by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 11, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
On Sunday we so a lot of familiar faces in the winners circle. Full Tilt had a $1,000,000 guarantee this week rather than 750k because of the FTOPS VII, and it was won by none other by well known pro Erick Lindgren. He was the one who hosted this event and scored...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 11, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The lesson for this weekend is “Never Give Up” Saturday I played in a few $2 SNG’s at FTP, all in all I was down about $2 after playing in 6 of them. That makes one 1st place, and 1 3rd place (the rake took the rest). So not too good for the day. ...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 10, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
I grew my bankroll around 30% last month and ended up going on a downswing once we walked into February. Nothing too major but it was pretty much eating into my entire profits. One major factor however was the fact I took a swipe at 10NL. Now that’s a big jump...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 6, 2008 | Online Tournaments
Played a measly 1,007 hands two tabling .25NL. Was up $60 then $40 back up to over $60. Played within the system very well, had a couple fish catch flush’s on the river. Lost the minimum on one because he checked it to me when he hit!!! Another I got reraised...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 6, 2008 | Online Tournaments
Mission: Make money, build up bankroll, move up stakes After playing on and off over the past couple of years on a couple different sites I have never lost a buyin playing poker. I have taken $20 to over $1500 on two different sites. All of this was while learning. ...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 4, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Super Bowl didn’t seem to have a very large affect on the turnout of the big Sunday’s this week. In the richest tournament around, the Poker Stars Sunday Million, a player named Volcano360 won a solid $180,000 for his victory. He edged out Wildman75, who received...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 4, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Hi Everyone, (Ok, hello to those who stumble in here accidentaly) This was the first weekend with me starting over. And I’m pretty happy. Now know that when I started on Saturday I had about 19.00 in my FTP account. This is not where I wanted to be, but that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 2, 2008 | Online Tournaments
Friday night I came home from work, was sitting around after going out to dinner with my family and decided to play a $1.00 SNG on FTP, so I got into one, 9-handed Turbo. Started off ok, folded bb hand and sb hand with crap. Next hand… Dealt 7d Qh in Button...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 28, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Poker professionals crowded the final tables this week. Brian “Sn8wman” Hawkins, ranked in the top 100by pocketfives.com, won the Poker Stars Sunday Million for a cool $278,000. High stakes HU and 6 max cash game regular Suck My Ace received 6th for about $62,000. The...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 21, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
In the biggest Sunday tournament of them all, Poker Stars’ Sunday Million, StudMaverick took down the slightly higher than normal $212,000 top prize at a final table of amateurs. In the Sunday Warm Up, Murmelpapst received first for over $100,000. WestmenloAA was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 14, 2008 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A player ironically named Mr. Wrong had everything go right for him last Sunday, winning the Poker Stars Sunday Million for just over $200,000. In the Warm Up, midstakes cash game player TheFan83 took down the top prize of $104,000, while another midstakes cash game...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 8, 2008 | Online Tournaments
The headline of this weeks Poker Stars Sunday Million was tournament pro Mkind0516, who battled it out with FTR’s Sauce123 in the Super Stack series ME at TurningStone; he received 5th place for about $42,000, $200,000 was the prize for winner giorango. The Sunday...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 7, 2008 | Online Tournaments
This is what my last few months profits have gone towards…
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 31, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Poker Stars Sunday Million was a $1,000 buy in this week, and with nearly 2,000 entered 1st prize was nearly double the norm: $350,000. It was won by amateur Mighty_L, in third was Tulkaz, a professional from Denmark, who scored $126,000 for his respectable...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 24, 2007 | Online Tournaments
In the biggest Sunday tournament around, Romanoff11 scored the near $200,000 first prize in the Poker Stars Sunday Million. Not so far behind was low stakes cash game regular littlepotato in 2nd, who earned just over $100,000. The Sunday Warm up paid nearly $100,000...
by givememyleg | Dec 20, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
It was the last game of the season on Wednesday night, and there were still 14 people who had yet finished going all-in. There isn’t much excitement position wise, because JM has been the winner for the past few weeks, but there was still some interesting turn...
