by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 28, 2007 | High Stakes Rail
Following a bad run of cards with playing on Full Tilt Poker over a month ago along with a reported loss of over $6 million, David Benyamine announced that he’d had enough of Full Tilt and vowed that he would never return. However, Benyamine was spotted making a...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 27, 2007 | Poker News
Phew, so I have a new graph! After the horrific downswing comes the much welcomed upswing. Since the last blog entry, I have been playing 10-18 tables of the $6.50 45 man SitnGos, with a few $12 games thrown in as I reach break-even again. All this has been late night...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 27, 2007 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
Tom Marchese is a student just turned professional poker player. He has enjoyed an abundance of success anywhere from $400 buy in all the way up to $5000 buy in No Limit Hold’em games and has made over $200,000 in the past 3 months alone. While his game showed...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 26, 2007 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
Last week I explained a little bit about Full-Tilt’s Leaderboards. For those who would like to take a look for themselves, the leaderboards can be found at FTP Leaderboards. Scroll to the bottom of the page under Full Tilt Player Count and Leaderboards, and you can...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 24, 2007 | Online Tournaments
In the biggest Sunday tournament around, Romanoff11 scored the near $200,000 first prize in the Poker Stars Sunday Million. Not so far behind was low stakes cash game regular littlepotato in 2nd, who earned just over $100,000. The Sunday Warm up paid nearly $100,000...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 23, 2007 | EPT, High Stakes Rail, Poker News, WPT, WSOP
Another year of poker is in the books, and despite many fears that have arisen in the last fourteen months over the future of the game we all love, but this year has shown that our game is still strong. It has been another historic year for poker, as the game still...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 21, 2007 | Poker News
Well it’s taken me about 2 days to get round to writing this entry, partially because I’m feeling pretty down on Poker in general. I had to stick around in Manchester for another day because my lift home let me down. I Decided to move a lot of my roll into...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 21, 2007 | Poker News, WPT
In a record setting final table performance, Eugene Katchalov took first place in the Doyle Brunson Classic in only fifty-three hands. In less than four hours Katchalov mowed down well-known online players such as Jordan Rich, known as Octavian_C online, and Ryan...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 20, 2007 | FTR AMAs & Interviews, Poker News
Ben Sulsky is a high stakes cash game regular who plays mostly No Limit Hold’em at the 5/10 and 10/20 level. He has been playing poker seriously for only about a year and a half. In only a couple months after he began he vaulted himself into elite cash game...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 18, 2007 | Poker News
Well, so much for the epic 2 weeks of grinding. My computer exploded and blue screened every 2 minutes so I had to take it to the college IT guys to get it fixed, there goes my potential income. Never mind, I guess the break from poker has probably done me good and I...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 18, 2007 | Full Tilt Poker, Poker News
The competitive nature of poker (and yes, even online poker), is no big secret. This spirited atmosphere dates back all the way to the 1800s with the birth of a rough form of what we know as poker today. We view many of our opponents as friends or enemies, but the...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 17, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A new Sunday tournament was introduced this week on Poker Stars. A high stakes $5200 buy in winner take all freeze out featured top online professionals such as Gigabet, MezemerizePLZ, ADZ, as well as others including Barry Greenstein entered the event, however...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 7, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Wheeee it’s time for a blog. I’m 19, a student of percussion at college :D, oh and I suck at poker. November was terrible for me. It was such a potentially good month but as the 2k roll I needed to move up to 100NL got closer, I decided to cash out $700 ...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 4, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Poker Stars Sunday million reached just over a 1.3 million dollar prize pool and had nearly 200k up for grabs for first place. No poker pros could be found at the final table, which cleared the way for amateur BigBossM to take down top prize. No names also won the...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 2, 2007 | Poker News
We need more people in ventrilo. It’s a great medium for chatting and not losing your concentration while playing poker. All it requires is holding down a key or mouse button when you want to talk. No typing, no diverting your attention from poker, and no having...
by Tyson Tanaka | Nov 30, 2007 | Poker News
Who was that guy who posted his own blog in the FTR blog comment forum back when it existed? I want to interview him for my blog.
by Tyson Tanaka | Nov 30, 2007 | Poker News
Ok so I haven’t played for forever and I don’t know what my playing schedule will be like in the near future. I found out I failed the bar exam I took back in late July (which I expected because I didn’t study enough) so I am going to hit the books...
by Tyson Tanaka | Nov 30, 2007 | Poker News
Hi my name is bigred. I’m new here. I mainly post in the poker sections. You probably won’t find me in the community forum. Those guys are weird, LOL!!!!!!
by Tyson Tanaka | Nov 16, 2007 | Poker News
Everest Poker has a new “Live The Dream” promotion, a unique contest where they are choosing 10 players to represent their website and spend a year living the life of a poker pro. The ten who are chosen will win free entries into the world’s biggest...
