There’s been some great World Series of Poker stories this year, and so it makes sense to add another one to the collection during this week’s Titan Poker update. In my articles I keep mentioning the satellites that Titan offers and the numerous players that receive prize packages to prestigious live events, but I’ve yet [...]

An issue that has recently arisen in the poker world is the rules that govern tournament play. Unlike the the PGA Tour, where golfers can expect the same procedures to take place at every tournament, poker has a different system going, and most complain it is a lack of one. According to Miguel Strother at [...]

Undoubtedly the biggest scandal to emerge from this year’s World Series was the saga of Tiffany Michelle. The former Poker News employee became embroiled in a dispute with the site after seemingly backing out of a deal that involved Poker News staking her for the main event. After sporting the Poker News logo for the [...]

Back in April, wildrick sat atop the Ladbrokes Leaderboards as the monthly overall champion and looked poised to do the same in the month of May. However, SOXxxxxx came along and knocked wildrick off the top and grabbed the $2,000 prize as well. But now the roles may be reversed as wildrick has taken a [...]

Yesterday saw one of the very toughest WPT final tables ever, if not the toughest final table ever, period. Everyone at the table was more than capable of holding their own; each player world class in their own right. Last year’s final table was no slouch either, with Kevin Saul (the eventual winner), Mike Matusow, [...]

As usual, I will be updating the standings for both the weekly and monthly leaderboards on Bodog. We’re moving into the second half of of the month, so the July leaderboard is becoming a lot more interesting than in previous weeks. If you want to see the prizes at stake, please click here for the [...]

Welcome to another week of FTR Blogs coverage of the Ongame Leaderboard. If you’ve been keeping up, you know that the Ongame Leaderboard has been in utter chaos for the past month or so, with old favorites falling hard, and unknown after unknown ascending to the Top 10. If you haven’t been keeping up, be [...]

On June 1, Full Tilt proudly announced its newest addition to the elite Team Full Tilt – Patrik Antonius. With his outstanding record and achievements, it’s no wonder this rising star was asked to join Team Full Tilt with the legends of Andy Bloch, Allen Cunningham, Chris Ferguson, Phil Gordon, Gus Hansen, Jennifer Harman, Phil [...]

Just before the start of the 2008 World Series of Poker, I wrote an article addressing fears that the struggling US economy might impact upon the turnout for the WSOP. Thankfully those fears seem to have been misplaced. Overall attendance was up 8% and main event numbers saw a moderate increase of about 500. However, [...]

Finally, nine people remain after a grueling 12 day battle in the 2008 Main Event where 6,844 began with hopes of joining the ranks of some of poker’s best as world champion. The problem is that these golden nine will have to wait until November 9th to finish their journeys due to the fact that [...]