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2011 World Series of Poker Day 4: The Final Four and More

AlCantHang — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:38:48 +0000

It was a big day for Heads Up poker yesterday with the $25,000 Heads Up Championship playing down their final four and the Main Event grudge matches played out on the nifty new ESPN stage. Two Tilters have a chance to collect the first bracelet of the summer and there is still one epic Grudge [...]

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2011 World Series of Poker Day 4: The Final Four and More

2011 World Series of Poker Day 3: Grudge Matches On Deck

AlCantHang — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:05:29 +0000

We are inching ever closer to crowning the first WSOP bracelet winner of the summer in the $25,000 Heads Up Championship. 32 players returned yesterday needing to win one more match to make the money and advance closer to a title. Gus Hansen entered the room late, but with a flourish. The Dane cruised into [...]

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2011 World Series of Poker Day 3: Grudge Matches On Deck

Big Money Sunday and the World Series of Poker Europe

AlCantHang — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:59:52 +0000

I promised a fun weekend in the poker world and it delivered. Between the World Series of Poker Europe, the regular Big Money Sunday games, and some other tiny gathering of online poker players, there was plenty of opportunities to see something interesting. First up across the pond was the start of the WSOP Europe [...]

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Big Money Sunday and the World Series of Poker Europe

Poker News for Saturday, September 25th

AlCantHang — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:07:59 +0000

There is never a dull moment around the poker world and this week was no different. I suppose right now the only “dull” place in poker would be in Las Vegas since most of top players have run away to the east, top worldly destinations like London, Paris, and Atlantic City. That last one is [...]

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Poker News for Saturday, September 25th

2010 World Series of Poker: Best Players Without WSOP Title

AlCantHang — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:27:24 +0000

It’s one of the standard conversations which always come up during the World Series of Poker. Who’s the best player to not have captured their first bracelet? Mr. McCarthy and myself were just sitting on media row yesterday bouncing names back and forth with the usual suspect always in the mix, Team Full Tilt member [...]

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2010 World Series of Poker: Best Players Without WSOP Title

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…

Searching for Full Tilt

Dave McCarthy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:02:42 +0000

Before I started blogging here at Poker from the Rail, Full Tilt gave me some data about their web traffic so that I’d have a better idea of what everyone likes to read. This included a list of all the google searches that led people to Poker from the Rail or Michael Craig’s blog. Here’s [...]

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Searching for Full Tilt

Friday Night Fights

AlCantHang — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:21:30 +0000

Always looking to push the envelope, Full Tilt Poker is now adding an extra twist to your Friday nights. The Friday Night Fights. There are three new guarantee tournaments as well the chance to rail a Heads-Up match between two of your favorite Full Tilt pros. This week’s battle will take place between Gus Hansen [...]

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Friday Night Fights

Tom “durrr” Dwan puts big money on the line

AlCantHang — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:45:33 +0000

Tom “durrr” Dwan issued a big challenge to poker players Tom “durrr” Dwan threw down the gauntlet earlier this month via Bluff Magazine that involves big money and some of the biggest name in poker. Dwan spoke with them and issued the following challenge online: “I’m making this heads-up challenge to the world. Anyone can [...]

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Tom “durrr” Dwan puts big money on the line

The Week at FTP: One Million Dollars!

Big Donkey — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:30:56 +0000

Ahh… late July. The WSOP is over until November, the sun is out, and the world’s poker pros have all scattered to their private islands to bake the toxins of the Rio out of their systems.

Either that or they’re sitting around in front of air conditioners, chowing down on Ben & Jerry’s, and playing a little online poker here at the Tilt. Either way, they’re certainly having more fun than me.

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The Week at FTP: One Million Dollars!