by Tyson Tanaka | Nov 8, 2007 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Pokerstar’s Sunday Million final table consisted of all amateurs. WhatArunAA eventually pulled out the win for about $180,000. At one point late in the tournament, Pappiri had a gigantic chip lead. So large that at one point he lost 3 hands in a row for 4 million...
by Tyson Tanaka | Nov 7, 2007 | Poker News
Some encouraging news for online poker players, on October 22nd – 24th, around 100 members of the Poker Player Alliance met up at Capitol Hill with lawmakers in their bid to defend poker player’s rights to play online in the US. With Howard Lederer, Professor...
by Tyson Tanaka | Nov 5, 2007 | WCOOP
Anyone who had the money couldn’t resist entering into the WCOOP Main Event on Sunday September 30th. The $2300 buy in conclusion to the WCOOP series hosted nearly 3,000 players, and, more importantly, the biggest prize pool in online poker history: $7,495,000!! The...
by Tyson Tanaka | Nov 5, 2007 | WCOOP
Normally playing bad cards is a bad thing. In Razz, you try to play as many bad cards as possible. It’s not a surprise then that a player who likes playing bad cards, a player named OnlyPlayRagz, would be the winner of Event #11, the only Razz event of the WCOOP....
by Tyson Tanaka | Nov 5, 2007 | WCOOP
WCOOP Event #9 may have been the most exciting of all the events so far. Rebuy events are known to have some crazy and aggressive play. Players often joke that the Swedes are the most aggressive players around, so it’s not too much of a surprise that a Swede ruthan...
by Tyson Tanaka | Nov 2, 2007 | Poker News
I’ve had a bunch of stuff going on lately, and I feel it is my personal duty to let over 1000 strangers know all about it. After getting back from Vegas, I have spent a lot of my poker time getting a new training site up and running. I finally took care of the...
by Tyson Tanaka | Oct 16, 2007 | Poker News, WCOOP
played the final 2 wcoop events the 1k limit and finished itm in 28th, was close to a big score there, but played one hand bad and got a bit shortstacked and took a small beat to bust out right before we got down to 3 tables. in the main event i did well built a...
by Tyson Tanaka | Oct 1, 2007 | WCOOP
I just woke up to see that maxxscam got out in 216th, for about $6k, not too bad. gp333 didn’t cash and neither did busto_soon. Right now I don’t recognize barely any names left. We have our final table, and the one name I do recognize, HelmetSky, is just...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 30, 2007 | WCOOP
Sorry guys I took a break because I had to study. So gp333 has had an incredibly up and down day and right now it is down. He is under 30k chips and has only just over 10bb. Busto_soon has been less swingy in his day, but still has failed to get anything going....
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 30, 2007 | WCOOP
gp333 has been up and down. He has stabilized at 52k chips. Unfortunately gabe misclicked off 7k chips. He got some of that back by letting his opponent bluff into his KK. PokerStars Game #12366146604: Tournament #70000023, $2500+$100 Hold’em No Limit –...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 30, 2007 | WCOOP
gp333 suffered a horrible beat and now finds himself in the middle of the pack. PokerStars Game #12364448401: Tournament #70000023, $2500+$100 Hold’em No Limit – Level V (200/400) – 2007/09/30 – 19:12:37 (ET) Table ‘70000023 171’...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 30, 2007 | WCOOP
gp333 continues to dominate his table with aggression. He’s unstoppable right now. His postflop skills are so good he is raising hands like J6o profitably. PokerStars Game #12363373539: Tournament #70000023, $2500+$100 Hold’em No Limit – Level IV...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 30, 2007 | WCOOP
WCOOP ME is underway! Nearly 3000 player have entered and first place is nearly 1.4 million dollars! Top 8 will recieve 6 figure paydays! It’s going to be somebodies lucky day today, and right now its looking like it could be gp333’s day! The FTRer is in...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 30, 2007 | Poker News
Wheeeeeeeeeeee, just got back from Las Vegas. Me and 3 buddies met up Wed and took off early Sunday morning after just a shit ton of drinking, clubbing, gambling, and drinking. I didn’t play a single hand of poker but I played about 20 hours of Pai Gow,...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 25, 2007 | WCOOP
Although a known tournament pro made the final table of event #8 of the WCOOP, a $530 buy-in Limit Omaha H/L event, the winner of the tournament was an amateur. A player simply called Copi beat a field 917 entrants to take the $103,804.40 first prize in a prize pool...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 25, 2007 | WCOOP
The 7th WCOOP Event was the first of two Limit Hold’em events of the series. Although it featured only an $100,000 guaranteed prize pool, by the time the tournament began the prize pool was four times that amount, a whopping $400,000! The field featured one of the...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 25, 2007 | WCOOP
