by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 23, 2015 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
Jaime Staples answers questions about his personal life and professional pursuits in this fascinating AMA summary. With an audience of more than 1,000 regular viewers, Staples continues to live stream his online poker play on Twitch.tv while interacting with his viewers throughout each broadcast!
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 13, 2014 | Poker Editorials
If you know someone who leaves and breathes online poker, then sooner or later you might encounter him somewhere beyond his workplace. Not only that, but it might be his birthday or Christmas! If you did remember that you should buy a present but have no idea what to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 5, 2014 | Online Tournaments
Borgata will introduce its online poker tournament series, the Garden State Super Series in September, 2014, while it is hosting the Borgata Poker Open in its Atlantic City-based casino. Borgata will be streaming coverage of two events in the Borgata Poker Open for the first time.
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 3, 2014 | Online Poker News, Poker Law
In a surprising move yesterday, the Russia government announced that it will consider legalizing online poker in Russia. The move came after multiple inquiries of Kaha Kahiani, the president of the „League of Poker Fans“ to the government, where he stressed the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 26, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
After a weekend of Viktor Blom riding the rollercoaster of variance, and putting in some serious volume, yesterday saw him take a more sedate pace, but we don’t think that was all his choice. With his highest limit game being a $1k/$2k FLO8 game lasting only 12...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 25, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
It seems I picked the wrong weekend to take some time off. It seems that Viktor Blom has been doing his impersonation of a rollercoaster, and has plummeted from a massive $570k profit on the 22nd, with an equally impressive $687k loss on the 23rd, followed by a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 16, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
So, yesterday, I was AWOL, and I know I promised you all some exciting action from our Swedish Hero. Sorry it’s a little late, I wasn’t hauled off by hit men hired by Mr Blom, and I wasn’t abducted by aliens. More I can’t tell you, but I do...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 1, 2013 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
We’ve all dreamt about turning a cheap satellite to major event, and turning it into a fortune. We could then really show our skills, and play with the big dogs. Well, SennaBoris79 from Russiadid just that. He turned $27 into a ticket for the TCOOP Main Event,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 22, 2013 | Poker News, TCOOP
It’s that time of year again where it all goes crazy, and we all start talking about Turbo Tournaments with massive Prize pools. It must be time for TCOOP 2013! Over the weekend, we saw TCOOP Events #09 to #19, and we have all the results for you here at FTR....
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 11, 2012 | FTOPS, Online Poker News, Poker News
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series XXI continued today with a whopping three events. All three events continued the streak of prize pools surpassing the Full Tilt guaranteed amount. Event #19 was a Pot-Limit Omaha High/Low, Knockout, Super Stack tournament with a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 11, 2012 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
After being locked out of the American online poker market and paying hundreds of millions to the Department of Justice, PokerStars is now eyeing a purchase that could grant them a strong foothold for re-entering the US market. The Wall Street Journal first published...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 2, 2012 | Press Releases
Full Tilt Poker will re-open its doors on November 6, 2012. Poker players will have access to the money they had in their accounts on Black Friday and can benefit from many of the poker room’s new promotions and freerolls. Pros, Gus Hansen, Viktor Blom and Tom Dwan will represent the site.
