Every Full Tilt Poker Pro is shown in red letters and this might happen to Mr. Durrr pretty soon. Of course these are only speculations but rumors are spread that he could sign as Full Tilt Pro in the near future. Nobody knows why Tom Dwan doesn’t have a sponsor already. He’s one of the most popular and successful players and even unknown players can get a sponsor nowadays. But Durrr has none and the reason might be that he’sRead Full Article
I know this is nothing to do with Poker, or at least very little, but a good friend of mine who loves bingo is devastated by this news. So this is for you. My friend has one of the biggest online bingo bonus sites, so if your a bingo fan pop past. U.K’s biggest Bingo hall is closing the doors to six of its bingo halls. Coral’s Gala Bingo will shut up six of it’s Bingo hall’s all over theRead Full Article
PSOP 09 – 24th August – 8th September The Paradise Series of Poker in association with The International Club is officially underway. £1k Main Event With a capacity of 400 and with Paradise Poker adding £10,000; the Main Event’s potential prizepool of £410,000 is sure to attract large numbers, among them some of the biggest names on the circuit. Day 1A begins on Saturday September 5th with the final table scheduled to play out on Tuesday the 8th. Satellites NowRead Full Article
Kevin Schaffel, riding a wave of success after making the WSOP Main Event final table, went into yesterday’s WPT Legends of Poker final table with a commanding chip lead. That said Schaffel knew he had his work cut out for him at a final table that featured top poker pros “Toto” Leonidas and Prahlad Friedman; both of whom have won WSOP bracelets. In the end it was Friedman who took home the WPT crown (his first) after defeating Schaffel inRead Full Article
GrinderX Poker Forum has slowly been increasing in stature, and has become know for the great Tournaments it holds for its Poker Playing forum members. The Poker Forum prides itself on giving as much back to its loyal members as possible. Poker Freeroll So to continue in GrinderX’s usual fashion they have set up a $110 freeroll just for its members. Over recent times, GrinderX has became famous for the excellent tournaments they organize. Last month they had two fantasticRead Full Article
23 year-old Frenchmen Adrien Allain was crowned the champion after outlasting 325 other top poker players, and a tough final table that included poker superstar JC Tran (Tran finished in third place). The win netted Allain over $391,556. Allain won his way into the event through a $5 satellite tournament on PKR Poker where he plays under the name of “zlatan35”. The win seemed to surprise the young Allain more than anyone: “I’m overwhelmed, this is so wonderful. I qualifiedRead Full Article
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Party Gaming are close to purchasing the WPT from under Gamynia noses. Gamynia who put in a bid earlier this month looked close to closing the deal. However with Party Gaming coming in with a better offer, it looks like WPT is set to move to the Party Gaming brand. Party Gaming the company that owns also Party Poker, which before the UIGEA was the largest online poker network, has confirmed they have put in a bid worth over $15Read Full Article
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is a massive series of online poker tournaments that Full Tilt Poker hosts every August. It’s comparable to the World Series of Poker in that there are a lot of tournaments held in a short amount of time and millions of dollars are given away in prize money. This summer’s event, the FTOPS XIII, awarded more than $16,000,000 to its participants. This year’s FTOPS consisted of 25 tournaments, including a mix of noRead Full Article
Full Tilt Poker made a big to-do with their 5th anniversary celebration. The festivities were suppose to culminate with the #2 online poker site breaking the Guinness Book of World Records, record for the largest online poker tournament, which was owned by their chief rival PokerStars. The only problem was PokerStars was unwilling to go quietly into the night, and the #1 online poker site decided to throw together a record-breaking tournament of their own: On the same day asRead Full Article
The Betfair Poker, Caesar’s Cup is set to run along with this years WSOPE. The Caesar’s Cup Team event, which has a similar format to Golf’s Ryder Cup where the American’s take on the Europeans, will start on September 26th. However, with over a month to go, captains for each team have already been chosen. The Americans have chosen Daniel Negreanu as their team captain, plus also confirmed Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey and John Juanda as the other members ofRead Full Article




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