by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 22, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
On Thursday, Eric Baldwin took down PokerStars’ North American Poker Tour Los Angeles Bounty Shootout event, collecting the $134,280 top prize. The event was a shootout so it had a different structure than most tournaments. Play started with 81 participants and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 21, 2010 | FTOPS, Poker News
Full Tilt Online Poker Series XVIII has been winding down, but that did not stop Event #27 from getting lots of action! 1,122 players ponied up $515+20 to compete in this Super Turbo, Knockout, No Limit Hold’em tournament. The Super Turbo format has players...
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 18, 2010 | Live Poker Results, Poker News, PokerStars
On Wednesday, Joe Tehan battled his way to a first place finish at the $5,000 buy-in North American Poker Tour Los Angeles Main Event. In an astounding performance, Tehan eliminated all seven of his competitors at the final table, including Michael Binger and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 17, 2010 | Poker News
While the Asian Poker Tour Macau had a rather low turnout, the real story during the tournament has been the reported cash game Full Tilt Red Pros Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Chau Giang and John Juanda have been playing with some Chinese businessmen. The game has been taking...
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 14, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
PokerStars sponsors a great deal of tournaments all around the world during all parts of the year, and we’re getting towards the time when avid tournament players should start thinking about one of the hottest: The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Players who...
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 11, 2010 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Television poker has exploded in popularity over recent years with almost the same force as the actual game of cards itself. In the beginning we just saw coverage of tournament play, then the introduction of contrived Sit & Go tournaments with famous pros until...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 11, 2010 | Poker News
When one thinks of the biggest poker tournaments we see these days, the World Series of Poker is of course at the top of that list. However there are still a number of events around the world that come close to being as exciting, and it is in this category that the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 11, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
The world’s going crazy for poker these days, and we’re right there with them. One of the coolest things about poker’s increased popularity is the huge number of Poker TV shows being aired. It started off simple with just tournaments and then...
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 9, 2010 | Poker News, WSOP
If you make any attempt at all to follow the poker world, then you’ll know that the November Nine took their seats around the World Series of Poker Main Event final table over the weekend, and battled it out until there were just two players remaining. Jonathan...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 5, 2010 | Poker News, WPT
WPT Barcelona winner, Ali Tekintamgak, has been disqualified from the Partouche Poker Tour final table for cheating. The final table is set to start play tomorrow. Details are not yet known, but the Partouche Poker Tour reportedly has turned over video evidence and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 4, 2010 | Poker News
There aren’t a lot of details out about the film, yet, but it appears that a new crime movie based on a novel by George V Higgins is about to enter production. The movie is tentatively entitled “Cogan’s Trade” and will feature Brad Pitt, Mark...
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...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 2, 2010 | Poker News
UB, formerly Ultimate Bet, is one of the few online poker rooms which still holds its doors open to players from the United States of America. Of those that do, they’re arguably the most innovative room with heaps of cool ideas such as tables on which the famous...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 2, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
PokerStars is one of the leading poker rooms on the internet today, and the chief factors behind their large and ever growing user base are the solid programs they have set up to reward loyal players. Their VIP system has a umber of different levels, and so far in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 2, 2010 | Poker News, WPT
The final table has been set at WPT Foxwoods with Tom Marchese leading the way. Marchese, a high stakes online player known as “Kingsofcards”, is looking to add to his final table success after having won the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian Main...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 1, 2010 | Poker News
888poker recently launched entirely new 3D software for their poker platform, offering new graphics, improved lobby functionality and additional rewards for players. To celebrate this launch they ran an exciting promotion last month which put thousands of dollars up...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 1, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
You don’t tend to hear much about New Zealanders in poker, but the country definitely hasn’t been immune to the poker frenzy that’s been gripping the globe for the past few years. Probably our most notable success came when Lee “Final...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 1, 2010 | EPT, Poker News
The European Poker Tour Vienna Main Event has concluded this weekend, with the great stop being an awesome experience for everyone involved, and the main event no exception. As day four came to a close and the final table was set, it was Daniel Negreanu and his...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 31, 2010 | Online Poker News, Poker News
This week, PartyPoker made some big changes to their software. The non-US poker room added lots of new features for its players to enjoy. Party also claims the new software is more secure, faster and more reliable. Here are a few of the changes PartyPoker has made:...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 31, 2010 | Poker News
