The popular poker training site CardRunners has inked two-time Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) event winner Mickey “mement_mori” Petersen. The new arrival owns the top spot in the Bluff Online Poker Player of the Year leaderboard and is the fifth ranked player on PocketFives.com.
Petersen is fresh off a win in a $216 No Limit Hold’em Rush tournament held during FTOPS XVII. He banked $37,000 in the process and outlasted a field of 778 entrants. In the previous FTOPS, which played out just before the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Petersen took down a $216 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max event for $86,000. Two FTOPS jerseys later, he finds himself in elite company.
In May, Petersen officially placed second after chopping a $2,100 No Limit Hold’em Big Antes tournament during the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) for $169,000. That tournament drew a talented field of 590 players and those who finished in the money included Ravi “govshark2” Raghavan, Justin “Boosted J” Smith, DoylesRoom Brunson 10 member Steve “gboro780” Gross, and WSOP bracelet winner Corwin “mig.com” Mackey.
Also in May, Petersen final tabled a SCOOP $1,050 Rebuy event for another $72,000. He owns the second largest PLB score on PocketFives.com, but his 10th place in the Pro Poll drags him down to #5 worldwide behind Gross (#1), Chris “Getting Daize” Oliver (#2), Adam “Squee451” Sherman (#3), and Taylor “taypaur” Paur (#4).
Petersen has already submitted a video to CardRunners covering the $100 Rebuy, one of the most challenging online poker tournaments in existence. He starts in eighth place out of nine players at the final table and text found on the training site details the video’s contents: “It’s not every day that one of the world’s top tournament players decides to drop in and upload a video. So it must be the dawn of a new era at CR… mement_mori brings you his full analysis from the final table of a $100 Rebuy. Starting 8/9 at the FT, he shows you how he works his magic and maneuvers his stack.”
Petersen joins a talented team at CardRunners that includes rumored Durrrr Challenge participant “JungleMan12” and John “Jimmy Legs” Wray, who produces the popular “Brian Fail” series. Wray, who authored a popular strategy article for Poker News Daily entitled “Poker and the Endowment Effect,” released the eighth installment of “Brain Fail” on Monday. This week’s edition focuses on why players like Phil Ivey have managed to keep a low profile despite record winnings.
CardRunners also operates TrulyFreePokerTraining.com, which offers free poker training for players on Full Tilt. 5,500 Full Tilt Points, or FTPs, will get you one month of free CardRunners training. In addition, partial memberships are available in 25% increments. The best part is that no FTPs are deducted from a player’s account; instead, they are merely a way to keep track of activity on the virtual felts.
In an interview posted on CardRunners’ website, Petersen explained the significance of winning a pair of FTOPS jerseys: “It’s pretty cool because by now FTOPS has run so many times that a lot of the good players have won one. Two, however, is a way smaller and more exclusive club. Hopefully I can add another one to the collection next time it runs.” Only a handful of players have ever accomplished the feat.
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