Archive for 2009-12-20

December 20, 2009

Full Tilt Fever: Amateurs Continue to Ace MiniFTOPS

MiniFTOPS was on its way to being a success by the results of its first ten tournaments alone, with each one surpassing its guarantee and racking up a cumulative prize pool of $2,272,410. And the second ten events only added to that success with an additional $1,454,920 in prize money awarded. For a set of tournaments that boasts of reasonable buy-ins - only 1/10th of the size of the FTOPS - the MiniFTOPS was making quite the splash as tens of thousands of players clamored to take their shots at Full Tilt Poker money and glory. Read more

December 20, 2009

Bloggery With Intent To Chronicle Poker – Machine Gun

It has been awhile since I resorted to playing micro limit poker. I'm not sure if I have the patience to play it for too long so my goal is to work my way through this limit as quickly as possible. I have a simple bankroll management rule that has always worked well for me. For tournaments, I don't ever buy in for more than 2% of my bankroll - that means with my measly $100, the biggest buy in tournament I can play is $2. This really means I can only play $1 tournaments since all the $2 tournaments have that pesky .10 or .20 entry fee. Read more

December 20, 2009

Alaei Beats Arieh for WPT Five Diamond Title

The Bellagio is the place to find well-known professional poker players year-round, as the Las Vegas casino is the home of Bobby’s Room for the “Big Game” and some of the favorite cash games in the country. But several times each year, the World Poker Tour rolls into town and offers up a WPT Main Event to compliment the Bellagio’s regular tournament series, and players come from all over the world in search of a World Poker Tour title.The WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic is an especially well-attended tournament each year. Read more

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