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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]

Another solid Sunday of tournament action is in the books. Attempting to make up for a sub-par Sunday last week, PokerStars was in full swing as the majority of their major events easily eclipsed their respective guarantees. The Sunday Million continued its struggles, as the tournament fell 136 entries short of making $1,500,000.
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Online tournaments took a bit of a hit yesterday, as a bunch of the major events failed to hit their guarantee.  Coming off of two Major series (FTOPS and WCOOP) FullTilt and PokerStars had to be hoping for a better showing in October.  Perhaps the start of the NFL season is keeping players glued to [continue]

Fresh off an extremely successful 2009 WCOOP campaign, PokerStars was looking to see some big improvements in their Sunday majors. Well, while all of the tournaments managed to reach their guarantees, there wasn’t quite the same boost that FullTilt received from last month’s FTOPS. Either way PokerStars still remains the predominant site for [continue]

The WCOOP came to an end late Monday night (or earlier this morning for some) and the Main Event did not disappoint.  The $5,2000 buy-in tournament amassed a huge $10,720,000 prize pool.  Other events finishing up Sunday and Monday were the $10,000 HORSE, the $1,000 2nd Chance (two-day event), and the $215 NL which took [continue]

One of the bigger fixed-limit events of the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker has come to an end.  Event #39, $1000+$50 6-max Fixed-Limit Hold’em, drew 437 of the world’s best poker players including numerous PokerStars sponsored professionals.
Chad Brown, Ylon Schwartz, and Andre “aakkari” Akkari all found themselves amongst the final three tables in the [continue]

With only one week remaining in the 2009 WCOOP PokerStars set out for another record-breaking Sunday.  Three big events, headlined by the $25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Championship, were scheduled for Sunday.  Events 26 and 28 also took place, with the $1,000+$50 two-day event finishing up early Tuesday morning.
The heads-up tournament was certainly the highlight of the [continue]