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posted on February 3rd, 2012
When Alan Meltzer passed away last October, he left behind $1 million in his will to his chauffeur and another $500,000 to the doorman of his building. An entrepreneurial success story, Meltzer built his fortune in the music business and gained fame in the poker world when he appeared on Season 5 of High Stakes [...]
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posted on August 16th, 2008
Event 3 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series 9 was the first of its kind. It was the first ever 4x shootout that the series has ever seen, but with a twist because it was also shorthanded. Not quite knowing what to expect, Full Tilt gave the $216 buy-in a $250,000 guarantee. However, 1,296 [...]
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posted on August 16th, 2008
Event eight of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series IX came to an end last Sunday with “ryanbluf” the man who finished ahead of his competitors and claimed the $121,184.57 first place prize. The event was a $240 + $16 No Limit Hold’em 6-Max Knockout tournament, and the format certainly seems to be a popular [...]
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posted on August 15th, 2008
History was made and chips were flying for Event 15 of Full Tilt’s Online Poker Series. It was a Turbo Format. The $200+16 buyin $500,000 guarantee attracted a field of 2,472 players. One again the field failed to reach the guarantee and Full Tilt had to provide overlay, certainly a welcome site for all participating. [...]
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posted on August 15th, 2008
Last Saturday saw the completion of the second Omaha event in FTOPS IX, and this time the format was Pot Limit Omaha 6-Max. It was no surprise, then, to see that this event was hosted by well known Omaha master Robert Williamson III. The buy in for the event ran to $500 + $35 and [...]
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posted on August 15th, 2008
Full Tilt’s 9th Online Poker Series continued this past Monday with a $1000+60 buy-in $1,500,000 guarantee start-studded tournament. One of the biggest buy-in tournaments of the series was full of high-stakes professionals and notable online winners. The tourmanet only drew 1,405 participants, forcing Full Tilt to contribute nearly $100,000 in tournament overlay. In the end [...]
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posted on August 14th, 2008
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series continued this past Saturday with Event #7, a $100+$9 NLHE rebuy tournament with a $500,000 guarantee. This format, popular with many higher stakes online players, drew 1,961 entries for a total prize pool of $621,100 after the rebuy hour and addon period. Top spot went to bizzleraises, who earned [...]
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posted on August 14th, 2008
Over 1,000 players took their chances in Event 9 of FTOPS IX this past Sunday. The No-Limit Hold’em Heads Up tournament started at 4:00pm ET with a $500 + $35 buy-in. Only 128 of the 1,322 hopefuls were able to place in the money. Tedsfishfry took home the victory landing himself a nice $115,014.00. Even [...]
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posted on August 11th, 2008
FTOPS 9 kicked off with a huge start, just as everyone anticipated. In total, Full Tilt scheduled to hold 25 events with more than $15 million guaranteed in prize pools! FTOPS keeps growing, and just like every other series, the FTOPS 9 is the biggest series Full Tilt has had. Event 1 started with the [...]
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posted on August 9th, 2008
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series continued yesterday with another met guarantee in a game with dwindling popularity, especially online, Stud Hi. 581 people bought in to Event #5, a $200+16 tournament to make a prize pool of $116,200 with almost 27k going to first place. The final table was mostly void of recognizable names [...]
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posted on August 8th, 2008
The 9th Full Tilt Online Pokers Series continued yesterday with Event #2, PL Omaha H/L Bounty. Full Tilt always seems to come up with new tournaments for their series’ to keep people interested and this event is no exception. The $240+16 buy-in PL Omaha H/L event with 40 dollar bounties brought in 1,138 players for [...]
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