Poker pro Shaun Deeb made a nice score on Sunday taking down the Full Tilt Poker $750k Guaranteed tournament; collecting a cool $132,787.50 for the win –I guess it’s safe to say that his retirement from tournament poker in late 2009 is now officially over! With more than a $70k overlay the tournament was one of the best values on Sunday. The main reason for the overlay was that Sunday was the first day of the WCOOP at PokerStars, andRead Full Article

The Full Tilt Poker Merit Cyprus Classic kicked off on Wednesday with two tournaments, most notably the $25k High-Roller tournament, which drew an impressive 36 entrants, creating a total prize-pool of $900,000. Some of poker’s biggest names entered the tournament, and after one day of play it was Full Tilt Poker pro David Benyamine on top of the leader-board. In all, 24 players survived Day 1 play including 2009 November Nine member Phil Ivey, 2010 November Nine member Mike “TheRead Full Article

The #2 online poker site in the world, Full Tilt Poker, has announced a new promotion that will further boost the number of tables running at all hours of the day: Full Tilt Poker is now offering double Full Tilt Poker Points –known as ‘Happy Hour’—for any player who participates in a short-handed game. The promotion will run for the entire month of August, and is available around the clock, giving players a great opportunity to accumulate a mountain ofRead Full Article

Every second Sunday until October 24th, Full Tilt Poker will host the Little Big Poker Tournament, a $2 buy-in multi-table tournament with a massive $9,000 guaranteed prize-pool. The tournament is designed to give small-stakes and new poker players a chance to compete with the atmosphere of the big Sunday tournaments. This innovation has been a long time coming in the online poker world, and unlike many of their competitors, Full Tilt Poker –the world’s second largest online poker room– hasRead Full Article

It’s hard to believe that the 17th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is set to begin on Wednesday August 4th 2010. The 34 tournament series will have a total guaranteed prize-pool of some $19 million, a number which is typically surpassed as players flock to the popular online poker room in hopes of winning one of the huge tournaments. An exciting new wrinkle to the popular online poker tournament series is the inclusion of six Rush Poker tournaments –FullRead Full Article

High-stakes online poker fans got a nice treat this weekend when one of the nosebleed’s prodigal sons returned to action; no not Isildur1, but Martonas. For those of you who don’t know, Martonas was the Isildur1 before Isildur1. Both players are hyper-aggressive, always produce big pots and huge swings, and are anonymous –with some people even thinking they are the same person. In his return Martonas’s main adversary was URnotINdanger2 with the two playing $50/$100 PLO, and later on high-stakesRead Full Article

Full Tilt Poker may not have declared who their three sponsored players at the 2010 World Series of Poker final table will be, but they have decided to sign James Dempsey as the newest member of Team Full Tilt. Dempsey had a coming out party at the 2010 WSOP, which made him a very hot commodity in the poker world. The 27 year-old poker pro from Brighton, England had a terrific 2010 WSOP where he not only won his firstRead Full Article

When the 2nd most heavily trafficked poker site in the world sent out an e-mail to its members it became the first major online poker room to fully back Internet poker legislation. The E-Mail sent by Full Tilt Poker directs players to a new area on the website titled “Stand Up For Poker” in which players are asked to contact their specific representatives either through e-mails, through Twitter, or by phoning their offices. Much like the Poker Players Alliance, FullRead Full Article

Lacey Jones wasn’t a poker free agent for very long; after parting ways with Absolute Poker last month the poker pro and hostess has signed with Full Tilt Poker. Jones’s departure from Absolute Poker seemed to be on very good terms, considering she has spent a number of years as an Absolute Poker sponsored player, but it was clear to most involved that the sought after hostess would quickly swell the ranks of either PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker. FullRead Full Article

The recent history of Brian Townsend has not been very good, with rules violations, suspensions, and plenty of blowback and rumors. Earlier this week Townsend took to his blog to declare he would be leaving Cardrunners as a lead instructor, citing the amount of time he puts in: “There is a lot that goes into being involved in the running of a small business while also playing poker full time and having a life outside of poker. It can beRead Full Article