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 6, 2012 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Today, Bodog.co.uk closed it’s doors for new players on a fairly long list of countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Hungary and Bulgaria. Current players will be able to play at the casino like always, but the site is no longer accepting new customers. Current...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 24, 2012 | Nebraska, Poker Law
Just yesterday, the five members of the Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously agreed to give South Point Casino a license to legally operate a real-money, intrastate poker website. The event is historic because it marks the first time that a license of this sort has...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 14, 2012 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently posted a notice on their website seeking a third party “Claims Administrator” to help with the Full Tilt Poker remission procedure. The DOJ estimates that there are many as 1.3 million “potential US victims” who...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 26, 2012 | Nevada, Poker Law, Poker News
When Nevada’s Gaming Policy Committee wrapped up its final meeting yesterday before the 11-member panel’s scheduled calendar break, the panel, led by Governor Brian Sandoval, had unquestionably positioned Nevada to become the first state to allow at least...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 19, 2012 | Poker News
By Wednesday, this had already been a busy week with regard to the presumably impending deal between PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Early in the week, three members of FTR’s board of directors, Rafe Furst, Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer, filed motions to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 10, 2012 | Poker News
After a week in federal custody, Ray Bitar, chief executive officer of Full Tilt Poker, was released on bail. After arguing last week that Bitar posed a flight risk and should be denied bail, the U.S. Attorney’s Office agreed to a deal that was approved by...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 2, 2012 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Following suit with other poker sites, players can now play a speedy version of poker on the iPoker Network. iPoker calls their version “Speed Hold’em Poker”, which is essentially identical to the old Rush Poker of Full Tilt and the recently released Zoom Poker from...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 29, 2012 | Delaware, Poker Law, Poker News
Just yesterday, Delaware Governor, Jack Markell, made his state the second in the nation to legalize intrastate online gambling by signing the Delaware Gaming Competitiveness Act of 2012, legislation also known as House Bill 333. With amendments drafted by members of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 22, 2012 | Nevada, Poker Law, Poker News
Just yesterday afternoon, Bally Technologies, Inc. received the first interactive gaming supplier license issued by the state of Nevada. Bally Technologies submitted its application for the license in October of last year, two months before Nevada became the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 12, 2012 | California, Online Poker News, Poker Law
In an unexpected turn of events, California Senate Bill 1463 was pulled from today’s meeting agenda. This bill would legalize and regular online poker within the state of California. It was expected to be voted on in the Senate Governmental Organization Committee...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 10, 2012 | California, Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
On June 12th there will be some additional changes to California’s online poker bill SB1463. The main change will require that license applicants must currently operate a brick and mortar card room or casino that offers poker. Other changes include reducing the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 8, 2012 | Nevada, Poker Law, Poker News
Founded in 1932, Bally Technologies, Inc. received a unanimous recommendation for an interactive gaming supplier license from Nevada’s three-member Gaming Control Board on Wednesday of this week. Bally Technologies is the first company to receive a...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 26, 2012 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
According to an email sent out by Mark Bryan, a gaming analyst at Merrill Lynch, the Australian government plans to legalize online poker sometime in the next six to 12 months. This move will coincide with a relaxation of other online betting restrictions, such as...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 21, 2012 | Illinois, Poker Law
When the Department of Justice issued its reinterpretation of the Wire Act in December of last year in response to the interest New York and Illinois had in selling lottery tickets via the Internet, the door was opened for Illinois to become the first state to offer...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 17, 2012 | Online Poker News, Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
Event number 30 of PokerStars’ SCOOP 2012 was action-packed and took surprisingly little time to determine the winners. It was a Turbo “SuperKnockout” 6-Max bounty tournament, in which half of each player’s buy in became a bounty on their head. This prize structure,...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 12, 2012 | New Jersey, New Jersey Casinos, Poker Law, Poker News
On Thursday, the Regulatory Oversight and Gambling Committee of New Jersey voted 3-1 (with one member abstaining) in favor of sending an online gaming bill (A2578) to a vote at the full Assembly. This is a good step forward for those in favor of online gambling in New...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 12, 2012 | New Jersey, New Jersey Casinos, Poker Law, Poker News
On Thursday, the Regulatory Oversight and Gambling Committee of New Jersey voted 3-1 (with one member abstaining) in favor of sending an online gaming bill (A2578) to a vote at the full Assembly. This is a good step forward for those in favor of online gambling in New...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 10, 2012 | Online Poker News, Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
Event #8 of the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) has concluded after many hours of play. This event was the “SuperKnockout” event, which featured a very large bounty on each player’s head. Most bounty/knockout tournaments put a small,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 28, 2012 | Live Poker Results, Online Poker News, Poker News
The second annual online tournament series iPOPS (iPoker’s Online Poker Series) kicks off tomorrow, Sunday April 29th, 2012. Hosted on the iPoker network, the series this year consists of five events of the course of the week, with a guaranteed prize...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 16, 2012 | Poker News