We may have had our first player to ever have a WSOP bracelet and a WCOOP Bracelet. FossilMan, more commonly known as the WSOP 2004 main event winner Greg Raymer, beat out 771 people on the way to winning his first WCOOP event ever. This event was a $320 rebuy and...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 25, 2007 | WCOOP
The 5th Event of the WCOOP proved to be the best so far. The tournament had 6025 entrants and a prize pool of over 3 million dollars. AB_illusive, a respected high stakes cash game regular, took home almost 400 thousand dollars in the biggest prize pool of the WCOOP...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 21, 2007 | Poker News
First post and all I do is bitch…….wheeeeeeeeeeeeee OK, I’m at work and have an hour off for once so I decided to put some thoughts down. Something just happened about an hour ago that made me question what the fuck I’m doing with my life. I...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 21, 2007 | Poker News
So I have only played like 50 hours this past month due to family visiting, house hunting, and just taking some time off. Time off is nice, but I am ready to play again. My wife’s folks leave this Sunday so I think next week I’ll finally get some hours...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 20, 2007 | Poker News, WCOOP
So the WCOOP hasn’t been going very good, earlier in the year i won 2 WSOP packages on stars, so i got w$ for the 2nd package, decided I will use them towards the WCOOP and possibly save some to use to qualify for wsop or pca next year as well. So i played the...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 19, 2007 | Poker News
Just read this old post by soah from 2+2: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=5121718&page=0&fpart=all&vc=1 It’s about varying flop bet sizes – it’s nothing advanced or groundbreaking, but posts like these...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 19, 2007 | WCOOP
The World Championship of Online Poker’s $215 buy in, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball tournament, was the 4th installment of the WCOOP series. It was the smallest tournament of the Championship so far. It had a field of only 649 players, and a prize pool $129,800. The winner,...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 19, 2007 | WCOOP
The 3rd WCOOP tournament, a shorthanded $215 buy-in pot-limit Omaha high event, had a field of 1818 players and a prize pool of over $350,000. Although some professionals had a strong showing the eventual winner was jalla79, an amateur who took home just under...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 19, 2007 | Poker News
Hi, and welcome to my new blog here at FTR. You might not know who I am, but I’m one of the older posters here and I havent made a post for over half a year. I started out posting on the boards about 2 years ago. Originally I was a SnG player who grinded out the...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 18, 2007 | Poker News
Hi there, Welcome to anyone reading this. I am going to try and keep motivated to post this and keep it as up to date as possible. Getting motivated to play poker in the proper mindset that I need to win seems to be difficult latly, I am hoping writing might be a good...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 18, 2007 | WCOOP
BadgerPro, a top MTT professional, recently entered the WCOOP Event #2: 5 Card Draw. He Final Tabled the event and recieved a 5th place finish for over $6,000. Interestingly enough, Badger hadn’t played 5 Card Draw seriously before he entered the event, but...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 17, 2007 | WCOOP
The 2nd WCOOP tournament, a 215 dollar buy-in pot-limit 5-card draw event, showed a field of 857 players and a prize pool exceeding 170,000 dollars. The eventual bracelet winner, spielraum.at from Salzburg, Austria, took home a cool 26,265 dollars, a nice chunk of...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 16, 2007 | WCOOP
WCOOP kicks off, almost one million dollars up for grabs! The World Championship of Online Poker kicked off last Friday with Event #1, Short Handed No Limit Hold’em, which had $215 buy in. Big names came out for the event, including Victor Ramdin, The__D__RY (16th...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 15, 2007 | WCOOP
Event #1, $215 Short Handed NLHE, reached a prize pool of almost one million dollars! The winner was samh133, a well known high stakes cash game player. Event #2, $215 PL 5 Card Draw, reached quadruple the guaranteed prize pool! ($400,000) The winner was spielraum.at...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 13, 2007 | Online Tournaments
Thought I’d post these for entertainment. Here’s September so far http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f193/d_b0d/Septembersofar.jpg Here’s a 25 day span from Early July to Early August....
