Allabout’s Poker-Blog

All of the high-stakes Pot-Limit Omaha ballers will be in one place this coming Saturday, November 21st, for the second ever running of the $25K Heads-Up PLO Championship.  Full Tilt Poker is proud to host the highest stakes PLO tournament in the world.
If you are looking to rail, the action begins at 3 pm ET [continue]

Andy Bloch was on hand to host Full Tilt’s Online Poker Series Event #20.  No-limit Hold’em was the game and 2,803 players paid the $216 to join-in on the fun.  This created a prize pool of $560,600, easily eclipsing the $400,000 guarantee.
Bloch is a very accomplished poker player, however, many will know him as one [continue]

Full Tilt Poker, the site with the slogan “Learn, Chat, and Play With the Pros”, has added a new member to the team.  Normally,when a new member is announced, there really is not much fanfare or anticipation.  Full Tilt has dozens and dozens of “Red Pros” on their site; so called because their names appear [continue]

Event #12 of FTOPS XIV was the first $1,000 buy-in event of the series.  The only other 4 digit buy-in will be Event #22, a $2,500 tournament featuring ante’s from the start.  This one however, was just a good old fashioned 6-max no-limit Texas Hold’em Poker tournament.  It did feature one thing that has become [continue]

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]