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Beth Shak Charity Tournament

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a charity poker tournament hosted by Dan and Beth Shak. The “All in” for Kids Poker Tournament was to raise money for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Participants included poker legends Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke along with celebrity chef Bobby Flay and ex-pro athletes Ricky Bottalico and Mike Quick.

The 120 players donated $5,000 each to enter the event along with $500 rebuys and a double add-on after the first 90 minutes. Throw in a silent auction and money-raising prop bets at the table and the players raised over $825,000 for the hospital’s Center for Palliative Medicine.

More details after the jump including video interviews with Beth Shak, Phil Ivey, and Phil Hellmuth discussing Peter Eastgate taking his record for youngest WSoP Main Event Winner.

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Read more | Comments (0) | November 19th, 2008 Play Poker on Full Tilt Poker

Full Tilt at Foxwoods World Poker Finals

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

David Pham at Foxwoods World Poker Finals
Photo credit: WorldPokerTour.com

Last week was a good one for David Pham. On November 11th he finished fourth in Foxwoods World Poker Finals for $240,344 then turned around and finished third the very next day in FTOPS X Event #16 for near $112,000. By any measure, that is one fine week.

The rest of Team Full Tilt seemed to dominate the event even without collecting the win. Get the rest of the numbers after the jump.

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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, David Pham, Mike Matusow, WPT

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Read more | Comments (0) | November 18th, 2008 Play Poker on Full Tilt Poker

FTOPS X comes to an end with Main Event

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Full Tilt blogger Michael Craig runs deep in FTOPS X Main Event

FTOPS X finished up early this morning when over 5,000 players built a prizepool which exceeded $2,600,000. Each player started with 7500 in chips plus 15 minute levels, this was guaranteed to be an event that drew the top online players and there was plenty of room to make moves. 11 members of Team Full Tilt would cash in the event with resident FTP blogger Michael Craig and Peter “nordberg” Feldman the last standing.

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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Michael Craig

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Read more | Comments (0) | November 17th, 2008 Play Poker on Full Tilt Poker

Biggest Online Pot, Ever - Ivey vs. Juanda

Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Uncategorized

And for a sneak peak for all our readers, slowly coming out from under the wraps, the beta version of the Full Tilt Poker Hand Re-player. You will be seeing this starting to pop up around the site a bit more.

Phil Ivey and John Juanda get wrapped up in the largest online poker hand to date.

October 26, 2008, $500/$1000 No Limit Hold’em.

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Read more | Comments (1) | November 13th, 2008 Play Poker on Full Tilt Poker

Guest Post - Tuscaloosa Johnny

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Stu Ungar won the 1997 WSoP Main Event at the outdoor final table

The final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event has played itself out over the last two days and we have a new champion. It was a unique situation where we had 4 months between hands from 10 handed to the final table but that’s just one twist the WSoP overlords have come up with in the history of this event.

On the eve of ESPN broadcasting the final table action, blogger “Tuscaloosa” Johnny takes a look at some of the other interesting changes they’ve attempted with the WSoP and how they worked out.

World Series of Poker innovations have been hit and miss
By “Tuscaloosa” Johnny Kampis

The move by Harrah’s to delay the final table of the 2008 WSOP Main Event by four months in an effort to generate more publicity has seemed to fallen flat. Time will tell how successful the decision has been, but we certainly haven’t seen the November Nine on Letterman reading Top 10 lists this summer. Perhaps the lack of media buzz has been due to many other more newsworthy and pressing topics over the last several months taking over newspaper and television coverage (the election, economy and Olympics certainly come to mind), but I believe the lack of buzz could have been expected. Poker is still mainly a niche activity, despite its overall popularity. The people who love it eat up all news about it, but those who only see it as an enjoyable hobby aren’t going to go out of their way to seek information about the November Nine.

This controversial decision by Harrah’s is certainly not the only major overhaul of the WSOP over the years. Let’s take a look at how well some of the other changes have been received.

More after the jump

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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Guest Posts, Tuscaloosa Johnny

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Read more | Comments (0) | November 11th, 2008 Play Poker on Full Tilt Poker

FTOPS X Event #8 Recap

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Andy Black hosted FTOPS X Event #8

This tournament came one buyin away from topping a $700,000 prizepool for a little NLHE 6-max Knockout action. It provided a Sunday afternoon full of craziness as players realized they were freerolling with just a handful of knockouts under their belt.

Four members of Team Full Tilt grabbed their first cash during FTOPS X but none made a very deep run.

Recap after the jump

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Read more | Comments (0) | November 10th, 2008 Play Poker on Full Tilt Poker

FTOPS X Event #7 Recap

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

2008 World Series of Poker Event #32 winner Luis Velador
Photo credit: LasVegasVegas.com

Rebuy tournaments are notoriously tough to determine whether a guarantee will be reached and Event #7 proved the point giving the players a nearly $40k overlay. The $100+9 No Limit Hold’em with unlimited rebuys attracted 1,893 players with 2,658 rebuys and 1,083 add-ons missing the $600,000 guarantee. $123,600 would be awarded to the last player standing.

2008 World Series of Poker Event #32 winner Luis Velador would be the member of Team Full Tilt to last the longest.

Recap after the jump

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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, FTOPS

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FTOPS X Event #6 Recap

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Brian Hastings of Team CardRunners ran deep in FTOPS X Event #6

FTOPS X Event #6 attracted 642 entrants for the $500+35 6-max Pot Limit Omaha tournament just missing the $350,000 guarantee bringing a little overlay to the players. It looked like was a great chance for two members of Team Full Tilt to make the final table but fell short.

Recap after the jump.

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Tags: Aaron Bartley, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Brian Hastings, FTOPS

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FTOPS X Event #5 Recap

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Scott Fischman was the sole member of Team Full Tilt to cash in FTOPS X Event #5

FTOPS X Event #5 was a $200+16 Limit Hold’em 6-max tournament. Thoughts of watching paint dry and grass grow run through my mind. 879 players bought in creating a $175,800 prizepool. The final table resembled a United Nations committee with players from the US, Norway, Australia, Canada and Germany.

Recap after the jump.

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Read more | Comments (0) | November 10th, 2008 Play Poker on Full Tilt Poker

FTOPS X Event #4 Recap

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Aaron Bartley came close to winning one for team Full Tilt in FTOPS X Event #4

FTOPS X Event #4 was a $300+22 with 1 rebuy and 1 add-on tournament that drew 815 players, 558 rebuys and 538 add-ons. The $300,000 guarantee was not reached so there a bit of an overlay for the event. Aaron Bartley is officially having a great start to FTOPS X with his 3rd cash in the first 4 events and a $64,000 payday for his 3rd place finish.

Recap after the jump.

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Tags: Aaron Bartley, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, FTOPS

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Read more | Comments (0) | November 8th, 2008 Play Poker on Full Tilt Poker

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