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Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Let’s start the week with the really important news; even Big Donkeys get things right once in awhile.
If you’re one of the three people who read my post from last week, you’ll remember that I predicted a WPT victory for Erik Seidel at the Foxwoods Poker Classic. Well, lo and behold, I was right.
Sure, my prediction didn’t earn me anything like the nearly $980K that Seidel took home for the victory, but a couple of fivers from the Monkey, the Captain, and the Inuit will pay for a few brews at the end of the day.
Tags: Erik Seidel, UIGEA
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Last week we told you about an upcoming hearing on the viability of actually enacting and enforcing the UIGEA. Now we can tell you what happened.
Talk. Lots and lots of talk.
Tags: Erik Seidel, UIGEA
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Last year, David Pham earned his second CardPlayerPlayer of the Year title. Not too shabby.
Now, just four months into 2008, the Dragon is chasing the title yet again. Last week, he took fifth at the WPT World Poker Challenge, which was good enough for nearly $94K in prize money. While the cash is nice (OK, very nice, if you ask us), we know David is really more excited about the fact that he’s now’s in third place in this year’s POY race, and in great position to capture yet another title.
Tags: Brian Hastings, David Pham
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I’m writing this week’s post while drunk on Guinness and Jameson’s. Usually, it’s Budweiser and Jack Daniels but hey, it’s a holiday. Let’s celebrate.
Tags: CardRunners, Jen Harman
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
In the absence of one of our red pros winning a legitimate live donkament this week*, we’ve had to dig deep to find some news that’s up to the standards you, our loyal reader, have come to expect. So after five minutes of reading NVG and seeing what promotions we can pass off as informational tidbits, we bring you the week at FTP.
Tags: CardRunners, Huck Seed
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
It’s been a big, big week for the pros and we think that’s great. Really, we do. Except that it gives us more work to do and makes it harder for us to be funny when we’re putting together this little recap. So – and I can’t believe I’m really saying this – screw the funny. Here’s the news….
Tags: Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
The madness that is FTOPS has ended and honestly, we couldn’t be happier. It’s not that we don’t love the series – we do – really, we do – but after spending the last 10 days trying to keep track of all the tourney action, we need a break.
Of course, we can’t afford the kind of vacation that Reverse can now treat himself to, but then again, we didn’t just take down more than $456K for winning the Main Event. Nearly 5,300 players ponied up the $500 entry fee for this Mother-of-All-FTOPS events and, in the end, the fight for the gold jersey came down to Reverse and FTP’s own Thomas the Walrus Wahlroos.
Tags: Erica Schoenberg, FTOPS
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Besides being a little infatuated with acronyms, we love FTOPS because it makes our weekly roundup a piece of cake. God bless our ever-growing band of red-name Friends of Brothers of Cousins of Full Tilt Pros, but trying to keep up with the live tournament results of 50 Million (number may be exaggerated) poker players is a little testing. Give us FTOPS any day.
Tags: Erick Lindgren, FTOPS
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Lee Watkinson was hoping to keep his heater going in Atlantic City this week, and truth be told, he did a fine job of burning up the felt at the WPT’s Borgata Winter Open. Unfortunately for Lee, he ran out of gas on the final table, busting out of the tournament in fifth place after his pocket 7s failed to improve against Noah Schwartz’s (really?) pocket 8s.
Tags: Lee Watkinson, Phil Ivey
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oy-Oy-Vey. That’s what we imagine went through Team Full Tilt’s Erik Seidel’s brain earlier this week when he took second-place in the Aussie Millions Main Event – to a 21-year old Russian no one has ever heard of.
Tags: Aussie Millions, Erik Seidel
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