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Phil Ivey Wins $1.1 Million In One Night At Full Tilt High Stakes HORSE Tables

As Full Tilt Poker and players are gearing up for the next Full Tilt Online Poker series with the FTOPS XIV Warm-Up, poker legend Phil Ivey is gearing up for the November 7 final table of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event with a little warming up of his own. And at his last Wednesday, October 7 warm-up he was downright hot! To the temperature of $1.1 million dollars hot.

That’s right, Phil Ivey continued to prove why he’s Phil Ivey by racking up a $1.1 million dollar night at Full Tilt Poker on Monday. Interestingly enough, though, he was there playing No Limit Holdem, as he will be in the 2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table. He wasn’t even playing high-stakes Pot Limit Omaha like he often does at the site (though it was most definitely high-stakes).

Instead he was playing at Full Tilt’s Fixed Limit HORSE tables.

Among those falling to Phil Ivey’s prowess (with the amount of the biggest contributors’ losses to Ivey on his big night noted in parentheses) were the likes of Patrick Antonius, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond ($444,000), Chau Giang ($289,000), Tom “durrrr” Dwan ($343,000), David Oppenheim ($245,000), Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, and Cole South.

Phil Ivey is one of Full Tilt Poker’s official Team FullTilt Pros and can often be seen at the high-roller cash ring game tables at Full Tilt Poker, especially in the games of Pot Limit Omaha, Fixed Limit H.O.R.S.E, and the newest addition to Full Tilt Poker’s cash game lineup, the increasingly popular 7-Game Mix.

Get a Piece of Ivey With New Full Tilt Promotion

Starting tomorrow, October 7, 2009, Full Tilt Poker is running a new promotion it calls the Piece of Ivey, named obviously for Full Tilt Poker pro, 2009 November Niner, and one of the most successful poker players in the world, Phil Ivey.

Up for grabs? A share of Phil Ivey’s winnings at the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table. To be precise: 6% of his winnings plus an added $150,000 by Full Tilt.

How it works is like this: Players earn tickets by playing at cash game tables at Full Tilt Poker. The tickets are then entered into a raffle drawing. Actually 3 raffle drawings.

There’s a “5% of Ivey” drawing in which 9 players earn a seat in an exclusive Sit & Go, with the total prize pool at stake equal to 5% of Phil’s WSOP Main Event take. That drawing will occur at 10 pm ET on Friday, November 6 with the special Sit & Go taking place the next day, November 7, at 2 pm ET.

There’s a “1% of Ivey” drawing in which players vie for seats in an exclusive $50,000 freeroll tournament, the winner of which will get, besides largest share of the pot, an addition 1% of Ivey’s 2009 WSOP Main Event take. The drawing for the $50K Freeroll is November 6 at 10 pm ET and the tournament is November 7 at 2 pm.

Finally, there are cash prize drawing daily, with over 600 cash prizes awarded every day throughout the Piece of Ivey promo. These “Daily Cash Draws” will happen every morning at 6 am ET. In all, $150,000 will be given away this way.

Low-Budget Real Money Poker: Micro-Stakes and Low Limits at FullTilt

At Full Tilt Poker it doesn’t take a million dollars to win a million dollars. Or to put it another way, you don’t have to start out with a huge bankroll in order to 1) enjoy playing online poker for real money, and 2) get build a bigger bankroll. You can simply play at Full Tilt’s micro-stakes tables and low limit games.

Like free poker (for “play money”, in other words) FullTilt’s micro-stakes and low limit tables help poker novices to learn the game, develop their skills, and build some confidence. And like at the training sites, Full Tilt Poker provides you with a bunch a great resources for analyzing your game, helping you become aware of your playing patterns, and discover weaknesses in your playing.

But unlike at the poker training sites, these low limit and micro stakes tables let you play for real money.

Many Full Tilt Poker players swear by the Micro-Stakes and Low Limit tables, even after they’ve developed their poker chops. At the Full Tilt Poker lobby you can filter for these games by clicking the Micro checkbox. Do that and you’ll find micro-stakes Sit & Gos running around the clock for as little as $1 + $0.25; No Limit and Pot Limit Holdem with stakes as low as $0.01/$0.02 and $0.02/$0.05 with a minimum of only 40-cents required to sit in; Multi-table tournaments for a buy-in as low as a dime; and many more. Including micro-stakes and low-limit Omaha.

