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Welcome back to another week of Red Pro News in which we bring you all the news from the world of the Full tilt Pros.
Full Tilt Pros Pony up 100k in inaugural WPT Super High Roller Tournament
29 players ponied up $100,000 to play in the first ever World Poker Tour Super High roller event. After day one 17 players remain, Vivek Rajkumar leading the Full Tilt representatives with 1,628,000 chips putting him in second place. Kicking at his heels is Erick Lindgren who sits with just 21,000 less in third place. A shortstacked Erik Seidel brings up the chip count rear but it would be foolish to discount the unofficial 2011 High Roller Master from yet another title this year.
First place will take home $1,092,780 for their efforts, play continues today. Follow updates on the World Poker Tour website.
Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger edges out Brian “Stinger885” Hastings in €5,000 Headsup at EPT Grand Final
Andrew Lichtenberger surged through a star studded field in the €5,000 No Limit Hold’em Headsup Championship at the EPT Grand Final in Madrid, Spain. Of the four spots paid Full Tilt Pros took 3 with James Akenhead losing to Brian Hastings in the Semi Finals earning €19,500.
Brian Hastings blogged about his trip over at CardRunners;
“It was on to the finals, where I faced off against Andrew Lichtenberger aka luckychewy. Andrew was the one player in the field whom I really didn’t want to face, as he has way more HUNL experience than me especially in the recent past. He beat me up pretty good in match 1, but I returned the favor in match 2. Match 3 went back and forth for a while before he took control and won it, and in match 4 I got grinded down before getting my last 4500 or so in with 99 vs AQ and losing. Andrew outplayed me and deserved to win, although he was the real fish because the next day he was supposed to go to El Bulli but slept in and missed his flight and couldn’t get there. What a beat! Anyway, I was very happy with my second place finish.”
Jennifer Harman hosts a Charity Tournament
Jennifer Harman is well known for her philanthropy and this weekend she’ll be in attendance at the Peppermill Casino in Reno. This unique charity tournament has a host of celebrity and poker pros in attendance serving as team captains including Andy Bloch, Marco Traniello, Jerry Yang and Mekhi Phifer, just to name a handful.
All money raised will be going to the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Find at more at the Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tour website
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Full Tilt Pros Final Table Wynn Classic
Two Full Tilt Pros final tabled the 2011 Wynn Classic on March 25 at the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas. Eric Froehlich and Annette Obrestad finished fifth and second, respectively.
Froehlich went to the final table with the chip lead, but with Obrestad and other pros such as Tim West, Carter King, and John “Nicolak” Kim at the table it was not an easy table for him to run over. Froehlich pocketed $51,410 from his initial $5,000 buy-in from his fifth place finish. Obrestad last a few spots longer and was heads-up with Tim West for the title and the first place money. Obrestad got all of her chips in the middle with Q-10 against West’s K-9 .When the board ran out Q-6-3-K-9, West took the trophy and the $318,738 first place prize. Obrestad took home $215,922 for her efforts.
Durrrr Loses More Ground to Jungleman in Challenge
Last Friday, Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “Jungleman12” Cates put in a 780-hand session in the second installment of the Durrrr Challenge. They played four tables of $200/$400 no-limit hold’em and Cates won another $270,453 from Dwan, increasing his lead to just over $1.2 million. About 18,000 hands remain in the challenge.
The biggest hand of the match came when Dwan raised the button and called Cates’ three-bet to $4,400. The flop came 5-6-7 and after a flurry of bets and raises, just under $60,000 from each player got into the middle and Cates was all-in. Dwan showed 5-6, giving him two pair, but had to fade a lot of cards against Cates 7-8, giving him top pair and a straight draw. They agreed to run the turn and river twice and Cates won both of them, giving him the biggest pot of the match.
Session summaries and official challenge stats can be found at the Official Durrrr Challenge Page.
Pros Still Alive in WSOP Circuit Regional Championship
The World Series of Poker Regional Championship started on Sunday at Harrahs Rincon in San Diego, California. After one full day of play, there are still quite a few Full Tilt Pros fighting it out for a circuit ring.
