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posted on February 8th, 2012
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 [...]
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posted on February 14th, 2008
FTOPS Event 11 was a $216 Buy-In Limit Omaha H/L tournament. The guaranteed prize pool was $200,000, and as with every other FTOPS event, the pool was exceeded. In the end there were 1,333 entrants for prize money totaling $266,600 with 135 places paid. The event was hosted by Howard Lederer and featured 24 FullTilt [...]
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posted on February 13th, 2008
Tuesday featured FTOPS VII Event #10, which was one of the most sought after events of the series. The buy in was $1060, the highest in FTOPS VII so far, and had a guaranteed prize pool of one million dollars. Yes, you heard me right, one million dollars. But apparently, one million wasn’t good enough. [...]
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posted on February 13th, 2008
So far, every event held in the FTOPS VII has broken all the guarantees and expectations. With $20 million guaranteed total, I was expecting to see some overlays but if the series keeps running the way that is has been, that will not be the case. It also was not the case for event 9. [...]
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posted on February 12th, 2008
Event #4 in the FTOPS VII series took place this past Friday, February 8th featuring Pot Limit Hold’em. It was hosted by Gus Hansen and 1,215 players turned out for the event, many of them getting there by way of satellites. With a buy in of $200 + $16 and guaranteed prize pool of $100,000 [...]
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posted on February 12th, 2008
The FTOPS VII – Event #5 was on February 8th at 9:00 PM. This is a huge event with a buy-in of $200+$16 and 1,203 entrants. The total prize pool was $240,600 and with 144 paid places that turns out to be a lot of people in the money. There were 17 Full Tilt Pro’s [...]
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posted on February 11th, 2008
Event six of FTOPS VII took place on Saturday February 9th and featured 6-max PL Omaha with a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool. The first five FTOPS VII events all managed to surpass their guarantees, and event six was no exception: with a buy-in of $500+$35, an impressive $387,000 was up for grabs. 744 people competed [...]
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posted on February 11th, 2008
FTOPS VII Event #7 was one of the most popular events, the $100 no-limit hold’em rebuy. Attracting sharks from all over the world, the guarantee of $400k was shattered, with the prize pool ending at an enormous $663,500. 2,254 people forked over their money in the hunt for the eye-popping $121,719 first place prize. No [...]
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posted on February 11th, 2008
FTOPS VII Event #3 was a $535 Limit HORSE event hosted by Andy Bloch; the only HORSE tournament of the series. It featured 623 players, including 19 Full Tilt Pros including Allen Cunningham, Poker Hottie of the Week Clonie Gowen, PearlJammed, Jens Voertmann, and Scott Fischman. The 623 players pushed the prize pool just over [...]
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posted on February 10th, 2008
FTOPS VII Event #2 featured the first Pot Limit Omaha tournament of the series. The $256 buy in event had a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. It also had an odd format called “knockout.” In the knockout format, for every player you bust out $40 is credited to your account, but everything else remains the same. [...]
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posted on February 8th, 2008
The FTOPS VII Series kicked off Wednesday February 6th at 21:00 ET and what a better game to start with? Of course it was no-limit hold’em, with a $200 + $16 buy-in which seems to be the standard online high stakes limit for multi-table tournaments. As with nearly every FTOPS event, the guarantee was set [...]
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