It has been recently announced that poker professional, Antonio Esfanidiari, will join the World Poker Tour as a representative for the WPT Poker- Made Million.  The Poker-Made Million currently comprises of an exclusive group of 84 players, who have become self made millionaires whilst playing on the World Poker Tour.    The WPT will use Antonio’s poker [...]

Following last nights Scandinavian Poker Awards, the teen sensation, Annette Obrestad managed to take home a trio of awards for the Norwegian Golden Hand, Best Female Poker Player and Best Performance of The Year (WSOPE 2007) award.    Obrestad made history in September 2007, after winning the first ever WSOPE Main Event with 361 runners.  She also became the [...]

So, this is my first post about myself,  which I thought I’d start writing seeming as though I’ve been off for 3 weeks, I thought perhaps I needed to put something back into FTR! A quick introduction to myself, I play low/mid-stakes poker, mainly $1/2 cash game and as results have shown, I generally make money from the [...]

Nick Slade, a 45 year old English professional poker player from Preston, England, has marked a remarkable personal comeback by making winning the PartyPoker European Open IV, and taking home $200,000 for first prize. This is a remarkable achievement considering that Slade almost quit altogether due to his wife falling seriously ill and he himself [...]

Howard Lederer has taken down event 9 at the Aussie Millions taking home over $1.2 AUD. Along with 24 others, Howard stumped up $100,000 to enter this event, so it’s not surprising that only the very highest rollers paid to play in this event which included Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Eric Seidel and last years [...]

Poker player David Pham brought his superb year to a close by winning the Poker Player of the Year aware 2007. The 41 year old finished ahead of the likes of JC Train (2nd) and Jonathan Little (3rd). Pham’s successes has includes his recent win, Event 8 of the Five Diamond World Poker Classic at [...]

British Poker professional, Joe Beevers, finished 2007 in a spectacular fashion by taking down the Ladbroke’s Million VI last Friday. The Ladbrokes Million is one of richest and most prestigious poker tournaments in Europe with a million dollar pay day! The field in this tournament was very strong, with Beevers outlasting the likes of Howard [...]

Following a bad run of cards with playing on Full Tilt Poker over a month ago along with a reported loss of over $6 million, David Benyamine announced that he’d had enough of Full Tilt and vowed that he would never return.  However, Benyamine was spotted making a return to the Full Tilt tables over [...]

Some encouraging news for online poker players, on October 22nd – 24th, around 100 members of the Poker Player Alliance met up at Capitol Hill with lawmakers in their bid to defend poker player’s rights to play online in the US.  With Howard Lederer, Professor Charles Nesson, Radley Balko and Kenneth Adams leading the discussion, [...]