by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 15, 2014 | Online Tournaments
The PokerStars December Festival, the exclusive, month-long celebration, is currently in full swing, with a minimum of $15,000,000 in prizes up for grabs, but things are about to step up a notch with a special $5 Million Guaranteed Sunday Million, with a $500,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 5, 2014 | Online Tournaments
Borgata will introduce its online poker tournament series, the Garden State Super Series in September, 2014, while it is hosting the Borgata Poker Open in its Atlantic City-based casino. Borgata will be streaming coverage of two events in the Borgata Poker Open for the first time.
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 21, 2013 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another exiting weekend in online poker as more and more players are settling into the grind that comes between summers and as a result, more and more players are filling up the biggest tournaments of the week at PokerStars and Full Tilt, creating some impressive...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 14, 2013 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another great weekend at PokerStars and Full Tilt as the Sunday majors see significant increases in players and thus in prize pools. As usual the weekend kicked off with the Sunday Warm-Up with a three-way deal being struck. Poland’s “BitterAce12” was on the short...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 8, 2013 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Well, the WCOOP and MiniFTOPS have come and gone, one of the biggest prizes in online poker have been awarded and now it’s time for the regular Sunday majors to take over the spotlight once again! As usual Sunday kicked off with the Sunday Warm – Up as 3227 players...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 1, 2013 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars
WCOOP 2013 Main Event Creates 3 New Millionaires After 26 hours of play the PokerStars WCOOP Main Event has finally ended, and three German-born players are now millionaires. The Main Event far exceeding the $8 million guarantee, growing all the way up to a staggering...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 1, 2013 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another WCOOP has come to an end and this one was better than ever! The Main Event saw a record breaking attendance of 2,133 players that created a prize pool of $10,665,500! But this was not the only WCOOP event of the weekend, so let’s take a look at some of the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 24, 2013 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another very exiting weekend is in the books and the action was as hot as ever! Perhaps the biggest event of the weekend was the conclusion of yet another MiniFTOPS series with the $750,000 Guaranteed Main Event being played out. Action at PokerStars was pretty good...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 21, 2013 | Online Casino News, Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars, WCOOP
WCOOP A Massive Success The 12th annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is now past the halfway stage, and all signs point to a record-breaking success. The 66-event series offered a guaranteed $40M in prizes, including an $8M guaranteed Main Event, but it...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 17, 2013 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With the WCOOP and MiniFTOPS in full swing, the excitement is bigger than ever! Just this Sunday more than $7 million in prizes were awarded across the two series! Once again, let’s take a look at this weekends’ biggest winners. Sundays’ WCOOP events were packed...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 10, 2013 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Probably the biggest few weeks of this year in online poker have kicked off this weekend with the start of two popular tournament series. Full Till Poker has kicked off MiniFTOPS, one of the most popular series with affordable buy in’s and big prizes, most of which...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 3, 2013 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Well, that’s it for summer, it’s back to school for kids and back to the grinding felt for pro’s with only fun summer memories to remember for the next 9 months… Even though the end of summer might be a bit depressing for some people, as usual, PokerStars and Full...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 27, 2013 | Online Tournaments
Another FTOPS has come and gone, but don’t worry, high stakes tournament action is far from over. Over the next month you can catch the MiniFTOPS on Full Tilt Poker and the mother of all online tournament series – WCOOP (World Championship Of Online Poker). WCOOP is...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 19, 2013 | Online Tournaments
With the FTOPS Main Event being played out over the weekend, the action was as good as ever on both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars. The Main Event itself attracted 3,327 players, boosting the original $1.5m prizepool to just shy of $2m. But even though this was the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 13, 2013 | Online Tournaments
Unfortunately, summer is inching closer to the end with every passing day, but even though that means less fun outdoors and colder weather, it also means that more and more players will be steadily returning back to the virtual felt to play the best game in the world!...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 5, 2013 | Online Tournaments
Despite August traditionally being the slowest month in online poker with many people preferring the outdoors to a good old poker game, this weekend saw an unexpected spike in attendance at the biggest tournament at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Perhaps this has...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 30, 2013 | Online Tournaments
Just over a day ago the fifth Micro Millions series has crowned its last winner and is now officially in the books. Awarding millions of dollars across a 100 events, the Micro Millions series is quickly becoming one of the most dominant low stakes tournament series in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 22, 2013 | Online Tournaments
In the mid – summer heat big prizes have been dealt out left and right over the weekend on both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. The Sunday Warm – Up and Sunday Million were both won by recently signed up players with less than 300 tournaments played between them....
