Annie Duke, once better known as Howard Lederer’s sister, can now add a new bullet point to her resume: “NBC National Heads-Up Champ, 2010″. She has demonstrated extraordinary poker prowess, and dominated the whole minefield that is the road to that particular title, and did what Vanessa Rousso fell just short of doing last year: [...]

1541 players put up $1000 each to take part in FTOPS XV – Event 12, $1,060 No Limit Hold ‘Em. The participants formed a massive prize pool that just exceeded the $1,500,000 guarantee. The prize pool of the Event 12 freeze out was the biggest of the series thus far. Although Gavin Griffin, WPT Champion, [...]

Quite possibly the biggest FTOPS Event of the series finished early Monday morning as more than 8,700 players entered the $120+$9 Knock-Out Event.  For those unfamiliar with “KO” Tournaments, each player is paid a certain $ amount every time he/she eliminates a fellow opponent. In this event, players were awarded $20 for busting anyone at [...]

There was another $1,500,000 at stake on Sunday night over at the Full Tilt Poker tournament tables. The tenth FTOPS event of 2010 kicked off at 6:03 PM ET, hosted by renowned pro Chris Ferguson. 4,682 players bought in to the $300+$22 event in which the top 720 places were paid.

Another day gone by, and another FTOPS Event in the books! Today we had the pleasure of witnessing the action of FTOPS XV, Event #7: $100+$9 R/A. Tonight’s event was hosted by none other than Dag Martin Mikkelsen, one of the most feared tourney players in the game today. Dag is probably best remembered for [...]

729 players battled it out in the $535 Triple Shootout, Event 3 of FTOPS XV. The prize pool of $364,500 was just above FTOPS XV – Event #3’s guarantee of $350,000. The $364,500 prize pool matched the purse of FTOPS XIV’s triple shootout. In a shootout format, tables are not balanced as players are eliminated. [...]

Full Tilt Online Poker Series XV is drawing big numbers and prizes. Event #4 was no different. The $200 buy-in tournament allowed for one rebuy and one add-on. With 1,524 players, 1,070 rebuys, and 986 add-ons, the prize pool grew to an astounding $716,000. This meant a first prize surpassing $150,000 for the first place [...]

If you’ve been looking forward to this year’s FTOPS as much as we have, then you know the excitement that’s been generated by this playing field. After several grueling hours of neck-and-neck poker, we can comfortably say that the contest lived up to the hype. This year’s inaugural FTOPS tournament was a $200+$16 No-Limit Hold’em [...]