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2010 Aussie Millions Qualifiers Begin

Aussie Million 2010 qualifiers are happening now over at Full Tilt Poker, with the top prize packages each worth $14,500 (which is AUD $15,000), and which includes not only your seat in the main event but hotel accommodations, some spending cash, and a seat in an exclusive $50,000 freeroll tournament. There will also be a bevy of FullTilt sponsored events and extras at the 2010 Aussie Millions open to Full Tilt players only, including live instructions from Full Tilt Pros.

There are a bevy of major qualifiers at Full Tilt for the 2010 Aussie Millions, scheduled as follows:

* 5 $535 weekly events of which 3 are left: Saturdays December 5 and 19, and January 2, all at 10 pm ET, at each of which at least 1 player will win a 2010 Aussie Millions prize package
* 4 $535 biweekly events of which 2 are left: Saturdays, December 12 and 26, both at 10 pm ET, at each of which at least 2 players will win 2010 Aussie Millions prize packages
* 2 Super Stack events with $500 + $35 buy-ins. One is on November 28, the other on December 5 – both of them Saturdays, both at 10:00 pm ET
* 1 special $535 tournament on January 9 promising to award at least 5 players a 2010 Aussie Millions prize package

Of course the 2010 Aussie Millions will be hosted, as always, by the luxurious Crown Casino in the southern hemisphere’s gambling capitol, Melbourne, Australia.

Full Tilt freerolls for the 2010 Aussie Millions are restricted to people who live in Australia or New Zealand. The satellites, however, with buy-ins starting a $0.50 or 50 FTP are open game for everyone.

Antonius Breaks Own Pot Record On Full Tilt

All the big and exciting action over at Full Tilt Poker right now seems to be focused on the high-roller tables, and namely on the ongoing battle of Tom “durrrr” Dwan and the still unidentified Swedish sensation isildur1 against each other and big name Full Tilt Pros Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius.

Just last week we announced that, after isildur1 had swept $6 million off the high-stakes heads-up Pot Limit Omaha tables the previous week, he lost approximately $878,000 in a single pot to Patrik Antonius, giving Antonius the world’s record for the largest online poker pot ever won.

Well, apparently that wasn’t good enough for Antonius. Because just the other day (November 22, to be precise), he broke his own record by winning a larger single pot of over $1 million, also on Full Tilt Poker, and wouldn’t you know it? He once again claimed that prize from new rival, that irrepressible Swede isildur1?

The pot was $1,356,946, to be exact, and it now stands as the new world’s record for biggest online poker pot ever won. oVerall in that one sitting in which that record-breaking pot occurred, Isildur1 lost $2.1 million to Antonius.

Meanwhile, Phil Ivey has gotten into the battle, challenging Isildur1 several times over. He is the other player, along with Antonius, to be the only ones ever to beat Isildur1 (taking $2.1 million from him in one sitting); Tom Dwan is still trying. But in this most recent challenge, Ivey lost about $1.1 million of his take.

FullTilt Holiday Hundred Bonus For New & Existing Players

In celebration of the coming holiday season, Full Tilt Poker is offering a brand new bonus called the Holiday Hundred. Just as it sounds, the Full Tilt Poker Holiday Hundred Bonus is a $100 bonus available to all new and existing players.

To be eligible for the Holiday Hundred Bonus you must either be claiming or clearing your first deposit bonus or other active bonus at Full Tilt Poker. Then you must finish clearing it by the deadline.

To be clearer:

• If you’ve never made a deposit into a Full Tilt Poker real money account: Make your first deposit and finish clearing your 100% first deposit bonus by one-minute-to-midnight on November 30
• If you have an active bonus going that you have not finished clearing: Clear it fully by the same above-mentioned date and time

Fulfill either of these qualifications and you’ll get a $100 bonus into your account on December 6 at 1-minute to midnight.