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 11, 2013 | Online Tournaments
The WSOP Main Event is well under way in Vegas and more than 6,000 players have showed up looking for that one and only Main Event bracelet. But even though action is huge in Vegas, action online never dies as the Sunday Million got almost the same amount of entries...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 2, 2013 | Online Tournaments
Another great weekend across the board on all the major sites with players steadily returning from the WSOP and numbers in the biggest weekend majors increasing just as steadily with their return. As usual action kicked off on Saturday with the first tournament in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 26, 2013 | Online Tournaments
Another online poker Sunday is in the books at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. The two leading online poker rooms were jam-packed with players this week, and several notables were awarded big paydays across the many major events on the schedule. Let start off with...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 5, 2013 | Live Poker Results, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Jonathan Duhamel and Team PokerStars Lead the way Watch the GDAM live on FTR here. The unique GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions event in Macau kicked off at 3pm (CST) with 71 players all paying HKD$1,000,000 for the privilege to play for the top prize of HKD$ 34,600,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 6, 2013 | Online Casino News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Full Tilt Poker has finished the second and final week of events in MiniFTOPS Series XXII. In the end, over 120,000 players competed for over $4 million in prize money. Check out the results below to see the winners of each event. Event #21 PL Omaha Hi Rebuy ($10 +...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 2, 2013 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Ian Simpson took the title yesterday, beating the other 504 players at the €2,000+€250 event held in Dublin over the Easter Weekend. His reward for first place was a very tasty €265,000 for first place, to go with the Title and Trophy. In the future, it’s...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 28, 2013 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
It’s that time of year again for the WBCOOP, and this time round, I’m going to be flying the FTR flag. I’ll also be recording the events for you guys to rip apart my play, and I’ll be setting up some threads in the forum for your responses....
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 8, 2013 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Every weekend, Full Tilt Poker runs some of the largest and most exciting tournaments in online poker. With buy-ins beginning at $22, every player has a shot at earning some cash. Big Money Sundays begin with the Full Tilt Poker Sunday $500K Guaranteed...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 15, 2012 | FTOPS, Online Casino News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
FTOPS XXI, Days 12 and 13 The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XXI continued on Thursday and Friday, with exciting offerings in a number of formats. Despite the reduced docket for the two days, there were only four events total, some serious action took place...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 16, 2012 | Online Tournaments, WSOP
The World Series of Poker Main Event field has dwindled down to the final two tables, with not one but two women players remaining in the event. Gaelle Baumann of France and Elisabeth Hille of Norway are both trying to make history as only the second female player to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 16, 2012 | Online Tournaments, WSOP
The World Series of Poker Main Event field has dwindled down to the final two tables, with not one but two women players remaining in the event. Gaelle Baumann of France and Elisabeth Hille of Norway are both trying to make history as only the second female player to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 9, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WSOP
Brandon Schaefer has won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event 14, the No-Limit Hold’em $1500 Shootout. Schaefer, a Seattle, WA resident, bested a field of more than 1,100 players to take down $311,174 for his efforts in his first WSOP win. A former professional...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 8, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is in full swing! In this first week, 13 of the coveted gold bracelets and millions of dollars in prize money have already been handed out to the few players who were skilled enough, and lucky enough, to cash. So far, Americans...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 15, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker in full swing, there has been plenty of action in the online poker world lately. It seems all of the extra attention on the series has helped bring more players to PokerStars, and there has been a small trickle-down...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 1, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This past weekend served as the proverbial “calm before the storm” that is the lead up to the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker. While Party Poker’s 2012 Poker Fest is in full swing, most other sites saw a bit of a drop-off in tournament...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 24, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
While the biggest news of the week might be PokerStars potential purchase of FullTilt Poker, there was still plenty of action on the felt, as Sunday tournaments continue to be on the rise. Taking the headlines this weekend was the start of Party Poker’s annual...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 17, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This past weekend “celebrated” a big day in the history of online poker. Exactly one year removed from online poker’s Black Friday (April 15th, 2011), players from around the world entered big internet events with even bigger guarantees. While the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 10, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
As we approach the one-year anniversary of online poker’s Black Friday, it is worth noting just how strong online tournaments are today. While the US government effectively shut out their citizens from playing online, the rest of the world has certainly picked...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 3, 2012 | Online Tournaments
