Matt Ricketts

We’re nearing the halfway point in the month of June here on the Full Tilt Leaderboards and more unfamiliar players than ever are seasoning all three categories.  Make no mistake though, each of the three leaderboard categories are sporting a few of the regular veterans, especially in the two SNG boards.  I’m sure we’ll be [...]

A lot of big names are returning on the PokerStars MTT Leaderboard this week, edging their way up to the top where they likely belong.  Last month was full of action and several heated battles for a top ten position.  In the end, ten well deserving players sealed themselves a win.  Despite the number of [...]

To celebrate their 1,000,000,000th hand, Ladbrokes is hosting an event called the Billionth Hand Freeroll, advertised as the world’s biggest ever freeroll, Ladbrokes will be giving away $300,000 of WSOP packages to be won!  That’s right, the top 20 players will get the chance to join Team Ladbrokes at the world’s largest tournament by winning [...]

May has shaped up to be a pretty solid month on the Full Tilt MTT and SNG Leaderboards and the time has come to finally announce the top ten winners in each category!  There are several new players making appearances on this board each and every month, but it’ll never stop the regulars from pushing [...]

We’ve made it into June after a heated month-long battle for top ten positions in the PokerStars MTT Leaderboard.  A lot of players were up and down all month long, unsure of where they would wind up in the end.  There were also a few players who stayed consistent through it all, holding their positions [...]

Just as fast as the industry seems to be growing, authorities are cracking down on illegal online casino gambling. Following suit, Turkey is cracking down and has just detained two members of Sportingbet. It is believed that Sportingbet has been involved in illegal online gambling. The two being detained are of middle management within Sportingbet, [...]

Appearing in the PokerStars top ten this week is a few new players attempting to make a steal for May’s 1st place prize.  The PokerStars MTT Leaderboard is proving to be a lot more sporadic than I had imagined.  Last week I commented on the amount of new players pushing the regulars to the wayside [...]

Well we’re inching closer to capping off yet another monthly leaderboard and May hasn’t been short of any notable action.  Many of the players mentioned in this article deserve a lot of respect for their persistent winning and respect is precisely what they’ll get.  Many of these names are beginning to become synonimous with the [...]

FTOP VIII Event 15 featured HA (half PL Hold’em, half PL Omaha), which pulled in a nice 932 players into the competition.  With a buy-in of $200+$16 and a guarantee of $150,000, the prize pool was sure to surpass the guarantee.  The prize pool busted the guarantee by about $36,400 more, making it a nice [...]

A new Internet gambling law has been approved by the South African parliament which would follow in the footsteps of many other nations in regulating the growing industry.  Their parliament papers showed this as being an industry they see as being plagued by crime and a high vulnerability to money laundering and the financing of [...]