Victor Ramdin goes into Monday with 28,275, Scott Montgomery with 54,550, Carlos Mortensen with 87,600, and Steve Brecher has 44,375. Day 2 will take place on Monday, March 28 and the tournament will finish with the final table on Wednesday, March 30.
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In our latest edition of Red Pro News, we said there’d be a few Full Tilt Poker red pros taking part in the “Aid for Japan” Series. We’re happy to announce that Tom “durrrr” Dwan will be hosting the final Aid for Japan Tournament at 16:00 ET on Sunday March 27. The buyin for this tournament is $10+10, with 10 dollars going each the prize pool and the Japanese Red Cross. Full Tilt Poker is matching all donations.
Charity Showdown. Tom “durrrrr” Dwan takes on Don Cheadle in the NBC HU Championship
Alongside the Aid for Japan tournament, durrrr will be hosting a Pro Chat. This will be Tom’s second pro chat since he joined Team Full Tilt. (Here you can read durrrr’s first pro chat.)
Following the tournament, durrrr will be playing the finalist of the Challenge durrrr promotion in four separate heads up SNG’s. Payout schedule:
- Defeat durrrr in one match: $25K
- Win two matches: $50K
- Win three matches: $150K
- Win all four matches: $1.5 million
For each match durrrr wins, Full Tilt Poker will donate $10,000 to the Japanese Red Cross.
For more information on how you can help, check out the Aid for Japan homepage.
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“Aid For Japan” Series
There will sure to be at least a few red pros who take part in our “Aid for Japan” series. There will be tournaments taking place all week up until Sunday March 27 with all tournament fees being donated towards relief efforts in Japan. There will also be “donation only tournaments” that take place on Sunday March 27. These tournaments will not play out and will not have any prize money. All of the money raised through the donation tournaments will also be put towards relief efforts in Japan.
See the Aid for Japan tournament schedule for details.
Mike Matusow and Vivek Rajkumar Final Table Bay 101 Shooting Star Event
Last Saturday, Full Tilt Pro Vivek Rajkumar and Team Full Tilt Pro Mike Matusow both made the final table of the World Poker Tour $10,000 Bay 101 Shooting Star event in San Jose, California.
Rajkumar finished in fourth place for $295,800 and was eliminated when he moved all-in preflop with K-J and was called by Steven Kelly with K-Q. Matusow was eliminated right after Rajkumar in third place which netted him $369,800 in prize money. After Alan Sternberg raised from the button, Matusow moved all-in with 9-2 and was called by Sternberg’s K-Q. A queen on the flop sent Matusow home and Sternberg went on to win the event.
Fabian Quoss Becomes Full Tilt’s Newest Pro
German poker player Fabian Quoss recently inked a deal to become Full Tilt Poker’s latest addition to their stable of red pros. The Nuremberg native has success on the European tournament circuit, with almost all of his results coming from the European tournament scene. His biggest score came from winning the English Poker Open Main Event, good for €220,650 or $340,409.
The young German has almost $1.3 million, more info at the Fabian Quoss hendon mob profile.
Full Tilt’s Team Wins Team Cup Poker
Pascal Perrault, JP Pasqualini, and Aaraon Deets won the first Team Cup Poker in Paris.
20 teams of three represented different online poker sites operating in France. Each team put one member into one of three tournaments, each featuring 20 players from different teams.
Pascal finished 10th in his heat, JP finished sixth in his heat, and online qualifier Aaron Deets won his heat in order to seal the deal for his team.
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Tom Dwan visited the office recently and decided to reply to a few customer service emails…
Follow Tom on Twitter @T0m_Dwan or like him on his Facebook Fan Page for more updates.
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Last Chance to Play Durrrr
The Challenge Durrrr promotion – offering a heads up freeroll versus durrrr for $1.5 million – ends at 23:59 ET Sunday. See the Challenge Durrrr Promo Details, or get the info straight from durrrr himself:
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Caption Contest
Our weekly pro caption contest is over at Andy Bloch’s fan page. Best caption wins a t-shirt, 2nd and 3rd place get 500 FTP points. Deadline to submit a caption is midnight Monday March 14.
