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Full Tilt Poker announces the Onyx Cup Series

AlCantHang — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:50:50 +0000

Full Tilt Poker is always looking at ways to expand the poker experience and yesterday announced a new set of events designed to bring together some of the best poker players in the world. The Onyx Cup Series is six high roller tournaments around the world with buy-ins ranging from $100k to $300k, creating fields [...]

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Full Tilt Poker announces the Onyx Cup Series

Friday News for September 3rd

AlCantHang — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:12:12 +0000

This week’s list is not necessarily a “Top 5″ list as I will barely mention the durrrr Challenge 2 which everyone seems to be following (for good reason) but more a little Hall of Fame action followed by a few videos. The entire list could be composed solely of poker related videos but decided the [...]

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Friday News for September 3rd

FTOPS XVII and Big Money Sunday

AlCantHang — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:46:55 +0000

FTOPS XVII finished up its run yesterday filling out an already stacked Big Money Sunday roll call of tournaments. The prizepool for Sunday alone was just shy of $7,000,000 if you include the finish of the Two Day Event #29 sending the total FTOPS XVII cash over $20,000,000 for the series. “DQnk” has the unique [...]

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FTOPS XVII and Big Money Sunday

FTOPS XVII: Jesus, Madsen, and Monster Fields

AlCantHang — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:42:45 +0000

There were plenty of stories from the FTOPS XVII first half which could be used to kickoff our mid-term report but Chris Ferguson pushed them all to the bottom early this morning. A stellar field remained late into the evening of Event #13, the biggest prizepool of this series with a prizepool over $1,400,000, with [...]

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FTOPS XVII: Jesus, Madsen, and Monster Fields

2010 World Series of Poker: Week Four in Pictures

AlCantHang — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:39:21 +0000

Phil Ivey stands for the U.S. National Anthem during his bracelet ceremony (Photographer/GreasieWheels) Just in case you were living under a rock away from the poker over the last week, Phil Ivey captured his 8th career WSOP bracelet in the $3,000 HORSE event over Bill Chen. It was an interesting spectacle with a different atmosphere [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker: Week Four in Pictures

Week in Review (Feb 21-28): Poker Law, Isildur1, and the Academy

Dave McCarthy — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:36:57 +0000

The big story in poker this week was the introduction of S 3018 in the United States Senate: the Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act, which seeks to restructure US tax code, as well as regulate and tax internet gambling. Poker Law: The proposal from Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Judd Greg (R-NH) incorporates language from [...]

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Week in Review (Feb 21-28): Poker Law, Isildur1, and the Academy

What is Phil Ivey’s favorite cheese? Is Tom Dwan Isildur1?

Dave McCarthy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:44:08 +0000

If you’ve never checked it out, Full Tilt’s Pro Chat Archive has a collection of table chats between the Pros and fans. People ask some strange questions… I pulled together some of my favorite Q&As from Phil Ivey, Phil Gordon, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson. The first half are personal questions that fans [...]

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What is Phil Ivey’s favorite cheese? Is Tom Dwan Isildur1?

Week in Review (Feb 13-20): Obama in Vegas, Isildur1, and more…

Dave McCarthy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:24:52 +0000

In General Poker News: Phil Ivey and Howard Lederer each donated $30k to attend a fundraiser with President Barack Obama Thursday night at the home of Palms owner George Maloof. No word on whether the two Full Tilt pros were able to convince the President to accept the Irish Poker Open’s invitation to play in [...]

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Week in Review (Feb 13-20): Obama in Vegas, Isildur1, and more…

FTOPS XV Kicks Off

AlCantHang — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:57:54 +0000

FTOPS XV is finally underway kicking off with yesterday’s Turbo Warmup which drew a huge crowd of 34,000 plus grinders and Event #1 with a $1,000,000 Guarantee. 5,646 players paid up the $200+16 creating a nifty prize pool over $1.1 Million and two new 6 digit paydays. Team Full Tilt member Chris Ferguson was one [...]

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FTOPS XV Kicks Off

Big Money Sunday – January 24th

AlCantHang — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:09:04 +0000

Dan Shak defeated Phil Ivey in the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge Photo credit: PokerNews.com It’s been a very busy week around the poker world and your not-so-humble blogger was in the middle of it a little. Live poker was raging across the planet with the WPT Southern Poker Championship, the Borgata Winter Open, Los Angeles [...]

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Big Money Sunday – January 24th