dthorne04’s blog

July has come and gone, and bdubs3737 has been crowned the TLB Champion on Poker Stars. He was able to hold off players like imeasy2read, with a clutch victory in the Sunday $200k, beating out a field of well over 20k players in the process. If you’d like to take a look at any days [continue]

Another Sunday is in the books, and a juggernaut has emerged in the online poker scene, with his fourth major win in under a month. Before we get to that, let’s start off with the biggest weekly online tournament – The Poker Stars Sunday Million.
The Sunday Million table was far from weak, with two interesting [continue]

High Stakes Poker has a home for its fifth season. However, that home is the same place it’s been for the first four – The Game Show Network, also known as GSN. While the World Poker Tour will no longer be on GSN, High Stakes Poker will be staying. High Stakes Poker’s fate was uncertain [continue]

We are at the very end of the road in July, as tomorrow a new month begins, with new names emerging as forces in the Ongame Leaderboard. This month has been positively exciting, with p3rc4 dominating the month, but showing signs of weakness last week. The Ongame Leaderboard was extremely stable in the Spring, with [continue]

It’s time to bring back FTR’s coverage of the Poker Stars Leaderboard, which I will be doing until September, when courtiebee takes over. Until then however, I’ll be bringing you all the action, as some of the best and brightest battle it out! Just to bring everyone back up to speed, here’s where we were [continue]

The last Sunday is always the biggest Sunday of the month for online tournament pros, as extra tournaments get added, and tons of players come out. Yesterday was no different, as not only were the extra tournaments present, but the Sunday Warm-up was special yesterday, with it being a second chance tournament, giving players who [continue]

Getting their players to live poker tournaments is the name of the game on Titan Poker right now. No matter where in the world the tournaments go down, you can be assured that Titan Poker will have players representing them. Coming up soon, Titan Poker will be sending players to a multitude of places, including [continue]

The summer is halfway over, and as often happens this time of the year, live tournaments are in a bit of a lull. The 2008 World Series of Poker is all over, except for the final table of the Main Event, which won’t be going down until November. The next seasons of the APPT and [continue]

As the summer heats up, so does the Ongame Leaderboard. Last week p3rc4 continued to maintain his lead, while the rest of the field struggled to have a shot at the aforementioned massive lead. However, things have changed this week, as consistency has become the name of the game with just one player dropping out [continue]

Another weekend, another Sunday, and another day with millions and millions being paid out to players. However, it wasn’t just another Sunday for one FTR member. But, as usual, let’s kick it off with the Poker Stars Sunday Million, which still saw a large field come out, which perhaps is an aftereffect of last week’s [continue]