Poker Heaven has become known in the online poker community for their great array of monthly promotions which reward loyal users and attract a steady amount of volume to the site. November is no exception, and Poker Heaven has recently unveiled its newest collection...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 29, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
It seems that our news pages have been alive with information on Rich “nutsinho” Lyndaker and Ben “sauce123” Sulsky, two high stakes online poker regulars and prominent members of FlopTurnRiver. First it was their series of heads-up battles on...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 29, 2010 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
It couldn’t have been very many days ago that I was writing a totally different news article about Gus Hansen, after he’d had an appalling stretch at the Full Tilt online poker tables and dropped one and a half million dollars in just seven days, widening...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 29, 2010 | Poker News, WSOP
Day 4 of the WSOP Midwest Regional Circuit Event in Hammond, Indiana started with nine players battling for Midwest region poker supremacy. At the end of the day, though, only one player could be victorious. Triumphing over a final table loaded with poker pros, Jim...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 25, 2010 | Poker Law, Poker News
The battle for the legislation and regulation of poker has been a fairly hot topic over the recent months and years, and is sure to continue to be for the foreseeable future. For the most part, the debate takes on the issue of online gambling and online poker, but...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 23, 2010 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
Everyone’s favorite cash game poker show is back. The seventh season of GSN’s High Stakes Poker has been announced and will tape from November 18-20. While the lineup hasn’t been set, fans will surely be entertained, once again, by the high stakes...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 23, 2010 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
There’s been a flood of poker shows broadcast on television over the past few years, from coverage of massive tournaments to nightly Sit’N’Go’s and even some cash games thrown in for a bit of variety. The latest and greatest show comes broadly...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 23, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
We recently posted an article on prominent FlopTurnRiver member sauce123’s high stakes heads-up battles with the even more famous nutsinho over the recent weeks, but it seems sauce is feeling sharp against his game, as we’re back with another article on...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 21, 2010 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WPT
Randal Flowers, who plays online as “RandALLin”, has already made a name for himself in the online poker world. The 22 year old has already amassed 2 million in online tournament earnings. On Wednesday, he made a name for himself in live tournaments when...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 17, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
FlopTurnRiver has been serving the poker community with strategy articles, forums and many other resources for several years now, and many of our members have gone on to have great poker success stories. Recently, two of FTR’s most successful members have been...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 17, 2010 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Poker News
When you think of online poker, the thing that rouses the most excitement is probably the durrrr challenge. The shear amount of action involved and the quality of the poker being played is enough to get anyone’s heart racing, or it would be if any cards were...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 15, 2010 | High Stakes Rail, Online Poker News, Poker News
It’s possible we will be seeing Isildur1’s name in red, soon. Swedish high-stakes blogger Sohello “BankTheMan” Shah has reported that “a famous Swedish high stakes player” got sponsorship from a well known poker site. While the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 13, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
PokerStars has recently announced their newest tournament series, the Regional Championships of Online Poker or RCOOP. Following in the footsteps of its wildly successful predecessors, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and the Spring Championship of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 12, 2010 | Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Rail, Poker News
If you’ve been following our online poker news section, then you’ll know that Tom “durrrr” Dwan recently lost one million dollars in just one week. Not to be outdone, famous poker player Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen has turned around...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 9, 2010 | Poker News
Poker enthusiasts have a pretty sweet life these days, with poker so much in the mainstream that we’re seeing more and more television shows devoted to everyone’s favorite card game. There’s a whole range of different shows boasting exciting action...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 9, 2010 | Poker News
Poker has swept the globe in the recent years, becoming more common on our television, in our movies and of course on our computers. The explosion of online poker has been the most noticeable effect, as more and more players have enjoyed the luxury of not having to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 6, 2010 | EPT, Poker News, PokerStars
The European Poker Tour hit London over September and the beginning of October, finding its place amongst the myriad of other poker events also taking place. There were big cash prizes up for grabs, but not everybody was motivated by pure financial gain. As part of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 6, 2010 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Tom “durrrr” Dwan is one of poker’s hottest players, most known for his dominance of the online field. The internet poker superstar seems to be successful at every poker game he puts his hand to, and there are many who argue he’s the best...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 4, 2010 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Full Tilt Poker is probably the second largest poker room on the internet, and it holds its own through a combination of great software, great games and loyal players. Earlier this week it announced some highly anticipated changes to its reward program, but rather...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 4, 2010 | EPT, Poker News, PokerStars