100k Fan Freeroll: Facebook.com/FullTiltPoker
The Full Tilt Poker Facebook fan page reached 100,000 fans Saturday morning. To celebrate, Sunday’s Facebook Freeroll will feature a $1,000 prize pool:
Tournament #224303523 — 15:00 ET
Password: First characters of the password will be posted on our Facebook page 20 minutes before the tournament begins. Last three characters are: f89
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Erik Seidel’s Heater continues at the National Heads up Championship
Team Full Tilt Pro Erik Seidel continued his impressive start to the 2011 tournament circuit with wins in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. At the L.A.P.C., Seidel won the $25,000 buy-in high roller event for $144,570 and finished fifth in the $5,000 heads-up event, good for $14,500.
Just a year after finishing second last year, Seidel won six straight heads up matches for the 2011 NBC Heads-Up Championship. While there have been rumblings about the quality of the field, Seidel had no easy road to win $750,000 and the championship ring. Seidel beat Allen Cunningham, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, Vanessa Selbst, and Andrew Robl en route to the championship best-of-three series against 2003 Main Event Champion Chris Moneymaker. Seidel won the first two matches with little drama to clinch the title.
Seidel has now won over $4 million in 2011 alone, enjoying success in events with buy-ins of $25,000 or more. He is on pace to have a year better than Daniel Negreanu had in 2004, considered one of the best years a player has had since the “poker boom.” Negreanu had made 11 final tables in big buy-in events and had $4.5 million in earnings over the course of the year. By comparison, Seidel already has made 7 final tables and has just over $4.3 million this year. Granted, Negreanu didn’t have high roller and super high roller events back in 2004, but it’s clear that Seidel is on pace for one of the best years in poker history.
Los Angeles Poker Classic Main Event
As the World Poker Tour made its annual stop in Los Angeles, Carlos Mortensen finished third in the $10,000 main event, pocketing just over $640,000. Mortensen was looking to become the first player in WPT history to win four titles, but came up short when his top pair couldn’t fend off Andrew Brooks’ open-ended straight flush draw. Team Full Tilt Pro Allen Cunningham also made a deep run in the main event. His eighth place finish was good for $130,750, but not television coverage, which is limited to the final six.
Nosebleed Action
According to HighStakesDB.com, online player “XWINK” has been putting in a ton of volume at the nosebleed pot-limit Omaha tables lately after running $4,000 in his account up to $4 million in four days.
XWINK took on Team Full Tilt Pros Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey, as well as Red Pro Cole South. At one point in a match against Ivey, XWINK had over $1 million on the table in a cap pot-limit Omaha game.
XWINK posted at 2p2 that he had lost $1.2 million in a day, will cash out a “half a mill or something” and will “continue to play to entertain you guys.”
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Hey Tilters. Dave here.
With March Madness just around the corner, we would have liked to do an NBC National Heads up Championship bracket challenge. Unfortunately, the bracket isn’t set yet, and play begins soon after it is. So instead of filling out a bracket, you can win an FTP t-shirt by picking the winner. Here’s how it works:
Leave a comment on this blog post with your (FTP ID in parenthesis). Predict:
– Who will win the National Heads up Championship
– Who will place 2nd
– Who will lose in the semifinals (2 players)
Winning entrant will be whoever correctly picks the winner of the tournament. If more than one entrant guesses the winner correctly, tiebreaker is whoever guesses 2nd place correctly, then the semifinalists.
Deadline to submit a guess is 3pm ET Friday.
As always, prizes will be awarded the Monday following the determination of a winner.
