their Million a $2.5M Guarantee (typically $1.5M) and the Sunday Warm-Up a $1.25M Guarantee (typically $750k...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 13, 2009 | FTOPS, Online Tournaments, Poker News
vadka Takes Down FTOPS XI Event#19 — Deepstacked 6-MAX NLHE Shoot Out Another great FTOPS event is in the books, and we have another big-money winner. Today was a particularly special one, because it was a deepstacked 6-max shootout event; essentially a deepstacked...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 12, 2009 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
ITS BILLIONS I’M TELLING YOU! 25 BILLION! Have you been playing on PokerStars? If not, here is what you have been missing out on. PokerStars is having a 25 Billion Bash, and everyone is invited to join the celebration! Just over 18 months after their 10...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 9, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This Sunday saw a huge boom in online poker tournaments. With FTOPS XI now in full force there was a ton of guaranteed money up for grabs. Three FTOPS Events plus the Sunday Mulligan highlighted FullTilt’s day. PokerStars continues to see improved...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 8, 2009 | FTOPS, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another great FTOPS event is in the books, and we have another 6 figure winner. Bruce Buffer, the brother of famed ring announcer Micheal Buffer, who is quite famous himself too as a UFC ring announcer and several other endeavors including poker and WSOP, was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 5, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WSOP
Every year, the WSOP begins with a circuit event in the Grand Casino Tunica in Tunica, Mississippi. At these events you do not win bracelets. Instead, you are given a ring if you are crowned a winner. The WSOP Circuit event is a series of smaller poker tournaments...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 2, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
One of the problems with having a big line-up of Sunday tournaments every week is that once in a while a bigger horse comes to town. This week the Super Bowl brought tournament entries down significantly, even forcing some sites to lower guarantees for this week...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 2, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Outlasting a field of 261 other players, Neil Arce was able to take home the first place prize of $185,000 from the 2009 Asian Poker Tour Philippines. The final table commenced yesterday at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Manila. 40 countries were represented by the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 28, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
More and more are we seeing people coming to the conclusion that poker is a game of skill. Most recently, a judge in the state of Colorado has ruled that poker as we know it is indeed a game of skill and not luck. This happened for the second time in exactly as many...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 26, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another Sunday chalk-full of big buy-in tournaments is in the books, and this week some big names were able to find their way near the top of major online poker events. With FTOPs XI looming (early February) the only special event this weekend was the PokerStars...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 25, 2009 | EPT, Online Tournaments, Poker News
The European Poker Tour Season 5 Deauville came to a close today as 28-year-old Moritz Kranich of Germany walked away with the €851,400 first place prize. Kranich beat out a field of 644 other players, also looking for their slice of the €3,096,000 prize pool. It...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 22, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
PokerStars will not allow its players to keep partaking on the popular television poker show, Poker After Dark. This means that we will not be seeing any of Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Joe Hachem, The Fossilman, Vannessa Rousso, Marcin Horecki, Victor Ramdin,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 20, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WPT
Well, well, it seems we already have a can’t-miss event on our hands. If you heard a part of the entrants list of the 2009 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic, you’d know what Jizzy is talking about. Already scheduled to play in the event are Allen...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 20, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WPT
Well, well, it seems we already have a can’t-miss event on our hands. If you heard a part of the entrants list of the 2009 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic, you’d know what Jizzy is talking about. Already scheduled to play in the event are Allen...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 19, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online tournaments appear to be gaining momentum as this Sunday was another big day with many tournaments easily exceeding their guarantees. The major attraction of the day was the Full Tilt $1,000,000 guarantee tournament. This $500+$35 buy-in event took the place...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 12, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Both major US Sites looked to build on the momentum from the new year and carry it into their major tournaments this past Sunday. With FTOPs looming around the corner there were no “special” events from the two sites; however, that did not stop tens of...
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 5, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
First of all, HAPPY 2009 from the STR! The last week of 2008 was a historic week in online poker tournaments, and many sites looked to build on that momentum in 2009 yesterday. PokerStars continues to hit its guarantees in the $1.5M Sunday Million, $750k Sunday...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 4, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Like the age old saying, “the 11th time’s the charm,” Mike Matusow finally took down a Poker After Dark episode, winning this week’s “close but no cigar” contest. Matusow played a lengthy battle against Andy Black, but would...