That leaves one last group of eligible players, and either you’ve met that requirement or you haven’t, because it’s a retroactive deadline. These are for any Full Tilt members who have cleared an active bonus by November 15 at 6:30 pm ET. Those players will automatically have the $100 Holiday Hundred bonus deposited into their FullTilt account at a minute before midnight December 6.

It’s really nice (and all too rare) for a site to be giving everybody a chance to win a cash bonus, not just new players. And with holiday gift-buying season well-underway, it’s also not a moment to soon.

Poker Pros Pham and Mueller Among FTOPS XIV Winners

Full Tilt Poker has finished out another Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS XIV) and as of the series’ final day, yesterday, Sun, Nov 15th, the new $2.5 million main event winner is zhivago2. The second-biggest contest in FTOPS XIV was the 2-day event, a $2 million guaranteed tournament with a $2,500 buy-in that happened the previous day, Sat, Nov 14th, the winner of which was player by the name of obiedman.

s00tedj0kers89, meanwhile, was the first big winner of FTOPS XIV, claiming that title on Wed, Nov 4th at Event #1, a $216 six-max event with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. This was one of a half-dozen FTOPS XIV events with a $1 million prize pool or higher. The other 3 biggest winners of the series being gametime1111, who won the $322 six-max rebuy event, Event #17, held on Wed, Nov 11th with a $1 million prize pool; Jakivi, who won Event #10, the $322 NL Holdem event held on Sun, Nov 8th with a $1.5 million prize pool; and omadjoped, winner of Event #12, the $1,000 6-max event held on Mon, Nov 9th with a $1.5 million prize pool.

In non-Holdem related FTOPS XIV news: RymesWOrange won the 7-game mix, Deception Pt won the Stud 8 event, Auspicious won the PLO event, legblch won the PLO/8 event, and poker pro David Pham winning the HORSE event. This fresh off the heels of hosting an event the same day. Another poker professional had a similarly synchronous victory, that being Greg Mueller who won the very event that he hosted, the Limit Holdem event on Thur Nov 12th.

$25K Heads-Up PLO World Championship Almost Here

The 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event may be behind us (alas, Phil Ivey didn’t take it all) and the Full Tilt Online Poker Series 14 (FTOPS XIV) is nearing the finish line. So what’s next for the avid online poker players and fans over at Full Tilt? It’s the $25K Heads-UP PLO World Championship.

Playing heads-up poker takes a special skill, and so does playing Pot Limit Omaha – but put the two together, and you have a challenge worthy of only the fiercest competitors. As such, you can expect to see Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, and other members of Team Full Tilt right there with you vying for the big prize, somewhere in the realm of over half-a-mil. You might even see the newest Team Full Tilt member, Tom “durrrr” Dwan there too (as he’s been known to have a particular affection for high-stakes heads-up pot limit Omaha). Of course, all these guys are paying the $25,000 buy-in. You have the chance to satellite yourself in for a whole lot less than that.

The competition in the 2009 Full Tilt Poker $25K PLO Heads-Up World Championship starts Saturday, November 21 at 3 pm ET, during which the player pool will be whittled down to 4 finalist who will go head-to-head, literally, the following day, Sunday, November 22, this time starting at 4 pm ET.

Even if you don’t think you have the muster for this event, you can still sit ringside and watch all the action go down.

Last year, it was an online player by the name of slaktarn, who won the $560,000 first prize, taking down Patrik Antonius in the final heads-up match.

Tom “durrrr” Dwan Joins Team Full Tilt

You may have heard the rumors bandied about that Tom “durrrr” Dwan, of the notorious $1 million challenge, the durrrr challenge, might be joining Team Full Tilt. Well it is neither rumor nor just a mere possibility anymore. Tom Dwan has officially signed on as the latest celebrity member of Full Tilt Poker’s team of sponsored pros.