Just in time for the first anniversary of Black Friday, the Poker Players Alliance initiated a campaign to support a bill introduced by Texas Representative, Joe Barton. In his 14th Congressional term, Barton introduced a bill in June of last year that attempts to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 9, 2012 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
It appears that 888 will soon become a household name among poker and casino players. Despite many online poker sites being hit hard by Black Friday, 888 Poker did extremely well in 2011. Their poker site revenue increased 58%, the number of active customers increased...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 7, 2012 | Online Poker News, Party Poker, Poker News
Party Poker has unveiled plans to develop their own form of “Rush Poker.” This comes shortly after the successful release of PokerStars’ own version of the game last month. The announcement came during an interview of bwin.Party CEO Jim Ryan by the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 6, 2012 | Poker News
After four years of development, Face Up Gaming introduced its subscription-based poker website, FaceUpGaming.com, on April 1st of this year. Players are welcome to join the site for free or they have the option of paying a monthly fee of $24.95 for a Gold...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 2, 2012 | Poker News
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Nevada and the University of Hamburg indicates that Canadians are twice as likely to participate in a game of online poker when compared to Americans. The study also reveals that Canadians are just as likely to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 24, 2012 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News, Utah
In a pre-emptive move against the possibility of legalized online gambling at the federal level, Utah has become the first state to legally opt out. Yesterday, Governor Gary Herbert signed into law bill HB108. This bill excludes all Utah residents from gambling online...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 20, 2012 | New Jersey, Poker Law, Poker News
New Jersey State Senator, Raymond Lesniak, is sponsoring a bill that is similar to one rejected by the state’s Governor, Chris Christie, last year. If passed by both of New Jersey’s legislative houses, the current bill would make it legal for casinos...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 17, 2012 | Maryland, New York, Online Poker News, Poker Law, Utah, Washington
Last week, Bovada began blocking anyone from the states of Maryland, New York, Utah and Washington from creating a new account on their site. It has been said that Bovada will soon also start blocking existing customers from Maryland. Bovada is the rebranded name that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 30, 2012 | New York, Poker Law
A recent New York court ruling regarding the ancient Chinese tile-based game of Mah Jong may prove to have positive effects on the potential legalization of online poker. During Criminal Court Judge John H. Wilson’s ruling in People v. Feng, he declared that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 21, 2012 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
Authors of the most popular poker app, Zynga, have recently confirmed that they intend to move forward with plans to enter the real money online poker market. They are currently in talks with a number of different potential partners to make real money games a reality...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 16, 2012 | Full Tilt Poker, Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
Complaints are still rolling in to the Alderney Gaming Control Commission (AGCC) by disgruntled former FullTilt Poker players. The AGCC issued a statement to remind players that FullTilt Poker is no longer licensed by their organization, and thus are unable to help...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 12, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) spoke optimistically about the future of online poker in the United States last week at the Digital Gaming and Lottery Policy Summit. Barton believes that acting swiftly and decisively is the way to go. He was quoted as saying that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 5, 2011 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars
An astounding 200,000 people helped Pokerstars.com, the world’s largest poker site, to make history on Sunday December 4th by participating in the largest poker tournament ever. This event was part of Pokerstars’ ongoing 10th Anniversary celebrations. The...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 3, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
Last week, it was confirmed that the Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) came to an agreement to buy the Fulltilt name, assets and debts from the U.S. Department of Justice for a sum of $80 million. The agreement stated that the GBT would be responsible for paying back all...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 20, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
In a move that will be popular among multi-tabling players, the Cake poker network will now allow the use of Heads-Up Displays (HUDs) at their tables. Until now, Cake poker deliberately formatted their hand history files in a way that made it impossible to gather...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 27, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Titan Poker and Mansion Poker right now are giving away $100,000 in cash prizes and tournament tokens to players taking it to the limit! From October 31st – December 31st, play as many hands of Limit Hold’Em poker as you can to win your share of $100,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 24, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker Law, Poker News
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee for Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade will hold a hearing on online gaming tomorrow. Topics addressed in this hearing will include the safety of online gaming and likely a discussion of Congressman Joe...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 23, 2011 | bet365, Online Poker News, Poker News
Play Premium Table cash games to climb the Premium Cash Ladder for a chance to win up to $1,000 each week, now at Bet365! The Premium Cash Ladder offers an increase in cash bonus with every rung you complete, exclusive Bet365 Premium Tables, and searchable cash earned...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 22, 2011 | Online Poker News, Party Poker, Poker News
