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The New Full Tilt Poker!
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Bloggers Corner
Good day Tilt-Land, it’s been a long while since I’ve written a post. With so much going on these days at Full Tilt Poker, the powers that be decided to let me out of my cage for a few minutes to tell everybody what’s happening.
First off, our website has been redesigned! We’ve given the site a major face lift so it has a sleek new look and feel. Go to www.fulltiltpoker.com and check it out for yourselves.
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Tags: Friday Night Fights, FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker Academy – Learn How to Play Poker with the Pros!
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail, Full Tilt Poker Academy
Full Tilt Poker has just launched a completely unique comprehensive poker training experience, the Full Tilt Poker Academy. Watch the Pros and members of Team Full Tilt as they present poker lesson videos, strategy tutorials, quizzes and tests, and challenges which incorporate what you’ve learned. If you wish to go even deeper, there are complete courses designed to take your game to the next level. You have seen Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Phil Gordon, and all the other Full Tilt Pros for years, but now you can interact with them through a personalized curriculum taught by the best in the game. Learn how to play poker with the Pros.
If you already play on FullTiltPoker.com, use your exisiting login details, and simply sign up here, it’s free to join.
Update: You can follow along as we go through different lesson and challengs from the Full Tilt Poker Academy in some other posts below.
Full Tilt Poker Academy – A First Look
Full Tilt Poker Academy – First Challenge
Full Tilt Poker Academy – Bankroll Management Challenge
Full Tilt Poker Academy – Pre-flop Play Challenge
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Tags: Full Tilt Poker Academy
FTOPS X Final Table Video
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
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Tags: FTOPS, Online Poker
The Phan-tastic Voyage
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Bloggers Corner
Greetings and salutations to everyone out there in Tilt-land, it’s been a long while since I’ve made a post. The powers that be finally decided to let me out of my cage – let’s just call it some time off for good behavior (plus, the electroshock therapy machine has broken down from overuse).
I write to you today on the heels of the announcement that Full Tilt Poker pro© John “The Razor” Phan has won the Card Player 2008 Player of the Year award. To say that John has been on fire this past year is something of an understatement. He’s had perhaps one of the best years in the history of tournament poker, winning two WSOP bracelets, one WPT title and over $2 million in combined prize money. For those of you counting at home, $2 million is still a lot of money – even with the dollar being at about the same level as the Thai baht – especially if you get paid out in one dollar bills (strip club, here I come!). Coolio ain’t got nothing on John, let’s recap the Phan-tastic voyage that was 2008:
• Mr. Phan-tastic started his great run by making the final table of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars event in March, finishing in 6th place. He also came in 5th at the WPT Bellagio Cup IV in July, adding another final table to his resume.
• But it wasn’t until the WSOP started up that John really caught en fuego. He won two events, thus fulfilling his contractual obligation as a poker player to have at least one article of bling on each wrist (or is that for gangsta rappers only?). John’s first bracelet came in the $3K No-Limit Hold ‘em event, and then one week later took down the $2,500 Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Lowball event. Not bad Johnny boy, not bad at all.
• And yet he wasn’t finished with his slicing and dicing (you know, because he’s “The Razor” and all, never mind) of the tournament circuit. The Phan-tastic one decided to finally win one of those damned WPT events, taking down the Legends of Poker tournament in August for more than $1 million (which is approximately equivalent to about 300 Euros).
At this point, I believe it’s accurate to say that John Phan is certainly the hottest player who makes a living playing the pokers these days. And he just might be one of the best as well. So let’s all raise our metaphorical glasses and toast the sharpest poker player out there – this one’s for you John.
If you’d like to learn more about John Phan, please visit his pro site (and no, I’m not just saying that because I have to). And now, it’s time for me to head back to my cage. Merry Christmas, chappy Chanukah, krazy Kwanza and frivolous Festivus to you all…
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Biggest Online Pot, Ever – Ivey vs. Juanda
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
And for a sneak peak for all our readers, slowly coming out from under the wraps, the beta version of the Full Tilt Poker Hand Re-player. You will be seeing this starting to pop up around the site a bit more.
Phil Ivey and John Juanda get wrapped up in the largest online poker hand to date.
October 26, 2008, $500/$1000 No Limit Hold’em.
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Million Dollar Cash Game Mania!
