Friday, April 9th, 2010
FTOPS XVI
FTOPS returns on April 23rd, 2010 with $18 million in guaranteed prize money. A favorite with Full Tilt Poker players, FTOPS XVI features 30 events. Each FTOPS event is hosted by Team Full Tilt and Full Tilt Poker pros – all pros conduct a pro chat during their hosted tournament, so it’s your best opportunity to learn from the top names in poker.
WSOP Qualifiers
Every player wants to win a bracelet at the world’s biggest live poker event – this year, Full Tilt Poker is offering a wide variety of WSOP qualifiers tournaments with a range of buy-ins that suits all players’ needs, including:
The $1 Main Event Seat – You could turn $1 + $0.10 into a $12K WSOP prize package each Sunday until June 27th. At least five prize packages will be awarded per tournament.
Direct Main Event Qualifier Tournaments – Running until June 27th, these weekly tournaments offer players the chance to win a $12K WSOP prize package. Buy-ins range from $200 to $1K, but all offer satellites for as little as $1 or 50 Full Tilt Points.
150 Seat Main Event Guarantee – With at least 150 Main Event seats up for grabs on June 20th at 18:00 ET (23:00 GMT), this is a player’s best chance to win their seat at the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event.
$10 Million Main Event Mania – Winning the Main Event would be a dream come true – but imagine receiving an extra $10 million on top of your first-place prize money.
Race for Bracelets – At least one $2K WSOP prize package including a seat to any of the 50+ preliminary events at the WSOP is up for grabs in each daily Race for Bracelets tournament.
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Full Tilt Poker has recently started to offer an innovative online version called Rush Poker. This new style of poker seems to be perfect for today’s generation of Internet players.
When playing at a Rush Poker table, players are instantly moved to another table after folding their hand. The player will find different starting cards, a new position, and different opponents.
In addition to speeding up play, it seems virtually impossible that there could be cheating or collusion because of the constant changes in opponents, hands and scenarios.
Full Tilt Poker is currently offering the new brand of poker as a no-limit Hold’em cash game at short handed tables or full tables. They have recently added pot-limit Omaha games also.
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
Keeping the Pot Small by Jennifer Harman
Jennifer Harman - Full Tilt Poker Pro
Poker is a game of decisions. Some decisions are very easy to make, while others will keep you awake all night if you choose poorly. In my experience, the larger the pot size, the harder the decision you’ll be faced with.
On the other hand, the smaller the pot is, the easier the decision. Which is why, especially in tournament play, you want to keep the pot small when you’re holding a marginal hand. You don’t want to be facing a decision for all of your chips in a situation where all you’ve got is something like top pair with a medium-strength kicker. You want to avoid that scenario as much as possible. It’s better to keep the pot small by checking and calling rather than building a huge pot, even if you do hold an advantage in that hand.
Let me give you an example from a hand I played at a World Series of Poker event last year. We were still fairly early in the tournament, and I was in the cut-off (the seat before the button) holding K-J. The action folded around to me, I put in a raise and was called by the button. Both blinds folded, and we were heads-up going to the flop.
The flop came J-9-3 with two diamonds. Yes, I had top pair with a strong kicker, but with straight and flush draws on the board I was in no mood to go crazy with my hand. So I checked, and the button bet about two-thirds of the pot.
A check could also tempt my opponent to bluff in this spot, especially if he put me on something like A-K or A-Q. With a bluff or a drawing hand being the button’s most likely holding, I made the call.
The turn was a harmless 5, not a diamond, and very unlikely to help out the button in any way. Once again, I decided to control the size of the pot and keep it small by checking. If I’d bet and the button had a monster draw, there’s a good chance he’d come over the top of my bet to try and push me off the pot. I liked my hand there, just not enough to go broke with it.
After I checked, the button put in another bet, which I called. The river was a non-diamond 2, meaning that neither the flush draw or the straight draw got there. Confident that I had the best hand at this point, I still decided to check the river.
