It was announced 6 long months ago that FTR veteran Courtney Gee, better know as courtiebee, landed a seat on the PokerStars Big Game. She flew out to Vegas in February, was given $100k and played against the top pros. Since then she has been sworn to secrecy by Lee Jones and has not been [...]

On June 29 in the early morning, the AGCC suspended Full Tilt’s license which halted all real money play. Since this happened, there has been little information on what the next step is for the company and its players who have millions of dollars locked up on the site. Full Tilt has not said much, [...]

In a recent article posted on The Washington Post, Norman Chad shared his own views and consulted the views of his lawyer (so called) friend, on the DOJ indictments on Black Friday.  The focus is primarily on the legality of online poker and how online poker relates to the UIGEA, passed in 2006.  Chad’s lawyer [...]

FTR and Grinderschool.com have teamed up to offer our members a new podcast section, interviewing various FTR members about their poker careers and to discuss poker strategy. They are all a great listen, and we highly recommend you check them out – FTR/Grinderschool Poker Podcasts. We hope to add a new podcast every 2 weeks, [...]

(TL;DR cliff notes at bottom). On Friday I set my facebook pic to Jamie Gold and I to gain his special powers. And I’ll be damned, it worked. I binked a WSOP ME seat on Saturday and it was quite the ride. Back up to August. My friends and I decided to take a trip [...]

Given last Friday’s debut of the brand new 15/30 Hold’Em game at Casino 580 in Livermore, CA was a tremendous success, it will continue tomorrow April 8th starting at 7 PM, and every Friday thereafter. Last week, the big action, $3 rake (about half of all other 15/30 games in the area), hundreds of dollars [...]

Beginning today, April 1st 2011 at 7 PM PST, Casino 580, formerly Lucky Buck Card Club, in Livermore, CA will be offering one of the only 15/30 Limit Hold’Em games in the Bay Area of California. The game will go down every Friday at 7 PM throughout the month of April and on into the [...]

The downswing, it’s inevitable, right? Well, it’s inevitable that you can’t win every hand and when you lose more hands than you should over a sample of, say 10,000 hands, the downswing is born. Here is a picture of a downswing. Notice the up, up and away start, followed by a tumbling down the mountain [...]

PokerStars recently released a short documentary film featuring one of their most famous and successful members of team online – Nanonoko. If you are a part of the online poker community, chances are you’ve heard of this grind machine. Nanonoko has made PokerStars Elite a total of 4 times, has played nearly 5 million hands, [...]

Max and Danny Steinberg are probably the most successful identical twins in poker today, if not ever. They both have a slew of achievements and poker earnings under their name and have been playing poker professionally for the past 4 years. Max Steinberg plays under the name RunItTrim on Full Tilt Poker and redgrape on [...]