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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The two sites that make up the CEREUS Poker Network, Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, have announced that they will be launching a new option for players looking for a little more action.  Starting August 2nd, around 5 p.m. ET, the new Seven-Deuce No-Limit Hold’em tables will go live. The Seven-Deuce No-Limit Hold’em tables will require [...]

Absolute Poker has recently announced the signing of its newest poker pro, Lacey Jones.  Lacy, who is also a model, joins another young poker star, Matt Vengrin, as the newest faces of the Absolute Poker brand. Lacey Jones began her poker career in 2005, when she was hired as a model to play in a [...]

PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, has recently announced the inaugural Americas Cup of Poker (ACP) tournament series.  Beginning July 27th, players from 13 countries located throughout the Americas, as well as 3 wildcard teams, will play for big money and the pride of their home country.  The thirteen eligible countries are the United [...]

ESPN has officially announced the schedule for airing the World Series of Poker events that have been recorded over the past couple of months.  Beginning next Tuesday, July 28th, and continuing every Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. ET up until the Main Event’s final table in November, ESPN will be airing a selection of this [...]

Flopturnriver.com has announced the launch of their newest poker tool, the FTR Poker Hand Odds Calculator.  This calculator is actually a complete overhaul of their previous odds calculator, but since virtually everything has been re-done, it’s more like a totally new tool. Serious poker players know the importance of studying the game and analyzing the [...]