Online Poker News

The latest online poker tourney was unleashed and this is the 17th instalment of the popular Online Poker Series (FTOPS) from Full Tilt, by Wednesday they had already awarded $4 million in prizes over 10 winners. They are to offer a total of 34 tournaments through August 15th with more than $19 million in guaranteed prize money.

RPM Poker pro Brent Roberts was the first FTOPS jersey winner, taking down the $216 No Limit Hold’em Event for $164,358. Roberts, who has more than $1.2 million in online tournament winnings and close to $1 million in live earnings, came out the best of a field of 4,591 players and a tough final table that included Sam Grafton. The series, which began in 2006 and has run between two and four times per year, will offer a total of 34 tournaments through August 15th with more than $19 million in guaranteed prize money.

No we have not got it wrong, Steve Davis is going to challenge you to online poker not snooker as you would imagine. Ladbrokes Poker are launching a monthly night in with Snooker legend Steve Davis. Each month Steve will play in a special bounty tournament at the start of the evening, so get those snooker and poker questions ready to fire at him in the chat.

Remember you will need to turn on your poker room messages as Ladbrokes will send system messages to let you know which cash or sit and go tables Steve joins; the successful players who join the table will get a £13 Cruise Steps Tournament ticket credited to their accounts which you can use to try and win a £4,000 Ladbrokes Poker Cruise setting sail in January 2011. It should be an interesting diversion from Steve’s safety play at snooker!

Dusty ‘Leatherass’ Schmidt has been unveiled by Isle Of Man-licensed PokerStars.com, one of the world’s largest online poker rooms, as the latest member of its PokerStars Team Online. Schmidt joined online poker training site DragTheBar.com as a coach in January after spending three years as an instructor at StoxPoker.com and has been playing professionally for five years.

Dusty is a great member of the team and can boast success in the form of winning over three million dollars in his career while logging more than eight million hands over 10,000 hours. In addition he has other firsts to his name by posting the world’s highest win rate in games of $5/$10 and $10/$20 no-limit poker in 2007 and 2008 and won in excess of $600,000 playing high-stakes cash games over a four-month period starting in November of 2007. Schmidt joins a group of 26 elite poker players at the online school.

It does not come any easier to get yourself to the all embracing WSOP in Vegas Thanks to 888.com. You can choose from the following 8 ways to win a package to the World Series. 
                  
1 Persistence Pays: Rake the most hands.
2 Race Your Way: Earn the most status points.      
3 Bring Your Buddies: Refer as many friends as possible.
4 Social Success: For YouTube, Facebook and Twitter fans.
5 Cards and Coins: Earn the most casino and poker status points.
 6 Bounty Hunter: Knock out our poker celebs or come first in one of the tourneys.
7 Tourney Lovers: Race to play the most tourneys with the biggest buy-ins. 
8 One for The Ladies: Ladies only race to earn the most status points.

All packages will include one event entry, five star accommodation, cash, 888 Poker merchandise and an invite to the exclusive 888 Poker party.

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