by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2015 | Editorials
For most of us out there, poker is a fun (and hopefully financially rewarding) hobby, but at the end of the day, it’s exactly that: a hobby. While everyone has dreamed about turning poker into a full-time profession, usually it is something you play when you get home...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 14, 2015 | Editorials
Most poker pros grind hard to get ever higher up the stakes ladder and moving up to the highest stakes is an understandable dream of most poker players. What most pros don’t consider is that with great opportunity comes great risk of running into the downswing of a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 23, 2014 | Editorials
Heads up poker is considered by many as the hardest form of poker to master. Many players have made their fortunes in high stakes heads up battles. Even in the most popular poker themed movies, the highlight scenes are usually heads up cash games. With that in mind,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 13, 2011 | Poker News
Patrik Antonius, man, myth, model, took on Full Tilt Pro Brandon Adams yesterday in a best of three sets, cash tennis match. Antonius, coming into the match as the clear favorite, offered Adams big odds. If Antonius won the match he was set to take home $30,000, while...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 14, 2011 | Poker News
There’s been a lot of action in the online realm lately, with PokerStars continuing to push out withdrawals through the wires. Check out a few of the details below, plus some of the winners and losers so far this week. PokerStars Ships Big Money Thanks to an...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 5, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Despite the hugely disruptive effects of the events of Black Friday, online poker action continues to go strong, even at the effected sites such as Full Tilt Poker. Those players outside the US who are still able to play for real money at Full Tilt will find it is...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 26, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
In the wake of the banning of American players from the online poker scene, the Finnish have come to dominate the nightly action on PokerStars and Full Tilt. Perhaps no one player has been more successful than Patrik Antonius, who recently completed a $560,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 6, 2011 | Online Poker News, Poker News
For most of us, earning $4.9 million would be good enough to warrant a few days off at the end of the year. Dan “jungleman12” Cates, however, isn’t most of us. Rather than laying low as the hours ticked away toward 2011, Cates put together one of his...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 22, 2010 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
Brian “sbrugby” Townsend’s troubled career as a professional poker player has reached a new hurdle: a $2.8 million downswing. Since the start of 2010, Townsend has lost $1 million playing Omaha and $1.8 million playing HORSE, adding up to a massive...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 3, 2010 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Tom “durrrr” Dwan had a harsh weekend as he lost $667,473. His worst beats came at the hands of jungleman12 and Phil Ivey. These players beat him for $614K and $247K, respectively. Players like TheASHMAN103 and Jungleman12, on the other hand, had great weekends...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 1, 2010 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Action is heating up on Full Tilt’s high stakes poker tables as one of the most exciting matchups has resumed. After over a month without a single hand, the durrrr challenge is back on. Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan played 1,184 hands of Pot Limit Omaha today to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 3, 2010 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
77-year old Jerry Buss, who happens to own the Los Angeles Lakers in the way you and me would own a watch or a bottle of cologne (a very profitable watch or a bottle of cologne that is), decided to become a poker pro recently. Money could definitely not have been a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 2, 2010 | Poker News
All poker players have seen the name Isildur1 pop up during discussions of high stakes poker. He only began his Full Tilt Poker career recently but has already made a name for himself by taking on poker’s elite. Most poker players remember Isildur1 taking millions...