London has been abuzz with poker this past month, but the action-packed weeks have finally come to a close with the conclusion of the EPT London Main Event today. As reported on FlopTurnRiver yesterday, only eight players remained at the close of day four, and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 3, 2010 | EPT, Poker News, PokerStars
London has been the poker capital of the world for the past month, with more big-name poker series, tournaments and festivals taking place in the city than you can shake a stick at. Among those, the EPT London stop kicked off five days ago and has been a great...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 3, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
Despite the uncertainty from lawmakers, you can be sure that online poker rooms will do everything in their power to keep the players happy, and internet poker giant PokerStars has shown that yet again, announcing changes to its VIP Club rewards system this week. The...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 29, 2010 | Live Poker Results, Poker News, PokerStars
It’s been an exciting week for poker in Argentina, as the Latin American Poker Tour stop in Rosario took place. The PokerStars sponsored event drew a solid number of hopeful entrants, and was eventually won by a very happy Martin Sansour. The Latin American...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 28, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
The World Championship of Online Poker has been taking place over the past few weeks at PokerStars, and has paid out a staggering amount of cash to the thousands of players involved. In the recent $10,000 8-Game Championship Event, there was more than just money on...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 26, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
The 2010 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker is currently underway, and host to a great variety of different events. Among the more popular are the two-day events being run, and one such tournament took place this week. APowers1968 proved he had what it...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 25, 2010 | Online Poker News, Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
The internet is alive with the sound of tournament poker. The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker has been taking place this month, offering poker pros and rookies alike a shot at their share of the staggering $50,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools. Thus far...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 25, 2010 | Poker News, WSOP
The poker spotlight has shifted across the pond this month, with the World Series of Poker Europe taking place in London. Hundreds of poker professionals and hopeful amateurs alike have been testing their skills on the felt over the past several days in a variety of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 20, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
Sundays are traditionally the biggest day in an online tournament player’s week, with the largest tournaments scheduled to take place. This week was no exception, with a $215 No Limit Hold’Em tournament sporting a $1.5 Million guaranteed prize pool taking...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 18, 2010 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
September is definitely the month to be a micro tournament player at Bovada Poker! While those players with a lot of time and deep pockets can find tournament action pretty much whenever they want to, for those of us a little more on the conservative side of things,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 17, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
Thanks to the poker boom, live tournament players have a huge host of series in beautiful locations around the world to choose from. While the scenery may not be as good for online players, the action and fun surely is, and it doesn’t get much better than the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 13, 2010 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
If you’re a microstakes tournament player then you’re probably struggling to get to sleep at nights this month. Either you’ll be staying up having run deep in an event, or you’ll barely be able to keep your eyes closed as you imagine all the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 9, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
The time has come once again to get on the virtual tables and earn those bragging rights, not to mention you share of the millions of dollars in prizes up for grabs. That’s right, folks. PokerStars is once again hosting the World Championship of Online Poker,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 7, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
If you take your poker seriously and live in Australia, New Zealand or elsewhere nearby then the rest of the year is looking good for you. The Adelaide Casino Poker Championship is kicking off at the end of this month, so you’ve definitely got something to note...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 5, 2010 | Poker News, WPT
London is the place to be this month for serious poker players, with the EPT, WPT, WSOPE and British Poker Festival all visiting the city throughout the course of September. The World Poker Tour London Event has just come to a close, and while it was a fantastic...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 4, 2010 | EPT, Poker News
Poker has truly hit Portugal, with the Vilamoura stop of the European Poker Tour taking place this week. It was an exciting week for portuguese poker as this tournament is the largest ever to be held within Portugal, and brings with it the promise of more poker events...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 31, 2010 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
When the durrrr challenge was announced it sparked a huge amount of excitement both in those who were going to be involved personally and in the fans that would get to watch the cards and the swings as pros battled it out for literally millions of dollars. The first...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 27, 2010 | Poker News
It’s not uncommon in the online poker world for sites to switch between different poker networks in an attempt to gain a larger player base and other benefits. It’s slightly more unusual for entire poker networks to change hands, but exactly that happened...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 27, 2010 | Poker News, WPT