Why? Well, there was a small chance the button had made a set or two pair somewhere along the way, and it’s better to check-call in that spot rather than face a tough decision for a lot of chips if he raises. Also, if he did have nothing but air, checking might induce a bluff on the river.
As it turned out, the button checked behind me and I took down the pot with my K-J. I didn’t win a big pot with that hand, but I also didn’t lose a huge pot. The decisions I faced on each street were made much easier by the fact that I kept the pot small.
Jennifer Harman plays online poker exclusively at Full Tilt Poker.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Isildur1 has been one of the most talked about online players so far this year. After winning about $526,000 over this past weekend, Isildur1 played against Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies.
Sahamies lost over $487,000 against Isildur1 while playing $300/$600 Pot Limit Omaha on Full Tilt. They played PLO for approximately 450 hands. They then decided to face off at the $500/$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha tables and played for about 40 minutes.
After 259 hands Sahamies signed off and was down another $290,000. After Sahamies left, Isildur1 played $200/$400 No Limit Holdem versus Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo. Bonomo wound up taking about $187,000 from Isildur1 after 791 hands.
Next, Isildur1 faced off against both Cole South and Brian Hastings. South lost $334,000 after 825 hands, and Hastings ended up about $330,000 after 224 hands. They were playing $300/$600 Pot Limit Omaha.
Hastings convinced Isildur1 to play $500/$1,000 stakes and they played for 468 hands and Hastings was able to come away from the table up another $219,000.
Isildur1 also played 565 hands of $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha against Cole South where he won $222,000. They then decided to play $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha for 344 hands and South managed to make back about $78,000.
Isildur1 totaled about $573,000 on the day and that put his winnings well over $1 million in 2010 so far.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Full Tilt Poker will be starting it’s Mini FTOPS tournaments on March 10th. MiniFTOPS features the same events as FTOPS but all at 1/10th of the buy-in.
There will be a total of 27 Mini FTOPS XV events with the highlights being a $250 + $16 buy-in Two-Day Event with at least $600K guaranteed. The MiniFTOPS Main Event is a $50 + $5 buy-in tourney with $800K in guaranteed prize money.
Here is a complete listing of events for Full Tilt’s MiniFTOPS XV:
Event #1 – Wednesday March 10th – 21:00 ET
Hosted by Joao Barbosa
$20 + $2 No Limit Hold’em
$350,000 Guaranteed
Event #2 – Thursday March 11th – 13:00 ET
Hosted by Roland de Wolfe
$24 + $2 Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Knockout
$75,000 Guaranteed
Event #3 – Thursday March 11th – 21:00 ET
Hosted by Taylor Caby
$50 + $5 No Limit Hold’em 3x Shootout
$35,000 Guaranteed
Event #4 – Friday March 12th – 13:00 ET
Hosted by Roy Winston
$20 + $2 No Limit Hold’em with 1 Rebuy and 1 Add-on
$300,000 Guaranteed
Event #5 – Friday March 12th – 21:00 ET
Hosted by Jens Voertmann
$20 + $2 Limit Holdem 6 Max
$75,000 Guaranteed
Event #6 – Saturday March 13th – 13:00 ET
Hosted by Stefan Rapp
$50 + $5 Pot Limit Omaha 6 Max
$150,000 Guaranteed
Event #7 – Saturday March 13th – 15:00 ET
Hosted by Steve Wong
$10 + $1 No Limit Hold’em Rebuy
$350,000 Guaranteed
Event #8 – Sunday March 14th – 13:00 ET
Host TBA
$12 + $1 No Limit Hold’em Knockout
$250,000 Guaranteed
Event #9 – Sunday March 14th – 15:00 ET
Hosted by Michael Craig
$50 + $5 No Limit Hold’em Heads Up
$200,000 Guaranteed
Event #10 – Sunday March 14th – 17:00 ET
Hosted by Kenny Tran
$30 + $3 No Limit Hold’em
$600,000 Guaranteed
Event #11 – Monday March 15th – 13:00 ET
Host TBA
$20 + $2 Omaha Hi/Lo
$60,000 Guaranteed
Event #12 – Monday March 15th – 21:00 ET
Host TBA
$100 + $9 No Limit Hold’em
$400,000 Guaranteed
Event #13 – Tuesday March 16th – 13:00 ET
Hosted by Barney Boatman
$30 + $3 No Limit Hold’em 4x Shootout 6 Max
$150,000 Guaranteed
Event #14 – Tuesday March 16th – 21:00 ET
Hosted by Alessio Isaia
$50 + $5 H.O.R.S.E.