Unlike with starting a business, you do not need a bunch of start-up capital to get in on the fun, excitement, and rewards of playing online poker at FullTilt.

Mini-FTOPS XIII A Smashing Success: noitall611 Takes Main Event Title

The 13th Full Tilt Poker Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series has come to an end, with an odd pot chop at the Main Event’s end that saw the winner (noitall611) get the smaller portion of the pot (some $89K) and the runner-up Kanemochi taking the bigger portion (some $94K). Either way, both seemed happy.

As did mordovorotishe, winner of the $400K guaranteed two-day event, for another approximate $94K take. Both this event and the main event were among the many in this Mini-FTOPS XIII to exceed their guarantees due to so many players registering and paying the buy-in.

Meanwhile, the winner of the Leaderboard challenge and the $7,500 prize package that includes entry into every event in FTOPS XIV (exept the 2-day one) was dcoop4506, with 433 chips to runner-up TeamShizzz comparatively mere 363.

The series kicked off with leoelectric winning the first event, a $200K guaranteed event that attracted a massive 16,700 players. That brought the prize pool up to $335K and leoelectric’s share $50,250.

Million Dollar Cash Game Sees Biggest Pot In History

Full Tilt Poker has just made poker history (again)! For the fourth season now, Full Tilt Poker held its Million Dollar Cash Game, with filming just wrapping up in London – and this year it boasted a $1.1 million dollar pot, which turns out to be the biggest cash pot ever in a televised poker game.

All the Team Full Tilt Red Pro favorites were out in spades: Patrik Antonius, Allen Cunningham, Chris Ferguson, Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, and Mike Matusow, as well as rumored future Full Tilt Pro, Tom “durrrr” Dwan – each player contributing at least $100,000 to the pot.

Among the highlights was an enormous pot with Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius (two frequent rivals at the Full Tilt Poker high-stakes cash tables) going at it heads-up. At the end, Antonius’ pocket Kings beat Dwan’s pocket Aces.

It came down to Dwan, Antonius, and Ivey at the end (appropriate not only because Ivey is one of the November Niners await the World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table, but because he too goes up head-to-head with Tom Dwan frequently at the high-stakes cash tables, usually in Pot Limit Omaha).

And the winner of the fourth Full Tilt Poker Million Dollar Cash Game and the $1.1 million largest cash pot in televised poker history? Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, making him an even bigger contender than ever for making Team Full Tilt.

The FullTilt Poker Million Dollar Cash Game will air in the UK in January of 2010 on Sky Sports, with commentary provided by another esteemed Full Tilt pro, Robert Williamson III.

Happy Hours at Full Tilt Mean Triple Points

Happy Hour is always one of the best times of day, and don’t the folks at Full Tilt Poker know it! Because with their Happy Hour promotion, FullTilt Poker are giving away triple the Full Tilt Points (FTPs).

The best part about Full Tilt’s Happy Hour is that it comes at all different times of day. That’s right, there isn’t just one block of time each day for Happy Hour and if you don’t make it, you’re out of luck. Instead, the different Happy Hour tournaments and cash ring game tables all have their own Happy Hours, as indicated in the lobby by little smiley faces next to the qualifying events.

Play in any tournament or at any ring game table during the time indicated by the smiley face next to its listing in the Full Tilt Poker lobby, and get three times the FTPs for every point your earn.

Full Tilt Points can be redeemed for free entries into various online poker tournaments, and satellites and qualifiers for many of the world’s biggest money land-based tournaments, as well as limited edition Full Tilt Poker jerseys, golf clubs, iPods, laptops, and plasma TVs.

Now the Happy Hour promotion has been running for quite a while (since May of 2008) but it does have an expriation date – that being December 31, 2009. So you’d better get started accumulating triple points fast.

Read the Happy Hour schedule carefully, as not all Happy Hours award extra points and bonuses the same way or in the same amounts.

