Allabout’s Poker-Blog

FTOPS XIV continued last night with the first rebuy event of this year’s series.  Actually, Event #4 was a $200 + $16 no-limit Hold’em tournament allowing 1 rebuy and 1 add-on and guaranteeing a prize pool of at least $600,000.  This guarantee was surpassed as 1,406 players entered the game and purchased 979 total rebuys [continue]

This is it.  The culmination of the largest annual online poker tournament in the world - The World Championship of Online Poker.  Brought to you by… who else, the largest online poker site in the world, PokerStars.  The Main Event is the tournament to win in any tournament series, and the WCOOP Main Event is [continue]

We’re rolling into the final weekend for WCOOP 2009, as it was Event #34 wrapping up in the wee hours of the morning.  This event was a $215 no-limit Hold’em tournament featuring “big antes” from the start.  The guarantee was set at $500,000, but as has been the trend in the WCOOP, the guarantee was [continue]

There’s a great new tool out there for all the poker players looking for a hand history converter.  PokerHandsReplayer.com has recently launched their brand new website and hand converter tool, which allows anyone to convert raw hand histories into the most unique finished hands available on the Net.
While other converters can take a raw hand [continue]

The 2009 World Championship of Online Poker continued yesterday with event #6, a $100 + $9 no-limit Hold’em tournament with $1 million guaranteed.  The WCOOP continues to draw huge fields and destroy the guarantees and this tournament was no exception.  A total of 15,675 entrants paid the fee, bringing the total prize pool to $1,567,500, [continue]

The Great Dane, Full Tilt Pro Gus Hansen, was on hand last night to wrap up FTOPS XIII by hosting the $500 + $35 Main Event.  He was joined by 5,305 other players trying for their piece of the whopping $2.5 million guarantee ($2,653,000 total prize pool).  In this mix of players were more than [continue]

FTOPS 13 continued over the weekend, starting on Friday at 2 p.m. with a $200 + $16 no-limit Hold’em 6-max tournament that drew 2,438 entrants.  The prize pool was guaranteed at $400k and once again, the guarantee was exceeded.  The final pool came to $487,600, with 270 places getting paid and a 1st place prize [continue]

The first tournament of FTOPS 13 that featured a buy-in of $1,000 or more took place yesterday on Full Tilt.  It was a no-limit Hold’em event that started with an ante from the very first hand.  This format is always interesting because it generally is going to benefit a more aggressive style of play.  A [continue]

FTOPS XIII continued yesterday with the first rebuy tournament of this year’s series.  Event #4 was a $200 buy-in no-limit Hold’em tournament, with 1 rebuy and 1 add-on allowed.  It featured a $500,000 guarantee, which was easily surpassed as 1,415 entrants bought-in, and there were 1,024 rebuys and 958 add-ons.  That raised the total prize [continue]

There was an air of excitement during National Poker Week when it was announced that Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) would soon introduce legislation that would legalize and regulate online poker. Well the time has come as the Dow Jones Newswire broke the story yesterday that Menendez would introduce his bill on Thursday.
Menendez has been [continue]