Spenda’s Blog

FullTilt’s newest sponsored professional, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, took time off from playing in the world’s biggest online games to challenge three high-stakes poker players in London over the past three days. For those unfamiliar with the “durrrr Challenge”, it was originally an online offer issued to the entire poker world (sans Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond) [continue]

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 entry fees. Needless to say, a few lives were changed yesterday.
PokerStars was able [continue]

The 14th installment of FullTilt’s Online Poker Series has come to an end. FTOPS XIV went down swinging late last night, as the Main Event concluded at 9:11 AM EST Monday morning. Over 5,000 players ponied up the $535 entry fee, creating a massive $2,735,500 prize pool.
The tournament was hosted by FullTilt’s newest professional, [continue]

Another huge FTOPS Event is in the books.  Event 17, a $300+$22 rebuy tournament, completed earlier this morning.  Hosted by Isaac “Mr. Menlo” Baron, the tournament boasted a $1,000,000 Guarantee and hosted over 1,000 of the world’s best poker players.  Baron is widely considered one of the best online tournament players around, having won both [continue]

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 8, 9, and 10, please visit the FlopTurnRiver News Section for complete write-ups [continue]

One of the more interesting events in this year’s Full Tilt Online Poker Series has come to an end. The $500+$35 Deepstack Heads-Up Event sold out quite early, as the tournament capped off at 1,024 entrants and a $512,000 prize pool. The tournament took quite some time to finish, just over 12 hours to [continue]

The 14th installment of FullTilt Poker’s Online Tournament Series has begun. For those unfamiliar with the series, it typically runs twice a year and contains 25 Events with different buy-ins and games. Event #1, a $200+$16 NL 6max Freeze Out completed earlier this morning. The tournament was hosted by FullTilt Professional Allen [continue]

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 did not experience a Halloween hangover of [continue]

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 following the FTOPS and WCOOP series.
The day began with the Sunday Warm-Up on [continue]

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, David “Dthorne04″ Thorne, for a few pennies shy [continue]