Here are the participants:
George Costanza
Patrik Antonius
Eric Baldwin
David Benyamine
Andy Bloch
Liv Boeree
James Bord
Doyle Brunson
Joe Cada
Daniel Cates
Johnny Chan
Don Cheadle
Nicolas Chouity
Allen Cunningham
Jonathan Duhamel
Annie Duke
Tom Dwan
Peter Eastgate
Eli Elezra
Antonio Esfandiari
Chris Ferguson
Ted Forrest
Phil Galfond
Phil Gordon
Barry Greenstein
Bertrand Grospellier
Joe Hachem
Gus Hansen
Jennifer Harman
Phil Hellmuth
Phil Ivey
Faraz Jaka
John Juanda
Gabe Kaplan
Frank Kassela
Eugene Katchalov
Phil Laak
Howard Lederer
Erick Lindgren
Ayaz Mahmood
Thomas Marchese
Mike Matusow
Jason Mercier
Michael Mizrachi
Sorel Mizzi
Chris Moneymaker
Daniel Negreanu
Scotty Nguyen
Annette Obrestad
Dennis Phillips
Dwyte Pilgrim
John Racener
Greg Raymer
Vanessa Rousso
Kara Scott
Huck Seed
Erik Seidel
Vanessa Selbst
Emmitt Smith
Gavin Smith
Jennifer Tilly
Melburn Whitmire
David Williams
Justin Young
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A quick look at Full Tilt Poker pros in the news, from the week of Monday February 21 – Sunday February 27
NBC National Heads-Up Championship
On Wednesday, the 64 player field the NBC National Heads-Up Championship was announced and 21 Full Tilt sponsored pros made the field.
The first-round pairings will be announced this Thursday, March 3 at a draw party held at Pure, a club at Caesars Palace. The matches will begin the next day and the bracket style tournament will end on Sunday, March 6. This year, however, the buy-in for the invitational tournament has been increased from $20,000 to $25,000. This resulted in a $1.8 million prize pool with first place taking home $750,000 along with the title.
Representing Full Tilt are: Patrik Antonius, David Benyamine, Andy Bloch, Allen Cunningham, Tom Dwan, Eli Elezra, Chris Ferguson, Phil Gordon, Gus Hansen, Jennifer Harman, Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, Mike Matusow, Michael Mizrachi, Annette Obrestad, John Racener, Huck Seed, Erik Seidel and Gavin Smith.
Stay tuned for an NBC Heads Up Bracket Challenge…
WPT Los Angeles Poker Classic
The WPT LA Poker Classic Main Event got underway this past weekend and there are still a few Full Tilt Pros in contention for the title.
Nikolay Evdakov and Carlos Mortensen are 9th and 10th in chips heading into day 4 on Monday with 583,000 and 557,000 in chips, respectively. Allen Cunningham has 375,000 and Michael Mizrachi is near the bottom of the chip counts with just 54,000 in his stack. All 63 players who made it to day 4 are guaranteed $22,230, with a shot at the first place prize of $1,654,120. A champion will be determined March 3.
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Full Tilt Poker looking for best of the best to battle Tom “durrrr” Dwan
Dublin, Ireland (February 24, 2011) Full Tilt Poker is offering players the chance to Challenge durrrr for up to $1.5 million in prize money. Starting February 26th, the top online poker room is looking for a worthy challenger to play heads-up against Team Full Tilt member and internet poker sensation, Tom “durrrr” Dwan.
Challenge durrrr offers players at all stakes the opportunity to earn the right to face durrrr in a high-stakes showdown at Full Tilt Poker.
In order to determine the best of the best, players must undertake a series of online challenges to prove their abilities in Ring Game, Tournament, Matrix and Heads Up Challenges, as well as displaying their capability to play multiple tables at the same time.
To start, players across all stakes must display ring game proficiency by earning a Leaderboard spot with their best 500 consecutive qualifying hands through Sunday, March 13th. Leaderboard chips are acquired by winning pots while playing at least two No Limit Hold ‘em or Pot Limit Omaha ring game tables simultaneously or one Rush Poker* table.
Players who make it on to a Leaderboard will receive a Full Tilt Points multiplier for all Full Tilt Points they earn in qualifying hands.
Top Leaderboard finishers must then display their tournament abilities in order to move on to a $25K Matrix Tournament, composed of four concurrent Sit & Gos. The player who earns the top Matrix score will take on durrrr in four simultaneous heads-up Sit & Gos on Sunday, March 27th, with a grand prize of $1.5 million on the line.
To take part in Challenge durrrr, players must elect to participate in the promotion through the Full Tilt Poker software. Round one runs between February 26th and March 13th.
For more information about Challenge durrrr and how to participate, please visit: Challenge durrrr or Challenge durrrr rules
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