Party Poker’s inaugural Pokerfest series begins this Sunday. Pokerfest 2011 touts 47 events spread out over 15 days, with buy-ins ranging from points only to the $640 main event. The main event will run on November 6th, with a hefty $1 million guaranteed prize...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 21, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Donald Trump has formed a bold new partnership with New York hedge-fund manager Marc Lasry’s Avenue Capital, to operate an online poker site. This news, coming from Bloomberg, describes the partnership between Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. and Lasry Avenue...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 13, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News, PokerStars
Sunday is the biggest day on the online poker calendar. The time for every player great and small to plug into his nearest interweb terminal and sweat the Sunday Million. PokerStars’ flagship tourney has been drawing in the punters for years and continues to be...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 20, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker Law, Poker News
Manhattan’s U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, on Tuesday, called Full Tilt Poker “a massive Ponzi scheme against its own players.” The Department of Justice is now amending the legal papers of Black Friday to include new charges specifically targeting...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 15, 2011 | Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
This year’s World Championship of Online Poker is in full swing at PokerStars, with players from around the globe competing for awesome prize pools in exciting tournaments. We’re fast-approaching the halfway mark of the series, so a huge amount of cash has...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 7, 2011 | Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
With the swell of uncertainty that has billowed up around online poker in these past few months, there was a collective sigh of relief to see the familiar face of the WCOOP swinging into view. It was also invigorating to see an old adage be reaffirmed, with the winner...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 28, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
In the recent online poker meets Washington debate, we’ve often heard the terms intrastate and interstate being lobbed around. To clarify, intrastate poker would mean online poker players in California, for example, can play only against other players also in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 31, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
In a bizarre poker headline this week, American online poker pro Daniel Cates, who plays under the screen names Jungleman and w00ki3z, was denied entry into Canada. Cates was attempting to move to Canada to continue his online nosebleed play, as he posted on his...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 9, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Phil Ivey has taken an aggressive route to salvation. Attempting to emerge from the wreckage of Black Friday with his reputation intact, but has this gambit paid off? It all began with a law suit, demanding that Bovada pay out millions of dollars owed to their...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 2, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
The sorry saga that is Full Tilt Poker continues to rumble on, with news that the company’s former star player, Phil Ivey, has withdrawn his law suit against the site. However, hot on the heels of that reprieve comes another class action filing, this time aimed...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 1, 2011 | Poker News
Paddy Power Poker recently released it’s schedule for its live poker festival, the Irish Winter Festival. The festival will feature eight events and will be headlined by the €1,000 + €100 NLH Freezeout main event. It will take place over October Bank Holiday...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 7, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
In the most positive piece of news since Full Tilt Poker players from the United States had their accounts frozen following FBI indictments against Full Tilt, the site is claiming to have successfully regained access to a bank account holding significant funds. There...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 1, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News, PokerStars
PokerStars is without a shadow of a doubt one of the greatest online poker sites serving players on the internet today. In addition to many other great features, it is the king of tournament poker and if you’re an online tourney player then you’ll feel...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 24, 2011 | Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
PokerStars has continued to uphold and improve its reputation as the home of online tournament poker over the last couple of weeks as players from around the world have been competing against each other in the Spring Championship of Online Poker. Although player...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 18, 2011 | Poker Law, Poker News
Despite coming across as having a relatively neutral – if not thoroughly uninterested – stance towards online poker over the past few years as the issue came before congress, the American Gaming Association has come down in support of the legalization of...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 11, 2011 | Poker News, PokerStars, SCOOP
The poker landscape may have altered drastically since the last time PokerStars rolled out the tournament red carpet, but that hasn’t stopped them from presenting the very latest Spring Championship of Online Poker. Although U.S. players were noticeably absent,...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 9, 2011 | Poker Law, Poker News
April 15th, 2011 has become known as Black Friday in the poker community, the day on which the United States Department of Justice and FBI took to the online poker world in a big way, issuing indictments against eleven individuals and seizing bank accounts and web...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 5, 2011 | Poker Law, Poker News
It is no secret that the law as it pertains to online poker, or the lack thereof, is a complete and utter mess. The gray area of online poker legislation and that of regulation have been ongoing hot topics in the poker world for years, and since Black Friday those...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 2, 2011 | FTOPS, Poker News
As the first post-meltdown FTOPS draws to a close, onlookers can now get a good sense of the health of the online poker industry. Although guarantees and attendance were down overall, it seems like it was business as usual for high stakes tournament players in the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 30, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
After a pair of successful runnings, bwin is ready to unveil their third season of the Nations Cup. This particular event allows players from across the globe to show their national pride, competing with their fellow countrymen in an effort to prove who's the best.
