Full Tilt Poker’s Mini FTOPS is Officially Underway!
If you like fast and furious with a side of fun, the featuring event will be the Rush Poker events. The entry fee for number thirty-three is a mere $22 with a guarantee of at least a $350,000 pot. There is also a two-day event with a prize of approximately $600,000 at $200+$16. The main event, $70+$5 is sure to fill up quickly. The winning purse prize here will be more than $1,000,000.
Players who make the final table will receive a limited edition MiniFTOPS jacket. Contestants finishing first place on MiniFTOPS leader board will gain a prize package which include entry to all events, excluding the two-day event, at FTOPS for this year.
There are a variety of games in this tournament that will allow anyone to join. The fees are reasonable and tournaments loads of fun. The games that will be available for example are: Hold’em, Horse, Stud and Omaha. There entry fees for some tournaments are less than $15, which makes it easier for those on a budget to join in the festivities.
The Full Tilt hose for this year will be Jennifer Harman (top female pro). The two-day event will be hosted by Scott Montgomery; 2008 World Series Poker. Look forward to other hosts such as, Taylor Caby, Andrew Wiggins, Robert Williamson III, Joao Barbosa and John Phan.
For those who would like to join the MiniFTOPS tournaments but don’t know the games, sessions can be had had the Full Tilt Poker Academy. The Academy lessons are tutored by players like Chris Ferguson, Phil Gordon and Howard Lederer. These lessons offer interactive experiences that will allow you to learn skills that will enable you to be a part of FTOPS.
MiniFTOPS is a challenging and rewarding pass time for many players. Players look forward to this event all year and come in masses to play. The schedule of events can be found online as can the prize winnings for each event. The above mentioned are just a few of the events offered by this tournament. There are events for every type of poker you can imagine. There is no enrollment fee involved.
Tanzanian Tourist Arrested after Cheating Singapore Casino
Many have often wondered if it’s possible to cheat a casino. Well let me just say, it is possible to cheat a casino as a Tanzanian Man recently showed us. The question still remains though, can you actually get away with it?
The real life cast depicted in the movie 21 almost did, and there are those that would say Lemburis Israel Kiuyo came pretty close to getting away with placing a $1000 chip on the a winning number after the betting portion of the game had concluded and the actual winning number had already been revealed.
In fact, the man did get a dealer to pay him $35,000 in casino chips!
The trouble is Kipuyo used that same method of cheating at three other roulette tables in the very same day. Perhaps he could have gotten away with it… If, as they always seem to say, he hadn’t gotten greedy.
An on the ball dealer at a roulette table finally noticed Kipuyo with a $1000 chip at her table that she hadn’t noticed in play before. She told her pit boss, and he set surveillance in motion.
That was all she wrote for the would be casino caper. Kipuyo placed another bet after the ball stopped spinning on the roulette will, and the casino manager contacted local police. Kipuyo was arrested, there’s no word yet as to his bail.
The scam sounds like an easy one to pull off, the real question is… is it worth it? Kipuyo is facing as many as 10 years in jail along with fines for cheating the casino. You can beat the house, but Kipuyo, the best odds are at the blackjack table.
Poker players played for wishes today!
Poker Players got Together today and helped out the Make a Wish Foundation, perhaps one of the most touching charities in existence.
Poker Players Make Wishes Come True
It wasn’t a huge tournament, but a gathering of local poker players with a good cause. The event will bring granted wishes to children in the Central Arkansas area that suffer from life threatening medical conditions.
There was no entry fee involved in the event, the tournament was played freeroll style. However, there was a $50 entrance fee which included an unlimited buffet and free beverages.
The event was limited to 1000 players, and the guaranteed prize pool was worth $250.00
The tournament took place today at the Ben E. Keith Party Room in Little Rock Arkansas. If you’d like to make a donation to the Make a Wish Foundation, visit their website directly.
Court Takes Poker Seriously as Occupation
Samuel McMaster Junior plead guilty in an Albuquerque New Mexico courtroom to 26 felony counts of fraud including the sales of unregistered securities. McMaster defrauded 20 to 30 elderly persons. For his crimes, McMaster originally faced as many as 84 years in jail. The interesting thing about this case are the allowances made by the court for McMaster’s payment of restitution.
McMaster admitted to using the victims money for personal reasons and for gambling. He also testified in court that he is a professional gambler and that is his only profession.
In order to make it possible for McMaster to pay restitution to his victims the courts decision stipulated that McMaster could leave the state to play in poker tournaments in effort earn the money to pay back the victims. The court took McMaster’s job seriously, and some wonder if they didn’t set any sort of precedent by doing so.
SharkScope didn’t have a lot of information on McMaster, however, if the stats there are correct, he’s without a doubt a losing poker player.
McMaster agreed to to make $7500 monthly payments toward restitution. If he should fall behind in those payments, missing just two payments during the six month trial period McMaster’s being given to prove he can make good on his debts to the seniors, and society, he will be on his way to jail for as long as 12 years instead to pay for his crimes against the elderly. Sentencing was postponed by the courts to give McMaster an opportunity to pay the court ordered restitution.
UB Announces Perfect 10 Challenge
UB, otherwise known as UltimateBet, is top online poker room that operates on the CEREUS Poker network. The online poker room offers players the best in online gaming and they recently announced a new competition for players to enjoy. The Perfect 10 Challenge is starting in April and will run the entire month, offering players a chance to win a piece of the $100,000 prize pool.
The Perfect 10 Challenge is part of a special leader board challenge and the top finisher will earn $20,000. The site will hold ten $100 buy-in tournaments each day throughout the month of April. Players who participate in the small buy-in tournaments will automatically be entered into the $100,000 leader board challenge. Players will earn tournament leader board points based on how they finish in each tournament.
Each player’s ten best finishes will count towards the $100,000 leader board challenge. The top fifty players on the leader board will earn a cash prize. UB is going to reward the top player with $20,000 while second place will earn $10,000. Third will take home $5,000 and fourth through tenth place will earn $2,500 each. The rest of the players will earn at least $500 each for making the top fifty.
The tournament will run on the hour from 14:00ET to 23:00 ET daily. Each tournament will offer normal prize pool distributions so players will not only earn a prize for competing they can also earn extra cash by earning the most points.
The CEREUS Network recently released a press release about the upcoming challenge and Joe Sebok, a poker pro from UB, commented: “The launch of the Perfect 10 and the $100,000 Leader board Challenge are the first of many new and innovative promotions set to be introduced at UB.”
Sebok also commented on the recent changes at UB by stating: “UB has a completely revamped approach to 2010 and will be working to keep its entire community in the know about all new promotions and events. The offers will be more exciting, more unique, and each one geared towards rewarding our players for playing with us like never before.”
The $11 events also have satellites running for just $2.20 so players can earn their seat to the challenge tournaments if they like. Players can keep track of their positioning on the leader board by checking the player leader board on a daily basis. The stats will begin updating on April 1st at midnight ET and continue until the competition is over.
This competition is a great one from Ultimate Bet. Players already love to compete at the online poker room and now by offering an added incentive, players are going to jump at the chance to win the extra cash. Players can find out more about the competition at the UltimateBet website. The competition starts tomorrow and it is definitely going to get hot at the UB poker tables.
