With US presidential elections to be held later this year, of great interest to poker players is the stance of each presidential candidate with regards to the legalization of online poker. As Democrat Barack Obama vies for his re-election, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are in the race for the Republican [...]
Event 6 of the FTOPS VI took place on November 11th and the game was 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo (aka Stud 8 or Better). The guaranteed prize pool was only $25,000, which was much smaller than all other events. This is because 7 Card Stud 8OB is pretty much a dying game and not as [...]
Event 5 of the FTOPS VI took place on Nov 10 and everyone who signed up had to be prepared for some crazy rebuy madness! It was a $100 + $9 rebuy/addon with $400,000 guaranteed, and some players willing accepted 20+ rebuys in the first hour. With 1600 entrants the prize pool would have just [...]
Event 4 of the FTOPS VI took place on Nov 10 and everyone showed up to play the action game, Pot-Limit Omaha. However, there was a twist to make it even more action packed; it was 6-max. With shorthanded play the action is drastically increased as people can’t wait around as much for hands, and [...]
Event 3 of the FTOPS VI took place on Nov 9. The name of the game was Pot-Limit Hold’em with a $200 + $16 buyin. Full Tilt had $300,000 guaranteed and with only 1,468 players there was a $6400 overlay! This event was hosted by the well known online pro, Jon “PearlJammed” Turner. He is [...]
Event 2 of the FTOPS VI took place on Nov 8. Everyone showed up to play some RAZZ, which is 7 Card Stud Lo. (Worst low hand wins, A2345 is the nuts). The buyin was $300 + $22 with a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000, however 679 players showed up making the prize pool more [...]
FTOPS Event #1 Summary FTOPS VI kicked off on Wednesday, November 7th with its $216 Short Handed No Limit Hold’em event. Over 3500 people entered the event with a guaranteed prize pool of $750,000, 432 places would be paid and nearly $150,000 would go to the winner. The event was hosted by high stakes cash [...]
Full Tilt Poker is running the FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) again, for the 6th time! FTOPS VI is set to be the biggest one in history, with more than $9 million in guaranteed prize money! This is $2 million more than FTOPS V, which was only 3 short months ago. The series begins [...]