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$70,000 in added MTT prize money
Ladbrokes Poker, in celebration of its exciting recent upgrade, has added $70,000 in prize money to a tournament each day from the 10th – 16th February.
These tournaments will run daily as per the schedule below:
Day     Time    Buy-in Fee      Added
10-Feb Tue      19:00 GMT     $5.00   $0.50   $10,000
11-Feb Wed    19:00 [continue]

Sit back, relax, and watch the big stacks eliminate themselves. Occasionally, make a move to get a few chips. But most of all, conserve your chips, and really really nurse your dead or dying stack back to life. This was Oleg Suntov’s game plan, as he was on his way to incredibly take down the [continue]

Lycos today announced its 9th annual list of top 50 search terms for the year 2008, based on the Lycos 50, a weekly list of the most popular people, places and things Lycos users search for every day. The Lycos 50 Top Search Terms of 2008 list is based on Lycos user searches from Jan. [continue]

Its incredible how a hot run can make you feel like a fucking genius, but when you catch a bad run of cards you also feel that the world is against you. Well, what wrong in the previous sentence? The word ‘feel’/
Feeling has no place at the poker table. Feeling has place in the bedroom, [continue]

Yes, it’s bad grammar.  Duh.
Ok, so when I started this poker journey, it was more of a fluke.  Maybe that is why I am now shown as a fish on Sharkscope.  It’s true, look me up.  I don’t pretend to be great or hide from my mediocrity.  I am what I am.
That in mind, Yesterday [continue]

So, this is my first post about myself,  which I thought I’d start writing seeming as though I’ve been off for 3 weeks, I thought perhaps I needed to put something back into FTR!
A quick introduction to myself, I play low/mid-stakes poker, mainly $1/2 cash game and as results have shown, I generally make money from the game. 
I’ve [continue]

The lesson for this weekend is “Never Give Up”
 Saturday I played in a few $2 SNG’s at FTP, all in all I was down about $2 after playing in 6 of them.  That makes one 1st place, and 1 3rd place (the rake took the rest).  So not too good for the day.  I didn’t [continue]

I grew my bankroll around 30% last month and ended up going on a downswing once we walked into February. Nothing too major but it was pretty much eating into my entire profits. One major factor however was the fact I took a swipe at 10NL. Now that’s a big jump from 2NL - 10NL [continue]

So, I’m still not back.
In a Harry Potter analogy, I’m kinda like Voldemort in book 1. A shadow of my former self, remaining under the radar while gathering my powers in order to continue.
It hasn’t been much publicized, but my roll ballooned pretty quickly while playing NL & PL cash games. I had to [continue]

Hi Everyone,
(Ok, hello to those who stumble in here accidentaly)
This was the first weekend with me starting over.  And I’m pretty happy.  Now know that when I started on Saturday I had about 19.00 in my FTP account.  This is not where I wanted to be, but that is what it is.  So I got [continue]