Brett Bickes

The third week of the Mini FTOPS was another large success for Full Tilt Poker with all of their major tournaments exceeding their guarantee. This week there were four major large guarantee tournaments. The first was held on Monday Event #20 $100+$9. This event was a triple chance tournament, meaning you could buy in up [...]

Full Tilt Poker was re-opened recently which left players with the big question, “Is Full Tilt Poker safe to play on?”. Details like software, quality support, and good rakeback are completely irrelevant if players don’t trust in Full Tilt Poker. This will detail reasons why players should completely trust in the new Full Tilt Poker [...]

Click here to to create an account at Full Tilt Poker and try your luck at winning an FTOPS event! Click here to to create an account at Full Tilt Poker and try your luck at winning an FTOPS event! The Full Tilt Online Poker Series XXI continues it’s strong showing on Day Twelve. Today [...]

Click here to to create an account at Full Tilt Poker and try your luck at winning an FTOPS event! Day #5 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series XXI continues to show that Full Tilt has removed all doubt who is the second biggest online poker site. Today the big events were #’s Eight [...]

According to an article posted today on Pokerfuse.com indicates that internet poker legislation in the United States is far from a priority at the moment and thus unlikely to be passed during the upcoming lame duck sessions of Congress. For those who aren’t American or don’t understand lame duck Congress, lame duck Congress sessions of [...]

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, a widely popular televised poker tournament, will soon be held at the Atlantis Resort and Casino on Atlantis Paradise Island. The PCA began as part of the World Poker Tour in 2004 and was moved to the European Poker Tour in 2008 and was the first event of the North American [...]

A United States federal judge ruled yesterday that poker is indeed a game of skill with chance elements involved according to an article posted today by NBC’s Pete Williams. The article further details that, since the ruling was that poker is a game of skill, one of the main federal laws used to shut down [...]

As we head into Day 3 of Event #24, the $5k Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8-or-Better, the poker world watches some of the best Omaha8 players chase an elusive tournament win and bracelet. Among the notables making a deep run are Joe Cassidy with ~16bbs, Scotty Nguyen with ~21bbs, Brian Hastings with ~25bbs, Mike Matusow with [...]

It was a very exciting and record breaking Sunday in Las Vegas for the poker world at the World Series of Poker. It began with Phil Hellmuth winning a record setting 12th bracelet in the $2,500 Razz Event #18 and ended with Phil Ivey taking 2nd in the 10k Pot Limit Hold’em Event #17. Phil [...]

Brian Hastings, one of the first coaches of CardRunners, has one his first W.S.O.P. bracelet in the $10k No Limit Texas Hold’em Heads Up Event. Hastings, a well known nosebleed pro, bested a field of 152 established online and live pros to win Event #12, the bracelet, as well as over $370k. The field included [...]