Earlier this week, the bigwigs at PokerStars combined with the team running the European Poker Tour announced that schedule for the tenth season of the massively popular tour series. With the action taking place in seven European cities, and  the PCA in the Bahamas, the calendar is packed to bursting. EPT President, Edgar Stuchly has [...]

Espen “sh4wshank” Sørlie is a full time online tournament player and an instructor on the poker training site Run It Once (Phil Galfond’s new training site). He began playing poker seriously in June 2011, turned professional in January 2012 and has over $1 million in cashes plus experience in several WSOP live tournaments. He now [...]

WSOP APAC is over, and we have a Main Event Champion, and I think you might actually know his name. Daniel Negreanu, one of the biggest ambassadors in the game of poker, has won his 5th WSOP Bracelet, and the inaugural WSOP APAC Main Event. To say Negreanu ran over the table would be unkind [...]

We’ve all been in a bar in the “Happy Hour”. I’ve seen it stretched to two hours, but Full Tilt Poker are going for a record. They are running a “Happy Hour” Week! It starts on Monday the 18th of February, and runs through to Sunday the 24th of February. With the chances to earn [...]

FTOPS XXI, Days 12 and 13 The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XXI continued on Thursday and Friday, with exciting offerings in a number of formats. Despite the reduced docket for the two days, there were only four events total, some serious action took place with some of the largest  prize pools so far [...]

FTOPS XXI Day 11 – Event #25 and #26 Despite there being only 2 events today there was still plenty of excitement and entertainment! Yet again, both tournaments smashed their guarantees; $30,000 becoming $70,500 and $100,000 becoming $271,500. Event #25 was an Omaha Hi Pot Limit Heads Up Shootout, with a buy-in of $322 and [...]

FTOPS XXI Day 11 – Event #22, Event #23, Event #24 Day 11 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is in the books, with a number of spectacular finishes and big payouts to show for it. There were three events on the schedule for the day, the second consecutive day with so many [...]

Click here to to create an account at Full Tilt Poker and try your luck at winning an FTOPS event! Day #5 of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series XXI continues to show that Full Tilt has removed all doubt who is the second biggest online poker site. Today the big events were #’s Eight [...]

Recent confirmation of a deal between Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and the U.S. Department of Justice to allow the sale of Full Tilt and the repayment of their players may not be as rosy as it seems. There is some degree of doubt as to whether the U.S. government will fully refund players their winnings [...]

As we head into Day 3 of Event #24, the $5k Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8-or-Better, the poker world watches some of the best Omaha8 players chase an elusive tournament win and bracelet. Among the notables making a deep run are Joe Cassidy with ~16bbs, Scotty Nguyen with ~21bbs, Brian Hastings with ~25bbs, Mike Matusow with [...]