This weekend marked another strong showing for online poker tournaments, as most of the Sunday majors were well-attended events. Between Party Poker, iPoker, and Bwin, it seems the European sites are doing quite well for themselves. While they may never catch up to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 27, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Tournament Report is back after a couple week hiatus. Online poker tournaments have continued to thrive in our absence, with prize pools and guarantees being upped across the board. There was also some big new this week as PokerStars announced the schedule for the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 5, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online poker tournaments again saw an uptick in attendance, as some of the biggest fields of 2012 were amassed yesterday. With sites like PokerStars, Bwin, and iPoker all having great days, it seems online tournaments have fully recovered from last year’s...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 28, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another weekend of major poker tournaments is in the books, and once again, it seems tournament attendance and prize pools are on the rise. This past weekend there were two super-sized events, as Bwin bolstered their Sunday championship from $250k to $500k, and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 25, 2012 | High Stakes Rail, Live Poker Results, Online Tournaments, Poker News, WPT
Just one month after his $2 million win at the Aussie Millions High Roller event, Phil Ivey has continued his roll with his shrewd play at the WPT LA Classic. Thanks to a late surge, at the conclusion of day 1 he is sitting in 5th place with 116,300 chips. The chip...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 21, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another Sunday or major tournaments is in the books, and with it, another weekend of massive prize pools and huge first place payouts. Tournament attendance was again up across the board, with sites like Party Poker and PokerStars benefiting the most from another...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 15, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker Law, Poker News, WPT
After 9 hours and 300 hands of final table action, Matt Juttelstad defeated Gigi Gagne heads-up to become the champion of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Gagne, who started the evening as the chip...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 14, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This past weekend marked another milestone for online poker tournaments. For the first time since Black Friday, PokerStars upped the guarantee in a large amount of their Sunday events, including the Sunday500. To celebrate, PokerStars ran two tournaments for each...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 7, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This past weekend was another strong showing for online poker tournaments. While some might have expected action to be down with the Super Bowl on TV, the opposite actually held true. In fact, this past weekend was one of the biggest of the last few months that did...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 31, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another successful weekend of online poker tournaments is in the books. This past Sunday was highlighted by the finale of the PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker, a new series that is comprised mainly of fast-paced tournaments. The Main Event, a $1,500,000...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 25, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online poker tournaments saw a nice 2012 boost last weekend, as each major event flew past their respective guarantees. Unfortunately, it appears the new year excitement may have been short-lived as most events came back down to earth this past weekend. While...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 18, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online poker tournaments continue to be on the rise as this past weekend another set of major tournaments concluded. Even with Black Friday shocking the online poker world, it seems like it has taken less than a year to completely recover. Even more good news could...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 10, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
With the past two Sundays falling on Christmas and New Years, it was easy to see why online tournament attendance had taken a bit of a dip. However, even the NFL playoffs this past Sunday could not keep players away from the Sunday majors. Tournament attendance was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 3, 2012 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The STR would like to wish everyone a happy New Year. The past two weekends have been interesting as Sunday has landed on Christmas and January 1st. This has led to some lower attendance figures on smaller sites like iPoker and BWin. However, there has still been...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 27, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online poker tournaments were a bit down this past weekend as most of the world celebrated the holidays. Sites like Bwin and iPoker both dropped the guarantees on their biggest majors, down to $100k from $200k. While this allowed them to reach their guarantees, it...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 20, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online poker history was made this past weekend as PokerStars celebrated its 10th anniversary in fine fashion. A huge slew of events awaited those wanting to grind Sunday tournaments, including a beefed up Sunday Million with a $10,000,000 guarantee. There was also a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 13, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This past weekend marked another strong period for online poker tournaments. With millions of dollars on the line, some of the best online players in the world gathered to take part in events on Party Poker, iPoker, and PokerStars. While Sunday saw a lot of action,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 6, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
There was plenty of action in the world of online poker events this past weekend. Taking the main stage was a special $1 buy-in event that looked to set the world record for number of entries in a poker tournament. Hosted by PokerStars, the $250,000 guaranteed...
