FTOPS XVI Event #17 kicked off Wednesday with a $216 Cashout NL Holdem tournament. 1491 players took part in the event with only 72 players finishing in the money. The reason behind the small number of money finishers is due to the cashout nature of the event. There were two prize pools. [...]
Category : Gossip, High Stakes Poker, Online Poker, Poker News, Poker Pros, Ziigmund, poker
Pokertube.com just did three interviews recently with some power players from the high stakes scene and poker industry. The first one is with Patrik Antonius of Full Tilt Poker.
Patrik compliments his nemesis Ziigmund for his play, yet criticizes his poker etiquette. He goes on to say how Ziigmund always beats him no matter [...]
Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, and Brian Townsend are all common names when discussing the highest online games in the world, and this game is no different. The three of them sat down at one of Full Tilt Poker’s 7-Game tables with $1500/$3000 limits to battle it out. Right into action, which is no surprise [...]
Category : High Stakes Poker, Online Poker, Phil Ivey, poker
While high stakes poker seems exciting, many times the reality turns out to be that you are just doing a glorified bit of grinding. Let’s take for instance a session that Phil Ivey had at a couple of $1,500 – $3,000 7-Game tables. Ivey took down a series of really massive pots, but [...]
Category : Online Poker, Texas Holdem Poker, poker
Rush Tournament Strategy
Full Tilt Poker has taken their revolutionary Rush Poker to the next level with Rush Poker tournaments. The new tournament format kicked off on Friday with several events on the site. Full Tilt also announced that three upcoming FTOPS events will be Rush Poker tournaments. Of course, many of you [...]
Category : Online Poker, Texas Holdem Poker, poker
Full Tilt Poker has just released Rush Poker Tournaments to compliment the Rush cash games. This is really good news for players who are tournament specialist, who haven’t been able to get the Rush experience. Now it’s on! Full Tilt players can get the volume of hands needed to grow experience [...]
Category : Online Poker, poker
If you play enough Texas Holdem Poker, then you know that there is always an argument going on whether Limit Holdem or No-Limit Holdem is the superior game. Regardless of where you stand on this debate, one fact remains and that is the two games are vastly different. Let’s take a look at [...]
Category : Brian Townsend, High Stakes Poker, Online Poker, poker
Big mixed games went off on this last holiday weekend at Full Tilt Poker. Three big name pros sat down to play the biggest 7-Game on the net. Brian Townsend, Patrik Antonius, and Gus Hansen took at each other in these hands.
Our first big hand of the day saw Gus Hansen win a Razz [...]
The first three months of 2010 has provided some epic matchups nearly every week during Sunday Night H.O.R.S.E. poker. We have seen former champions return to glory, red pros step up and show why they are the best, and virtual unknowns go on amazing runs to take down what is one of the most [...]
Tom Dwan aka Durrrr just posted on his blog about playing 500/1000 with Ilari Sahamies screen name Ziigmund and winning 800k. It appears that Tom Dwan has just filmed a few commercials for Full Tilt Poker. In the teaser that was posted, Tom Dwan is looking in the mirror and sees other Full [...]