$100,000 Guaranteed
Event #15 – Tuesday March 16th – 21:00 ET
Hosted by Andrew Wiggins
$20 + $2 No Limit Hold’em Turbo
$200,000 Guaranteed
Event #16 – Wednsday March 17th – 13:00 ET
Hosted by Kristy Gazes
$20 + $2 7-Game
$50,000 Guaranteed
Event #17 – Wednsday March 17th – 21:00 ET
Host TBA
$30 + $3 No Limit Hold’em 6 Max Rebuy
$350,000 Guaranteed
Event #18 – Thursday March 18th – 13:00 ET
Hosted by John Phan
$20 + $2 No Limit Hold’em Cashout
$60,000 Guaranteed
Event #19 – Thursday March 18th – 21:00 ET
Hosted by David Bradley
$20 + $2 Stud
$40,000 Guaranteed
Event #20 – Friday March 19th – 13:00 ET
Hosted by Mike McDonald
$20 + $2 No Limit Hold’em 6 Max
$200,000 Guaranteed
Event #21 – Friday March 19th – 21:00 ET
Host TBA
$30 + $3 Razz
$50,000 Guaranteed
Event #22 – Saturday March 20th – 13:00 ET
Host TBA
$250 + $16 No Limit Hold’em 6 Max – 2 Day Event – Ante from Start
$600,000 Guaranteed
Event #23 – Saturday March 20th – 15:00 ET
Hosted by David Colclough
$10 + $1 Pot Limit Omaha Rebuy
$150,000 Guaranteed
Event #24 – Saturday march 20th – 21:00 ET
Hosted by Johan Storakers
$50 + $3 No Limit Hold’em Super Turbo 6 Max
$75,000 Guaranteed
Event #25 – Sunday March 21st – 13:00 ET
Hosted by Eddy Scharf
$24 + $2 No Limit Holdem Knockout 6 Max
$300,000 Guaranteed
Event #26 – Sunday March 21st – 15:00 ET
Hosted by Paul Wolfe
$20 + $2 Pot Limit Omaha Heads Up
$40,000 Guaranteed
Event #27 – Sunday March 21st – 17:00 ET
Host TBA
$50 + $5 No Limit Hold’em Main Event
$800,000 Guaranteed
You can buy-in directly or you can satellite your way in for as little as $0.50 or 50 Full Tilt Points.
To register for any Mini FTOPS event:
- Download Full Tilt Poker
- Create an Account
- Open the software and click on Lobby menu, then Choose Lobby View>Standard View
- In the browse area, click on Tournament and then FTOPS
- Find the MiniFTOPS event you would like to play in, click Register Now button
There is more than money on the line when you play in a MiniFTOPS event. All players who make the final table of a MiniFTOPS event will receive a limited-edition MiniFTOPS jacket. Winners from each event will receive the jacket and a silver MiniFTOPS jersey to go along with their 1st place prize money.
MiniFTOPS Jacket
Finish 1st on the MiniFTOPS Leaderboard and receive a special prize package which includes entry to every FTOPS XVI event (except the Two-Day Event). The prize package is expected to be worth approximately $8,500 in tournament entries.
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