Full Tilt has several ways of distinguishing sponsorships and endorsements, with their CardRunners coaches, their Friends of Full Tilt, even “regular old” Full Tilt Pros. But Team Full Tilt, well that’s another distinction altogether. There are many Red Pros, for example (so named because their names show up in red instead of black when they’re sitting at a table). But there are very few members of Team Full Tilt – 13, to be exact. Or now 14, rather.

Only the best pro poker players in the world are on Team Full Tilt, including 7th place winner at this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event, Phil Ivey. We wonder if there’s any connection between the currently running 14th Full Tilt Online Poker Series and the timely addition of the 14th member of Team Full Tilt to the team.

Ironically enough, another member of Team Full Tilt, the last one to join the team, in fact, back in June of 2008, Patrik Antonius has been locked in battle with Tom Dwan in his infamous durrrr challenge. What is it they say about strange bedfellows?

In helping publicize this news, fellow Team Full Tilt member Chris “Jesus” Ferguson points out that durrrr started his poker career on Full Tilt Poker with just a $40 deposit.

FTOPS XIV Underway: Winners & Weekend

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series XIV is in full swing, having kicked off on Wednesday (or Wednesday, November 4) with Event #1 the $200 + $16 NL Hold’em 6-max $1 million guarantee event hosted by Full Tilt Pro Allen Cunningham, and the FTOPS XIV’s first winner was declared. s00tedj0kers89 was his (or her?) name, beating out 4,693 other players to take the first prize of $120,000; runner-up was kev19 who took the respectable $115,000 second prize. There were 29 Full Tilt Red Pros competing in the event, and 600 players cashed.

Yesterday (or Thursday, November 5) saw two events go down: Event #3, the $200 + $16 6-max 7 game mix, with a $150,000 prize pool to which 838 players turned out and RymesWOrange took first prize; and Event #4, the $500 + $35 3x shootout with a $300,000 prize pool to which 729 players showed up and chrispeace took first prize.

That’s three winners down, twenty-two to go. And even though action is well underway, satellites are still going on too over at Full Tilt Poker for FTOPS XIV events, including the $2.5 million guaranteed main event.

Today’s event, #4, is a $200 + $16 Stud/8 event hosted by Jennifer Harman and boasting a $100,000 prize pool. Then this weekend sees a ton of action at the FTOPS XIV, or 5 to be precise.

3 on Saturday, November 7:

• $535 Pot Limit Omaha 6-max for $350,000
• $109 NL Holdem w/rebuys for $600,000
• $256 NL Holdem 6-max Knockout for $800,000

and 2 on Sunday, November 8:

• $535 Heads-Up NL Holdem for $500,000
• $322 NL Holdem for $1.5 million

FTOPS XIV Starts Today

Today was the start of the 14th Full Tilt Online Poker Series. Just like before, the FTOPS XIV is made of 25 poker events all leading up to the main event on November 14. That’s 10 days and $16 million up for grabs (the main event being worth $2.5 million alone).

As FullTilt’s flagship tournament series online now, they’re coming up with every way possible to make it more rewarding for players. One of the first ways they did that, several series ago, was with the Mini-FTOPS, this time coming up December 6 through 20 with a total guaranteed prize pool of $4 million. The total guaranteed prize pool for the regular FTOPS XIV running now is $16 million.

In addition to these two series (50 events in total, if you’re counting) there are also a series of FTOPS Challenges offering free FTOPS and other tournament entries as well as big cash prizes, all the way up to a possible million. There’s a Satellite Seat Challenge, Hold’em Challenge, Survivor Challenge, Double-Up Challenge, Zero to Hero Challenge, and Million Dollar Challenge.

There’s also an FTOPS XIV Leaderboard with its own sorts of rewards for the players proving the highest levels of excellence across all FTOPS events.

Totay’s starting event,FTOPS XIV Event #1, is a $216 6-handed No Limit Holdem event with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool. Half-a-dozen events in this series have million dollar plus prize pools. And of course, the satellite qualifiers into the FTOPS XIV events are going on now.