The past few days have been a bit of a holding pattern for live tournaments, as we’ve just put the WPT World Poker Challenge behind us, and are gearing up for an enormous April, ushering in the Spring with millions of dollars in payouts, and new faces made famous while doing so. Yet another exciting [...]

Poker Stars had its buy in raised to $1050 this week, creating a gigantic prize pool of over 1.8 million dollars! The spoils went to UH Big Tex, who won $366,698 for the victory. The 2nd place finish of Governator may not be a victory in the literal sense, but his $185,031 score was the [...]

Continuing on with the increase in leader board postings here on FTR I will be covering PKR Poker’s own leader boards every Sunday. They’ve got a good group of players that will be exciting to follow up with every week. PKR offers a lot of neat stuff to their top players in the leader boards. [...]

Greetings! I would like you to meet the Ultimate Tournament Leaderboard, UltimateBet.com’s weekly list of the best tournament players on its site. It’s basically a weekly contest that awards tournament dollars and a chance to win at least $1,000 cash. Cashing a multi-table tournament (excluding satellites, Sit’n’Gos, UltimatePoint tournaments, and freerolls) will earn you tournament [...]

On Wednesday, April 2nd, Congress has decided to conduct a long overdue hearing concerning the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA.) The Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade and Technology will be conducting the hearing and the meeting will be chaired by Rep. Luis Gutierrez. The hearing, which is to [...]

Bodog Poker (also known as BodogLife) has become a pretty big powerhouse in the online poker world. Starting on its own independent network, Bodog has gone through many troubles; including even losing their domain name! But they have made it through the hardships, and are one of the best rooms available for US players. The [...]

Heading into Day 3 of the 2008 World Poker Challenge, one would have to put their money on Phil Ivey. It would’ve been a safe bet to say the least. Not only does Phil Ivey has the distinction of being one of the most talented and respected players in the world, but literally every time [...]

With talks of an online poker ban in Canada floating around, a ban similar to the one in place in the United states, GigaMedia Limited is unconcerned about the situation. The ban is looking to stop gambling in the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake. The casino profits here topped $40,000,000 in 2007. That’s a huge chunk [...]

                We are on the river with 97s on a JJ922 board. Our opponent has bet 3/4ths the pot into us, and we are put in a tough spot. We know from the past streets that our hand look weak and our donk opponent, who seems to never fold (ever), could easily have a J, [...]

2008 will be the last year the WPT World Poker Challenge championship event will take place, for it is one of six public events that didn’t make the cut for the WPT’s schedule for next year. Back in 2003, its first year with WPT, this event attracted only 87 people at a $5,000 buyin. The [...]