by FTR Poker Admin | Dec 5, 2011 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars
An astounding 200,000 people helped Pokerstars.com, the world’s largest poker site, to make history on Sunday December 4th by participating in the largest poker tournament ever. This event was part of Pokerstars’ ongoing 10th Anniversary celebrations. The...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 29, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Sunday tournaments continued to push onwards towards the end of 2011. It has been quite a rocky year for online poker. With April 15th’s removal of American players from the market, a lot of sites have lost a good chunk of their MTT traffic. On top of this,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 22, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The weekend tournament report comes at you on Tuesday this week. Instead of a full version, we’re going to go with a special Thanksgiving abbreviated write-up. There wasn’t anything too interesting going on in online tournaments this weekend. The biggest...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 15, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Without a major tournament series on the horizon, online poker events are back to their standard tricks. Coming of a strong 2011 Poker Fest, Party Poker was looking to have a big weekend of online MTTs. Their biggest major, the Sunday $200,000 guaranteed, certainly...
by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 8, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This week brings an abridged version of the Sunday tournament report. With the 2011 Party Poker PokerFest coming to an end, there was some decent action spread across a few online poker rooms. The $1,000,000 Main Event was the day’s second largest event, coming...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 31, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
There is much to be optimistic about lately when it comes to online poker tournaments. Coming off a successful WCOOP run by PokerStars, it seems other sites are now keen on getting a piece of the tournament series action. Currently, the world’s 2nd largest...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 25, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
There was a lot of action online this past weekend, highlighted by the start of the 2011 Party Poker Poker Fest. The tournament series kicked off on Sunday and runs all the way through November 6th. There will be plenty of big events with millions of dollars...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 18, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This weekend marked another big promotion from PokerStars as they run multiple majors under the “double vision” promo. Tournaments like the Sunday Warm-Up and Million were actually run twice, with incredible results following. As other online sites have...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 11, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online tournaments continued to roll on this past weekend, as millions of dollars were up for grabs at many popular poker rooms. Sites like Party and PokerStars had strong showings while both the iPoker and Merge Poker Networks continue to struggle to fill their...