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 1, 2009 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Upcoming Live Tournaments from Poker-Stars.com Have you had time to recover from your end of year hangover? I sure hope so. Now get to work to earn your right to play in these: PCA Your favorite poker stop in the Bahamas is almost good to go. The PokerStars Caribbean...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 31, 2008 | Live Poker Results, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Bellagio, the prestigious casino of legendary renown and fame, thanks also to its prominent featuring in the Ocean’s Eleven motion picture and non-fictional live hosting of regular high stakes poker games, will be celebrating new years eve and also new years day...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 31, 2008 | Live Poker Results, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Bellagio, the prestigious casino of legendary renown and fame, thanks also to its prominent featuring in the Ocean’s Eleven motion picture and non-fictional live hosting of regular high stakes poker games, will be celebrating new years eve and also new years day...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 29, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A HUGE day of online tournaments took play yesterday as PokerStars was determined to end 2008 with a a bang. Not only did Stars add $1,000,000 to its Sunday Million Prizepool, run their end of the month Turbo Takedown, but they also attempted (and succeeded) to break...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 23, 2008 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Have you been playing on PKR lately? No? Well, here is one reason why you should! PKR.com, the most innovative poker room on the internet today, is launching a generous Christmas offer to keep its customers busy and happy during the holiday season. Dubbed the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 23, 2008 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Have you been playing on PKR lately? No? Well, here is one reason why you should! PKR.com, the most innovative poker room on the internet today, is launching a generous Christmas offer to keep its customers busy and happy during the holiday season. Dubbed the...
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 22, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With only two Sundays left in the year, FullTilt decided to “up the ante” and take its biggest tournament, the $216 buy-in $750k gtd and make it a $530 buy-in $1,000,000 guarantee. The tournament, as well as all other majors, had a nice turnout, easily...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 20, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WPT
If the name Chino Rheem sounds familiar to you, it’s for good reason. He was one of the “November Nine” – the final table of this year’s World Series of Poker. Rheem finished seventh in the main event but wanted to be sure people...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 16, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
As we near the end of 2008, a historic year in online poker, it’s amazing to see poker’s progress even amongst great turmoil. Online poker has sustained itself through legislation, scandals, and negative press. Poker sites continue to offer huge...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 9, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Think Matchstick Men meets Worm from Rounders, just live. Scammers tried to get a Canadian man involved in an elaborate game of poker, and in this case it really was rigged. As far as we know, at least one tradesman from Victoria, Canada almost fell in the trap. As...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 8, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another Sunday is in the books with a lot of big names making nice runs in the majors. It seems every Sunday more and more big names are making their way to the top of these huge fields, and it is only a matter of time until a top-ranked Pro takes down a Sunday...
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 6, 2008 | Live Poker Results, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Play at the 2008 PokerStars LAPT Nuevo Vallarta tournament was suddenly stopped by gaming officials late on the first day of the event, leaving 89 players out of a field of 242 entrants wondering if they’d get to play on. The players were hurriedly ushered out...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 1, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The final Sunday of a month, one last shot for all the MTT grinders, pros, and fish alike to hit that one big score. With 10 tournaments boasting $50,000+ 1st-place prizes, it would be a wild and crazy day. There would be no short-coming of professionals on Sunday,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 24, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The state of online MTTs seems to be improving as another big Sunday went by with the Majors collecting momentum and gaining more and more entrants. This past Sunday was definitely one for the Professionals as a lot of big name players made final tables and went on...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 17, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With FTOPS coming to a roaring conclusion on Sunday there were plenty of HUGE tournaments being played. Not only did Full Tilt have a big day, but PokerStars continues to thrive after some recent tournament turmoil. There were four big tournaments on Full Tilt...
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 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WPT
Although it hasn’t gotten the same publicity as the World Series of Poker, there was another major live tournament that just wrapped up. The World Poker Tour held their World Poker Finals this year at the Foxwood Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. This...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 10, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
FullTilt threw a wrench into our normal Sunday plans with the tenth installment of their Online Poker Series, known as FTOPS X. Instead of their normal lineup, players could find two FTOPS events and the Sunday Mulligan. Event #8 was a $300+$22 buy-in, $1.5M...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 3, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
October was not only a sour month for the economy, it was also a down month in terms of online MTTs. Tournaments had trouble meeting their guarantees as attendance as a whole was dropping severely. Hopefully the month of November offers a large turnaround in this...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 27, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another Tournament-filled Sunday is in the books, and with tons of large guarantees and six-figure scores available there were plenty of tournament grinders on hand looking for that one big score. This is the last Sunday of the month, and with that brings a few...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 24, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
We’re one week from the end of the month which means that the leaderboard for October on Bodog Poker is getting serious. Who has taken the lead this week and is that lead safe? Read on to find out! We need to take a look at last week’s weekly leaderboard...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 20, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A big day in tournament poker is over, and with even bigger prizepools and large fields, this past Sunday was one to remember. FullTilt upped their $215 buy-in $750k Guaranteed Tournament to a $535 buyin $1,000,000 Guarantee. PokerStars’ new tournaments are...
