Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 20, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 wasRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 16, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 playerRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 16, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 bigRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 04, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 popularRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 03, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 hugeRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 30, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 2010Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 18, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 websiteRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 14, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 04, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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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:Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 18, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Full Tilt is scooping up some of the players likely to receive a lot of attention from the ESPN cameras at this year’s World Series of Poker. Having already inked Annette Obrestad –who is likely to be a major focus of ESPN during the early days of play,Read Full Article