by FTR Poker Admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Sunday Tournament Report is back in full force. After three weeks of huge WCOOP events we return to our standard rotation of Sunday majors. It is always interesting to see how the first weekend goes after a major online tournament series. Will events see a nice...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 27, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Once again the Sunday Tournament Report is a bit shortened this week as the 2011 WCOOP was coming to an end. Be sure to check out the FTR News Section for updates on all the tournaments including the $5,000 Main Event. With the WCOOP finally over, it will be...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 20, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
There is a lot going on in the poker world lately. Between the 2011 WCOOP, new developments with FullTilt, and the WSOPE just on the horizon, there is much to talk about. This past weekend online tournaments continued to grow as both attendance and prize pools were...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 12, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
As the second weekend of the 2011 World Championship of Online Poker came to an end, so did a solid day of high-stakes online poker tournaments. Not only was there a lot of action on PokerStars, but sites like Party Poker, iPoker, and Merge Poker had big events...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 11, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald just retired from poker, at age 20. McDonald made his name by winning the EPT Main Event for $1.3 million, and by earning himself a seven figure bankroll in online poker. But months later, he’s right back out of retirement,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Sep 6, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Sunday Tournament Report took the Labor Day holiday off, but we are back today with a recap of all the major happenings from the past weekend in online poker. The 2011 World Championship of Online Poker kicked off, and with it, a renewed interest in internet...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 30, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This past weekend proved to be a bit of a lull in online poker tournaments. Attendance was down across the board, and really showed itself on the European-based sites like iPoker and Party Poker. While PokerStars continues to roll on, the other rooms are showing an...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 23, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
It was another strong weekend for online poker tournaments as Sunday major attendance was up across the board. Sites like Party Poker, Titan, and the Merge Network continue to grow as more and more players return to online poker. The past month has been a strong one...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 22, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Epic Poker League is a brand new event series, featuring an all-star cast of the world’s best tournament poker players. As their first event, the Epic Poker League went all out with promotions, including plastering signage all over the Palms Casino, and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 16, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
We seem to have hit a bit of a lull in online poker tournaments. With the 2011 World Championship of Online Poker three weeks away, and the WSOP squarely in our rear-view mirror, there just is not a lot of buzz around internet poker events. Still, most of the events...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 8, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Another weekend of big online tournaments is in the books. With FullTilt still shut down, the WCOOP on the horizon, and no other major series running, it was up to the standard Sunday events to steal the show. Party Poker was one site looking to do just that as they...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 2, 2011 | Online Casino News, Online Tournaments
It was recently released that Bovada Poker successfully renewed their Secondary Client Provider Authorization (CPA) with the Kahnawake Gaming Commision (KGC) for a period of two years. This is despite the fact that the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC)...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 1, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The online tournament scene is certainly on the upswing. Over the past month online poker events have been growing like wildfire with tournaments rebounding nicely from the April 15th crackdown of American online poker. For a few months tournaments were struggling to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 26, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online tournaments looked to build off of last week’s success that saw nearly every major event surpass their guarantees. The only tournament on the docket that continues to fall short is the $100,000 guaranteed on the Merge Network. Home to rooms such as...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 20, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
If you didn’t get the chance to watch ESPN’s coverage of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event, you missed out. ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN3 have been providing live (no hole cards), semi-live (hole cards), and produced coverage of the event (only the best...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 19, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online tournaments are rebounding nicely since Black Friday shook up the poker world back in April. For awhile tournaments had seen attendance decline steadily before leveling out. Events such as the Party $200k, Bodog $100k, and even the PokerStars500 had been...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 12, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This weekend marked the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. With more than 6,500 players entering the $10,000 buy-in championship it seems poker may not be dying as much as those in the US government would like. Even with many of the world’s...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 5, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online poker tournaments continue to thrive even amidst all the recent turmoil. For those not keeping up with the game lately, FullTilt was shut down last week by the Alderney Gaming Control Commission for certain operational practices. However, it appears FullTilt,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 2, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Already owning a long history of gambling, and a string of warnings from Major League Baseball (MLB) to steer clear of poker, Alex Rodriguez has been implicated in the Tobey Maguire poker ring. Rodriguez joins the A-list of big names involved in the high-stakes, and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 29, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WSOP
Like all soldiers, Ken Griffin was ingrained with a relentless desire to win. In only his third event at the World Series of Poker, that's exactly what he did.
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 28, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online poker tournaments have been in a bit of a holding pattern lately as the 2011 WSOP continues to grab headlines from Las Vegas. However, just because these tournaments have not gotten any bigger, it does not mean there isn’t still millions to play for each...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 24, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WSOP
After four days of raucous play, Mihail Lakhitov emerged as the eventual winner in the 36th event of the 2011 World Series of Poker. Overcoming a field of 1,734 players, Russian-born pro took home an incredible $749,610.
