Wednesday, 24 October 2012
There's not long to go now until Full Tilt Poker re-opens its virtual doors and the site will be celebrating the big day on 6 November with a massive new promotion.
Entitled Deal Me In, Full Tilt 2.0 will be running freerolls with a prize pool of $250,000 from 6th to 11th November. Prizes will increase every day with ten tournaments on Sunday 11th November set to award $10,000 apiece.Existing players will be able to partake of a cash bonus of up to $200 as well as getting a free ticket into a Rush Poker Ring Game. Discounted tournament and ring game tickets will be available from the Full Tilt store in a special site Ticket Sale. There'll be seats to Steps tournaments, the forthcoming FTOPS as well as daily and weekly regulars on offer at bargain prices.Full Tilt has also revealed details of a new Happy Hour offer which will award double FTP points at certain times of the day in a variety of gamesHundreds of bonus seats into the FTOPS XXI will also be given away over the next few weeks. All told, $300,000 worth of seats will be up for grabs in a series of special satellites. More information will be revealed when the site reopens.Keep up to date with all the news from the poker world by following us on Twitter and Facebook.
Bluff meets Isildur1.
Starting out last week with 520 hopefuls, this year’s EPT Grand Final Main Event certainly lived up to expectations after a final table that contained some of the toughest players in the world. At the start of yesterday’s finale Steve O’Dwyer led arguably the toughest final table the festival has ever seen.
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Full Tilt Poker will be heading to Ireland for its first live festival since relaunch. The Full Tilt Galway Poker Festival will take place in a custom built Full Tilt poker village in the centre the city from 29 July until 12 August.
It's Macau before Vegas for many.
Jason's confident of WSOP bracelet success.
Doc pockets $1m first prize.
There's £30,000 guaranteed
Foxwell victorious at the Ricoh.
by Jay Rosenkrantz
Shaun Deeb picks his underrated favourites.
Bluff explores the dubious morals of the angle-shooter
Stephen Bartley rounds up the action from the Vic.
Off to Newcastle upon Tyne for leg 2 of this year’s Genting Poker Series.
Sometimes bizarre things happen at the poker table and only the smartest will prevail, says Jeff Kimber.
I had quite a tough opening table at the recent GPS in Birmingham, which is unusual so early in the tournament. There were a couple of decent players to my right and also Paul McTaggart (who beat me heads up in last year’s Edinburgh GPS) and another decent player to my left.
I’ve noticed an increased tendency recently among players on forums and in tournaments towards the bubble. They seem to be taking ICM too literally. They seem to be forgetting that the “M” in ICM stands for “model”. Your true equity in bubble situations is not exactly as ICM predicts. I’d like to recap the known shortcomings of the model, and consider some rules of thumb to help with decision making in the heat of battle.
By Johnny Hughes.
I watched Rounders this week. I mean, I’ve watched it before but only about 23 times so it was due a revisit. I heartily recommend it.
Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding snoops around the world of online poker.
With Neil "Bad Beat" Channing