by givememyleg | Dec 17, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Just 2 games left in season 6 of the Gauntlet, and in game 23 we saw more people retire. 12 in total came to play, which is actually more than I had thought would show up, and we had a lot of donking around. If you are not sure what the Gauntlet is, be sure to click...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 17, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A new Sunday tournament was introduced this week on Poker Stars. A high stakes $5200 buy in winner take all freeze out featured top online professionals such as Gigabet, MezemerizePLZ, ADZ, as well as others including Barry Greenstein entered the event, however...
by givememyleg | Dec 13, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Game 22 of the gauntlet said goodbye to 4 more players, and hello to quite a few as well. Why they decide to start playing with 3 games left I don’t know, but there was definitely a lot more action than usual in this game! If you are not sure what the Gauntlet...
by givememyleg | Dec 11, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
It was NFL Sunday and only 13 people showed up for Game 21 of the Gauntlet. With a lot of players seasons coming to an end, I suspect these last few games will have a pretty low turnout. If you are not sure what the Gauntlet is, be sure to click on the word “Gauntlet”...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 7, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Wheeee it’s time for a blog. I’m 19, a student of percussion at college :D, oh and I suck at poker. November was terrible for me. It was such a potentially good month but as the 2k roll I needed to move up to 100NL got closer, I decided to cash out $700 ...
by givememyleg | Dec 6, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With only 5 games left, many people have reached the end of their Gauntlet VI tournaments. Game 20 said goodbye to one more and said hello to a few others. If you are not sure what the Gauntlet is, be sure to click on the word “Gauntlet” to find out and register....
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 4, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Poker Stars Sunday million reached just over a 1.3 million dollar prize pool and had nearly 200k up for grabs for first place. No poker pros could be found at the final table, which cleared the way for amateur BigBossM to take down top prize. No names also won the...
by givememyleg | Dec 3, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
It was game 19 of the 6th season of the Gauntlet, and everyone came ready to spew chips left at right. If you are not sure what the Gauntlet is, be sure to click on the word “Gauntlet” to find out and register. Basically, it is FTR’s own private league where we donk...
by givememyleg | Nov 29, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Game 18 in season 6 of the FTR Gauntlet kicked off on Wednesday Nov 28, and everyone was ready from some fast action! If you are not sure what the Gauntlet is, be sure to click on the word “Gauntlet” to find out and register. Basically, it is FTR’s own private league...
by givememyleg | Nov 29, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Well it has been a while since the last Gauntlet summary has been posted. My apologies for that, I was out of town for games 14/15 and did not have a chance to view 16 because of the holidays. However I plan on resuming these for the rest of the year! If you are not...
by givememyleg | Nov 13, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
We are now over the half way hump in Season 6 of the FTR Gauntlet! If you are not sure what the Gauntlet is, be sure to click on the word “Gauntlet” to find out and register. Basically, it is FTR’s own private league where we donk around and have fun. You will see in...
by givememyleg | Nov 10, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
It is mid-season here at the FTR Gauntlet. Game 12 of 24 hit the felt on 11/7 and 19 players felt they were destined for victory. If you are not sure what the Gauntlet is, be sure to click on the word “Gauntlet” to find out and register. Basically, it is FTR’s own...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 8, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Pokerstar’s Sunday Million final table consisted of all amateurs. WhatArunAA eventually pulled out the win for about $180,000. At one point late in the tournament, Pappiri had a gigantic chip lead. So large that at one point he lost 3 hands in a row for 4 million...
by givememyleg | Nov 5, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Flop Turn River’s Gauntlet ran this Sunday on 11/4 for game 11. If you are not sure what the Gauntlet is, be sure to click on the word “Gauntlet” to find out and register. Basically, it is FTR’s own private league where we donk around and have fun. You will see...
by givememyleg | Nov 1, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This is the first of many future Gauntlet summaries. If you are not sure what the Gauntlet is, be sure to click on the word “Gauntlet” to find out and register. Basically, it is FTR’s own private league where we donk around and have fun. You will see...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 13, 2007 | Online Tournaments
Thought I’d post these for entertainment. Here’s September so far http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f193/d_b0d/Septembersofar.jpg Here’s a 25 day span from Early July to Early August....
by carlcarlsoniv | Sep 5, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
So here we go, with the advent of the new Blog system, I will chronicle my ups and downs of going pro on a measly bankroll and playing the SSHE poker game. To update the less informed, I lost my job on Aug 10th. My position was absorbed mainly due to the rise of the...