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 21, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Even with the World Series of Poker rolling on from Las Vegas online poker events continued their strong summer push this past weekend. Sunday events were up across the board with FullTilt running a $1,000,000 guarantee highlighting the day’s schedule. Those...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 18, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WSOP
Oleksii Kovalchuk wins Event 26 of the 2011 WSOP.
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 17, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, WSOP
Mark Rodoja has claimed the crown in the World Series of Poker's twenty-fourth event of 2011, taking home $436,568 for his efforts.
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 13, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
As the 2011 World Series of Poker rolls on it would be understandable for online events to get lost in the shuffle. However, with big guarantees and even bigger prize pools there was plenty of action going on this weekend for those busting out of WSOP events early. ...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 8, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
A slightly delayed Sunday tournament report comes at you this week with online events from a handful of sites taking center stage. As the 2011 World Series of Poker has gotten underway online events have slowed a bit with the majority of the professionals in Las...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 8, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Poker players throughout the United Kingdom may be starting to find it difficult to sleep as their excitement mounts in face of the upcoming poker action. The Grand Series of Poker Live Tour Season Two is kicking off in under two months time in Manchester, and will be...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 25, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The online tournament scene was abuzz this weekend with the completion of the 2011 Spring Championship of Online Poker. While millions of dollars were up for grabs on PokerStars, there were still plenty of other big events on other rooms including the Merge Network,...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 23, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
If you are a golf fan, you have been privileged to watch Tiger Woods plying his craft from 1997 until now. Granted, his last 18 months have been marred by personal problems, injuries, and a golf swing that seems to be in constant flux, but on the whole, you and I...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 20, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Gus Hansen has been the story of the 2011 winners. Through the first half of 2011, when it came to professional players’ earnings, he was the far and away the name on top. Black Friday’s repercussions haven’t helped any of the U.S. based players....
by FTR Poker Admin | May 18, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online tournament action has been quite strong lately as the 2011 Spring Championship rolls towards its final week. With PokerStars running the SCOOP it seems all over sites have benefited from extra players being online. Those looking for SCOOP results should...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 16, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Full Tilt Poker Room Management had promised that they would update their US-Based customers on the current status of their cashouts and when they could expect to see their player funds returned. This past Sunday, as promised, they released an update that answered...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 9, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
There is a lot of buzz in the tournament community this week as the 2011 Spring Championship of Online Poker has finally gotten underway. The 38-event, 114 tournament mega-series will have millions of dollars on the line on a daily basis. The 2011 SCOOP runs from...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 4, 2011 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Play at Red Kings now for a chance to win a seat at the 2011 WSOP. From now until June 6th play Red Kings WSOP 2011 satellites for your chance at the big show. Win one of the side event satellites for $300 entry, and you get a prize package worth $3,600 which...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 2, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Sunday Tournament Report has received a necessary face lift since the April 15th crackdown by the US Government. With Americans no longer able to play on PokerStars and FullTilt we will begin focusing our attention on other rooms as well. New to the report this...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 25, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
One week since the aftermath of Black Friday and it appears online tournaments will continue to roll on. With FTOPS XX off to a strong start and the 2011 SCOOP on the horizon there will be plenty of tournament action for those still able to play online. Between...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 19, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
It has been said often that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. That might be true, but no one was prepared for the Black Friday shutdown of three of online poker’s largest sites, at least in terms of their US player bases. In effect, the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 18, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Let’s start with the obvious. The online poker world was blindsided this past Friday when the US Department of Justice along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation indicted six owners of PokerStars, FullTilt, and Absolute/UB along with five parties involved...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 15, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Its tough to imagine a player repeating and winning back to back titles in a high buy-in event these days. The fields are probably tougher than they’ve ever been, the players are busy and can’t always play the same schedules, and the events themselves...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 11, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Online tournaments have hit a bit of a wall lately. After a huge start to 2011, events on both PokerStars and FullTilt have seen their player pools dwindle quite a bit over the past few weeks as promotions and various tournaments serious have come to an end. ...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 10, 2011 | Full Tilt Poker, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Two young phenoms, Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12” Cates, were dueling again as part of the Durrrr Challenge 2 on March 29. This would mark the second time the two played in just a few days. Railbirds were informed via Dwan’s...