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 28, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
PKR, the internet's premier 3-D poker room, had recently launched a software update which allows users to play in a virtual version London's Fox Poker Club.
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 27, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Although players from the United States are unable to play at Bovada Poker since the recent FBI indictment on April 15, Full Tilt continues to be the place to be for players from the rest of the world as the twentieth FTOPS is currently in full swing. We’re...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 26, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Poker is nothing if not resilient. Whether it be on the back streets of Texas or ethereal internet avenues, the game just keeps on trucking. Full Tilt is currently battling indictments in the U.S., having withdrawn their custom for that nation’s citizens, but...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 20, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
If you made a living grinding Stars from your swanky U.S. apartment, Friday’s indictments probably seem like the end of the world, but for a large swathe of the online poker industry, the news came as an unexpected boon. Most sites withdrew from America...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 19, 2011 | Poker Law, Poker News
Note *Non-US players (over 70% of total player pool) are still playing on Full Tilt and PokerStars normally at this time. Last Friday, April 15th, the United States Department of Justice launched an attack against three of the world’s largest online poker...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 19, 2011 | Poker Law, Poker News
Note *Non-US players (over 70% of total player pool) are still playing on Full Tilt and PokerStars normally at this time. Last Friday, April 15th, the United States Department of Justice launched an attack against three of the world’s largest online poker...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 19, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
In South Asia, cricket is more than a sport, it’s a national past time. Whatever the time of year, passion for the game is extremely high, but with the country having just hosted the World Cup, cricket-fever is at all time high. India battled to a glorious...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 18, 2011 | Poker News
Following their indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice, Full Tilt, PokerStars, and UB all stopped cash play for their American customers. The owners and operators of Absolute Poker were also named as defendants by the FBI, but kept their site open and active as...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 16, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News, PokerStars
In an effort to help as you huddle round the derelict burning oil barrel, let’s survey the post-apocalyptic wasteland as it stands right now. Yesterday the United States Department of Justice moved to indict the four largest online poker companies who offer...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 13, 2011 | Poker News
There’s a temptation when ranking women poker players to just go for the obvious. As a red blooded male who eats uncooked steak and drives 4X4s into cattle, the easy decision would be to rate lady cardsharps on how fertile their hips are. But did I mention that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 25, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News, WSOP
To poker newbies, watching thousands of people pack the Rio in Las Vegas for the $10,000 buy-in Main Event can be a confusing experience. Where did they all get $10k to blow on a poker tournament? Even if it is the most important event of the year? The answer is that...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 22, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Right now there are millions of dollars passing back and forth at online poker tables. In single pots, multi-millionaires win and lose their fortunes, trading bankrolls with competitors across the digital divide. This is the world of Zynga’s Texas Holdem, a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 21, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
The MiniFTOPS XIX Main Event is only hours away, but there are still a few side events of note to wrap up before the series reaches its climax. Over the weekend, the third and final Heads Up event took place. Event #42 cost $50 + $5 to enter, with a guarantee of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 11, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Wherever an FTOPS treads a MiniFTOPS shall follow in its wake. Probably not a surprise then, to see MiniFTOPS XIX cresting the hill just as its bigger brother has been and gone. The miniature series was conceived as a way for non-stacked players to experience the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 11, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Players with bankrolls of all sizes are hitting the online poker tables hard this week, as the Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series is now well underway. It’s been over a month since the beginning of FTOPS XIX which was an enormous success. Mini FTOPS XIX looks to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 4, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
If you understand what it means to hit a set on the flop, then it’s pretty safe to assume you’ve heard of Phil Hellmuth. The Poker Brat, winner of the 1989 World Series, is the most prominent personality in the game. His skills at the tables might have...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 28, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Somehow we have already nearly made it through the second month of 2011, and as March looms just around the corner the powers that be at Poker Heaven have announced their latest stream of promotions. As with every other month, players will enjoy a bunch of fresh new...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 22, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Casino News, Poker News
