Full Tilt Poker is offering all their players a great opportunity to take home large amounts of cash in small buy-in tournaments. The miniFTOPS will feature twenty-five events of varying formats including razz 6-max, Pot Limit Omaha re-buy, PLO knockout, HORSE, Stud/8, 7 games among others. The first event will be a No Limit Hold’em… Read more »
The biggest guaranteed tournament on Party Poker is held once a month and it has a notable one million dollars at stake. The best part of it all is that players have plenty of opportunities to enter the tournament for a fraction of the complete buy-in. Satellites are hosted daily for the entire month preceding… Read more »
Cake Poker will be rewarding players even more with their new Instant Rewards program called Gold Stacks. All players have to do is play on regular ring game tables. There are a total of fifty levels in the Gold Stacks promotion and players will advance through them by earning gold chips and creating stacks. The… Read more »
Isildur1 had been absent from the high stake tables after losing much of the money he’d won from players like the Full Tilt Pro Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Ilari “ziigmund” Sahamies and others. After all, losing more than six million dollars in less than thirty days requires some soul searching. What might have been going through… Read more »
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour has ended their scheduled for this year with total success. The last event was scheduled to be played out at the Star City Casino in Sydney. A total of 396 players entered the tournament which created a prize pool that exceeded $2.1 million. The first place winner would take home… Read more »
Sunday was another big day at PokerStars and even though players around the world are traveling and making arrangements to spend the holidays with their loved ones, they found the time to try to score some extra money in the big guarantees tournaments over the weekend. The Sunday Million had a total of 8,626 players… Read more »
The Sunday Brawl on Full Tilt Poker guarantees $350K, but with the massive field of players this past Sunday, the prize pool grew in excess of $585K. The top prize was $118K but when there was only four players remaining in the tourney, the game was stopped and a deal was reached. El Spewtardo won… Read more »
The top poker rooms around the world offer their own championship events each year. PokerStars hosts the WCOOP events, Full Tilt the FTOPS, Titan Poker the ECOOP, and Absolute Poker and its sister site Ultimate Bet host the UBOC in January. The UBOC events feature a total of eighteen tournaments over a twelve day period.… Read more »
One of the toughest challenges for a poker player is dealing with an inevitable downswing. Recently, that’s exactly what Full Tilt Pro Tom “durrrr” Dwan is going through. One of the popular topics on poker forums lately has been whether or not durrrr has what it takes to overcome multimillion dollar downswings. Despite all the… Read more »
The ECOOP V tournaments started on Monday November 23rd at Titan Poker and each tourney has been a complete success. 80% of the guaranteed prize pools have been exceeded and competition has been fierce at the virtual felts. This weekend will mark the end of the tournaments, thus there will be more than $1.9 million… Read more »
Cake Poker has put together a promotion that will have more than $50K in cash prizes for the holidays. The ‘Reindeer Games’ will be held from December 20th to the 27th and the prizes will vary depending on the tournament. The first two tournaments will be held on December 20th, with the first one will… Read more »
Players who enjoy participating in Sit&Go’s will have a unique opportunity to enter the Sit&Go madness promotion that Full Tilt is starting today after 4 pm ET. To take part in the promotion, players will have to look for the Sit&Go’s highlighted in green. The tournaments will range from $1 buy-ins up to $110. The… Read more »
The ladies event at the APPT Sydney brought a total of 39 players to the felts, including some of the best female players from the region entered the tournament. At six thirty am the heads-up battle ended and Lorinda Bolus had outplayed the other 38 players in the tournament for $7,800, while Sarah Lee took… Read more »
The European Poker Tour event in Prague has been a complete success as a huge field of players showed up to try and earn some extra holiday money. A total of ninety five players will be returning for day three, and only twenty four of them will survive the day and return tomorrow. Day two… Read more »
Ultimate Bet has an interesting promotion for all their players this December. Players who sit at specific poker tables will be earning double Ultimate Points. The promotion will only run six hours a day, from 1-4 am to 1-4 pm from Monday to Saturday. The promotion will also be available on Sundays from 1-4 am,… Read more »
ESPN has implemented a ranking for the top poker players in the world. The ranking will take in consideration online play as well as live games and tournament results on a monthly basis. A group of poker experts will carry out the difficult task of voting for the top players each month on a board… Read more »
Party Poker is constantly changing, and because their focus is on user experience they have implemented new features. Some of the new features will help players track stats on their performance as well as on their opponents. The main feature is in beta version called Staking Console. The main objective of the feature is to… Read more »
Day 1B ended with Norwegian player Marius Heine in the chip lead with 162,700 and he certainly hopes his luck will extend into day two of the tournament. The event in Prague has grown into one of the biggest tournaments on the EPT schedule, with a total of 586 players entered the tournament this year… Read more »
The Star City Casino is playing host to a large crowd today, many of whom are PokerStars pros. Players in the field will share the tables with pros like: Joe Hachem, Peter Eastgate, Celina Lin, Grant Levy, Jonathan Lin, Emad Tahtoug, Raymond Wu, Tony Hachem, Dan Schreiber, Bryan Huang and Tae Jun Noh. Other notable… Read more »
In the upcoming days, Titan Poker will be celebrating their two billionth hand by putting thousands of dollars up for grabs in several promotions. The first promotion that will be awarding cash prizes is called Golden Hands and it will award cash prizes every 500,000 hands with the countdown starting at 1,990,000,000. Prizes will depend… Read more »
Ultimate Bet and its sister site Absolute Poker recently made some important changes to their poker client, with their focus mainly on creating a better user experience with their software. Thus, they implemented the use of avatars which make identifying specific tournaments easier on the eye. Among the many changes that Ultimate Bet has implemented… Read more »
The APPT Sydney main event and the High Roller tournament started yesterday. Last year’s champion in the High Roller, Australian Jarred Graham, is back this year for another shot at the title and big prize pool. He started the tournament in great shape and eventually got heads-up against George Moussa. Moussa was not able to… Read more »
Isildur was in the spotlight yesterday in a session that lasted for hours. A total of seventeen players took part in the epic session and millions of dollars changed hands. It seems like Isildur’s performance has been in constant decline, and although his best game is still No Limit Hold’em, he continues to play Pot… Read more »
A total of 119 players managed to overcome a very tough day at the poker tables in Prague, and a new group of players has arrived to compete in Day 1B. Day 1B brought many experienced players and well known pros to the tables, including Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Dario Minieri, William Thorson, Johnny Lodden, Sebastian… Read more »
Railbirds are getting a kick out of all the action that Isildur is providing at the high stake tables at Full Tilt. In his most recent session, he has played against Ilari “ziigmund” Sahamies, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Brian Townsend and others. His volume of play is incredible and the amount of hours he has spent… Read more »
