The 12th event of Full Tilt Online Poker Series XVIII saw players clash one-on-one in the first heads up tournament of the series. The tournament, a $500+35 NL Hold’em Heads Up Shootout, had a guaranteed prize pool of an astonishing $500,000! With 1024 players willing to shell out $500 to be king of the mountain, [...]

The final two are set for Monday’s heads-up battle for $8.9 million. Jonathan Duhamel and John Racener will battle it out for the 2010 WSOP Main Event bracelet and the title of WSOP Main Event Champion. Duhamel will go in with a monstrous chip lead of 189 million to Racener’s 31 million thanks to winning [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]