It’s a rising feeling in your gut, that travels up and sparks a light bulb in your brain. “I know what he’s got,” you think. “If I bet here, he has to fold. He just has to.” Seasoned poker players will tell that there’s...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 22, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Online Casino News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
The nineteenth Full Tilt Online Poker Series finally came to an end early this week, after an impressive 45 tournaments were played out. The series has been great for players and railbirds alike, with the giant guaranteed prize pools drawing huge crowds of players and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 22, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Online Tournaments, Poker News
The endurance of tournament players all around the world was being tested as the Full Tilt Online Poker Series started approaching its end with event 40. In addition to the constant lineup of actual events and satellites pushing the stamina of tournament players to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 17, 2011 | FTOPS, Poker News
FTOPS XIX hasn’t stopped rolling since February 3rd and shows no signs of slowing down. Last night, Event #31 became the latest tournament to enter the Full Tilt history books, with 729 players setting down the $500 + $35 entry fee. Each and every player who...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 15, 2011 | Online Casino News, Poker Law, Poker News
Arizona Republican Jon Kyl, one of online gaming's most vocal opponents, has announced that he will not seek re-election next year.
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 14, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Tournament action is getting as hot as it comes this month, as thousands of internet poker players from every corner of the earth meet at Bovada Poker to do battle in FTOPS XIX. There are a huge range of events to choose from, but for the massive crowd of players who...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 14, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
As far as online tournament series go, the FTOPS tends to be pretty accessible. The buy-ins encourage the best online poker players and healthy prize pools, without being prohibitive. Of course, there are always exceptions to that rule. Event #19 of FTOPS XIV was just...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 13, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Poker players young and old all around the world are sitting down at their desks and powering up their computers this month, as the poker action is getting hot on Full Tilt Poker. The nineteenth Full Tilt Online Poker Series is in full swing, and with serious amounts...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 8, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
The World Series of Poker is great and all, but wouldn’t it be better if there were four of them every year? The folks at Bovada certainly seem to think so. Their quad-annual online poker series is a mainstay of the tournament calendar that has pros and amateurs...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 4, 2011 | Online Casino News
A British man has been remanded in custody after pleading guilty to the theft of 400 billion virtual poker chips from the Facebook game company Zynga. The download free poker game does not allow players to gamble for money, but there is a lucrative, if legally...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 1, 2011 | Online Casino News, Online Tournaments
From time to time, everyone needs a helping hand. Full Tilt know this and so do Flop Turn River. These kind souls have got together to create a magnificent offer for all their members. If you’re the sort of person who likes free money, then you’ll like this. By using...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 31, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Even with the large number of online poker rooms operating on the internet today, Poker Heaven seems to manage to consistently lead the pack in terms of offering a constant stream of new and exciting promotions. January is coming around the close, and Poker Heaven has...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 31, 2011 | Online Casino News, PokerStars
For most of us, competing for thousands of dollars in front of huge TV audiences is little more than a pipe dream, but televised poker gives us a window into the high stakes world of the poker pro. Catching your favourite players as they whisk through the schedules...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 17, 2011 | bet365, Online Poker News, Poker News
bet365, one of the UK’s and the world’s leading online gambling sites, has a strong reputation for running excellent and frequent promotions. It seems like almost every other week a new announcement is made, offering great rewards to users of their online...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 17, 2011 | Poker News, PokerStars
Nordic poker fans have the chance for a dream come true, PokerStars announced recently, and if you’re a football fan as well then this could well be the opportunity of your lifetime. Members of Team PokerStars will be living it up large at the upcoming...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 26, 2010 | Poker News
After the busy rush that always comes before christmas, people all around the world now have the time to relax and enjoy a few lazy days doing whatever they please, and what better way to pass the time than playing at 888poker. As well as the huge array of regularly...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 26, 2010 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Traditionally the new year is a time for shift between poker sites, as players have either completed requirements for yearly bonuses at old sites and want to move on, or are gearing up for a year of solid grinding to make the most of certain poker room’s VIP...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 21, 2010 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
