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We asked some members of Team Full Tilt the following question:
“What is the strangest, funniest, and/or most amazing thing you have ever seen at a poker table?“
Tom Dwan, Phil Gordon, and Howard Lederer’s responses are below. We’d like to open it up to our readers, so leave a comment on this blog post with your own stories from the poker table. Make sure you leave your (FTP ID in parenthesis). Top 3 responses will win FTP t-shirts.
Competition ends Wednesday April 6th at midnight ET, winners announced Thursday.
Comment below with your story!
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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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We recently published a list of all the Full Tilt Pro’s twitter accounts and now we have put together a similar list for all the Pros Facebook Fan Pages. The pages are updated with everything from photos and videos to interviews and tips.
You will need to log into Facebook to see the pages.
Howard Lederer
Phil Ivey
Chris Ferguson
John Juanda
Jennifer Harman
Phil Gordon
Erick Lindgren
Erik Seidel
Andy Bloch
Mike Matusow
Gus Hansen
Allen Cunningham
Patrik Antonius
Tom Dwan
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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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Here are some behind the scenes photos of the video shoot for the announcement of the Onyx Cup.
Tom Dwan, Erik Seidel, Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, and Ali Nejad during the question and answer session.
Tom Dwan and Erik Seidel compare notes.
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Erik Seidel Tops All-Time Money List
A few months ago, Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu were trading spots at the top of poker’s all-time money list. Now, after just two and a half months and almost $4.5 million in earnings since the start of the new year, Erik Seidel now sits atop the list with $14,697,297 in tournament earnings. At the end of last year, Seidel was in 11th place on this list and was able to jump 10 spots to no. 1 during his torrid start to the year.
Other Full Tilt Pros in the top 20 of the list include Phil Ivey (third), John Juanda (sixth), Allen Cunningham (tenth), Carlos Mortensen (12th), and Chris Ferguson (20th).
Several Full Tilt Pros Commit to Onyx Cup Series
Erik Seidel, John Juanda, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, and Chris Ferguson have committed Full Tilt’s newly launched Onyx Cup Series.
The Onyx Cup Series will consist of six “high roller” tournaments that will range in buy-ins between $100,000-$300,000. The locations have yet to be finalized, but the six events will take place in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The first five events will be considered preliminary events and the series will end with the $250,000 buy-in Onyx Cup Grand Finale, which will have $1 million added to the prize pool.
It is being estimated that there will be an overall prize pool of $30 million for the entire series. The series will also have a leaderboard system which will keep track of points for all six tournaments. The winner of the leaderboard will get the Onyx Cup Series trophy and will also be awarded a luxury sports car.
Ali Nejad sat down with a few Team Full Tilt Pros to ask them about the excitement around the upcoming series.
XWINK Continues Drawing Attention at Nosebleeds
The mysterious Canadian known as “XWINK” has continued to drive action at the nosebleed stakes on Full Tilt Poker. According to highstakesdb.com, he won $300,000 last Thursday playing $300/$600 and $500/$1000 PLO against Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, and Andreas “skjervoy” Torbergsen.
XWINK followed up Thursdays win with a massive loss on Friday. Highstakesdb.com reports that the unknown Canadian lost $1 million playing $300/$600 and $500/$1000 PLO. The biggest winners from XWINK’s losses were Daniel “Jungleman12” Cates and “NoPasaran.” Cates won almost $340,000 and NoParasan won about $430,000. XWINK admitted to Cates in the chat that he was “so tilted it’s not even funny.” Highstakesdb has more of their chat dialog.
A message from The Micros
The Micros have seen a connection with Erik Seidel’s appearance on the show a few months ago and his recent run…
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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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This post will feature all the questions that our Facebook and Twitter followers asked our pros. It will be updated as more questions are answered.
bolivian666 and jmbc888 asked the following questions of durrrr (winning 1,000 FTP points in the process):
Tom Dwan Interview
Full Tilt: Is the $11million dollar pot in Macau true?
Tom Dwan: No it’s not.
Full Tilt: Can you at least tell us this, is the biggest pot you ever won or lost from Macau?
Tom Dwan: Ya its now from Macau, yes.
Full Tilt: Can you tell us the amount?
Tom Dwan: No, but it was pretty decently sized.
(Want more durrrr? Durrrr talks about Challenge durrrr.)
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