Take 2 All of September: Double Points Cash Bonuses

After bringing us the “Biggest Bonus Ever” last month, Full Tilt has a new promotion going for the month of September. It’s called Take 2 and it rewards any player who plays at two cash ring game tables at once in any given day with double the FTP poker points earned. So if, hypothetically, a player were to earn 30 points at one table and 50 points at another, they would get 160 Full Tilt Points total (80 FTPs x 2).

In addition, play at two ring game tables simultaneously per day for enough days consecutively this month and earn an extra cash bonus up to $50. Do it daily for 5 days in a row and win $5. From there, the bonus is progressive, so if you do it for 10 days in a row you get $10 more, on top of the $5 bonus you earned at the 5-day benchmark for a total bonus of $15. Do it for 5 days more (for a total of 15 days) and get another $10 bonus (for a total bonus of $25).

And multitable in at least two cash tables at least once a day, daily for 25 days in a row, and win the full $50 maximum bonus.

Full Tilt Points can be redeemed for free Sit & Go buy-ins and tournament entries as well as valuable items like iPods and plasma TVs.

Both bonuses in the Take 2 promotion start now, September 1, and run daily through the end of the month, September 30.

In order to participate in FullTilt’s Take 2 promotion this September, you must go to the Cashier first BEFORE going to My Promotions and opting-in for the Take 2 promotion.

Phil Ivey makes the Final Table

Phil Ivey makes the 2009 WSOP Final Table

Finally!  After being on a roll all year Phil Ivey is part of the “November Nine” and will battle to be the 2009 WSOP Main Event Champion.  The nine final players will meet again November 7-10 to decide the champion.  The winner will win over $8.5 million, but even ninth place pays a staggering $1,263,602.

Phil Ivey has been hot all year and has already won 2 WSOP bracelets this year (making that 7 total bracelets).  He won his 6th WSOP bracelet in $2.5K No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Lowball (event and won $96,367.  The Phil won his 7th WSOP bracelet at $2.5K Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo (event 25)  for $220,538.

Even with all of Phil Iveys fame, he has never won a WSOP main event.  Could 2009 be the year?  Many people think so.

Chip counts of the November Nine:

1. Darvin Moon – 58,930,000
2. Eric Buchman – 34,800,000
3. Steven Begleiter – 29,885,000
4. Jeff Shulman – 19,580,000
5. Joseph Cada – 13,215,000
6. Kevin Schaffel – 12,390,000
7. Phil Ivey – 9,765,000
8. Antoine Saout – 9,500,000
9. James Akenhead – 6,800,000

FTOPS XII is Here

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is back!  FTOPS XII series has 25 events and starts May 6, 2009.  The FTOPS main event will be Sunday May 17, 2009 and has $2,500,000 Guaranteed.  There will be over $18 million in guarantees throughout the 25 tournaments.

Full Tilt Poker MINI FTOPS XII

The Mini FTOPS is perfect for the everyday poker player who doesn’t have a big bankroll.  The Mini FTOPS consists of 25 events at 1/10 the buyin of the main FTOPS events.  The MiniFTOPS has satellites for as low as $0.50 or 50 FTPs.  The Mini main event has a $50 buy-in and has $500k in guaranteed money.

There will also be a MiniFTOP 2 day event starting May 16th.  This will be a huge event, you better get registered early!

Durrrr Challenge Versus Antonius

High stakes Full Tilt Poker Pro Tom “durrrr” Dwan.  Durrrr has challenged any poker player to heads-up poker at four tables simultaneously for 50,000 hands.  That is not all.  Dwan has offered to put up $1.5 million to any opponent’s $500K, and If durrrr loses, his opponent will keep their winnings and the $1.5 million that “durrrr” has put up.  He’s laying 3-1 odds against beating anyone.

The players who accept the durrrr Challenge must follow these rules:

• No-Limit Hold ‘em or Pot-Limit Omaha
• Minimum stakes of $200/$400
• Once the stakes have been agreed, they must stay the same for the entire challenge
• Players must reload if their chip stack drops below 75 big blinds

So far Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius, and David Benyamine will be the first players to take on the young Internet pro.  Patrik Antonius is up first!

Here’s the current standings of the Durrrr vs Antonius match:

To follow this action live check out the Durrrr Vs Antonius update page at Full Tilt Poker

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