It was an exciting time in Los Angeles this week as poker greats settled on the felt to battle it out at the World Poker Tour’s 2010 Legends of Poker. While a great time was surely had by all, the big winner on the day was Andy Frankenberger who walked away with...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 25, 2010 | Poker News
If you love poker and you’re in the United Kingdom then you should definitely head to London this September. Even if you’re further abroad, the trip is probably worth your while with the massive range of poker events taking place during the course of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 18, 2010 | EPT, Poker News, PokerStars
The European Poker Tour has kicked off once again, this time starting in Tallinn, Estonia. This is the first time the EPT has held a stop in Tallinn and it was a great success enjoyed by all, and an especially exciting time for Kevin Stani. The young Norwegian player...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 16, 2010 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series came to a close today, after running for nearly two weeks. It’s been a great series with a huge amount of money won, and there will be many tournament players now looking forward to a well-deserved break. This FTOPS XVII offered...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 12, 2010 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
You’d have to be living under a rock this past week to not have realized that the Full Tilt Online Poker Series is well underway and drawing huge crowds of young poker hopefuls to compete on Full Tilt. This is, of course, the seventeenth FTOPS and the biggest so...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 9, 2010 | Poker News, PokerStars
PokerStars has a reputation of being the best site out there, and as such has a very solid base of loyal players. One of the things PokerStars loves to do is reward that loyalty, and they’ve come up with another promotion to do just that, which will be running...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 9, 2010 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Online Poker News, Poker News
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series kicked off this week and is starting to get into full swing with Event 11 drawing the largest crowd of the series thus far. The FTOPS is a series of online tournaments hosted by Full Tilt every few months offering massive guarantees...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 2, 2010 | EPT, Poker News, PokerStars
Everyone who has watched poker on TV will have noticed that the top pros all seem to share a love not only for poker, but also for golf. If you happen to also share these passions, then PokerStars and the European Poker Tour have put together a tournament you’re...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 24, 2010 | Online Poker News, Poker News
The issue of online gambling is both complicated and contentious in today’s world, but we have recently seen a very interesting step forwards. The Canadian province of British Columbia has launched a government-run online casino this month, which is the first of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 16, 2010 | Poker News, WSOP
The World Series of Poker Main Event is starting to get personal for FlopTurnRiver as, with slightly under eighty players still remaining, our very own Mark Meloche is fighting for the bracelet. Day seven kicks off tomorrow and he’ll have no shortage of...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 15, 2010 | Poker News, WSOP
Things are definitely starting to heat up this week in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. With Day Five coming to a close, the pressure is now really starting to be felt by those remaining as their fellow players drop like flies around them. This...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 13, 2010 | Poker News
The Partouche Poker Tour Final will be kicking off in September and it looks like it’s going to be a great tournament with the winner walking away with €1,000,000. The kind people at bwin Poker are putting seventeen all-expenses paid packages up for grabs over...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 10, 2010 | High Stakes Rail, Poker News
In a surprising move this week, Peter Eastgate has announced that he will be stepping away from poker. Just twenty months after bursting into the poker limelight, the young pro has made the decision that soul-searching and introspection are called for in his life,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 5, 2010 | Poker News, WSOP
A star-studded line-up squared off on the felt over the past several days as the fourth ever Tournament of Champions took place at the World Series of Poker, leaving Huck Seed standing proud as the 2010 Champion of Champions. The original Tournament of Champions was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 4, 2010 | Poker News, WSOP
The World Series of Poker was abuzz today as 81 celebrities and poker professionals sat down together at the tables for an event not designed to award wealth or glory, but rather to support an excellent cause. This was the fourth annual Ante up for Africa tournament...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 3, 2010 | Poker News, WSOP
Another victory on the felt for online poker players took place this week as Ryan “gutshtallin” Welch took down his first gold bracelet at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, showing yet again that internet players are not to be taken lightly at the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 1, 2010 | Poker News, WSOP
Shawn Busse joined the ranks of the poker elite today, securing his first gold bracelet at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. The young player bested a large field to emerge the victor of a $1,000 No Limit Hold’Em event, earning him over $450,000 in prize...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 29, 2010 | Poker News, WSOP
The good news keeps flooding in for Full Tilt Poker, with two more of the site’s FTP Red Pros winning bracelets at the World Series of Poker over the last week. Scott Montgomery and Gavin Smith won the $1,000 No Limit Hold’Em and the $2,500 Mixed...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 24, 2010 | Poker News, WSOP
It has been the month of a lifetime at the World Series of Poker for Frank Kasella, who earlier this week won the $2,500 Seven-Card Razz event, earning thereby his second bracelet of the series and making him the first double-bracelet winner of 2010. Poker players...