by givememyleg | Apr 10, 2011 | Online Tournaments
(TL;DR cliff notes at bottom). On Friday I set my facebook pic to Jamie Gold and I to gain his special powers. And I’ll be damned, it worked. I binked a WSOP ME seat on Saturday and it was quite the ride. Back up to August. My friends and I decided to take a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars
PokerStars was proud to announce that poker sensations Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom were to fight it out in Blom’s SuperStar Showdown. In fact, having Negreanu agree to this caused PokerStars to want to have them...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 4, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
It was a big weekend for FullTilt as their “Doubles Week” was supposed to boost the guarantee of their major events two-fold. Instead, FullTilt decided to go bigger and better, making each major tournament a multi-entry event which allows players to buy-in...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 2, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
As March winds to a close, we are finishing up the first quarter of 2011. 3 months doesn’t seem like such a long time, but in the world of poker, 3 months is enough time to build or lose a fortune several times over. And that’s exactly what the pros have...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 29, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News, PokerStars, WSOP
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit $10,000 Western Regional Championship is well underway, and featured player Daniel Negreanu has made it down to the final 18, finding himself in eighth place. The tournament, being played in San Diego, has a prize pool just...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 28, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
It was quite the interesting day in online tournaments yesterday as some records were broken and new tournaments were broken in. The highlights of the day had to include the $216 $1,500,000 Guaranteed on FullTilt. A tournament which is sure to rival the Sunday...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 22, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
While a lot of attention online yesterday was focused on the Daniel Negreanu, Viktor Blom heads-up match, there were still plenty of players entering major tournaments. With MiniFTOPS XIX finishing up there was all kinds of action on both PokerStars and FullTilt. If...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 17, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Down on your poker luck, who doesn’t think of the famous Jack Straus maxim “a chip and a chair”? Twenty-nine years ago, in the 1982 World Series of Poker tournament, Jack Strauss was reduced to nothing but a $500 chip and his chair. Days later,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 16, 2011 | Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
The Canadian player, who goes by the screen name XWINK on FullTiltPoker, is widely known in the online world as a risk taker. Back in late 2009, he went on a tear in the Ultimate Bet Pot-Limit Omaha games under “XBLINK” after winning an $11 buy-in entry...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 14, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
Coming off a record breaking weekend last week, online tournaments continued their upward trend in 2011 as both FullTilt and PokerStars benefited from the previous weekend’s festivities. Coming off the heels of the Sunday Million 5th Year Anniversary...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 14, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Full Tilt’s Mini FTOPS Series is definitely a place for recreational players to make a big, career-changing score, and usually these events meet or at least come close to meeting their guaranteed prize pools. What they usually don’t do, however, is nearly...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 11, 2011 | FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker, Online Poker News, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Nearly a year after his last big cash, Ylaan emerged as the winner of Full Tilt's MiniFTOPS Event 10.
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 10, 2011 | FTOPS, Online Tournaments, Poker News
Nearly 16,000 players registered for the third event of MiniFTOPS XIX. The event was a $33 Rush Poker tournament. Oh, and you could have bought in multiple times thanks to Full Tilt Poker’s Multi Entry Tournaments. Essentially, it was pure madness as the $100k...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 8, 2011 | Online Tournaments, Poker News
This past Sunday marked perhaps the biggest day in online poker history. With the 5-year anniversary of the Sunday Million leading the charge there was a massive amount of money on the line throughout all poker sites. While each and every PokerStars major benefited...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 8, 2011 | High Stakes Rail, Online Tournaments, Poker News
For poker pro Eric Seidel, 2011 will be a year to remember. Seidel is famous in the poker world for his competitive card skills, and just as famous outside poker for his appearance in the 1998 cult classic “Rounders.” Unlike the 1988 WSOP clip which played...
