When you read the title to this interview, you may have asked yourslef “Who is this Dr. Giggy guy, and why does he like Family Guy so much?” Well, Martin “Dr. Giggy” Giguere (it’s pronounced “Djiggy,” although he does love Family Guy!) is likely the biggest winner in the 2/4 No Limit 6 max games [...]

Sunday we saw the same weekly patterns continue: Top players in the final table, prize pools getting bigger, and Bodog 100k guaranteed’s huge overlay. In the Poker Stars Sunday Million, C00lHandNuke played it cool and took down the top prize of $208,000. Cash game professional Raszi finished third for nearly $74,000. In the Sunday Warm [...]

Forming ranges: Part 2 In my first strategy post on forming ranges, I mostly touched on preflop. But postflop, as we all know, is where the big money is at. And it’s postflop where forming ranges is the most important, it’s just a whole $%^& lot harder! The basic premise of forming ranges is very [...]

If you want an example of a successful low and midstakes grinder, look no further than Thomas “Renton” L. Even though Thomas has been grinding 1/2 and 2/4 NL for over a year, he has profited a handsome $125k. He may not be flashy, but the one half Native American has been living off poker [...]

The Poker Stars Sunday Million is looking like it may become the Sunday Two Million, as for the second street week the prize pool reached beyond 1.6 million dollars. In the end, “s0stndrd” fought through a field of over 8,000 to take down the $250,000 top prize. FTR poster busto_soon was looking primed to win [...]

General hand reading tips: When it comes to getting better in an early stage of your career, hand reading is a premium. You can understand poker as much as you’d like, but it’s not going to help if you can’t read hands well. It’s hard to know what to do when you have no idea [...]

Jesse “Spoonitnow” Eddlemen found poker 4 years ago during his freshman year in college, although he did not take it seriously until two years ago.  In light of UIGEA, Eddlemen withdrew his whole bankroll; he was only having marginal success anyways . However, when he realized the legislation had no teeth he put $200 on [...]

The Poker Stars Sunday Million was $530 buy in this week, pushing the prize pool to nearly $1,600,000! The winner usourcek, beat out high stakes cash game professional hotmark777 heads up for $278,066. In the Sunday Warm-Up, a player named reilly11014 received $117,850 for the victory. In the $200 rebuy, mysterio6044 battled his way through [...]

A lot of people don’t think about their bet sizing much. They have a “standard” bet size they use in nearly all situations, in hopes of not giving away further information as well as not wanting to make a mistake by betting too much or too little. However, some go a step further. They change [...]

This week we have an interview with FTR member and FTOPS Event #12 winner Chris Olson. You can find the audio here. Solid quality this week. Podcast  The text is below. We’re here with 21 year old Chris “ilikeaces86” Olson. Chris has been playing poker professionally for three years, and is a top tournament and [...]