Play in the Biggest Online Poker Tournament in History
07.17.2009 (01:05 PM CST)
Register today to play in the The Record Breaker - Full Tilt Poker’s official Guinness World Record attempt for Largest Online Poker Tournament. PokerStars currently holds the record of 35,000.
Reserve your seat for $5 or 1,000 Full Tilt Points and compete for part of a $250K guaranteed prize pool, with an extra $250K in added prize money.
Play for your share of $500,000 on July 19th at 15:05 ET and be a part of poker history. Satellite your way in for as little as 30 cents or 50 Full Tilt Points.
Follow these steps to register for The Record Breaker:
1. If you haven’t done so already, download Full Tilt Poker and install it on your computer.
2. Create an account.
3. Go to the Tournaments lobby in the game software and look for the pink color-coded Record Breaker tournament.
4. Click the Register Now button and get ready to play for your share of $500,000.
2009 WSOP Final Table Set
07.16.2009 (10:55 AM CST)
Well, it's all over until November when the Main Event Final Table will be played out. The big news is that Phil Ivey, the best poker player on the planet, is in the mix and should add some excitement, even though he has a relatively short stack.
Here are the November Nine and their chip counts:
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
Full Tilt Poker Turns Five
07.15.2009 (11:11 AM CST)
Full Tilt Poker launched five years ago and is celebrating their 5th anniversary through July 19th. There has never been a better time to learn, chat and play with the Pros. Full Tilt is giving away more than $1,000,000 in added prize money, extra Full Tilt Points and birthday-sized bonuses for pro knockouts and referring your friends. Some specials include:
5X Happy Hour
Earn Full Tilt Points five times faster for 55 hours. Join in on a special 24 hour 5X Happy Hour starting Tuesday, July 14th at 00:05 ET, and for regularly scheduled 5X Happy Hour periods until July 19th.
Birthday Money Sunday
$700,000 added in guaranteed prize money to Tilt's Big Money Sundays tournaments. Play for more than $2 million in guaranteed prize money on July 19th.
$5K Every 5 Hours
Play for your share of a $5K guaranteed prize pool every five hours for just five Full Tilt Points. Tournaments start Tuesday, July 14th at 00:05 ET and run until July 19th at 20:05.
To get in on the action, click on Full Tilt Poker 5th Anniversary Celebration.
2009 WSOP: Closing in on the Final Table
07.14.2009 (12:52 PM CST)
Whittled down from the prior day's field of 185, 64 players remain going into Day 7. Phil Ivey made great gains yesterday, boosting his stack to 6,345,000. Leonor “Leo” Margets, the Barcelona beauty with a masculine nickname, playing in her first major tournament, has the distinction of being the last woman standing in the 2009 WSOP Main Event with a current stack of 3,410,000 chips.
Adios to notable players who busted out yesterday include Joe Serock, J.C. Tran, Joe Hachem, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, David Benyamine, John Monnette, Noah Boeken, and last year's champion Peter Eastgate, who will receive $68,979 for his 78th place finish.
2009 WSOP Numbers Crunch
07.12.2009 (02:51 PM CST)
The 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) racked up some very impressive numbers. Total entrants amounted to 60,875, 115 countries were represented, total prize pool of 174 million USD, 39 of 57 tournaments had a prize pool of over one million dollars, 10 sellout tourneys, the most gold bracelets in a single year when Jeffrey Lisandro tied the record, as well of the youngest final table in WSOP history, won by Brian Lemke.
At this time, Phil Ivey is racking up chips and is currently holding his ground in the middle of the pack.
Poker Player of the Year Announced
07.11.2009 (03:52 PM CST)
Jeff Lisandro has officially won the 2009 WSOP Player of the Year award.
Lisandro, whose poker nickname is “The Iceman,” receives the honor for accumulating the most points in the race to be Player of the Year courtesy of winning three World Series of Poker bracelets. Each was won in a stud event - Stud, Stud Hi/Lo, and Razz - to give him the Stud Triple Crown, a previously unknown accomplishment.
The Australian-born resident of Salerno, Italy, is also still alive in the 2009 WSOP Main Event and would love to cap off an amazing summer by adding a fifth WSOP bracelet to his resume.
The prize for winning will be announced later as it is usually customized specifically for the winner. Last year's Player of the Year - Erick Lindgren, received a custom-engraved Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Poker Player has Priest for Railbird Angel
07.09.2009 (02:12 PM CST)
Every poker player likes to have an edge, but San Antonio resident Mark Moore brought his own priest to the World Series of Poker (WSOP), in the hopes that being pious will be his ace-in-the-hole. Father Donald Kloster and Moore arrived in Las Vegas on Sunday in time for Moore to play in the Main Event. Moore plans to donate ten percent of whatever he wins to his church in San Antonio, Texas.
"I've been praying a lot for him and I think it's working, he is back for the second day," Kloster said. "I feel like I'm a little bit of light in the darkness."
WSOP Popularity Increases, Players Turned Away
07.06.2009 (02:43 PM CST)
Hundreds of players were turned away today and were not able to register for the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Each of the 4 day ones is capped at 3,000 players and day 1D had 2500 already pre-registered, leaving last minute signups scrambling to snag the remaining seats. It is not known at this point whether or not Harrah's will make other arrangements for the overflow crowd, such as adding a day 1P for procrastinators.
WSOP Wipeouts
07.05.2009 (04:36 PM CST)
The 2009 WSOP ended early for top pros Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker, and Pascal Perrault. Remaining Notable players include:
- Jeff Lisandro 50,500
- Dan Harrington 49,000
- Dennis Phillips 42,000
- Scotty Nguyen 41,000
- John Juanda 41,000
- Bill Chen 35,500
- Abe Mosseri 33,500
- Robert Mizrachi 32,300
- Kelly Kim 30,000
- Craig Marquis 30,000