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Bloggers Corner
The Million Dollar Cash Game is taking place right now in London, and our brother in Full Tilt Poker blogging Michael Craig is there now live blogging the action on his Full Tilt Poker Blog. I’d suggest that all you high-stakes poker fans out there go check out Michael’s posts and get a taste of the action for yourselves. I personally enjoyed this post on Phil Ivey basically pwning Mike Matusow’s soul. Poor Mikey, you were running so good during the Series and then this had to happen. We feel for you buddy, but you can’t let Ivey into your head like that.
For those of you who live in Europe, you’ll be able to watch the Million Dollar Cash Game on Sky Sports starting next January, so keep an eye out for that. As for the rest of you, well, this is why YouTube was invented…
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Tags: Michael Craig, Million Dollar Cash Game
Welcome to Poker From The Rail
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Bloggers Corner
Welcome to Poker From The Rail, a poker blog brought to you by Full Tilt Poker. We aim to give our readers the best in poker news, entertainment, pro interviews and somewhat intelligible blogger-iffic rants. We’re also extremely pleased to host Bond18 on his poker quest as he travels Around the World in 90 Days, as well as AlCantHang and his band of Bloggers on the Rail as they dissect the inner-workings of this little game we like to call poker. Al has some great posts from guest bloggers lined up; don’t miss out on this taste of poker blogging at its finest.
This new and improved version of The Rail has a few features that did not exist in our previous incarnation:
- We now have a five-star rating system, so be sure to rate each post that you read.
- You’re also now free to leave a comment about any individual post or the blog as a whole. You don’t have to be nice, but we tend to respond better to constructive criticism. If your comment is too crude or insulting, we will not publish it.
- Our new related posts feature automatically generates a list of related posts at the end of each post. So if you like a post, be sure to check out one of the related posts, you might enjoy that one as well.
- If you do enjoy a post, you can now share it with a friend using Digg, Sphinn, del.icio.us, Facebook, Mixx or Google.
- You can now view the most popular or highest rated posts by looking in the sidebar, as well as find the post you’re looking for by author or category.
This is the new Poker From The Rail, now loading in under five minutes. Enjoy…
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The Week at FTP: A Friendly WSOP Reminder
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Hi folks, there’s one quick thing I forgot to mention in yesterday’s post. Don’t forget to check out ESPN’s coverage of the World Series of Poker, airing tonight. They kicked off the festivities last week with Event #1, the $10K Pot-Limit Hold ‘em Championship, won by none other than Full Tilt Poker pro Nenad Medic. It’s ESPN, so I’m sure re-runs of that show have been airing non-stop if you want to check it out.
Tonight’s show will focus on Event #2, a $1,500 No-Limit Hold ‘em donkament. Team Full Tilt’s Chris Ferguson is there to represent, as he guns for his sixth WSOP bracelet. So make sure to catch all the action and cheer Chris on from the comfort of your own home. Check your local listings to find out when the WSOP airs, or go to ESPN.com for more details.
As an added bonus, I heard that Full Tilt Poker pro Perry Friedman (who narrowly missed making the final table of Event #2, coming in 11th) actually had an FTP logo shaved in to the side of his head. If that doesn’t deserve a few seconds of air time, I don’t know what does. That’s it for now; we’ll have an all new The Pros Speak up for your enjoyment in a bit. Stay classy Pokerland…
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Tags: Chris Ferguson, WSOP
The Week at FTP: Schoenberg Me the Money!
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Well folks, today is a very sad day for all of here at The Rail, as Big Donkey is officially no longer with us. And today is especially sad for me, because now I have to (at least temporarily) take over The Week at FTP. Fear not faithful readers (there have to be at least two or three of you at this point, right?), for I will do my best to fill Big Donkey’s rather large and donktastic shoes. So without further ado, let’s get this weekly wrap-up under way:
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Tags: Erica Schoenberg, FTOPS
Read This Post!
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Bloggers Corner
What’s up Pokerland? Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I will not be able to post a Heads Up piece today. I know, I know, this is very horrible news – please dry your eyes. So in lieu of having a massive heads-up battle to look forward to, I just wanted all of our faithful readers to know that we’ve added a new section to the blog called Bloggers On The Rail.
Spearheaded by world famous (infamous?) blogger AlCantHang, Bloggers On The Rail will be keeping everyone up to date on what’s happening in the world of poker blogging and will include posts from a variety of different guest bloggers. So please, please, please go check it out. We just got it up and running earlier this week, but there’s already a few great posts to read from Al. Let’s put it this way: if you’re a fan of poker blogs, this is can’t miss stuff.
That’s all for now people. We’ll be back with another “real” post tomorrow. Have a great day…
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