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  • posted on April 30th, 2008

    If you viewed my article on the quickly approaching WSOP 2008 on March 16th (and if not you can click here to read it), I gave an update on some news and satellite results. Well, being now that is has been 1.5 months since then, and more importantly only 1 month from the kick off [...]

  • Last Saturday night David Chiu made one of the biggest comebacks in the WPT ever before. With a chip deficit of over $18 million he came back with a bang to win the WPT Championship. He was placed up against Gus Hansen who had knocked out the first four final table participants in a mere [...]

  • posted on April 30th, 2008

    Ladbrokes poker have recently announced a new recruit to their team with the signing of British poker pro, Jonathan Kalmar, also known as ‘Skalie’. Kalmar is best known for his heroics at last years WSOP Main Event, coming in 5th, making him an instant millionaire, taking home a cool $1.25m. Following his success, Kalmar became [...]

  • posted on April 30th, 2008

    Titan Poker is part of the iPoker network, one of the fastest growing online poker networks available today. PokerScouts ranks it third highest for traffic, behind only PokerStars and FullTilt. Seeing as it’s only open to non-US players, it’s quite an accomplishment to have such a large player base. To read FlopTurnRiver.com’s review for Titan [...]

  • One more day to seal the deal for these players on the Full Tilt Leaderboards.  It’s been a wild ride for all three leaderboard categories this month and it’s just the type of excitement we’d like to see leading us into a brand new month.  We’ve got new players seasoning all three top tens right [...]

  • posted on April 29th, 2008

    The 2008 World Series of Poker year may be winding down but the Circuit Event at Caesars Palace is just beginning.  Well, at least the Main Event is just beginning as the smaller tournaments have just finished up. And the best one of these may have been Event #11 No-Limit Hold’em $550 buy-in where veteran [...]

  • Full Tilt Poker is running the FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) again, for the 8th time! FTOPS VIII is set to again be the biggest one in history, with more than $10 million in guaranteed prize money! It just keeps growing, just like always has more events and guarantees than last series. The series [...]

  • posted on April 29th, 2008

    This Sunday was just like the rest – positively huge. The ultimate boom or bust proposition for online tournament players, yesterday was no different. It was heartbreaking for FTR’s own nutsinho, who not only finished 28th out of 23,118 in the Sunday Hundred Grand on Poker Stars, but finished 40th out of 3,119 in the [...]

  • May is drawing near as we’ve got only two more days until PokerStars announces a new set of top ten winners for the month of April.  Despite the high tension and sense of urgency on the leaderboards over the course of the week, a couple new players have risen to the top whether the regulars [...]

  • Victoria Coren, a professional poker player out of Britian, has been signed by Team PokerStars. Coren is currently holding down the tenth most earnings all-time for women. She also serves as a commentator for “Celebrity Poker Club” run out of England. “I’m genuinely proud and happy to be an ambassador for PokerStars, I have played [...]

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