While things in the online poker world are starting to quiet down in terms of tournament series, the cash tables have been heating up and railbirds will have been delighted by the recent flurry of durrrr challenge sessions. Tom “durrrr” Dwan has sat across...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 20, 2010 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
The past several weeks have been completely action-packed for online poker tournament players, both serious and recreational. Full Tilt Poker has, of course, been hosting its latest MiniFTOPS following the recent conclusion of FTOPS XVIII, and the series enjoyed a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 18, 2010 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
The eighteenth Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series is slowly starting to wrap up and come to an end, but there are still a small number of events left to be played. Tournament players from all around the world are jumping at the chance to play for big guaranteed prize...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 16, 2010 | Poker Law, Poker News
It seems lately that legislation and regulation concerning poker is never far from everybody’s mind, as it becomes an increasingly hot topic and the subject of much debate. While it looks at this stage like recent efforts to achieve regulation on a federal level...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 13, 2010 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Tournament players all around the world are currently going crazy for the great value being offered to them by the generous tournament organizers at Bovada Poker. Although the main part of the latest FTOPS is now complete, the fun is far from over. We are currently in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 7, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
A little over six weeks ago, we reported that we had heard rumors from a Swedish poker player’s blog that “a famous Swedish High Stakes player” had signed a sponsorship deal with “a well known poker site.” Isildur1 was of course the first...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 6, 2010 | Online Poker News, Poker News
Titan Poker, one of the world’s leading poker rooms, has recently announced a whole host of new promotions which will brighten the days and evenings of many a poker player. As the days start to get shorter and the temperatures plummet, Titan Poker is launching...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 6, 2010 | EPT, Poker News, PokerStars
The poker world has been abuzz with news of online tournaments over the recent weeks, but live poker is by no means dead either, with major tournaments still being held all around the world. Spain’s second largest city of Barcelona was abuzz with exactly that as...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 1, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
It’s been a huge month for online tournament players, but as November came to a close so too did the PokerStars Regional Championships of Online Poker. Following closely on the heals of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, the PokerStars events gave tournament...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 27, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
The ESPN Poker Club has long been an excellent resource for poker fans on the net. From blog and columns to schedules and live coverage, they’ve been a solid part of the poker community, and really the only area letting them down was their very sub-standard free...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 20, 2010 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Tournament players have quite the life these days. It seems every month there’s a series of major live tournaments taking place in some beautiful city around the world, or heading online and enjoying the many daily and weekly guarantees offered by poker sites....
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 15, 2010 | Online Poker News, Poker News
If you’re an online tournament player then you’re going to need to free up a spot in your busy weekly schedule, thanks to this latest announcement by Tower Gaming. As if their current array of awesome tournaments and guaranteed wasn’t enough,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 15, 2010 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
November is looking like it’s going to be the tournament poker month of 2010. Not only have we seen exciting live tournament final tables from the likes of the World Series of Poker and the Partouche Poker Tour, but even online players are getting a taste of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 14, 2010 | Poker News
These days the fusion between live poker and online poker comes mostly with tournament players, as many online poker sites offer players the chance to win entries to major live tournaments through online play. Everest Poker is joining the party in this one with their...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 12, 2010 | Poker News
Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG and PartyGaming have released a joint statement, noting that their merger is still “on track.” The merger of the two gambling powerhouses would create the largest publicly traded online gambling company in the world. The...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 9, 2010 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad is a living legend of poker, especially amongst online tournament grinders. She narrowly missed out on adding yet another title to her belt over the weekend, as she placed second in the Sunday Mulligan at Bovada Poker, one of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 4, 2010 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Tom “durrrr” Dwan is never far from our headlines, whether he’s betting millions on a World Series of Poker bracelet chase, cleaning up on the various poker TV shows, battling the world’s best in the durrrr challenge or just experiencing major...