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 13, 2007 | WCOOP
Hi all, Tomorrow the WCOOP will officially start with the $215 short handed NLHE event. There is 400k guaranteed, which yours truly will be fighting for. Through this coverage we will be giving you recaps of each event, which will include quotes from your favorite MTT...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 5, 2007 | Poker News
Well I finally went and played live for the first time since I have learned how to play poker in Vegas this last weekend. The results were bad, but my play was fine – of the tenish tourneys I played, I only got it in bad once. This week my mom has arrived for a...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 5, 2007 | Poker News
My daughter is learning to crawl. Try as she might, she just can’t get it so far. She strains and grunts and stretches and rolls to no avail. Eventually, she gets frustrated and fusses. I don’t know what innate urge compels parents to speak to their infant...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 5, 2007 | Poker News
I’ve been donk-free now for about 300-hands. Previously I’d gone about 500 hands without donking before I fell off the wagon and went with TPGK against obvious pre-flop strength. I know I have a problem, I know I have to quit. I’m just taking it a...
by Tyson Tanaka | Aug 23, 2007 | Poker News
So my month has been real up and down. If you haven’t seen the graph i posted in the commune go look. It’s the topic with the frowny face… lol. In it you’ll see in a little over 10k hands i have a 40BI upswing, and then in that same amount of...
by Tyson Tanaka | Apr 30, 2007 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.com Enhances its Free Online Poker Hand History Converter by Adding Full Tilt Poker Hand History Compatibility FlopTurnRiver.com, home of the FTR Hand History Converter, the most popular online converter tool for reading, interpreting, and outputting...
by Tyson Tanaka | Mar 23, 2007 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.org.uk Releases the Free FTR Texas Hold’em Tournament Trimmer Online Poker Tool FlopTurnRiver.org.uk, one of the fastest growing online poker communities with over 11,000 registered members and over 450,000 poker forum articles, continues to add to...
by Tyson Tanaka | Mar 12, 2007 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.com Releases the Free FTR Tournament Trimmer Online Poker Tool FlopTurnRiver.com, one of the fastest growing online poker communities with over 11,000 registered members and over 450,000 poker forum articles, continues to add to its list of free features...
by Tyson Tanaka | Feb 20, 2007 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.com Launches its 5th Season of the FTR Gauntlet Online Poker League FlopTurnRiver.com, one of the fastest growing online poker communities with over 11,000 registered members and over 450,000 poker forum articles, begins Season 5 of the FTR Gauntlet...
by Tyson Tanaka | Jan 9, 2007 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.org.uk Broadens its Offering of Free Poker Tools with the Addition of FTR’s Free Hand History Database FlopTurnRiver.org.uk, one of the fastest growing online poker communities with over 10,000 registered members and over 400,000 poker forum...
by Tyson Tanaka | Dec 10, 2006 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.com, One of the Internet’s Most Popular and Fastest Growing Online Poker Communities, Has Just Registered its 10,000th Member FlopTurnRiver.com’s popularity continues to spread throughout the Internet at an explosive rate....
by Tyson Tanaka | Nov 20, 2006 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.com Broadens its Offering of Free Poker Tools with the Addition of FTR’s Free Hand History Database FlopTurnRiver.com, one of the fastest growing online poker communities with over 9,000 registered members and over 400,000 poker forum articles,...
by Tyson Tanaka | Oct 20, 2006 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.com Expands its Coverage and Reviews of the Online Poker Rooms with the Development of the “U.S. Friendly” Poker Rooms Section FlopTurnRiver.com, one of the fastest growing online poker communities and internet leader of online poker room...
by Tyson Tanaka | Sep 22, 2006 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.com, One Of The Fastest Growing Online Poker Communities & Strategy Sites, Has Just Reached A Benchmark Of Over 9,000 Registered Members FlopTurnRiver.com’s focus on building and supporting a fun, friendly, and highly skilled poker community...
by Tyson Tanaka | Aug 18, 2006 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.com Expands its Comprehensive Ranking of Online Poker Rooms with its 55th Internet Poker Room Review FlopTurnRiver.com, one of the fastest growing online poker communities and internet leader of online poker room reviews, broadens its unbiased rankings...
by Tyson Tanaka | Aug 11, 2006 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.com Broadens its Offering of Free Poker Tools with the Addition of Free Poker Video Tutorials FlopTurnRiver.com, one of the fastest growing online poker communities with over 8,500 registered members and over 350,000 poker forum articles, continues to...
by Tyson Tanaka | Jun 9, 2006 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.com, One Of The Fastest Growing Online Poker Strategy Sites, Has Just Reached A Benchmark Of Over 7,000 Registered Members FlopTurnRiver.com (FTR) focuses on developing and providing a fun, friendly, and very skilled poker community. FTR’s focus on...
by Tyson Tanaka | Jun 2, 2006 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver.com Expands Its List of Free Poker Offerings with the Launch of the FTR Gauntlet: The FTR Online Poker League FlopTurnRiver.com strengthens its position as one of the premiere online poker community and strategy sites with the launch of the FTR Gauntlet:...
by Tyson Tanaka | May 10, 2006 | Press Releases
FlopTurnRiver Strengthens its Position as One of the Premiere Online Poker Communities With the Launch of its Chat Room and Poker Tools Sections FlopTurnRiver.com, one of the fastest growing online poker communities with over 6,300 registered members and over 300,000...
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