Opportunities in the market of online poker have been stymied, to say the least, since April 15, 2011. Not all in the industry are sitting on their hands, however. Jamie Gold is launching a new poker site called FreeGoldPoker.com, geared specifically towards American players. The 2006 WSOP Main Event Champion is not exactly taking on [...]

Prop bet, also called a side bet, prop, or exotic, is a bet made on an outcome or a proposition. These can be anything from statistics and happenstance in a regular game to personal, one-of-a-kind bets. Poker is a thoroughly entertaining game, from the suck-outs to the sick reads to the tournament bubble boys. But [...]

Daniel Negreanu has been making a number of big life moves in recent history. Just this month, Negreanu temporarily relocated to Canada. The popular poker professional luckily holds Canadian citizenship, making his relocation a breeze. American pro Daniel Cates was denied entry into Canada when he attempted the move after Black Friday. Negreanu has been [...]

Recently on FTR.com we introduced you to the story of Jose Mecado, who is well-known in the poker world for his meteoric rise through the online stakes, and for his subsequent admission that he was scamming players on the Merge Network.  Mecado also admitted that he was helping other poker pros find action on lesser-known [...]

Phil Ivey: the myth, the legend, the Tiger Woods of poker. What does a successful poker player look like? Phil Ivey, right? As it turns out, the popular view of this poker icon might be remarkably different from the truth. Most readers will be aware of the still-ongoing public spat between Tiltware (the company behind [...]

Bad beat stories: you see them in forums, read them in chat bars, and hear them at every live table you play at. They can get old, because everybody experiences them. But there are some bad beats that are just too entertaining to get old. Unsurprisingly, these involve players like Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu, [...]

Ever since April 15, US poker players have been in a scramble to find a site that would allow them to play. Many had to abandon their usual site and even some quit altogether. Phil Galfond is taking a different route. Known for winning millions of dollars in online games over the course of 4+ [...]

Daniel Negreanu knows how to pick a fight. Matt Savage is probably the most respected tournament director in the world and also happens to be the target of Negrenau’s recent ire. The dispute? A poker tournament rule that’s got Negreanu’s chips in a bunch. The rule: players can’t disclose the contents of their hand. In [...]

Come on, don’t lie: you missed Phil Ivey at the 2011 WSOP. We all did! Whether or not he makes the money, as long as he’s in a tournament, he’s headline news, absolutely fascinating to watch, and easily makes his table the most interesting in the tournament. Although internet poker certainly has a dominant place [...]

The TV show The Big Game has been a notable success for PokerStars, and entertained the poker world thoroughly. If you’re not familiar with The Big Game, the set-up is both simple and compelling. For 150 hands, an amateur player called the ‘loose cannon’ is staked $100k to play against a table of five professionals, [...]